Tounghoo Women by Ellen B. Mason

The following sweet words are from our sisters over the water: "Thousands are now eager and willing to listen to the gospel message, to whom as yet it comes not. Why? Because Christ's followers are too straitened in heart, too cold in zeal, to spread abroad those tidings? It may be that some, while professing much, hold back because that blessed message has never been really received by themselves; but to those who _have_ been taught to call Him by that sweet word, "Rabboni," "_My_ Master," does not that same voice call, to bid them hasten, (as Mary did from the sepulchre) to tell others the news which has made them glad?

-"Too often content with enjoying His salvation themselves, they forget to arise and seek to make it known to others; and many whose sympathies and efforts are ever ready for their own neighbors and countrymen, are slow to extend them to those of distant lands. Yet the message is for those poor neglected ones, as truly as for ourselves and our neighbors; and could we once figure to our minds the state of the benighted, oppressed, suffering women of India, Burmah, China, or Africa, and think of the helpless and forsaken ones who might have lived and died faithful and joyful followers of Jesus, but that _we_ were slow to convey to them the tidings--that many of our dark sisters may reproach us one day in the words of the poor Karen woman: "Why did no one come to tell this before?" Oh, let us press onward not discouraged by the "many adversaries" we must needs expect to find, adversaries without and within, "in nothing discouraged," but secure in the knowledge that God is with us, and that His cause must triumph at last!"