,,the ,,true ,,woman3    ,a ,,series    
,,of ,,discourses    ,,by ,,rev4 ,j4 ,d4
 ,,fulton1 7,,tremont ,,temple1         
,,boston47    ,,to ,,which ,,is ,,added 
,,woman ,,vs4 ,,ballot4    ,,boston1    
#ahfi                ,,to    ,,the      
,,true ,,woman1    ,,who1 ,,through     
,,christ1 ,,blesses ,,man1 ,,and ,,helps
 ,,to ,,make ,,his ,,home ,a ,,joy ,,and
  ,,his ,,life ,a ,,privilege1    ,,this
 ,,book    ,,is ,,respectfully          
,,dedicated4          ,,preface4        
,this book grew4 ,its history is very   
brief4 ,the lecture entitled ,woman     
versus ,ballot1 while well received by  
the majority1 has met with  a strong    
opposition from those who do not believe
 in the position  assigned to ,woman in 
the ,word of ,god4 ,this turned the     
attention of  the author to the         
scriptural argument more and more1 and  
resulted in  producing the impression   
that the effort to secure the ballot for
  woman found its origin in infidelity  
to the ,word of ,god and in  infidelity 

to woman4    ,in ,woman as ,god made    
,her we saw ,eve as she was brought to  
,adam1 and  familiarized ourselves with 
the purposes ,he had in her creation1   
which  were chiefly embodied in the one 
word ,helpmeet4 ,in ,woman as  a        
,tempter we saw the ideal woman         
despoiled of her glory1 and  influencing
 the world to turn from the worship of  
the ,creator to that  of the creature4  
,for ages woman suffered the            
consequences of sin4 ,in  ,eve she lost 
her recognition2 through ,christ she    
regained it4 ,the  study of the ,bible  
has convinced the writer that the       
purpose of ,god1  in creating woman1    
still lives1 and is to find its complete
 fulfilment  under the ,new             
,dispensation4 ,we have seen that       
,christ--the embodiment  of all manly   
properties--turned his face towards and 
lavished his  blessings upon womanly    
characteristics1 such as meekness1      
purity1  love1 and humility1 and that1  
because of ,his influence1 woman is     

invited to take her place in the church 
on an equality with man1 to  help on the
 cause of truth by an illustration of   
those virtues which  received the glory 
shed upon them by the life of the ,son  
of ,man and  the ,son of ,god4    ,in   
the work devolving upon mankind1 woman  
has a distinct mission to  fulfil4      
,society owes to her love1 honor1 and   
protection4 ,every right1  social and   
religious1 should be guarded4           
,associations calculated to  secure for 
her every privilege enjoyed by man1     
should be formed and  supported4 ,above 
all else1 efforts should be made to lead
 her to  recognize in ,christ her       
,saviour1 for ,christ in woman is her   
hope of  glory1 her joy and strength4   
,said ,florence ,nightingale1--    ,i   
would say to all women1 ,look upon your 
work1 whether it be an  accustomed or   
unaccustomed work1 as upon a trust      
confided to you4 ,this  will keep you   
alike from discouragement and from      
presumption1 from  idleness and from    

overtaxing of yourselves4 ,where ,god   
leads the way1  he has bound himself to 
help you to go the way4 ,i would say to 
all young ladies who are called to any  
peculiar vocation1 ,qualify  yourselves 
for it1 as man does for his work4 ,don't
 think you can  undertake it otherwise4 
,and again1 if you are called to do a   
man's work1 do not exact a  woman's     
privileges--the privileges of           
inaccuracy1 of weakness1 of the         
muddle-head4 ,submit yourselves to the  
rules of business1 as men do1 by  which 
alone you can make ,god's business      
succeed4 ,for he has never said  that he
 will give his blessing to sketchy1     
unfinished work4 ,and ,i  would         
especially guard young ladies from      
fancying themselves like  ,lady         
,superiors1 with an obsequious following
 of disciples1 if they  undertake any   
great work4 ,i would only say1 ,work1   
work1 in silence at  first1 in silence  
for years4 ,it will not be time wasted4 
,and it is  very certain that without it

 you will be no worker--you will not    
produce one 'perfect work1' but only a  
botch1 in the service of ,god4    ,in   
the above spirit1 and with a kindred    
desire1 this volume was  written4 ,for  
good or ill1 for better or worse1 the   
book is sent forth  in the hope that it 
may recall attention to the ,divine     
,,ideal for  ,woman1 and aid in inducing
 man1 to prize her as the first gift of 
,god  to him1 designed as a helpmeet for
 him4          ,,contents4      ,,woman 
,,as ,,god ,,made ,,her    ,man's ,faith
 in a ,helper suited to him    ,woman   
,man's ,complement    ,what ,man desires
 to have loved    ,woman is ,god's ,gift
 to ,man    ,what the ,fact implies3--  
#a4 ,the ,father's ,right to give away  
the ,child      #b4 ,the ,purpose for   
which ,god created her    ,,woman ,a    
,,helpmeet    ,man's ,longing for       
,companionship    ,meaning of the ,word 
,woman    ,woman dislikes to give a     
,reason for her ,faith    ,requisites to
 ,companionship    ,count ,zinzendorf's 

,tribute to his ,wife    ,irving's      
,description of a ,wife    ,the         
,advantages derived from ,culture       
,mrs4 ,thomas ,carlyle and others       
,why the ,ballot injures ,woman         
,,woman ,,as ,a ,,tempter    ,satan     
undermines ,woman's ,confidence in ,god 
,satan raises ,suspicion    ,ritualism  
the ,outgrowth    ,mother ,superior and 
,sisters of ,charity    ,satan employs  
,mystery    ,spiritualism    ,satan's   
,influence deceived ,woman    ,the ,girl
 of the ,period    ,woman's ,peril and  
her ,hope    ,the ,effects of ,sin      
,characteristics of ,woman's ,power as a
 ,tempter    ,influence of ,married     
,women    ,how ,rome uses ,woman    ,the
 ,remedy    ,,the ,,glory ,,of          
,,motherhood    ,woman's ,hope of       
,triumph    ,man's ,destiny and ,mission
    ,woman ignored in ,eve    ,woman    
recognized in ,mary    ,woman in        
,nestoria and the ,east    ,trials of   
,motherhood    ,the ,glory of           
,motherhood    ,,mariolatry ,,not ,,of  

,,christ    ,the ,worship of the ,virgin
 ,mary    ,woman's ,position previous to
 the ,advent    ,the ,place she fills in
 the ,scheme of ,redemption    ,the     
,influences set in ,motion by the ,life 
of ,christ    ,christ's personal        
,relations to ,mary reviewed    ,a      
,lesson for ,woman    ,peril arising    
from ,perversions of ,truth    ,mary's  
,glory    ,,woman',s ,,work ,,and       
,,woman',s ,,mission    ,woman's ,work  
and ,mission go hand in hand    ,love   
lightens ,labor    ,woman's ,work a     
,work of ,charity    ,cause of ,trouble 
with ,servants    ,education must fit   
,woman for the ,home    ,woman's        
,mission inferred from the ,wants of    
,man    ,a proper ,conception of the    
,truth a ,help to ,woman    ,woman's    
,mission social as well as domestic     
,woman's ,help needed in the ,cause of  
,reform    ,woman needs ,help    ,a     
,mother's ,power--her ,mission religious
    ,the ,value of her ,sympathy        
,woman's ,power a ,glory and a ,joy     

,,woman vs4 ,,ballot1    ,three ,facts  
which stand in the ,way of ,woman's     
being    helped by the ,ballot--,god1   
,nature1 and ,common    ,sense    ,the  
,scriptural ,argument    ,god's ,care   
for ,woman    ,her ,condition in other  
,countries    ,an ,illustration of      
,woman's ,nature    ,teachings of       
,nature    ,teachings of ,common ,sense 
,gail ,hamilton vs4 ,ballot    ,woman   
not a ,lawmaker    ,education essential 
for her    ,woman not in ,captivity     
,,woman ,,as ,,god ,,made ,,her4        
,the biography of our first parents1 as 
,god made them1 and described  them1    
before sin ruined them1 is very brief   
and truly suggestive4 ,it  is as        
follows3--    ,and ,jehovah ,god created
 the man in his image2 in the image of  
,god  created he him2 a male and a      
female created he them4 ,and ,god       
blessed  them2 and ,god said to them1   
,be fruitful1 and multiply1 and fill the
  earth1 and subdue it1 and rule over   
the fish of the sea1 and over the  fowl 

of the heavens1 and over every living   
thing that moves on the  earth4 ,and    
,god said1 ,behold1 ,i have given to you
 every herb scattering  seed1 which is  
on the face of all the earth1 and every 
tree1 in  which is the fruit of a tree  
scattering seed1 to you it shall be     
given4--,gen4 i4 #bg-cj4    ,and        
,jehovah ,god formed the man of the dust
 of the ground1 and he  breathed into   
his nostrils the breath of life1 and the
 man became a  living soul4 ,and        
,jehovah ,god planted a garden in ,eden1
 on the east1  and there he put the man 
whom he formed1 444 to till it and to   
keep  it4 ,and ,god commanded the man1  
saying1 ,of every tree of the garden    
thou mayest freely eat4 ,but of the tree
 of knowledge of good and evil  thou    
shalt not eat of it1 for in the day that
 thou eatest thereof thou  shalt surely 
die4 ,and ,god said1 ,it is not good    
that the man should be  alone4 ,i will  
make for him a helper1 suited to him4   
,and ,god caused a  deep sleep to fall  

upon the man1 and he slept2 and he took 
one of his  ribs1 and closed up the     
flesh in its place4 ,and of this rib    
which he  took from the man1 ,jehovah   
,god formed a woman1 and brought her to 
the  man4 ,and the man said1 ,this now  
is bone of my bones1 and flesh of my    
flesh4 ,this shall be called ,woman1    
because from man was she taken4         
,therefore shall a man leave his father 
and his mother1 and shall  cleave to his
 wife2 and they shall be one flesh4 ,and
 they were both  naked1 the man and his 
wife1 and were not ashamed4--,gen1 ii4  
#g1 #h1  #ae-ah1 #ba-be4    ,brief as   
are these utterances1 and familiar as is
 this language1 it is  interesting to   
notice that ,god has crowded into them  
every essential  fact concerning the    
origin of woman1 the purpose of her     
creation1 and  the sphere marked out for
 her by the ,creator's hand4    ,the    
simple outline of the story is given us1
 yet how wonderful is the  picture6 ,in 
the first chapter the origin of man is  

proclaimed1 and  his work1 to fill earth
 and subdue it1 is placed before him4   
,in the  second chapter1 the relation of
 the sexes is given1 and the nature of  
marriage is explained4 ,what arrests the
 attention most surely is the           
resemblance that exists between the     
experience of our first parents  and of 
their descendants1 or between ,adam and 
,eve and ourselves4 ,the  ,it is not    
good for man to be alone1 spoken by ,god
 in ,eden1 embodies  a truth which has  
lived with the ages1 and sets forth an  
experience  felt by every son of ,adam4 
,the words ,i will make for him a helper
  suited to him1 is man's authority for 
the faith1 that somewhere on  the earth 
,god has made a helper suited to him1   
whom he will recognize1  and who will   
return the recognition4 ,for in all true
 marriages1 now as  in ,eden1 the man   
and woman do not deliberately seek1 but 
are brought  to one another4 ,happy     
those who afterwards can recognize that 
the hand  which led his ,eve to ,adam   

was that of an invisible ,god4 ,man     
knows that  it is not good for him to be
 alone4 ,separated from woman's         
influence1  man is narrow1 churlish1    
brutal4 ,woman is a helper suited to    
him4 ,with  her help he reaches a       
loftier stature2 for love is the very   
heart of  life1 the pivot upon which its
 whole machinery turns1 without which no
  human existence can be complete1 and  
with which it becomes noble and         
self-sacrificing4    ,woman's origin is 
thus declared3--    ,and ,jehovah ,god  
caused a deep sleep to fall upon the    
man1 and he  slept2 and he took one of  
his ribs1 and closed up the flesh in its
  place4 ,and of the rib which he took  
from the man ,god formed a woman1  and  
brought her to the man4 ,and the man    
said1 ,this now is bone of my  bones1   
and flesh of my flesh4 ,this shall be   
called ,woman1 because from  man was she
 taken4 ,therefore shall a man leave his
 father and his  mother1 and shall      
cleave to his wife2 and they shall be   

