Men had been struggling in overseas missionary work for over fifty years, and they had to admit that it was not going as well as it should. A missionary in China admitted that the need for work among women was necessary to help their predicaments of childbirth, childhood arranged marriages and prevention of any education. Meanwhile women had organized their own Missionary groups to support single women in the mission field. Women in the field did not threaten pagan men, and they were thus more open to listen to the Gospel message. Their humility and benevolence won the day in foreign lands, like men could not.
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