Who Started Women’s What is the origin of Women’s Day? Day And for what purpose? When? At some time in life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing, something different and helpful to some good cause. It was just such an impulse and urge that led Mrs. Nannie Burroughs to think of what a special day--dedicated to a great cause--could do for church women. Women’s Day was proposed by Mrs. Burroughs, the young corresponding secretary of the Women's Convention, at the meeting of the convention in Memphis, Tennessee, in September 1905. The proposal was that the Fourth Sunday in July be Known as Naiional Women’s Day. This day was not thought up as a scheme for saising money, but a Christian school for raising women. To quote from her letter, "A million women working, a million women singing, a million women laboring for the coming of the kingdom in the hearts to of all men...would be a power that wou!d move God on his throne e ‘answer, immediately, their pe.itions. It would mean spiritual dynamit inat would blast Satan’s greatest strongholds." As a result of Mrs. Burroughs’ idea, many women heve discovered in that given the opportunity to develop, they can be great tools Christian service. They have !earned to speak, present good christian ideas, depict courage, fidelity and grace, and are more and more | becoming great spokeswomen for the Lord. n did who Mrs. Burroughs intended for women to do what the woma talked with Jesus at the weil. She "went to town" and brought the pted and town out to "see Jesus." The Women’s Day idea was acce women, on continues in full bloom today. So, God be with you, Women’s Day. |