one flesh4,a  ,woman was taken out of   
man4 ,it is man's nature to seek to get 
her  back4 ,he feels that a part of him 
is away from him1 until he obtains  her4
 ,long years before he sees the woman   
whom he feels ,god designed to  be his  
wife1 if he be a ,christian1 believing  
that she is on the earth1  he prays for 
her weal4    ,footnote ,a3 ,gen4 ii4    
#ba-bd4    ,taken out of man6 ,how      
significant these words6 ,man1 without  
woman1  wants completeness--physically1 
mentally1 and spiritually4 ,first1      
physically4 ,the fact is noticeable that
 short men often marry tall  women1 and 
tall men marry short women4 ,nervous men
 marry women who are  opposites to them 
in temperament4 ,this is not a happen   
so1 for that  which so often to the     
unreflecting mind seems unnatural and   
absurd1  to the thinking soul appears as
 an evidence of ,god's provident care4  
,second1 mentally4 ,man desires in his  
wife that which he lacks4 ,a  bookish   
man seldom desires a wife devoted to the

 same branch of  literature1 unless she 
works as a helpmeet4 ,in taste and in   
sentiment  there must be harmony without
 rivalry4 ,they must bring products to  
the common garner1 gathered from varying
 pursuits and from different  fields of 
thought4 ,in music the same law rules4  
,man1 from his very  nature1 finds in   
woman a helper in song4 ,their voices   
blend in  harmony1 and give volume1     
symphony1 and variety to the melody     
produced4 ,jenny ,lind married her      
assistant1 because in sympathy they     
were one4 ,he was essential to her      
womanly strength1 and without her1  he  
was a mere cipher in the musical world4 
,together they were a power1  felt and  
acknowledged4    ,a man full of thought 
and of genius requires for a wife1 not  
only one  who can understand his moods  
and enjoy his creations1 but one who is 
content to take care of the home1 and1  
perhaps1 to manage the business         
affairs2 while many a woman of genius   
and ability links her fortunes  with a  

plain and appreciative husband1 who     
gladly affords her every  means in his  
power to work in her special sphere4    
,when the wife  refuses to act thus     
wifely1 because of her talent1 the      
happiness  of the home is imperilled1   
and the children suffer quite as much1  
comparatively1 as they do in those      
manufacturing neighborhoods where  the  
wife forsakes the home for the shop1 and
 gives up the vocation  of woman to do  
the work which belongs to man4 ,god made
 them male and  female4 ,he fitted each 
for separate duties1 not for the same   
duties4  ,each fills a sphere when each 
discharges the duties enjoined upon them
  by their ,creator and by society4     
,wonderful women there are2 few of  them
 care to duplicate their power4 ,they   
prefer to obtain by marriage  that which
 they have not1 and which must be       
supplied by material from  without4     
,homely people oftentimes find beautiful
 ones to mate them4  ,the rugged seeks  
the weak4 ,the nervous1 the lymphatic4  

,counterpart  that which makes itself   
complete4 ,this tendency to assimilate  
is  often carried to extremes1 because  
all naturally love that which they      
possess1 and come to prize highly those 
who regard it with favor4  ,hence1 poor 
men sometimes marry rich wives1 and     
seldom fail to give  something in       
return4 ,the story is familiar of the   
two foppish young  men who were said to 
have met at a noted hotel or on change1 
when one  accosted the other by the     
question1 ,who did you marry8 ,ah1 said 
he1 ,i married fifty thousand dollars4  
,i forget her other name4  ,such men1   
however1 are exceptions to the rule4    
,there are brainless  creatures called  
men1 who will marry a pretty face1      
though the heart  and brain be          
uncultured1 provided there be associated
 with her  sufficient of this world's   
goods to gratify a mercenary ambition2  
but  the majority1 both of men and      
women1 wisely prefer to marry money in  
a partner rather than money with a      

partner4 ,the world has a profound      
contempt for shallow1 fussy1 empty      
people1 no matter what positions  they  
may occupy4    ,all sympathize with the 
rebuke administered to a so-called lady 
of  quality by a ,quaker gentleman1 who 
occupied a seat near her in a  public   
coach4 ,she wore an elegant lace shawl1 
and was dressed to the  top of the      
fashion1 but was suffering from the     
cold4 ,shivering and  shaking1 she      
inquired1 ,what shall ,i do to get warm8
 ,thee had  better put on another       
breastpin1 answered old ,broadbrim4 ,the
 rebuke  was timely4 ,woman degrades    
herself when she surrenders to fashion  
that  which helps the woman1 and which  
aids her in securing the confidence1    
the friendship1 the respect1 and        
admiration of sensible men4    ,the     
truth embodied in the words1 ,this shall
 be called ,woman1 because  from man was
 she taken sheds light upon many a      
mysterious chapter  in life1 reconciles 
the union of contraries in accordance   

with the law  of ,god1 and fills wide   
realms of life with the radiance of     
hope1 which  otherwise would remain     
mantled in perpetual gloom4 ,if we      
depended upon  those who are like       
ourselves to sympathize with us1 and    
gird us with  strength1 we should       
utterly fail4 ,oaks cannot lend support 
to oaks4  ,the vine can do this for the 
oak1 and the oak can give support to the
  vine2 but an oak cannot give strength 
to its kindred while fulfilling  the    
functions of its life4 ,the same law    
rules in the mental world4  ,genius     
seldom applauds genius1 working in its  
own realm4 ,very likely  it loathes it4 
,the tributes paid to labor are given by
 the soft-handed  rather than by the    
hard-handed sons of toil4 ,this         
principle lies back  of the             
appreciation1 the commendation1 and the 
support rendered by the  different      
classes of a community to each other4   
,the ,god-given and ,christ-restored    
thought of equality between the  sexes  

is seen in the household partnership1   
where the woman looks for  a smart1 but 
kind husband1 the man for a capable1    
sweet-tempered  wife4 ,the man furnishes
 the house1 the woman regulates it4     
,their  relation is one of mutual       
esteem1 mutual dependence4 ,their talk  
is of  business2 their affection shows  
itself by practical kindness4 ,they     
know that life goes more smoothly and   
cheerfully to each for the  other's aid2
 they are grateful and content4 ,the    
wife praises her  husband as a good     
provider2 the husband1 in return1       
compliments her  as a capital           
housekeeper4 ,this relation is good as  
far as it goes2  but the heart of the   
man or woman is unsatisfied1 if to      
household  partnership intellectual     
companionship be not added4    ,men can 
hire their houses kept4 ,love cannot be 
purchased4 ,soul  communion is the gift 
of ,god4 ,it is very often enjoyed on   
earth4 ,men  engaged in public life1    
literary men and artists1 have often    

found  in their wives companions and    
confidants in thought1 no less than in  
feeling4 ,and as the intellectual       
development of woman has spread  wider  
and risen higher1 they have1 not        
unfrequently1 shared the same           
employments4    ,thirdly1 spiritual4    
,the highest grade of marriage union is 
the  spiritual1 which may be expressed  
as a pilgrimage towards a common        
shrine4    ,there is something in every 
man which he feels to be the essential  
thing about him4 ,this it is which he   
desires to have loved4 ,neglect  what   
else you choose1 you must not neglect   
that4 ,it is the spiritual  part of     
man1--the ,god-given characteristic     
which longs for sympathy4  ,men feel    
that this want has been met when they   
say1 ,such a one  understands me1 knows 
me1 sees me1 is in sympathy with me4    
,such  moments are to all of priceless  
value4 ,whoever meets this want is a    
boon from ,god4 ,no matter what the     
complexion1 nor how the features  seem3 

soul meets soul4 ,the heart feels a new 
life4 ,the union is  formed4 ,call it   
affinity1 or what you will1 they love in
 one another  the future good which they
 aid one another to unfold4 ,this       
includes  home sympathies and household 
wisdom4 ,such fellowship makes of home a
  joy1 and of toil a delight4 ,when     
first the joy is reached1 a foretaste   
of heaven is enjoyed4 ,for it is the one
 rift of heaven which makes  all heaven 
appear possible2 the ecstasy of hope and
 faith1 out of  which grows the love    
which is our strongest mortal instinct  
and  intimation of immortality4         
,women are as conscious of this feeling 
as are men4 ,there are times  when women
 meet their counterpart4 ,the nature    
they long for and seek  after with      
unutterable longing1 is before them4    
,finding it1 they  recognize their lord1
 under whose protection they take       
shelter1 and  to whose rule they submit1
 because of love which masters and      
controls  them4 ,the heart cries out for

 a person--not for things4 ,spirit      
desires spirit2 soul yearns for soul4   
,it is the genius of woman to be        
electrical in movement1 intuitive in    
penetration1 and spiritual in  tendency4
 ,she excels not so easily in           
classification or recreation as  in an  
instinctive seizure of causes1 and a    
simple breathing out of  what she       
receives1 that has the singleness of    
life1 rather than the  selecting and    
energizing of art4 ,more native is it to
 her to be the  living model of the     
artist1 than to set apart from herself  
any one  form in objective reality4     
,more native to inspire and receive the 
poem  than to create it4 ,in so far as  
soul is in her completely developed1    
all soul is the same2 but in so far as  
it is modified in her as  woman1 it     
flows1 it breathes1 it sings1 rather    
than deposits soil1  or furnishes work2 
and that which is especially feminine1  
flushes in  blossom the face of the     
earth1 and pervades1 like air and water1

 all  this seeming solid globe1 daily   
renewing and purifying its life4 ,such  
is the especial feminine element which  
man desires as a helper1 and  which is  
suited to him1 and which compels him to 
exclaim1 ,o1 my ,god1  give it to me for
 mine6    ,it is said1 ,a woman will    
sometimes idealize a very inferior man1 
until her love for him exalts him into  
something better than he  originally    
was1 and her into little short of an    
angel2 but a man  almost invariably     
drops to the level of the woman he is in
 love with4  ,he cannot raise her2 but  
she can almost unlimitedly deteriorate  
him4  ,this was true of ,adam4 ,eve1    
sinning1 brought him to her level4 ,why 
this should be1 ,heaven knows2 but so it
 constantly is4 ,we have but  to look   
around us1 with ordinary observation1 in
 order to see that a  man's destiny1    
more than even a woman's1 depends far   
less upon the  good or ill fortune of   
his wooing than upon the sort of woman  
with  whom he falls in love4    ,before 

a man loves1 he is under obligations to 
himself1 to his future1  and to the     
world1 to ask himself1 ,is this woman   
suited to me8 ,will she  help me to     
fulfil my mission8 ,does she supply my  
want8 ,can ,i recognize  her as ,god's  
gift to me8 ,if ,yes1 then he is right  
in loving2 for      ,he either fears his
 fate too much1      ,or his deserts are
 small1    ,who dares not put it to the 
touch1      ,and win or lose it all4    
,a woman1 writing of woman1 has truly   
said1 ,there are but two ways  open to  
any woman4 ,if she loves a man1 and he  
does not love her1 to  give him up may  
be a horrible pang and loss2 but it     
cannot be termed  a sacrifice3 she      
resigns what she never had4 ,but if he  
does love her1  and she knows it1 and if
 she loves him1 she has a right1 in     
spite of  the whole world1 to hold to   
him till death do them part4 ,she is    
bound  to marry him1 though twenty other
 women loved him1 and broke their       
hearts in loving him4 ,he is not theirs1

 but hers2 and to have her for  his wife
 is his right and her duty4 ,and in this
 world are so many  contradictory views 
of duty and exaggerated notions of      
light1 so many  false sacrifices and    
remunerations1 weak even to wickedness1 
that  it is but fair sometimes to uphold
 the right of love1--love sole1         
absolute1 and paramount1--firmly holding
 its own1 and submitting to  nothing and
 no one1 except the laws of ,god and    
righteousness4 ,well  and truthfully    
spoken4 ,lift up this principle1 and    
behold how it  showers benedictions upon
 all classes and upon all men4    ,much 
is said against amalgamation1 as though 
it were a crime4 ,there is  no crime in 
it or about it4 ,there is much of       
prejudice1 but no crime4  ,soul marries 
soul4 ,if a white man loves the soul of 
a black woman1  there is no law in      
,god's code forbidding the union4 ,god  
made of one  blood all nations of men to
 dwell on all the face of the earth4    
,complexions may differ1 owing to       

