Lady Missionaries in Foreign Lands. By Mrs. E. R. Pitman.
(S. W. Partridge.)—Why " lady " missionaries P We do not say " gentlemen" missionaries. Apart from this objection to an affected title, we have nothing to say against Mrs. Pitman's book. It is sad to see how short-lived these 'devoted women were. Mrs. A. H. Judson laboured for fourteen years ; Mrs. Johnston for four only. Mrs. Wilkinson, wife of the Bishop of Zululand, went out in 1870, and died in 1877. Finally, Mrs. Cargill, who went out to the Friendly Islands immediately on her marriage in 1832, died in 1840, in her thirty-first year. But in these eight years she had borne six children. The only one of the five whose lives are here sketched that lived to old age was the wife of Bishop Gobat. The fact is that, as Bishop Hannington, we believe, said, young married women ought not to be sent out where the conditions of life are not favourable to Europeans.
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