women’s missionary society for their denomination, the Methodist Episcopal Church. But on the day of its organizing, a pelting rain kept the women at home. Only six showed up. Mrs. Butler and Mrs. Parker, however, “spoke as eloquently as if to hundreds.” Out of that meeting came the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Date: ________________ ________________ ________________ Place: ________________ ________________ ________________ Occasion: ________________ ________________