climate1 or temperament1 but the  blood 
is the same4 ,the race has a common     
,father in ,god4    ,in this            
intermingling of races1 coming to this  
land from all climes1  we perceive the  
seedling of a glorious hope4 ,the future
 ,american is to  be the product of this
 blending of the distinctive features of
 all the  various nations of earth4     
,against this result there is an immense
 amount of prejudice1 born  of slavery2 
but in ,europe it does not exist1 nor is
 it in fact so  universal in this land  
as many suppose4 ,many a white man has  
found his  helpmeet in a black woman1   
and many more will find helpmeets from  
the  same source4    #b4 ,woman was     
taken out of man4 ,there is significance
 in the  locality from which she was    
taken4 ,not from the superior part1 that
  she might think herself superior to   
man1 or endowed with the right to  rule 
him4 ,her sin consisted in her failing  
to recognize the position  assigned4    
,she was created an associate and an    

equal1 and acted  independently1 and as 
an adviser4 ,she took advantage of her  
position  as wife1 and became an ally of
 ,satan4    ,she was not taken from an  
inferior portion of his body1 that he   
might  think her inferior to himself1   
and to be trampled on by him1 but out   
of his side1--from his rib1--that she   
might appear to be equal to him2  and   
from a part near his heart1 and under   
his arm1 to show that she  should be    
affectionately loved by him1 and be     
always under his care  and protection4  
,wherever man has failed to recognize   
this truth society has gone back  to    
barbarism1 and the very conception of a 
home has been banished from  the mind4  
,in the ,east man rules woman as lord4  
,she is his slave2 and  in the ,arabic  
language there is no word meaning home4 
,christian  civilization lifts woman up1
 and thrones her in the heart of a home4
    ,she was made from bone and         
flesh1--quickened dust1--and so in her  
make and constitution she is of superior

 quality and of finer mould4    ,the    
,hebrew word translated made1 means     
built4 ,from the rib ,god  built this   
woman4 ,how instructive the fact6 ,woman
 added to man is the  foundation of the 
home or family4 ,she is built out of    
man4 ,man is  necessary to her          
development4 ,a man can continue the    
work begun by  ,god4 ,he can build up a 
woman2 and as he builds her up he builds
 up  himself4 ,she is also a builder4   
,she builds up a home1 or degrades it4  
,if woman is honored in a home1 she     
makes it honorable4    ,at the outset   
she was man's equal3 perhaps she may    
have thought  herself to be superior to 
him--more refined1 of better material4  
,she  forgot her place1 and ignored her 
sphere1 and lost all4 ,she was not      
created as things were1 out of nothing4 
,she was meant to be something  better  
than a thing2 and she must be something 
better than a thing1  or she is nothing4
 ,she was not formed as ,adam was1 out  
of the dust of  the earth4 ,had she     

been1 perhaps she would not have        
disliked dust so  terribly4 ,she is a   
part of man's life4 ,this describes her 
mission4 ,the  life of a woman who does 
not care to be a man's toy or ornament1 
but  desires rather to be his           
helpmeet1--supplying all he needs1 as he
  supplies all she needs1--is but the   
continuance1 the flowing out and        
flowing on of man's higher life1 into   
the flowers of love1 which  decorate the
 home1 and make that chosen retreat the 
very portals of  heaven4    ,as man     
feels that in woman he finds the        
complement to himself1 and  almost his  
other self1 woman finds in man the same 
complement to  herself1 and recognizes  
in him the ruler of her life1 her       
friend1  her lover2 and happy is she if 
she finds in him her husband1 who       
rightfully assumes his rights and his   
sovereignty4    #c4 ,god brought her    
unto man4 ,woman is ,god's first gift to
 man4  ,she must never occupy a second  
place4 ,in the heart she holds a first  

place1 or she holds none at all4 ,the   
moment she holds a secondary  place she 
is ruined4 ,it is in her power to hold  
the first place4 ,to do  this1 she must 
prize it2 make sacrifices to keep it2   
almost1 at times1  deny herself1 and    
bear a cross1 to hold on to it4 ,yet it 
is hers1 and  ,god will see to it that  
she maintains her right4    ,god brought
 her4 ,every husband in this world      
should feel that  his wife is ,god's    
gift to him1 and it is his duty to study
 its  characteristics1 and minister to  
them4 ,every man can make the partner   
of his life a good wife1 and can feel   
that she was ,god-given1 and must  be   
used in such a manner that when the day 
of reckoning comes1 he can  give a good 
account of the manner in which he has   
used this blessing4  ,to go to the      
judgment1 and meet a broken-hearted     
woman1 over whom man  has exercised     
tyranny1 and to whom he has been a      
monster1 until hope  died1 and the grave
 became a refuge1 will not be a pleasant

 meeting4    ,in this bestowal of woman 
upon man1 we recognize two facts4    #a4
 ,the father's right to give away his   
child--a right which exerts its         
influence at the present time1 and which
 every young man who seeks  properly the
 hand of woman is compelled to          
recognize4 ,in that act of  ,eden lie   
the rule and example to be followed by  
parents and children3  the one to       
dispose of their children1 and the other
 to have the  consent of their parents  
in reaching conclusions upon which      
hinges the  destiny of the individual   
for time1 and perhaps for eternity4     
,happy  the child that trusts a wise    
parent1 and refuses to walk a path over 
which the shadow of parental disapproval
 rests6 ,happy the parent who  finds    
pleasure in the fresh young love of the 
child1 and watches the  opening flower  
and the ripening fruit with pride and   
pleasure4    ,this giving away of the   
child requires the enjoyment of perfect 
confidence between father and daughter  

and mother and son4    ,god knew ,eve1  
for he built her4 ,he knew her heart1   
her mind1 her  aspiration4 ,a parent    
knows something of the child2 and well  
it is for  both parent and child when   
this knowledge is perfect1 and when the 
relation subsisting between parents and 
children is such that home is  a place  
of consultation4 ,a home without        
secrets1 without closed doors1  and     
locked drawers and sugar-boxes1--a home 
where thought is free1 and  mind is     
untrammelled1 is the very gate of       
heaven4    ,there are homes where the   
children are excluded from counsel1 from
  love1 from plan1 from association4    
,those children live in a world  apart  
from their parents1 and it will not be  
strange if they are swept  out by the   
waves of evil to ruin4    ,there are    
homes where the father shuts himself    
away from the wife and  children4 ,to   
the children he is harsh1 unsympathetic1
 and morose4 ,ah6  there is sorrow in   
that house4 ,the mother--,god bless     

her6--has a hard  time4 ,she has to keep
 in with the father1 and she will keep  
in with  the children4 ,in that bundle  
of life the tendrils of her nature are  
bound up4 ,she fights a prolonged battle
 in regard to expenditure and           
education4 ,happiness only comes when   
the household is one1 and the  relations
 between father and children are        
perfect1 as ,god designed  them to be4  
,again1 ,god gives his sanction not only
 to the truth that man's wants  can only
 be met by the gift of woman1--a fact   
which every man has  felt1 and which    
causes every man to feel that somewhere 
on earth his  wife is living1 who will  
recognize and welcome him to the bliss  
of  love and to the joy of              
companionship1--but this additional     
truth is  taught3 ,man has a right to   
marry4 ,love is no disgrace4 ,it is the 
pretence of it1 for base purposes1 which
 is disgraceful4 ,the nuptial  vow was  
first whispered in the garden4 ,god was 
sponsor1 and all ,eden  witnesses4 ,this

 bond of union was ,god's gift to the   
race4 ,the curse  did not touch it4 ,the
 marriage vow and marriage rite1 with   
the faith  in woman as a helpmeet1 have 
survived the fall1 and are our joy and  
rejoicing at this time4    ,in          
conclusion1 think of ,god's care for    
man1 in providing woman as a  blessing4 
,there is no necessity for man's being  
alone4 ,some one waits  to bless or has 
blessed him4 ,let us make more of our   
wives and sisters  than ever before4    
,let us build them up in love and in    
those generous  qualities which fit     
woman for her high destiny in this      
fallen world4    #b4 ,think1 woman1 of  
your noble mission4 ,you are to be a    
help to man4  ,you are to help him      
morally and spiritually4 ,for this ,god 
created you4  ,for this he preserves    
you4 ,you are queens and bondmaids too1 
as royal  when you serve as when you    
rule4 ,man must respect you1 for when   
man loses his respect for woman he is   
lost4 ,he goes down1 down to            

irremediable ruin4 ,with woman as ,god  
designed her1 man gets much of  ,eden   
back1 for in ,christ she is reconciled  
to ,god4 ,it is for man and  woman to   
get back ,eden4 ,christ came to be our  
common helper4 ,he is  woman's ,saviour 
as well as man's1 and offers to all that
 help which  changes life's desert into 
a garden1 and life's gloom into the     
brilliancy of an eternal day4           
,hail1 woman6 ,hail1 thou faithful wife 
and mother1      ,the latest1 choicest  
part of heaven's great plan4    ,none   
fills thy peerless place at home1 no    
other      ,helpmeet is found for       
laboring1 suffering man4    ,hail1 thou 
home circle1 where1 at day's decline1   
,her moulding power1 her radiant virtues
 shine6    ,not in the church to rule or
 teach1 her place2      ,not in the mart
 of trade1 or senate halls2    ,not the 
wild1 festive scene is hers to grace2   
,not ,fashion's altar her its victim    
calls2    ,not here her field of        
triumph2 but alone    ,she moves the    

queen of her own quiet home4      ,,rev4
 ,,mark ,,trafton4              ,,woman 
,a ,,helpmeet4      ,the purpose of ,god
 in the creation of woman was to provide
 man with a  helpmeet4 ,the language is 
unmistakable4 ,and the ,lord ,god said1 
,it is  not good that the man should be 
alone4 ,i will make for him a helper    
suited to him4 ,woman was made to be    
man's helpmeet in ,eden2 that  purpose  
survives the fall4 ,for right or wrong1 
for good or ill1 her  influence is felt4
 ,she lifts man up or drags him down4   
,scoff at it1  oppose it1 cast          
opprobrium upon this ancient utterance1 
the fact  remains1 woman is made for    
man4 ,helpmeet she was1 helpmeet she    
must  be1 or leave her work undone1 and 
suffer the blight that results from  the
 lack of love4 ,god placed man in the   
garden to keep it1 and he  placed woman 
there to fill the bower with love1 and  
his home with joy4    ,the coming of    
,eve to ,adam is a beautiful story4 ,he 
had been taught to  realize his need of 

her4 ,it was a part of his constitution4
 ,the same  is true now wherever woman  
is appreciated4 ,the felt want is the   
recognition of the fact4 ,a wife chosen 
by one's parents1 not by  himself1 is   
devoid of all of those special          
characteristics which  distinguish her  
where processes of love begin1 go on1   
deepen and  tighten1 until the bond is  
woven and the union formed4             
,nothing so delights man as those       
graceful nets1    ,those thousand       
delicacies that daily flow    ,from all 
her words and actions1 mixed with love  
,and sweet compliance1 which declare    
unfeigned    ,union of mind1 or in them 
both one soul4,a    ,footnote ,a3       
,paradise ,lost1 ,book ,,viii4    ,the  
knowledge of congeniality of tastes can 
only be obtained by mutual              
acquaintance1 and by a careful study4   
,it is said nothing is so blind  as     
love4 ,nothing is so foolish as a blind 
love4 ,man needs a helpmeet1  and woman 
needs a man she can help4 ,it is        

