EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800: KATHERINE BUSHNELL P/49

                                                                                                                                                                              

In this post I will continue to focus on a woman named Katherine Bushnell. She lived from 1855 - 1946. In 1908, Katherine began to write a bible study "God's Word to Women" based on the fact that she had become inspired to study Biblical tranlations during her time in China. At that time she had noticed with indignation that the Chines Bible had changed Paul's fellows from women to men, and after that had vowed to devote a portion of her life solely to a "meticulous examination of male bias that had corrupted the English text."

In her bible study, she works through every biblical portion interpreted to mean that women are inferior to men. This includes the topics of women not being allowed to preach, require subordination to their husbands, polygamy, and head coverings. 

Katherine believed that mistranslations were responsible for the social and spiritual subjugation of women. She writes:"If women must suffer domestic, legislative and ecclesiastical disabilities because Eve sinned, then must the Church harbour the appalling doctrine that Christ did not atone for all sin, because so long as the Church maintains these disabilities, the inevitable conclusion in the average mind will be the same as Tertullian's - God's verdict on the (female) sex still holds good and the sex's guilt must still hold also."

Katherine died in 1946.

 

EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; KATHERINE BUSHNELL P/47

                                                                                                                                                                        

In this story I will focus on a woman named Katherine Bushnell. She lived from 1855 - 1946.I Katherine was born in Evanston, Illinois. Her roots in Christianity were well established from the beginning.

Katherine showed the desire to further her education from an early age and attended Women's Northwestern College (Northwestern University) from 1873 - 1874. She next studied medicine at Chicago Women's Medical College, where she specialised in nerve disorders.

Katherine initially planned on entering postgraduate study but was persuaded by her home church to go to China as a medical missionary in 1879. She served as a medical doctor in Kiukiang, China from 1879 - 1882. However, in 1882, she fell ill and was forced to return home.

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EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800: ANNA ADAMS GORDON P/46

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In this story I will continue to focus on a woman named Anna Adams Gordon. She lived from 1853 - 1931. Anna and Frances Willard remained close friends until Frances's death in 1898, at which time Lillian M.N. Stevens became president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, with Anne as vice-president.

Anna also turned the attention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union to other causes, including Americanisation of immigrants, child welfare, and the condition of women in industry.

Anna also became president of the World League Against Alcoholism, and vice-chairman of the Commission of Nineteen on the National Constitutional Prohibition Amendment.

Anna was, furthermore, deeply involved in the temperance work with the National Council of Women, the International Sunday-School Association, the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the National Legislative Council etc. 

Anna died in 1931.

EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; ANNA ADAMS GORDON P/45

                                                           Read Part One HERE                                                                                    

In this story I will focus on a woman named Anna Adams Gordon. She lived from 1853 - 1931. Her parents were James M. Gordon and Mary Clarkson Gordon, both Christian abolitionists. They lived in Boston, Massachusetts. When she was three, her family moved to Auburndale.

Anna went on to attend Boston High School, Lasell Seminary and Mount Holyoke College. She spent a year abroad in San Sebastian with a sister, Alice Gordon Gulick, who had started a school for girls there in 1871. 

In 1877, Anne met Frances E. Willard at a Dwight L. Moody revival meeting, in the building where Frances was holding temperance meetings. The two became close friends with Anne continuing to play organ for Frances' meetings. Anne eventually moved into Frances' residence as her personal secretary. 

Anne subsequently followed her employer on her travels through the United States, Canada and Europe. spending a year in England.

Read Part Forty-Six HERE

EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; MARY CHURCH TERRELL P/44

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In this post I will continue to share the story of a woman named Mary Church Terrell. She lived from 1863 - 1954. Mary also actively embraced women's suffrage, which she saw as essential to elevating the status of black women and, consequently, the entire race. She actively campaigned for black women's suffrage. 

Mary fought for women's suffrage and civil rights because she realised that she belonged "to the only group in this country that has two such huge obstacles to surmount...both sex and race."

In 1909, Mary was among the founders and charter members of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People. Following the passage of the 19th amendment, Mary focused on broader civil rights. In 1940, she published her autobiography, "A Coloured Woman in a White World," outlining her experiences with discrimination.In 1948, Mary became the first black member of the American Association of University Women, after winning an anti-discrimination lawsuit. 

Mary died in 1854.

Read Part Forty-Five HERE

EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; MARY CHURCH TERRELL P/43

 

                                                                  Read Part One HERE

In this  post I will continue to focus on a woman named Mary Church Terell, She lived from 1863 - 1954. Mary's activism was sparked in 1892, when an old friend, Thomas Moss, was lynched in Mephis by whites because his business competed with theirs. 

Mary joined Ida B. Wells-Barnett in anti-lynching campaigns, but Mary's life work focused on the notion of racial uplift, the belief that blacks would help end racial discrimination by advancing themselves and other members of the race through education, work and community activism.

Mary's words - "Lifting as we climb," became the motto of the National Association of Coloured Women, the group she helped found in 1896. She was president from 1896 - 1901. As president, Mary campaigned tirelessly among black organisations and mainstream white organisations, writing and speaking extensively.

Read Post Forty-Four HERE