Who Started Womens’ What is the origin of Women’s Day? Day When? And for what purpose? At some time in life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing, something different and helpful to some good cause. lt 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 1906. The proposal was that the Fourth Sunday in July be known as National Women's Day. This day was not thought up as a scheme for raising 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 of all men...would be a power that would move God on his throne to answer, immediately, their petitions. It would mean spiritual dynamite that would blast Satan’s greatest strongholds." As a result of Mrs. Burroughs’ idea, many women have discovered that given the opportunity to develop, they can be great tools in Christian service. They have learned to speak, present good christian ideas, depict courage, fidelity and grace, and are more and more becoming great spokeswomen for the Lord. Mrs. Burroughs intended for women talked with Jesus at the well. to do what the woman did who She "went to town" and brought the town out to "see Jesus." The Women’s continues in full bloom Women's Day. today. | Day idea was accepted and So, God be with you, women, Sister Bertha Carter, Chairperson on