possible to know before  marriage that  
the parties are able to fulfil this     
trust4 ,if they  cannot fulfil it1      
marriage is a sin1 which brings forth   
continuous  sorrow and discontent4      
,the purpose of ,god to provide a       
helpmeet was avowed1 but ,adam did not  
know the fact4 ,under the arch of ,god's
 promise we discover the working  of    
,god's providence4 ,the ,bible1 if      
properly studied1 is a more  thrilling  
narrative than any novel1 because in it 
we can behold the  infinite ,god working
 with man and for man4 ,it is not good  
that man  should be alone4 ,this is the 
general proposition4 ,as a counterpart  
we  find man feeling that it was very   
sad to be alone4 ,in his heart there  is
 a want at work1 making him ready for   
the blessing which ,god is  preparing   
for him4    ,the want of the soul means 
a purpose on the part of ,god to supply 
it4 ,this is true in regard to all that 
vitally interests man in this  world4   
,my want is the basis of my hope4 ,god1 

who is above and around  me1 would not  
send forward the desire unless he had   
purposed to grant  it4    ,prayer       
stirring in the soul1 is to man         
spiritually what a bill  of goods       
preceding the payment is to a merchant4 
,do we long for  salvation1 for a       
revival1 for any spiritual outpouring8  
have faith  in ,god4 ,there is a motive 
in it4 ,expect the blessing1 and you    
will  receive it4    ,the ,spirit       
itself1 said ,paul1 beareth witness with
 our spirit1 that  we are the children  
of ,god2 and if children1 then heirs2   
heirs of ,god1  and joint heirs with    
,christ1 if so be that we suffer with   
him1 that we  may be also glorified     
together4 ,this is enjoyed despite the  
curse4  ,jesus sent us the ,comforter1  
who helpeth our infirmities1 for we know
  not what we should pray for as we     
ought1 but the ,spirit itself maketh    
intercession for us with groanings which
 cannot be uttered4 ,and he  that       
searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the

 mind of the spirit1  because he maketh 
intercession for the saints according to
 the will of  ,god4 ,and we know that   
all things work together for good to    
them that  love ,god1 to them who are   
thus called according to his purpose4   
,this  fatherhood of ,god comes to us   
under all circumstances and in all      
conditions4 ,in the home1 in the heart  
with all its wails1 in the  battle1 in  
the victory1 on earth and in heaven4    
,notice how ,adam was  made ready for   
his helpmeet4    ,and out of the ground 
the ,lord ,god formed every beast of the
 field1  and every fowl of the air1 and 
brought them unto ,adam to see what he  
would call them2 and whatsoever ,adam   
called every living creature1  that was 
the name thereof4 ,and ,adam gave names 
to all cattle1 and to  the fowl of the  
air1 and to every beast of the field2   
but for ,adam  there was not found a    
helpmeet for him4    ,imagine ,adam     
feeling this want of companionship as   
the beasts of earth  in their pristine  

beauty pass before him4 ,there are those
 who mate  with a horse or a dog4 ,who  
make a pet of a brute1 and1 ignoring    
their  higher relations1 live for their 
lower nature4 ,we know that animals  can
 be brought to do almost anything but   
talk1 and some birds have the  gift of  
speech4 ,it was doubtless true of ,eden4
 ,the serpent's talking  did not        
surprise ,eve4    ,perhaps ,adam may    
have found animals that could have kept 
him company4  ,yet he could find none   
who could meet his want as a helpmeet4  
,milton  has fancifully described ,adam 
expressing his want to the ,infinite4   
,it  grew upon him4 ,then he has        
pictured him asleep1 and seeing1 as in a
  trance1 the rib1 with cordial spirits 
warm1 formed and fashioned with  his    
hands1 until      ,under his forming    
hands a creature grew1    ,manlike1 but 
different sex1 so lovely fair    ,that  
what seemed fair in all the world seemed
 now    ,mean1 or in her summed up1 in  
her contained1    ,and in her looks1    

which from that time infused            
,sweetness into my heart unfelt before1 
,and into all things from her air       
inspired    ,the spirit of love and     
amorous delight4    ,then she           
disappeared4 ,the dream haunted him in  
his waking hours4 ,in  the gallery of   
the ,louvre there is a picture of ,henry
 ,,iv becoming  entranced by the picture
 of his future wife1 and next to it is  
the  picture of the proud man being     
married to the woman whose face in  the 
picture had once captivated his fancy4  
,those pictures were the  realization of
 the one described in ,milton's verse4  
,adam saw in ,eve  the realization of   
his dream1 and was happy when he        
welcomed to his  embrace this first gift
 of ,god1 which met his want and        
answered his  prayer4 ,god created man  
not only a social being but an          
intellectual  being4 ,a beast can mate  
with beasts4 ,they do so4 ,a            
distinguished  writer says1 the family  
relation is almost universal among the  

higher  classes of animals4 ,adam's     
immortal nature longed for a kindred    
spirit4 ,one to commune with1 one to    
love1 one to guide1 one to look at  life
 from another standpoint1 one whose     
opinions should be diverse1  and yet    
alike in difference1 one to help in all 
the affairs of life1  not only for the  
propagation of the species1 but to      
provide things  useful and comfortable  
for him1 and like himself in temper1 in 
disposition1 and destiny4 ,one to whom  
,god shall be a loving ,father1  and    
heaven a common home4 ,one with whom    
soul can join with soul in  worship and 
love4 ,a kindred spirit4 ,a spirit      
having a common love1 a  common purpose1
 a common aspiration1 and a common      
interest4    ,this longing for          
companionship was the earliest recorded 
emotion of  the soul4 ,it comes earliest
 to us and stays longest4 ,in childhood1
  very often1 instinct and desire rule  
wisely1 and matches formed in  heaven   
are recognized in life's morning on     

earth far oftener than we  are          
accustomed to think4 ,this longing never
 ceases4 ,the child wants               
companionship1 and old age1 shattered   
and broken1 feels the need of  this     
loving support which ,god provides in   
the opposite sex quite as  much as does 
the youthful heart4 ,our perfect        
humanity is made up of  the two1 and is 
not complete without this union4    ,the
 most magnificent scenery is tame1      
unless you can point out its  beauties  
to the one you love4 ,the picture       
gallery is worthless1 unless  some other
 lip can press the goblet of your       
pleasure1 and sip  nectar from the      
flower of beauty which blossoms in your 
thought or  imagination4 ,it is not good
 for man to be alone1 even in ,eden4    
,eden is  not ,eden without its ,eve4   
,before ,eve came1 ,eden was the        
pastureland of  beasts2 after it1 the   
place took on home-like properties1     
bowers of  love were formed1 and the    
place became the house of ,god1 and the 

gate  of heaven4    ,the characteristics
 of woman as a helpmeet deserve our     
notice4    #a4 ,consider this word      
,woman4 ,woman was the name given to our
  mother because she was taken out of   
man4 ,the word itself means  pliant4 ,in
 this definition we discover the first  
characteristic of a  womanly nature4    
,she is pliant4 ,she adjusts herself to 
circumstances4  ,she is adapted to meet 
man's wants1 because she finds it in her
 nature  to adapt herself to meet them4 
,it is gentlemanly to avow an opinion4  
,we feel that it is womanly to  waive   
one4 ,we never think less of a woman for
 not forcing her opinions  upon a       
company4 ,we do not desire her to be    
without opinions1 nor is it  expected   
that she will desist from expressing an 
opinion1 but if one  must yield1 it is  
womanly in woman to do so4    ,indeed1  
oftentimes a woman of strong mental     
calibre1 whose opinions  are derived    
from thought and study1 has built her   
husband up by  permitting his expression

 to stand even though her own judgment  
might  differ from him4 ,if she be a    
true wife or sister1 she will seek1 in  
retirement1 to correct an opinion which 
could not be avowed in public  without  
weakening a husband's or a brother's    
influence4 ,a woman that  builds up     
another is herself a power and a praise4
    ,the word pliant does not demand an 
absence of quality4 ,the ,damascus      
blade is pliant2 it can be bent but it  
is not easily broken1 while  its edge is
 the keenest and its strength is a      
marvel4 ,so woman is not  necessarily   
weak because she is pliant4 ,she may be 
the very reverse1  and yet be pliant4   
,oftentimes her power of control is the 
more potent  because it is unseen and   
unostentatious4 ,an opinion held1 to be 
uttered in the moment of cool and calm  
reflection1 may be more telling  than if
 spoken while the storm of debate was   
raging4 ,the still1 small  voice came   
after the lightning and the thunder and 
the earthquake1 and  ,god spake in it   

with power and effect4 ,it is the quiet 
utterance in  the home which is of      
marvellous power in the world4 ,it is   
womanly to  adorn rather than to plan4  
,she fits herself for companionship     
rather than for leadership4 ,by her     
tact and by her very nature she is      
enabled to harmonize antagonistic       
elements1 and promote concord1 if she   
cannot secure union4 ,like the  lily    
living in the water1 she feeds on her   
native element1 love4 ,the  lily1 though
 it floats on the wave1 opens wider its 
leaves to the rain  and dew4 ,so woman1 
though living on love1 finds pleasure   
and rapture  in fresh manifestations of 
love day by day4 ,it is her nature to   
love4  ,it is her life to be beloved4   
#b4 ,think of this other title1         
feminine4 ,this word1 in its meaning1   
furnishes the second characteristic4 ,it
 pertains to woman1 and denotes  a soft1
 tender1 and delicate nature4           
,effeminate means destitute of  manly   
qualities4    ,a woman truly feminine is

 thus described3 ,no coarseness was     
mingled  with her plainness of speech2  
no boisterousness with her zeal4 ,her   
feelings1 her sensibilities1 her tastes 
were all characterized by a  gentleness 
and delicacy seldom surpassed4 ,while   
her heroic daring  and unconquerable    
energy excited admiration1 her love of  
birds and  flowers1 and indeed of all   
that is beautiful in nature1 made her   
seem  almost childlike4 ,this           
characteristic1 so loved and admired1 is
  woman's glory1 and yet it is          
effeminate4 ,woman's mind is quicker1   
more  flexible1 more elastic than man's1
 though the brain1 in weight1 is  much  
lighter4 ,man's brain weighs1 on an     
average1 three pounds and  eight ounces4
 ,woman's brain weighs1 on an average1  
two pounds and four  ounces4 ,the female
 intellect is impregnated with the      
qualities of her  sensitive nature4 ,it 
acts rather through a channel of        
electricity than  of reasoning4 ,its    
perceptions of truth come1 as it were1  

by intuition4  ,it is under the         
influence of the heart1 that has deep   
and unfathomable  wells of feeling2 and 
truth is felt in every pulse1 rather    
than  reasoned out and demonstrated4    
,you cannot offend a woman so quick1 in 
any way1 as to ask her why she wishes to
 do thus1 or why she reaches  such a    
conclusion4 ,her reply is1 invariably1  
',cause6 ,and that is  about all she    
knows about it2 and yet woe be to the   
man who ignores  her intuitions1 or     
treats with disdain her advice4 ,woman  
reads  character quicker and better than
 man4 ,her policy lies in her heart4    
,she feels rather than reasons4 ,man    
reasons rather than feels4 ,hence  she  
is a helpmeet4 ,she fills a lack1 and   
supplies a want4    ,in her the         
imagination and fancy have such a lively
 play1 that the  homeliest principles   
assume forms of beauty4 ,in intellectual
 pursuits  she is destined to excel by  
her fine sensibilities1 her nice        
observations1 and exquisite tastes1     

while man is appointed to  investigate  
the laws of abstruse sciences1 and      
perform in literature  and art the      
bolder flights of genius4 ,she may      
surpass him in  representing life and   
manners1 and in the composition of      
letters1  memoirs1 and moral tales1 in  
descriptive poetry1 and in certain      
styles  of music and painting1 and even 
in sculpture4 ,but she will never write 
an ,iliad or a ,paradise ,lost1 or      
tragedies like those of ,aeschylus4 ,she
  will never rival ,demosthenes in      
producing a political oration1 nor  a   
massive philosophic history like        
,thucydides4 ,she will not paint a      
,madonna like ,raphael1 nor chisel an   
,apollo ,belvedere4 ,the logic of       
,aristotle1 the polemics of ,augustine1 
the prodigious onsets of a  ,luther1 the
 ,institutes of a ,calvin1 the ,novum   
,organum of ,bacon1 the  ,principia of  
,newton1 the ,cosmos of ,humboldt--the  
like of these she  will never achieve1  
nor is it desirable that she should4    

