Tounghoo Women by Ellen B. Mason

Hear Dr. Duff's sentiments, addressing the Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society of Scotland: "In the department of Female Education, whose intrinsic importance cannot be over-estimated, it will be seen that our Mission is at last beginning to make decided progress. At all our stations we have now one or more female schools, and I beg to be distinctly understood, that for these _not a single farthing is taken from the general Mission Fund_. It is due to the Ladies' Society that this fact should be clearly apprehended. That Society I have always regarded as a constituent member of our great Mission Scheme, without which we should now be painfully hobbling on one leg, instead of walking steadily on two. Your place now and your responsibilities in the great Mission Scheme of our Church, are clearly set before you. _You have undertaken to do for the one sex that which the Foreign Mission Scheme is doing for the other. There can be no more mistake about that now._ Without you the Mission would be one-sided and incomplete. You supplement what was wanting to it. You act not in antagonism either abroad or at home to the other side of the Scheme. The funds of the foreign Mission and of your Society meet in the Treasuries of the Mission Boards abroad, and are thence distributed in fertilizing streams over that portion of the vineyard which is given to each to cultivate.

-"Realize then, Ladies, your high calling and the magnitude of your undertaking.