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ARTICLE VI (Cont.)
Their first missionary was Miss Lochie Rankin who was sent to the Clopton School in Shanghai, China.
An early worker in the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the M.E. Church South was Miss Lucinda Helm, who was very disturbed over the salaries and living conditions of ministers in this country and their families.
They started building parsonages and schools for children. In 25 years they built almost 3,000 parsonages, before this responsibility was turned over to the church. Later they opened city missions called Wesley Houses.
In the Methodist Protestant Church, Miss Lizzie Guthrie helped to organize their Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in Pittsburg in 1879 and served both in India and Japan, before ill health overcame her and she died in San Francisco.
Harriet Brittan went on to Japan in her place and founded a girls' school in Yokohama which was later called Seibi Gakuin.
In the home field, Miss S.A. Lipscomb served as their first President, and early work was in Kansas and supporting a missionary pastor in Oklahoma Territory.
Their first woman missionary founded a school for mountain children in Pine Ridge, Ky. and a mission in Pittsburg.
In the Evangelical United Brethren branch of the United Methodists, early workers or officers were Miss Minerva Strawman, Mrs. Elizabeth Krecher, Miss Lizzie Hoffman, Mrs. T. N. Sowers and Miss Emily Beeken. Their first missionaries went to Japan and Africa.
A few other names must be mentioned in thinking back over pioneer women who left a great impact on the areas in which they served.
Dr. Helen Kim comes to mind when one thinks of Korea. Born i-n 1899, educated at Ewha Woman's College and Ohio Wesleyan University, she returned to her native land where she made a remarkable contribution to the religious, civic, educational and cultural life there and internationally. She finally consented to write a story of her life and it was published by the Upper Room Press under the title, 'Grace Sufficient.'
In the home mission field in the United States, black women had an active part from the beginning as they faced problems of many kinds.
John Wesley had baptized his first Negro convert in 1758 and Metho-* dism was founded to be all inclusive.
Very early in the 20th Century, two dedicated black women from Georgia went to the mission field. Martha Drummer a graduate of Clark
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