,women seldom invent4 ,there are all    
manner of inventions1 often  hundreds of
 applications in a single day1 for      
patents at the ,patent  ,office1 yet    
among them there are no female          
applicants4 ,woman cannot  compete with 
man in a long course of mental labor4   
,the female mind is  rather quiet and   
timid than fiery and driving4 ,it       
admires rather than  covets the great   
exploits of the other sex4 ,woman never 
excelled  in architecture4 ,to her      
belong the gentler arts of quiet life   
and  retirement1 where she has power to 
soften and refine the heart of  him who 
is accustomed to battle with the        
elements and the forces of  external    
nature4    ,we might speak at length of 
woman's gentle nature1 present striking 
examples of female submission1          
endurance1 and heroism1 and speak in    
general of her charms and of her        
beneficent influence in domestic  and   
social life4 ,it would be equally       
pertinent1 perhaps1 to exhibit          

brilliant specimens of female genius and
 culture in the more graceful  walks of 
literature1 science1 or art4 ,these gay 
flowers of humanity  lie scattered all  
over the vast field of history4 ,but our
 subject  leads us in another direction4
 ,woman as a helpmeet finds in her own  
nature the natural introduction to the  
spheres of usefulness and  influence    
ever open to her4 ,she has a body1 a    
mind1 and soul4 ,she must  help1        
physically1 mentally1 and spiritually4  
,the household partnership  is opened to
 her physical nature4 ,this relation is 
good as far at it  goes4 ,but it is only
 the beginning4 ,it is rather the result
 than the  commencement of the union4   
,there is a closer tie found in         
intellectual  companionship4 ,mind comes
 in contact with mind2 the wants of the 
intellect are met1 and a union is the   
result4 ,men engaged in public  life1   
literary men and artists1 have often    
found in their wives  companions and    
confidantes in thought no less than in  

feeling4 ,and  as the intellectual      
development of woman has spread wider1  
and never  higher1 they have been mutual
 helpers1 suited to each other4 ,roland 
and his wife in ,paris1 ,william and    
,mary ,howitt of ,england1 and ,mr4 and 
,mrs4 ,browning1 are beautiful          
illustrations of this principle1 though 
they are exceptional in their character4
 ,as a rule1 when men find  helpers in  
women1 there is no community of         
employment4 ,harmony exists  in         
difference no less than in likeness1 if 
only the same key-note  governs both    
parts4 ,woman the poem1 man the poet6   
,woman the heart1 man  the head6 ,such  
instances lie all about us4 ,man rides  
to battle1 while  his wife is busy in   
the kitchen2 but difference of          
occupation does  not prevent that       
community of inward life1 that perfect  
esteem which  causes him to say1--      
,whom ,god loves1 to him gives he such a
 wife    ,and yet there is a still      
higher realm open before woman1 because 

of  her spiritual nature4    ,woman as a
 helpmeet needs something besides a     
well-stored mind4 ,she  requires a heart
 filled with pure affections4 ,here we  
perceive how  essential to her well     
being is submission to ,christ4    ,the 
assumption of the ,new ,testament is1   
that we possess an animal  nature4 ,the 
meaning of the word flesh1 in all the   
,new ,testament  writings1 is1 that the 
human family are living in an animal    
condition4  ,it is taught that in that  
condition it is impossible for them to  
understand higher truths1 or to feel    
higher influences1 or to enter  into the
 experiences which belong to the full   
development of the  higher faculties4   
,christ came to us1 suffered1 and died  
for us1 that  an escape from this lower 
into the higher realm might be possible4
 ,it  is possible4 ,there is inherent   
under the divine influence the power of 
recreating1 so that the soul shall      
escape from the prison-house of the     
flesh1 and shall henceforth lead the    

mind and the body into a higher  realm  
of thought and action4 ,the very nature 
of woman makes her  susceptible to      
religious impressions4 ,her lively      
imagination1 her  quick sensibilities1  
and her ready sympathy enable her       
readily to  give ,christ1 the           
personification of every manly attribute
 and the  embodiment of every virtue1 a 
welcome to her soul4    ,it is possible 
for woman's spiritual nature to so marry
 ,christ1 that  her physical nature can1
 without a great sacrifice1 forego the  
joys of  earthly companionship4 ,hence  
some women mated with a brute of a man1 
shine as ,christians1 and make excellent
 mothers4 ,woman as a ,christian  is a  
helpmeet indeed and in truth4 ,her power
 as such is felt in the  church and in  
the world4 ,she is peculiarly adapted to
 carry forward  enterprises which have  
to do with meliorating the condition of 
society4 ,who is so adapted as she to   
manage an orphan's home1 or to  minister
 to the sick in hospitals1 or to give   

support and sympathy to  the aged1 or to
 train children up in the nurture and   
admonition of the  ,lord8 ,the first    
requisite to companionship is a heart   
imbued with the  love of ,christ4 ,a    
heart must be emphasized1 for a         
heartless woman  is a terror in society1
 but a woman with a great heart1        
reverent  and obedient to ,god1 and full
 of love for ,christ and his work1 is a 
benefaction to a man1 to a home1 to a   
community1 and to the world4  ,favor is 
deceitful and beauty is vain1 but a     
woman that feareth the  ,lord1 she shall
 be praised4 ,and a woman that feareth  
the ,lord and  serveth him1 is praised  
and prized beyond rubies4 ,the next     
requisite  to holiness may be said to be
 skilfulness in the home4 ,woman must be
  trained to household duties4 ,if she  
lacks here1 she is wanting in much  that
 makes her a real wife or mother or     
sister4    ,america1 the land of homes1 
finds the housewife essential to its    
future4 ,housework in woman is ever     

honorable4 ,it ought to be her glory    
and her pride4 ,let us make it so more  
and more4    ,the second requisite is   
intelligence4 ,a woman must keep up with
 man  in literature1 in general news1 in
 what interests the community1 and      
especially in growth in grace1 and in   
the knowledge of the word of  ,god1 if  
she would make her home attractive4     
,thus shall they      ,sit side by side 
full sunned in all their powers         
,dispensing harvests2    ,self-reverent 
each and reverencing each    ,distinct  
in individualities2    ,but like each   
other even as those who love1    ,then  
comes the statelier ,eden back to man4  
,for it is possible in wedded pair a    
harmony    ,more grateful than          
harmonious sound to the ear4    ,said   
,count ,zinzendorf1 in regard to his    
wife1 ,twenty-five years'  experience   
has shown me that just the helpmeet whom
 ,i love is the  only one that could    
suit my vocation4 ,who else could have  
so carried  through my family affairs8  

,who lived so spotlessly before the     
world8  ,who so wisely aided me in my   
rejection of a dry morality8 ,who so    
clearly set aside ,pharisaism1 which1 as
 years passed1 threatened  to creep in  
among us8 ,who so deeply discerned as to
 the spirits of  delusion which sought  
to bewilder us8 ,who would have governed
 my  whole economy so wisely1 richly1   
and hospitably1 when circumstances      
commanded8 ,who have taken indifferently
 the part of servant or  mistress       
without1 on the one side1 affecting an  
especial spirituality2  on the other1   
being sullied by any worldly pride8     
,who1 in a community  where all ranks   
are eager to be on a level1 would1 from 
wise and real  causes1 have known how to
 maintain inward and outward            
distinctions8  ,who1 without a murmur1  
has seen her husband encounter such     
dangers by  land and sea8 ,who          
undertaken with him and sustained such  
astonishing  pilgrimages8 ,who1 amid    
such difficulties1 would have always    

held up  her head and supported me8 ,who
 found such vast sums of money and      
acquitted them on her own credit8 ,and1 
finally1 who1 of all human  beings1     
could so well understand and interpret  
to others my inner and  outer being1 as 
this one1 of such nobleness in her way  
of thinking1  such great intellectual   
capacity1 and so free from the          
theological  perplexities that enveloped
 me8 ,let any one peruse1 with all      
intentness1 the lineaments of this      
portrait1 and he will be impressed  with
 the fact1 that it is possible for woman
 to fulfil her mission1  and become a   
true helpmeet4 ,this woman was not a    
copy4 ,she was not  a cipher4 ,she was  
an original2 and while she loved and    
honored her  husband1 she thought for   
herself on all subjects1 with so much   
intelligence1 that he could and did look
 on her as a sister and friend  also4   
,the third and highest grade of marriage
 union is the religious1  which may be  
expressed as a pilgrimage round a common

 shrine4 ,this  includes the            
other1--home sympathies and household   
wisdom1--for these  pilgrims know how to
 assist each other along the dusty way4 
,these facts should be remembered in her
 education4 ,the beautiful forms  which 
everywhere exist in nature should be    
impressed upon the female  mind1 and the
 treasures of elegant literature should 
be opened to her  in no stinted measure4
    ,a well-disciplined and a           
well-stored mind she does indeed        
require2  but a heart of pure           
affections1 a lively imagination1 and   
quick  sensibilities to give depth1 and 
form1 and beauty1 and vivacity to the   
character of her mind1 are so peculiarly
 feminine accomplishments1  that without
 them a woman of the greatest intellect 
is1 as it were1  unsexed and disrobed of
 her loveliest charms4 ,she may be a    
,queen  ,elizabeth1 and conquer a       
,spanish ,armada1 but she will never    
conquer  the heart1 nor be recognized as
 a model of female character4 ,she is to

  be the mother of her race4 ,this fixes
 the sphere of her duties in the  home4 
,think of ,helen ,olcott1 the wife of   
,rums ,choate2 of the first  ,mrs4      
,webster1 and of her influence upon that
 man who won the proud  appellation1    
,the ,great ,expounder4    ,the story is
 told of ,daniel ,webster meeting a     
woman with her two boys  loaded down    
with bundles1 at the ,jersey ,ferry1 in 
,new ,york4 ,the lady  had lost her     
fortune through the failure of her      
husband4 ,she was poor1  and the old set
 ignored her4 ,but she lived in a little
 cottage in ,new  ,jersey1 and made it  
bright with her face of love4 ,she was  
tired and  sad4 ,many had passed her4   
,mr4 ,webster1 seeing her perplexity1   
offered  to relieve her of her bundles1 
and take charge of one of the boys4     
,they entered the cars4 ,he talked to   
her of her ,god-given trust1 of her     
work1 and of the results that would     
naturally flow from her efforts2  of the
 province of a mother1 of the trust     

reposed in her by ,god  himself4 ,she   
was encouraged and strengthened1 and    
when she came to the  depot1 she said1  
,please1 sir1 give me your card1 that ,i
 may mention  your name to my husband4  
,she hurried out1 and looked at it1 and 
saw  the name of ,daniel ,webster4 ,the 
woman was thrilled with the joy that    
came to her in her sphere of service4   
,earth knows no fairer1 holier  relation
 than that of mother2 and she turned    
with delight from the  bubbles and froth
 of fashion to the grand work before her
 of raising  men for ,god and humanity4 
,the treasures of the deep are not so   
precious    ,as are the concealed       
comforts of a man    ,locked up in      
woman's love4 ,i scent the air    ,of   
blessings when ,i come but near the     
house4    ,what a delicious breath      
marriage sends forth6    ,the violet    
bed's not sweeter4    ,think of the     
realm in which woman may rule4 ,if she  
be elegant and  refined2 if she has     
learned how to govern1 first herself1   

and then  those about her1 there is a   
charm diffused through the home which   
reveals itself in the good order of the 
establishment1 in the  politeness of the
 servants1 in the genial disposition of 
the children1  in the delightful        
intercourse of the different portions of
 the  household1 and in the fact that   
her husband is known in the gates  when 
he sitteth among the elders of the land4
 ,strength and honor are  her clothing1 
and she shall rejoice in time to come4  
,she openeth her  mouth with wisdom1 and
 her tongue is the law of kindness4 ,she
 looketh  well to the ways of her       
household1 and eateth not the bread of  
idleness4 ,her children rise up and call
 her blessed2 her husband also1  and he 
praiseth her4 ,many daughters have done 
virtuously2 but thou  excellest them    
all4    ,in such words did ,king ,lemuel
 praise this excellency of woman4       
,blessed  memory6 ,who does not remember
 that one form of the old-fashioned     
mother1--the law of whose life was love2

