Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Volume 26, Number 1, Spring 2014 Page: 9
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Home. The first lesson brought home to her was
the futility of depending on individual contribu-
tors to sustain such a major work. She experi-
enced first-hand that faith could work wonders,
but she preferred not to push her luck. She later
recalled that she based her pitch to the Woman's
Parsonage and Home Mission Society on the
conclusion that "only the Church has the prom-ise of permanence."49 The second lesson brought
home to her was the importance of doing her
homework: she had already begun to rectify her
lack of experience by corresponding with similar
women's institutions and visiting them wherever
she traveled. She established a network of friends
and associates doing rescue work throughout the
nation, and she would continue to expand it in
the decades to come. She adopted their best prac-LEGACIES Spring 2014 9
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