Identifier: christianmission02denn (find matches)
Title: Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Dennis, James S. (James Shepard), 1842-1914
Subjects: Missions Sociology, Christian
Publisher: New York, F. H. Revell
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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y. She went to India with her husband in 1849, underappointment as a missionary of the Baptist Missionary Society (English). In TheZenana Missionary Herald, the monthly publication of the Baptist Ladies Asso-ciation, we find the following information concerning her entrance upon zenanavisitation : It was in 1852, about three years after leaving England, that Mrs. Salebegan to try to reach her Indian sisters in the villages about Barisal. In 1854 sheobtained access to a native gentlemans house in Jessore, and from that time slowlybut surely gained access to other houses. In 1858 she was a welcome visitor inmany zenanas in Calcutta; but in 1861 came the summons to accompany her husbandto England. To whom should her work be given? Few sympathised with her init. It seemed so dangerous and questionable to many that they strongly opposedthe idea of any good coming from it, and urged Mr. Sale not to allow his wife toengage in it. But the Lord was leading her, and provided some oae to take up
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Lady missionaries in the court of the Zenana Mission House, Peshawar, India. Station Class at Sa-yong, Fuhkien, China.(Miss Codrington in the second row.) Womans Ministry to Woman in India and China.(C. E. Z. M. S.) THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 255 since extended to all parts of India. In The Women of India, oneof the Papers on Indian Social Reform, also prepared by Dr. Mur-doch, and published at Madras, we find the additional statement thatuntil 1861 nothing was done in the North-West Provinces, but thelate Mrs. Winter, who had labored for four years as a zenana visitor inBengal, soon afterwards commenced the work in Delhi (p. 47). It isreported elsewhere that the Society for Promoting Female Education inthe East was organized in 1834, in response to the appeals of Dr. DavidAbeel, who visited England at that time to plead the cause of femaleeducation in the East. This society was formed for the purpose ofgiving instruction to women in the zenanas of India and in theirhomes in China

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