Excerpt from Historical Sketches of Woman's Missionary Societies in America and England Manifestly, the chief purpose and work of the Christian church is to be about its Father's business in recovering to him the lost allegiance of the race. Only as we have some comprehension of the magnitude and some conviction of the importance of this work, - only as we gauge it from the height of God's love to the depth of man's need, - through all its manifold relations, out, on, into the illimitable, unspeakable future, do we realize that for its completion there must be the effectual working in its measure of every part, the development and exercise of every force. Manhood and womanhood must each bring its distinctive offerings as of old, in the typical tabernacle and temple, before throughout the whole earth shall arise an holy temple unto the Lord. The paean of praise is to Be universal, but the harmony will not be complete until there be added to the deep bass and strong tenor, the trill of the treble and the softness of the alto. Two-thirds of the Christian church, having this work in hand, are women, and few questions are better worth considering, how all that is on her, all that is distinctively, pecularly feminine, may be wrought into this grand consummation, to accomplish which Christ came, and for which he waits, expecting until his enemies be made his footstool. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."