Woman’s Influence in Mission Work
By Mrs. Duncan McLaren
Our responsibility in regard to mission work is plain and pointed, because of woman's prevailing influence. Superstition forges many a heavy chain, and it is always around woman's neck that the links are most tightly fastened. Clinging with tenacity to customs hoary with age, she comes in many instances to hug these chains; thus we find that in dark heathen lands woman is ever the great obstructor to the spread of the light. It is her hands that raise the highest barriers against the truth; it is from her lips that the poison flows that enters deepest into the life of the nation; for, shut out from all that would enlighten, woman instills into her children's minds the darkness of her own.—Mrs. Duncan McLaren.