. Evangelical missions. Part I, The missionary principles and practices of the United Evangelical Church . Red Cross Hospital of the HarvardMedical School at Shanghai. At first the surgeonswere uncertain as to her disease; later it was diagnosedas glandular carcinoma of the peritoneum. It wasuseless to attempt to remove the cancer; after muchsuffering she went home on February 9, 1914. Mrs. Emma M. Dubs was the first woman mis-sionary of the Church. Her interest in foreign mis-sions dates from her girlhood days. After her mar-riage she was elected superintendent of the Bureau ofLiterature of t
. Evangelical missions. Part I, The missionary principles and practices of the United Evangelical Church . Red Cross Hospital of the HarvardMedical School at Shanghai. At first the surgeonswere uncertain as to her disease; later it was diagnosedas glandular carcinoma of the peritoneum. It wasuseless to attempt to remove the cancer; after muchsuffering she went home on February 9, 1914. Mrs. Emma M. Dubs was the first woman mis-sionary of the Church. Her interest in foreign mis-sions dates from her girlhood days. After her mar-riage she was elected superintendent of the Bureau ofLiterature of the Womans Missionary Society of theChurch ; in this capacity she also published the monthlymagazine. The Missionary Tidings. When her hus-band was chosen as the first foreign missionary, shecame to China with him, undaunted by the atrocitiesand barbarous cruelties of the Boxer year. She wasthe first foreign lady to enter the city of Changsha,and she sufifered the hardships and privations thatsuch a course of action entailed. She had the un-daunted courage and spirit of the missionary hero Mrs. Emma M. DubsOur Pioneer Missionary Among Women and Children WOMENS WORK 263 She started the womans work of the mission. Be-cause she was profoundly impressed with the fact thatonly the power of the gospel could raise women upout of the depths of degradation into which they hadfallen, she made it her first duty to preach Christ andHis gospel. Everything that she undertook, whetherindustrial, educational or evangelistic work, was madesubservient to the one aim and purpose of her life,namely, to bring Christ to the women of China. In addition she made it a point to keep her houseand table a healthful place. How important a goodhome is, only missionaries can tell. Dr. Dubs writes: I am sure that we would not be in such good health nowwere it not that Mrs. Dubs is a good and careful have seen missionaries ruined in health because their wivespaid no attention to the k
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