Excerpt from The Story of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society: Of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1869-1895

While many things have been written on the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and much information has been published, there is no one work which supplies the information contained in this volume, or that preoccupies the field. In an experience as an itinerant for many years there has been found a demand for this very work, giving the scope of a Society which is as broad as the needs of heathen women, and the knowledge of what has been accomplished by Methodist women at home for their sisters across the sea. Restricted in limitations, it became an unfortunate necessity to omit much valuable material, even the mention of the names of so many of the great leaders of the Society, who in many States and Territories have wrought and are still working, who by their faith have removed mountains, of whom the world is not worthy, and of many others who are not, for God has taken them, and for the same reason biographical sketches of the missionaries have scarcely been touched upon, though the illustrations of the twelve pioneers have been furnished. Incidents which may be regarded as beneath the dignity of history have found a welcome place in this simple and familiar story.

After all the time and labor expended, the book must be closed incomplete. This is as it should be.

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