 one who was the divinity  of our       
infancy1 and the sacred presence in the 
shrine of our first  earthly idolatry2  
one whose heart was ever green1 though  
the snows of  time had gathered in the  
boughs of her life-tree2 one to whom we 
never  grow old1 but in the plumed troop
 or the grave council are children      
still2 one who welcomed us coming1      
blessed us going1 and forgets us  never2
 one who waits for the echo of our      
returning footstep1 or who1  perhaps1   
has gone on to the better land1 and     
keeps a light in the  window for those  
left behind4    ,such women have power  
now as did the ,hannahs and the ,ruths  
of the  olden time4 ,when thinking of   
them1 you are convinced that1 young or  
old1 they remain among the best of      
,god's gifts to man4 ,this leads us  to 
remark further1 that woman's right to be
 a woman implies her right  to help     
woman4 ,woman must be true to her sex1  
or society will neglect  its duty4 ,that
 old story of ,ruth and ,naomi has      

ploughed through the  world1 because it 
reveals woman's power as a helper4 ,ruth
 clung to  ,naomi1 and ,naomi helped her
 daughter to find ,boaz1 that noble     
prince  in ,israel2 and so she became   
identified with the succession of       
promise4 ,the life of ,mrs4 ,sigourney  
illustrates the same truth4 ,see  her   
among the young1 calling forth their    
powers1 and starting them in  a career  
of usefulness4 ,impressed with the      
importance of an education1  she aided  
by her pen1 as by her example1 to induce
 the ladies of her  acquaintance to     
obtain a thorough knowledge of the      
primary branches  that enter into daily 
use4    ,we want a woman to be          
intellectual without being puny4 ,we ask
 that she  remain a pliant vine1 and    
that she be not made into the rugged    
oak4    ,woman owes it to herself that  
she be fitted to occupy any position  in
 society4 ,in this land1 as in no other1
 the barriers of caste are  removed1 and
 every line of separation obliterated4  

,the rich and the  poor meet together4  
,the cultured sewing-girl is quite      
likely to become the wife of the  future
 millionnaire2 and the lady reared in   
the midst of every luxury1  and endowed 
with a fortune1 amid the reverses of    
fortune may be  compelled to draw upon  
her own resources of labor1 and of love1
 and  culture1 to stay up the hands and 
encourage the heart of the man more     
than ever dependent upon her for        
happiness and hope4    ,such a woman    
,irving must have painted when he wrote1
 ,i have often had  occasion to remark  
the fortitude with which women sustain  
the most  overwhelming reverses of      
fortune4 ,those disasters which break   
down the  spirit of a man1 and prostrate
 him in the dust1 seem to call forth all
  the energies of the softer sex1 and   
give such intrepidity and devotion  to  
their character1 that at times it       
approaches to sublimity4    ,nothing can
 be more touching than to behold a soft 
and tender female1  who had been all    

weakness1 and dependence1 and alive to  
every trivial  roughness1 while treading
 the prosperous paths of life1 suddenly 
rising in mental force to be the        
comforter and supporter of her  husband 
under misfortunes1 and abiding1 with    
unshrinking firmness1 the  bitterest    
blasts of adversity4    ,as the vine1   
which has long twined its graceful      
foliage about the oak1  and been lifted 
by it into sunshine1 will1 when the     
lordly plant is  rifted by the          
thunderbolt1 cling round it with        
caressing tendrils1  and bind up its    
shattered boughs1 so it is beautifully  
ordained by  ,providence that woman1 who
 is the mere dependent and ornament of  
man  in his happier hours1 should be his
 stay and solace when smitten with      
sudden calamity2 winding herself into   
the rugged recesses of his  nature1     
tenderly supporting the head and binding
 up the broken heart4    ,to fill this  
feature of the wife1 education is       
essential in household  affairs1 quite  

as much as education in books1 in music1
 and the ways  of fashion is essential  
to the young wife whose husband has     
suddenly  become rich1 and has given up 
his chambers and taken an elegant house 
in some fashionable street4    ,it is as
 bad to fall from the heights of        
opulence1 and know not how  to sweep a  
room1 make a bed1 or cook a meal1 as it 
is to rise to an  exalted position1 and 
know not how to welcome company or      
preside at a  feast4    ,the women in   
,america who suddenly become elevated in
 rank1 and buy  pictures by the yard and
 books by the cord1 are quite as        
abundant as  are those who lose fortune 
and rank1 and are compelled to seek     
menial  employments4    ,the happiness  
secured by the proper employment of     
time1 and by the  cultivation of the    
mind1 furnishes a high incentive to     
exertion4    ,contrast the woman who is 
educated with the one uneducated4 ,see  
her in  her home1 reigning a queen1     
while her uneducated sister1 though she 

may have wealth and beauty1 will        
constantly feel the lack of that  which 
gold cannot procure nor fortune provide4
 ,we are foolish1  and without excuse   
foolish1 said ,ruskin1 in speaking of   
the  'superiority' of one sex to the    
other1 as if they could be compared in  
similar things4 ,each has what the other
 has not2 each completes the  other1 and
 is completed by the other2 they are in 
nothing alike2  and the happiness and   
perfection of both depend on each asking
 and  receiving from the other what the 
other only can give4 ,their separate    
characters are briefly these3 ,the man's
 power is active1 progressive1          
defensive4 ,he is eminently the doer1   
the creator1 the discoverer1 the        
defender4 ,his intellect is for         
speculation and invention2 his energy   
for adventure1 for work1 for conquest1  
whenever war is just1 whenever  conquest
 is necessary4 ,but the woman's power is
 for love1 not for  battles2 and her    
intellect is not for invention or       

creation1 but for  sweet ordering       
arrangement and decision4 ,she sees the 
qualities of  things1 their claims1 and 
their places4 ,her great function is    
,praise2  she enters into no contest1   
but infallibly judges the crown of      
contest4 ,by her office and her place1  
she is protected from all danger  and   
temptation4 ,the man1 in his rough work 
in the open world1 must  encounter all  
peril and trial4 ,to him1 therefore1 the
 failure1 the  offence1 the inevitable  
error2 often he must be wounded1 or     
subdued1  often misled1 and always      
burdened4 ,but he guards the woman from 
all  this4 ,within his house1 as ruled  
by her1--unless she herself has  sought 
it1--need enter no danger1 no           
temptation1 no cause of error or        
offence4 ,this is the true nature of    
home1--it is the place of peace2  the   
shelter1 not only from all injury1 but  
from all terror1 doubt1 and  derision4  
,in so far as it is not this1 it is not 
home2 so far as  the anxieties of the   

outer life penetrate into it1 and the   
inconsistently-minded1 unknown1 unloved1
 or hostile society of the  outer world 
is allowed1 either by husband or wife1  
to cross the  threshold1 it ceases to be
 home2 it is then only a part of that   
outer  world which you have roofed over 
and lighted a fire in4 ,but so far as   
it is a sacred place1 a vestal temple1 a
 temple of the hearth1 watched  over by 
household gods1 before whose faces none 
may come but those  whom they can       
receive with love1--so far as it is     
this1 and roof and  fire are types only 
of a nobler shade and light1--shadows of
 the rock  in a weary land1 and light as
 of the ,pharos in the stormy sea2 so   
far  it vindicates the name1 and fulfils
 the praise1 of home4 ,and wherever  a  
true wife comes1 this home is always    
round her4 ,the stars only may  be      
overhead2 the glow-worm in the          
night--cold grass may be the  only fire 
at her foot2 but home is yet wherever   
she is2 and for a  noble-woman it       

stretches far round her1 better than    
ceiled with cedar1  or painted with     
vermilion1 shedding its quiet light far1
 for those who  else were homeless4     
,possess these qualifications and woman 
will be respected and beloved4  ,her    
area of usefulness will be enlarged4    
,the man of brains and of industry and  
economy1 has the promise of  wealth and 
position much more certainly than the   
indolent son of a  wealthy father4      
,respect such young men1 and fit        
yourselves1 young  women1 to be worthy  
of them4    ,remember position is       
emptiness itself1 unless there be       
talent1 piety1  and culture to adorn it4
    ,we have asked the poor to help the 
rich4 ,it is equally important that  the
 rich help the poor4 ,it is impossible  
to overestimate the value of  those     
visitations of the noble few who leave  
their homes and seek out  the little    
room of the poor seamstress1 and carry  
sunlight and love  and comfort into the 
abodes of the impoverished and the      

sorrowful4    ,not only that1 but it is 
possible and practicable for women of   
wealth  and culture to help their sex to
 reach positions of respectability and  
usefulness4    ,mary ,lyon is known and 
honored throughout the world for her    
work in  behalf of women4    ,imagine   
our first ladies opening their parlors  
to girls who earn by  industry and      
diligence in study1 by purity of heart  
and blamelessness  of life1 the right to
 attention and respect4    ,let it be   
known that the woman who makes a good   
record in the shop  shall be respected  
in the home1 and that she who becomes   
skilled in  thought and acquainted with 
scientific research1 should find thereby
  an introduction to society1 that will 
ennoble her1 and it is  impossible to   
describe the effect that would be       
produced upon the  minds of all4 ,in    
this work women of culture can keep step
 with ,jesus1  and become the           
benefactresses of their sex and         
blessings to mankind4  ,let woman help  

woman1 and society will be reformed4    
,let man be true to  woman1 and society 
will be adorned4    ,of late there have 
been going round the press pen portraits
 of ,bulwer1  ,dickens1 and ,carlyle4   
,the two first are separated from their 
wives1  and their lives are sunless and 
their homes are empty4 ,carlyle1 that   
dry and laconic talker and that fierce  
hater1 is made beautiful when  you read 
that he conducts his company to the     
pretty sitting-room of  his wife4       
,mrs4 ,carlyle is a lively1 pleasant    
creature1 and a world of thought  beams 
from her dark eyes4 ,she has learned a  
great deal2 her father  gave her a most 
profound education1 and she is possessed
 of a keen1  yet mild judgment1 of which
 her husband himself is afraid4 ,there  
she  sits sewing with her handsome      
fingers a new cravat for her ,diogenes4 
,in these surroundings all feel at ease1
 and ,carlyle becomes talkative  and    
witty1 and displays his whole famous    
eloquence4 ,happy the man who  grows    

witty in the society of his wife1 and   
finds there the atmosphere  calculated  
to promote his highest1 grandest1 and   
fullest development4    ,mutual         
confidence is essential to happiness4   
,the woman cannot confide  in the man   
unless he can sympathize in her         
tenderness2 nor can the man  counsel    
with the woman1 unless she can in some  
measure look upon the  world as he looks
 upon it4    ,hence it is wisely        
ordained that in every great man there  
are to be  seen some of the feminine    
elements1 and in every great1 true      
woman1  there are always to be found    
some elements of the sterner sex4    ,it
 is because the ballot has a tendency to
 make woman the rival rather  than the  
companion of man1 that it is opposed to 
the purest sentiments  of woman4 ,she   
wishes no division1 and cannot tolerate 
independence or  separation from the    
object of her love4 ,love cannot feed on
 strife4  ,the husband and wife are one1
 though ,god made them male and female4 

