When the General Association of Massachusetts listened to a group of young seminary students, the course of the Congregational Church [a combination of Puritans and Pilgrims] took a revolutionary turn. Three days later, these young men dedicated their lives to God and foreign missionary work. The church required them to be married before they went. Many of the wives invested themselves as much as they could and still care for their husbands and children, but by the 1860’s it was even obvious to men that the work was not going as well as it might.
Since the beginning of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, local women’s groups had financially supported the work. They were not content to just pay for the work. There were those who also wanted to make it their own life’s work. [more tomorrow]
http://www.ucc.org/about-us/hidden-histories/womens-work-and-womens.html
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