EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN EARLY 1800: JENNIFER FOWLER WILLING P/25

                                                           Read Part One HERE

In this post I will coninue to focus on a woman named Jennifer Fowler Willing. She lived from 1834 - 1916.

Jennie also had a missionary heart. She served as an officer in both the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (WFMS) and the Woman's Home Missionary Society (WHMS) of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

She believed that every woman whether single or married, is a missionary. She had no patience for lazzy or self-indulgent women. Every woman should dedicate her time to working for the Lord. There was certainly plenty to do starting at home.

Evangelism was very important for Jennie. She wrote a monthly column entitled, "Women and Gospel Evangelism." Her book "How To win Souls" is a collection of the lectures that she gave at her evangelistic training school. The school was closed in 1910 by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company so they could build tunnels. She was so concerned about the need to train more evangelists and so she put her lectures into this book.Her book was published in 1909 - over one hundred years ago. 

Jennie served as an evangelist until her death. When she died in 1916 she was still serving in the WCTU. She was at the time president emiritus of the 18th Street Methodist Episcopal  Church Woman's Foreign Society. Truly Jenny embodied her motto - "plus extra" - more beyond.

Read Part Twenty-Six HERE