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Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come to convey... in many languages the most precious truths of Christianity had to force their way by bending stubborn words to new ideas, and filling old terms with new content.
Helen Barrett Montgomery
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Helen Barrett Montgomery
Born:
July 31, 1861
Died:
October 19, 1934
(aged 73)
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Helen Barrett Montgomery was an American social reformer, educator and writer. In 1921 she was elected as the first woman president of the Northern Baptist Convention. She had long been a delegate to the Convention and a policymaker.
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