Excerpt from Woman's Work for Foreign Missions of the Church of England: Two Papers Read by the Right Rev. Allan Becher Webb, D.D., Bishop of Bloemfontein, at the Missionary Conference of 1875, and at Rugby<br><br>First, that of God's honour. - As women pro fessing godliness their mission will be to express the life Of the Body, which is the Bride of Christ, in its heavenward aspect, and to exercise, as sit were, the power of the burnt-offering. Thus would the King have pleasure in the beauty of His daughters, whose life is one of union with God, of power with God, of witness for God, and for His absolute right to all that men have and are. So would there be a perpetual memorial going up, and the Lord would be entreated for that land.<br><br>Secondly, that of Man's good - As the merciful women (so our natives would call them) they extend the mission-work of Christ, in good works such as education, personal influence, teaching, visiting, nursing, and ministering, even as the holy women also did in the old time. We know that home is the centre and fountain of social life, and woman is the centre of home. Such as the women are, such are the homes, and such the civilisation and Christianity of society. To reach to purify it and consecrate it for the kingdom God, is woman's especial work.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.