,if  one acts in opposition to the      
other1 domestic peace is slain on the   
altar of love4 ,what ,god hath joined1  
let not potentates or anything  else put
 asunder4 ,it is an old truth1 ,better a
 dinner of herbs where  love is1 than a 
stalled ox with hatred therewith4 ,man  
asks that his  wife be pure1 that she   
know but little of the deceptions and   
trials of  trade1 that she come not in  
contact with the rough exterior of life1
  that ever before the mind of man there
 might stand forth the beautiful  ideal 
woman1 whose influence irradiates the   
faith1 with the light of  love1 in his  
journeyings through the wilderness4     
,the family1 and not the individual1 is 
the true social integer4      ,this is  
implied in the inspired history of the  
creation of man4      ,god made of two  
'one flesh1' or a unit of the human     
species4      ,generals and legislators 
have not overlooked the fact that       
married      men and women can be relied
 on in emergencies where single persons 

cannot be trusted4 ,either part of a    
social integer is a pledge      of the  
whole4 ,the vitality of society lives in
 its integers4 ,the      future grows   
out of its integers4 ,they are1         
therefore1 what ought      to be        
represented in its political structures4
 ,that it belongs      more properly to 
the man than to the woman to represent  
the      family1 is manifest from       
revelation4 ',the head of the woman is  
the      man1 whom she is commanded to  
obey4'        ,,anonymous4              
,,woman ,,as ,a ,,tempter4      ,it will
 be admitted by all who will read the   
history of man's ruin1 as  recorded in  
,genesis1 the third chapter1 and sixth  
verse1 that woman  first partook of the 
forbidden fruit1 and gave also to her   
husband1  and he did eat4 ,admit the    
truth of history1 and woman appears as  
man's first tempter4    ,woman as a     
,helpmeet described her condition before
 the fall2 ,woman  as a ,tempter        
describes her in the fall2 and1 alas6   

while it is the  high privilege of woman
 to be a helpmeet in the midst of the   
ruin  wrought by sin1 it is unwise to   
disguise the truth that as a tempter    
she has not abandoned her vocation4     
,plain speaking may prove to be         
disagreeable4 ,god grant that it may    
prove to be profitable4 ,there is need  
of it4 ,disguise it as we may  talk as  
we choose about man in his narrowness1  
in his degradation1 a  wicked woman was1
 and to a large extent is1 the means    
employed by  ,satan in leading astray   
the unwary4 ,the manner of her fall has 
been  declared4 ,it may be profitable to
 review the steps of her downward       
descent from the bliss of ,eden to the  
woe of the desert2 from the  position of
 an equal to the position of a subject4 
#a4 ,satan1 in the form of the serpent1 
undermines woman's confidence  in ,god4 
,the serpent1 the most subtle beast of  
the field1 said to the  woman1 ,is it   
even so1 that ,god has said1 ,ye shall  
not eat of every  tree of the garden8   

,thus he attempted to weaken the        
child-like  confidence she reposed in   
her ,creator1 and endeavored to inspire 
in  its place a spirit of unbelief and  
distrust4 ,this done1 and the battle    
was half won1 and the work was well nigh
 accomplished4 ,truly has it  been said1
 ,the sure basis of simple trust in ,god
 as the all-loving  and the all-wise1   
once shaken1 there is little left to be 
done4 ,this  is the rock on which       
character builds its hopes4 ,there is   
nothing so  essential to woman as faith 
in ,god4 ,destroy this1 or let woman    
attempt  to live without it1 and she is 
in imminent peril4 ,it was an infidel   
woman who declared1 ,it has been said   
that marriage is a divine  institution1 
because all power comes from ,god4 ,we  
know very well  that all power comes    
from ,god'1 and therefore we wish       
neither ,god nor  power4 ,shall         
professedly ,christian women1 by action1
 give their  assent to such an          
utterance8    #b4 ,satan rouses woman's 

suspicion4 ,and the woman said to the   
serpent4 ,of the fruit of the trees of  
the garden we may eat4 ,but of  the     
fruit of the tree which is in the midst 
of the garden ,god has  said1 ,ye shall 
not eat of it1 and ye shall not touch   
it1 lest ye die4  ,and the serpent said 
to the woman1 ,ye shall not surely die4 
,for ,god  knows that in the day ye eat 
thereof your eyes will be opened1 and ye
  will be as ,god1 knowing good and     
evil4    ,your eyes will be opened1     
expresses the power of mentally         
apprehending things before unperceived  
and unknown2 but1 of course1  both in an
 intellectual and moral sense4 ,the     
position taken appeared  reasonable1 and
 had a semblance of truth1 and exerted  
its consequent  influence4    ,will be  
as ,god1 knowing good and evil4 ,knowing
 for yourselves1  and able to choose    
between the evil and the good4 ,here    
ambition again  overleaped itself4      
,humility was slain1 and a womanly      
virtue was  destroyed by the tempter1   

who aimed to infuse into the mind of the
  woman1 first1 a doubt of the truth of 
the ,word of ,god1 and of the  certainty
 of the divine threatening2 second1 a   
suspicion that ,god was  withholding    
from her a good1 instead of guarding her
 against an evil2  and1 third1 he       
attempted to induce her to believe that 
adherence to  this divine command stood 
in the way of her freedom1 of her       
growth1  and so by the words1 ,ye will  
be as ,god1 knowing good and evil1 he   
strove to awaken the feeling of         
self-exaltation1--the longing for a     
higher development1 in which she should 
attain to self-discretion and  freedom  
of choice and action4    ,this suspicion
 is very common1 even among our good    
women4 ,when a woman  gets cold in her  
love for ,jesus1 she becomes suspicious 
of those  she loves4 ,she permits the   
feeling1 ,my husband gives too much for 
benevolence1 too little to me1 and he is
 away too much in meetings1  and is too 
little in his home1 to influence her4   

,she begins to talk  against the church1
 and loves to stay at home4 ,finds      
excuses for  keeping away from the      
prayer meeting or from the paths of     
endeavor1  and becomes a hinderance     
instead of a blessing to husband1 to    
family1 and to society4 ,a man finds it 
difficult to push the bark of           
benevolence and of holy endeavor up     
against the current of womanly          
opposition and suspicion1 but when in   
the work of ,god she acts the  part of a
 helpmeet1 everything moves smoothly4 ,a
 recent writer uses  this language3     
,expel woman as you will1 she is in fact
 the parish4  ,within1 in her lowest    
spiritual form1 as the ruling spirit she
  inspires1 and sometimes writes the    
sermons4 ,without1 as the bulk of  his  
congregation1 she watches over his      
orthodoxy1 verifies his texts1  visits  
his schools1 and harasses his sick4 444 
,the preacher who  thunders so defiantly
 against spiritual foes1 is trembling   
all the  time beneath the critical eye  

that is watching him with so merciless  
an accuracy in his texts4 ,impelled1    
guided1 censured by woman1 we can       
hardly wonder if1 in nine cases out of  
ten1 the parson turns woman  himself1   
and the usurpation of woman's rights in 
the services of  religion has been      
deftly avenged by the subjugation of the
 usurpers4  ,expelled from the temple1  
woman has simply put her priesthood into
  commission1 and discharges her        
ministerial duties by proxy4 ,woman is  
the mainspring and the chief support of 
,ritualism4 ,things were at  a dead lock
 and stand still1 until the so-called   
devotion gave an  impetus to the        
movement4 ,the medieval church have     
glorified the  devotion of woman2 but   
once become a devotee1 it had locked her
 in the  cloister4 ,as far as action in 
the world without was concerned1 the    
veil served simply as a species of      
suicide1 and the impulses of woman1     
after all the crowns and pretty speeches
 of her religious counsellors1  found   

themselves bottled up within stout stone
 walls1 and as inactive  as before4     
,from this strait woman released herself
 by the organization  of charity4 ,the  
,sisters of ,charity at once became a   
power4 ,they  discovered the value of   
costume4 ,the district visitor1 whom    
nobody had  paid the smallest attention 
to in the common vestments of the world1
  became a sacred being as she donned   
the crape and hideous bonnet of  the    
,sister4    ,the ',mother ,superior'    
took the place of the tyrant of another 
sex who  had hitherto claimed the       
submission of woman2 but she was        
something  more to her 'children' than  
the husband or father whom they had left
  in the world without4 ,in all matters1
 ecclesiastical as well as civil1  she  
claimed within her dominions to be      
supreme4 ,the quasi-sacerdotal  dignity1
 the pure religious ministration which  
ages have stolen from  her1 was quietly 
resumed4 ,she received confessions1 she 
imposed  penances1 she drew up offices  

of devotion4 ,if the clergyman of  the  
parish ventured an advice or suggestion1
 he was told that the  sisterhood must  
preserve its own independence of action1
 and was  snubbed home again for his    
pains4 ,the ,mother ,superior1 in fact1 
soon  towered into a greatness far      
beyond the reach of ordinary persons4   
,she kept her own tame chaplain1 and she
 kept him in a very edifying            
subjugation4 ,from a realm completely   
her own1 the influence of woman  began  
to tell upon the world without4 ,little 
colonies of ,sisters1  planted here and 
there1 annexed parish after parish4     
,astonished  congregations saw their    
church blossom its purple and red1 and  
frontal  and hanging told of the silent 
energy of the group of ,sisters4 ,the   
parson found himself nowhere1 in his own
 parish3 every detail managed  for him1 
every care removed1 and all independence
 gone4 ,if it suited  the ministering   
angels to make a legal splash1 he found 
himself landed  in the law courts4 ,if  

they took it into their heads to seek   
another  field1 every one assumed it a  
matter of course that their pastor would
  go too4 ,it is because of this        
influence that in certain quarters the  
ecclesiastical hierarchy are taking1    
year by year1 a more feminine  position4
 ,it is not impossible that a church who
 worships ,mary as the  ,mother of ,god 
may be brought to recognize woman as the
 proper head of  the church4 ,true1 as  
the writer quoted above adds1 she must  
stoop  to conquer heights like these4   
,yet the question has been seriously    
asked1 ,is not the ,episcopal office    
admirably adapted to woman8  ,between a 
priest and a nun there is only the      
difference of a bonnet  in their dress1 
and we know how easily woman can be     
persuaded to go  without a bonnet1 or to
 exchange it for a hat such as is worn  
by men4  ,in ,england1 the curate is    
sometimes called the first lady of the  
parish2 and what he now is in theory1 a 
century hence may find him in  fact4 ,it

 would be difficult1 even now1 to detect
 any difference  of sex in the          
triviality of purpose1 the love of      
gossip1 the petty  interests1 the feeble
 talk1 the ignorance1 the vanity1 the   
love of  personal display1 the white    
hand dangled over the pulpit1 the       
becoming  vestment1 and the embroidered 
stole1 which we are learning gradually  
to look upon as attributes of the       
,british curate4 ,so perfect1 indeed1   
is the imitation1 that the excellence of
 her work may1 perhaps1 defeat  its own 
purpose1 and the lacquered imitation of 
woman may satisfy the  world1 and for   
long ages prevent any anxious inquiry   
after the real  feminine ,brummagem4    
,the tendency thus truthfully described 
furnished the seedling out of  which    
grew the ,monasticism of the past1 and  
in which the ,ritualism of  the present 
finds its underlying cause4 ,the ,church
 of ,rome harnesses  woman to her       
system1 and compels her to contribute   
greatly to its  prosperity4 ,in ,europe 

the people tire of those great          
establishments  and endowments1 which   
rest like an incubus on the national    
life4  ,in ,america we are so blind that
 we foster them by grants from our      
legislatures1 by giving up the care of  
hospitals to their use1 where  the weak 
are subjected to the influences of      
superstition1 and the  thoughtless are  
led astray4 ,another avenue to power is 
opened by the  ballot4 ,grant this to   
that church1 which1 through a fatherhood
 of  priests and a sisterhood of nuns1  
reaches every portion of the body       
politic1 and the promise of ,religious  
,liberty and a ,free ,republic is  at   
once exchanged for the despotism of     
,rome and the imperialism  of ,france4  
,infidelity joins hands with ,rome in   
asking this power4  ,christianity1      
united with patriotism1 must refuse to  
grant the  request4    #c4 ,mystery was 
employed as an instrument in securing   
woman's fall4  ,rouse a womanly         
curiosity1 and there is little          

difficulty in leading  the excited one  
astray4 ,hold out to her a key which    
promises to unlock  the hidden and      
concealed glories of the unexplored     
future1 and woman  will be tempted again
 to forego ,god's favor and the joys of 
paradise  to grasp or wield it4 ,in     
every heathen religion women occupied a 
prominent place4 ,priestess or          
prophetess1 she stood in all ministerial
  offices on an equality with man4      
,christianity rejects the ministerial   
services of women1 and selects for its  
standard bearers men acquainted  with   
life1 filled with religious zeal1 and   
capable of hardy endeavor1  assuring    
faith and martyr patience4    ,the      
,church of ,rome dealt with women as the
 ,empire dealt with its  ,caesars3 it   
was ready to grant her apotheosis1 but  
only when she was  safely out of this   
world4 ,it was only when the light of   
revelation  was extinguished in her     
midst that the teachings of the ,bible  
were  ignored1 and woman was welcomed   

back to the place she held in pagan     
climes and at heathen shrines4          
,spiritualism1 that scourge of modern   
times1 which has swept like the  breath 
of a pestilence over the land1 found in 
woman its prophetess  and minister4     
,satan works in erring woman now1 as in 
the past1 to  destroy and to delude4    
,that power was resisted by ,christian  
woman4  ,many an irreligious man was    
saved from this delusion by the fidelity
  of his wife4 ,many a good man has been
 ruined because his wife listened  to   
the siren voice of the tempter1 and     
desired to explore and explain  this    
mystery4 ,the forbidden fruit ever grows
 upon the tree beside her4  ,those who  
would be wiser than that which is       
written1 have plucked  and eaten it1 and
 have given to others that which is so  
destructive4  ,witchcraft is a womanly  
profession4 ,the heathen divinities were
 nearly  all ministered unto by woman1  
and mystery was the influencing cause4  
,we know the result in the case of ,eve4

