Tounghoo Women by Ellen B. Mason

I scarcely know which is needed most, the school teachers mentioned for these women or the Bible Readers. Both are needed at the same time, and they would help each other inexpressibly. The Readers would, if discreet, loving and patient, wind their way among the mothers, while the school would enlist the sympathies of the young women, and their male relatives.

Mr. Mason had often spoken on the subject of Bible Readers in Tounghoo, and the desirableness of starting out a company of native females into the work, to go from house to house, from hamlet to hamlet, to reach and explain the Scriptures directly to the women. But as I was compelled to leave unexpectedly, no plan was matured.