The Women's Committee Work by George B. Starr

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 13, 1916

The Women's Committee Work

By George B. Starr

God knew it was not good for man to try to work alone, and men are finding out that the best work, the hardest work, the sweetest work, and the largest work they undertake requires women's help and cheer and faith and courage to carry it through.

Some are fearful lest woman should get out of her sphere; but one woman at least thinks there is no limit to a good woman's sphere.

“They talk about a woman's sphere as though it had a limit, There's not a place in earth or heaven, There's not a task to mankind given, There's not a blessing or a woe, There's not a whisper, yes or no, There's not a wedding, nor a sweet home made, There's not a life or birth That has a feather's weight of worth, Without a woman in it.”

Shall we not, then, welcome the distinctly woman's movement among us, and “help those women,” as Paul advised, to accomplish the first great task they have undertaken, to raise a memorial to one of God's noble women? And because the fields are white and waiting the harvesters, shall we not help the women to do the quickest work ever accomplished among this people, to prepare a place for rapidly fitting medical evangelists to enter the harvest fields?

G. B. STARR.