In the district of Allahabad some conversions had taken place
among the women and girls which had greatly stirred up the
opposition of the men. The reading circles in the zenanas had to
be stopt and the missionaries were prohibited from visiting the
women. One old woman, explaining the situation, said: “Our men
say you come and take us away. It is not you who take our women
away and make them Christians; it is your Book. There are such
wonderful words in it; when they sink into the heart nothing can
take them out again.”
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