“No aid society is apt to do much, unless you have the missionary plank in it, too, because women centered alone on their own church work grow selfish, and our Lord did not put His churches here just to do work for themselves.”
By Mary Corbell Gambrell, about 1880, promoting the wider application of the gospel. Quote found in History of Woman’s Missionaory Union. ( I know, I read strange stuff. 🙂