ABSTRACT
See that heathen mother stand Where the sacred current flows With her own maternal hands ’Mid the waves her habe she throws Send, Oh send the Bible there, Let its precepts reach the heart, She may then her children spare Act the tender mother's part.
From “Songs for the Little Ones at Home,” mid-19th century hymn (Burke 1958:131)
“The holy church—now alas steering its malignant way through the Indian Ocean.”
W.B. Yeats (around 1905), letter to Florence Farr (Bax 1946:55–56)
The nineteenth century has been called “Woman's Century” and the “Century of Missions”; the dawn of one brought light to the other.
Mrs. F.A. Butler, History of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (Butler 1904:23)
