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a. Note:   (The following is probably from the Norristown Presbyterian Church Newsletter. No date.) --- At the Missionary Meeting of the Christian Endeavor Society, on November 29, a wonderful Roll of Missionaries was called to our attention. Among these was Margaret Craig, sister of William Craig, our Elder; and personally known to many in our Church, and yet, to our younger members, almost unknown. The following brief account given us may be of interest to all: In 1837, the Rev. James Craig and his wife went in a sailing vessel from this country to India, to take up missionary work. After a journey of four months and six days, part of the time ascending the Ganges River, they reached Saharanpur, which became their home. Here their children were born, and here the father died and was laid to rest. The mother and children came back to this country, and made their new home in Norristown. Margaret taught in our Sabbath School, but her missionary blood would not let her stay here. In 1870 she offered herself to the Board in New York, to take up work in India, for which she was well fitted, having lived there long enough to learn the language. Just at this time the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was started in Philadelphia, and Margaret Craig was urged to work as their Missionary. This she agreed to do, and was therefore the first woman missionary to go out under their care. Her trip to India, by way of England, France and the Suez Canal, only took four weeks and six days. She went to the Lodiana Mission, and to the school there at Dehra, teaching the girls, and taking up also the new work of going into the homes, called Zenana work, at that time the only way to reach the women of India. Her health broke down under the strain, and she was very ill for a long time, and even the change of air to the town of Murri, up in the hill country, was of little avail, and she died and was buried there, in 1890. Can you read into this brief sketch the heroism of her life? "Servant of God, Well done." Dr. Beeber reminded us of another "Norristown Missionary," the distinguished Dr. Hepburn, of China and Japan, and we remembered Frank Hamill, one of the early presidents of our Society, now working in China for "Christ and the Church." -----------------------------------------


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