Noble Deeds of the World's HeroinesMoore, Henry Charles
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Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines
Moore, Henry Charles
Women heroes -- Biography
Although in a very weak state of health Anna Hinderer was not content
to remain idle, and in her native county of Norfolk began to interest
herself in factory girls and other children of the poor. She was
always cheerful, and few people knew how much she was suffering from
the effects of years of hard work and privation in a pestilential
country. She died on June 6, 1870, aged forty-three; and when the sad
news reached Ibadan there was great sorrow in the town, and the
Christian Church which she had helped to plant there forwarded to her
husband a letter of consolation and thankfulness for the work which she
had done among them.
ANN JUDSON, PIONEER WOMAN IN BURMA
Ann Judson was not only the first American woman to enter the foreign
mission field, but also the first lady missionary, or missionary's
wife, to visit Rangoon. She was the daughter of Mr. John Hasseltine,
of Bradford, Massachusetts, and was born on December 22, 1789. When
nearly seventeen years of age she became deeply impressed by the
preaching of a local minister, and decided to do all in her power
towards spreading the Gospel. Sunday Schools had been started in
America about 1791, but they were very few. Bradford did not possess
one, and probably it was not known there that such schools existed
anywhere. Ann Hasseltine, being desirous of instructing the children
in religious knowledge, adopted the only course which occurred to her
as likely to lead to success; she became a teacher in an ordinary day
school.
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