The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . PHOTOGRAPH BY GILBERT WASHINGTON. MRS. JOHN W. H. M. S. 1888-1893. The Home Society 1169 amendment to the constitution by which the Society mighttake up the home work in addition to the foreign. Thissuggestion being subsequently abandoned, it was determinedthat women be elected as members of the Board of Managersof the Freedmens Aid Society and be employed as collectorsof funds for this Society which might be used in work sug-gested and controlled by women. This proposition was not. ENGRAVED BY C. BURT. MRS. LUCY WEBB
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . PHOTOGRAPH BY GILBERT WASHINGTON. MRS. JOHN W. H. M. S. 1888-1893. The Home Society 1169 amendment to the constitution by which the Society mighttake up the home work in addition to the foreign. Thissuggestion being subsequently abandoned, it was determinedthat women be elected as members of the Board of Managersof the Freedmens Aid Society and be employed as collectorsof funds for this Society which might be used in work sug-gested and controlled by women. This proposition was not. ENGRAVED BY C. BURT. MRS. LUCY WEBB W. H. M. S. 1880-1888. MRS. ELIZABETH L. Sec. W. H. M. S. 1880-1899. deemed feasible. But the Womans Home Missionary So-ciety was organized in Cincinnati on July 6, 1880. Its objectwas declared to be to enlist and organize the efforts ofChristian women to cooperate with the other societies andagencies of the Church in behalf of women and children inour country who are in need of Christian help. Its field has been wide. In the West, where there are 1170 American Methodism multitudes of ignorant and degraded women in cabins, andwigwams, and adobe houses, and Mormon harems, and hutsof frontiersmen, and Chinese quarters, they have wroughtwith amazing success. In the South their teachers havegathered the women and children into industrial schools,missionaries have visited from house to house, orphanages,hospitals and retreats have been built. Thus in every
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