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4. FREDERICA BREMER. 5. FOREIGN MISSIONS. 381
emancipation of women from the home naturally met with
great opposition from old-fashioned folk, who saw beauty
in the gentle dependence of woman, regarding her in
Tegner s words as :
"
A tendril, withering if unsupported,
A creature unto which the half is wanting."
It was fortunate for the women of Sweden that they were
led by so essentially womanly and refined a lady as
Frederica Bremer.
Whether the wisdom of Swedish legislators will carry
the equality of the sexes still further and emancipate mar
ried women as entirely as their unmarried sisters, and give
one or both of these classes votes for parliament, and
further opportunities for public duty, I cannot venture to
prophesy. There is a fundamental difference in the sexes
as well as a fundamental equality, and for the sake of
women as well as of men, and of the future of the race, it
is important that home should have more claim on the
one, and the world more claim upon the other, and that
laws should recognize the difference.
5. MOVEMENTS WITHIN THE CHURCH: FOREIGN MIS
SIONS. PETRUS L^ESTADIUS IN LAPLAND. PETER
FjELLSTEDT (1802 l88l). THE "SWEDISH
CHURCH MISSION" (18731874). THE "EVAN
GELICAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE" (1856) BECOMES
MISSIONARY IN l86l. OTHER SOCIETIES. SEA-
MEN S MISSIONS. MISSIONS TO ISRAELITES.
In my last two sections I have dealt with popular move
ments, religious and social, which were partly within the
Church and partly without it, but which did not specially
use it and its ministers as instruments, or definitely increase
its power of organization nay, in some cases tried to break
it down and diminish it.
Happily there have been others
which directly tended to strengthen and build up the
Church as a society.
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