The Three Mrs. Judsons: The Celebrated Female Missionaries

IT is one of the most striking instances of modern progress that the missions of women are beginning to be so clearlyrecognized It is not long, since a woman who dared to step beyond the circle of home and social duties was looked upon with timid wonder by her own sex, and disapprobation by the other; but in this more enlightened age her usefulness isreadily acknowledged. England holds up her Florence Nightingale, that courageous, noble woman, whose name is heard with love and reverence through the whole civilized world. Can we not, in America, point out our bright stars in the galaxy of heroines?