 ,it led her away from ,god4 ,it  caused
 her to listen to the enemy of her soul4
 ,does it not become  woman to ask      
herself1 ,am ,i losing my hold on ,god8 
,is suspicion that  some good is being  
withheld1 or does the desire to pry into
 the  future1 exercise an undue         
influence upon my heart and imagination8
 ,if  so1 your ruin has commenced1 and a
 speedy return to ,god is your only     
door of escape4    #d4 ,deception was   
the result4 ,and the woman saw the tree 
was good for  food1 and that it was a   
delight to the eyes1 and that the tree  
was to  be desired to make her wise2 and
 she took of its fruit and ate1 and     
gave also to her husband and he ate4    
,sight deceived1 desire allured1  and   
action born of a delusive faith         
destroyed her happiness4 ,the  process  
of temptation culminated in deception4  
,this is the end ever  kept in view by  
,satan4 ,every individual that refuses  
to be ruled  absolutely by ,god1 in     
little or great affairs1 may know of a  

truth  that the end is deception1 and   
the consequent ruin is sure to follow4  
,there is no exception to the rule4     
,paul felt this when he wrote the       
church in ,corinth1 concerning his      
interest in them1 saying1 ,for ,i am    
jealous over you with a godly jealousy2 
for ,i have espoused you to one         
husband1 that ,i may present you as a   
chaste virgin to ,christ2 ,but ,i  fear1
 lest by any means1 as the serpent      
beguiled ,eve1 by his subtlety1  so your
 minds should be corrupted from your    
simplicity toward ,christ4  ,many claim 
that error is not mischievous while     
truth is left free to  combat4 ,error   
poisons the mind1 and so produces       
disease1 and bars out  truth1 which     
carries health to the mind and blesses  
the soul4    ,eve knew the law1 for she 
quotes it word by word4 ,she deliberated
 as  to obeying it4 ,here she made her  
first mistake4 ,a woman cannot do  this4
 ,the moment a woman hesitates in regard
 to discharging the duties  she owes to 

herself or to ,god she falls4 ,she seems
 to be provided  with an almost         
self-acting nature4 ,it is natural for  
her to protect  herself4 ,she revolts   
against her higher self when she        
hesitates4 ,her  intuitions1 allied to a
 sensitive nature1 unite in defending   
against  evil4 ,had ,eve said1 ,i do not
 need to sin to secure the development  
of  my higher nature2 the ,creator knows
 my wants much better than one who      
seeks to be my destroyer1 she would have
 been saved4 ,faith in ,god  would have 
been a sure defence against the         
tempter's wiles4    ,but she            
deliberated1 yielded1 and fell1 and the 
world is still full of  the resounding  
echoes of that fall4 ,the race fell with
 her4 ,that fact  teaches its lesson4   
,some one falls with every ruined soul4 
,we lift  up or drag down those         
associated with us4 ,for none of us     
liveth to  himself1 and no man dieth to 
himself2 an influence goes out from  us1
 which is a felt power in the world     

either for or against ,god and          
humanity4    ,consider the effects of   
the temptation4 #a4 ,it caused ,eve to  
become to  ,adam an agent of ,satan4    
,tempted herself1 she became a tempter4 
,ruined  in her nature by this exclusion
 of ,god1 and by this welcome of ,satan1
  she seeks to ruin her companion4 ,this
 principle rules now4 ,the carnal  heart
 is at enmity with ,god1 the converted  
heart is in union with ,god4  ,here is a
 significant fact4 ,a man loves to have 
woman pure1 if he is  impure4           
,temperate1 if he is intemperate4 ,holy 
and ,christian1 if he is  the opposite  
in every particular4 ,not so a woman4   
,intemperate herself1  she seeks to     
induce others to be like her4 ,here is  
the peril of  society4 ,if our          
fashionable women love wine1 they become
 emissaries of  the wicked one to a     
fearful extent4 ,it is almost an        
impossibility for  the tempted to       
withstand their wiles4 ,in fashionable1 
perhaps1 more  than in the other grades 

of life1 woman as a leader in           
intemperance1  in extravagance1 and in  
opposition to ,christ1 is to be feared4 
,her  power is fearful to contemplate4  
,the ,secretary of the ,treasury        
declares that the national debt is      
increased1 and threatens to  increase1  
unless the fashionable world shall      
declare against the1  importation of    
that which costs gold1 but which fails  
to contribute to  the prosperity of the 
community4 ,this is by no means wholly  
chargeable  to women4 ,men share in the 
blame4 ,a sadder fact is the expressed  
dissatisfaction with woman's work and   
with woman's sphere4 ,the home  of the  
olden time is passing out of mind1 and  
in its place is the  fashionable        
boarding-house4 ,the skilled housewife  
is felt to be  unappreciated4 ,men1 they
 tell us1 prefer a pretty face to a     
noble  heart1 a delicate to a skilled   
hand1 a girl who can play the piano     
rather than one who can cook a dinner1 a
 pretty doll instead of a  glorious     

woman capable of keeping the house1 and 
of guiding the man  with womanly        
strength4 ,ah1 it is a mistake4 ,america
 is the land of  homes4 ,our undeveloped
 territory offers to every man a farm4  
,men and  women need not to be cooped up
 in garrets or shut up in cellars1 if   
they will but possess the spirit of     
those who sought in this ,western  world
 a home1 and who1 as they toiled with   
the axe1 the plough1 and  the loom1     
,shook the depths of the forest gloom   
,with their hymns of lofty cheer4       
,the cause of this discontent is        
apparent4 ,there is something in the    
commonplaces of fashionable life which  
turns woman from the real to  the       
unreal1 from the substantial to the     
superficial1 which smothers  all        
originality of thought1 and makes her a 
simple reproduction  in appearance1 if  
not in disposition1 of the ,anonyma1    
with her  meretricious beauty and       
dashing toilets4 ,is it well for woman  
to  subject herself to be criticised as 

follows8 ,the girl of the period  is a  
creature who dyes her hair and paints   
her face1 whose sole idea  of life is a 
plenty of fun and luxury1 and whose     
dress is the object  of such thought and
 intellect as she possesses4 ,her main  
endeavor  is to outvie her neighbors4   
,she cares little for advice or counsel4
  ,nothing is too extraordinary1 and    
nothing too extravagant1 for her        
vitiated taste2 and things which in     
themselves would be useful reforms  if  
let alone1 become monstrosities worse   
than those which they have  displaced1  
so soon as she begins to manipulate and 
improve4 ,if a  sensible fashion lifts  
the gown out of the mud1 she raises hers
 midway  to the knee4 ,if there is a    
reaction against an excess of hair oil1 
and  hair slimy and sticky with grease  
is thought less nice than if left  clean
 with a healthy crisp1 she dries and    
frizzes and sticks hers out  on end like
 certain savages in ,africa1 or lets it 
wander down her back  like ,madge       

,wildfire's1 and thinks herself all the 
more beautiful the  nearer she          
approaches in look to a maniac or a     
negress6 ,what the  demi-monde does in  
its frantic efforts to excite attention1
 she also  does in imitation4 ,if some  
fashionable courtesan is reported to    
have  come out with her dress below her 
shoulder blades1 and a gold strap  for  
all the sleeve thought necessary1 the   
girl of the period follows  suit next   
day1 and then wonders that men sometimes
 mistake her for  her prototype1 or that
 mothers of girls1 not so far gone as   
herself1  refuse her as a companion for 
their daughters4    ,if the fashionable 
danseuse is imported from the brothels  
of ,paris1  and is brought to our cities
 to exhibit herself to whoever is vulgar
  and lewd enough to desire to see her1 
thousands of the fashionables go  with  
opera glass1 and tolerate a disgusting  
play that they may enjoy  a sight which 
is a guarantee to every young man that  
the woman knows  little of and cares    

less about the virtue which             
distinguished the girl  of the olden    
time1 before whom men bowed in          
admiration1 and concerning  whom an     
impure thought seemed like an           
unpardonable sin4 ,women may say  that  
men desire them to go1 and they must    
gratify them4 ,it is not  true4 ,every  
man loves to have his wife and daughters
 virtuous1 and  unless he be besotted by
 intemperance1 or given over to courses 
of  shame1 will quietly and joyfully    
yield to the remonstrance of a  virtuous
 wife or daughter against patronizing   
scenes which degrade1  and against      
permitting the mind and heart to give   
welcome to thoughts  which pollute4     
,true men desire to love1 and to be     
influenced by pure1  tender1 loving1    
retiring1 and domestic women4    ,woman1
 it is your fault if you do not retain  
the affections of a true  and noble man4
 ,alas1 how frequently young men mourn  
your fickleness1  your frivolity1 your  
fondness for show and dress1 and your   

total lack  of desire for the more solid
 attainments which enrich character1 and
  beautify life4 ,who can find a        
virtuous woman8 for her price is far    
above rubies4 ,whoever conforms to the  
requirements of fashion1 at the  expense
 of culture1 is false to her high       
nature1 and degrades herself  in the    
estimation of every true man4 ,a woman  
is constructed for  companionship1 and  
in her normal condition her yearnings   
are more  mental than physical4 ,it is  
natural for man to desire to enjoy this 
,god-given boon4 ,a talented woman1 that
 will talk sense1 is the idol of        
sensible men4 ,nothing displeases a true
 woman more than to waste an  evening on
 a brainless fop4 ,nothing is more      
needless4 ,let her develop  herself1 and
 she will be sought after by men whose  
opinions are  valuable1 and whose love  
is a recompense4 ,better far would it be
 for  women who are poor1 to spend their
 evenings in reading1 writing1 and      
study1 in familiarizing themselves with 

those themes of ennobling  thought1     
which will fit them to win love by      
conversation1 by culture1  by the graces
 of refinement1 rather than by the      
outward adorning1 by  plaiting the hair1
 and wearing of gold and of costly      
apparel2 for it  is the hidden man of   
the heart1 even the ornament of a meek  
and quiet  spirit1 which is in the sight
 of ,god of great price4    ,young women
 need to be reminded of this4 ,they are 
in peril4 ,exposure  lines the paths of 
those who pass from the factory1 or from
 the  workshop1 to their little rooms   
and cheap boarding-houses4 ,you see it  
in the leering look of depraved men1 and
 in the atmosphere of crime  that       
contaminates their shops4 ,they show it 
by their themes of  conversation4 ,woman
 must be resolute1 if she would change  
all this4  ,let her be true to herself  
and to ,christ1 and there will be no    
danger4  ,the condition of women in many
 of our factory villages is frightful to
  contemplate1 and few seem to have any 

knowledge of it4 ,they pass from  their 
factory to their boarding-houses4 ,their
 rooms are cold and  cheerless in       
winter4 ,there is no common reading-room
 or sewing-room4  ,unless they will     
suffer from cold1 they must retire to   
their beds1 or  seek warmth and         
companionship in the world without4 ,as 
a result they  are watched by men who   
care not for their comfort or happiness1
  but for the gratification of passion  
and the pleasures of social             
excitements4 ,hence1 thousands of good  
country girls are annually  ruined in   
many of our large factory villages and  
cities1 for the  lack of comfortable    
houses or associations1 where talents   
can be  cultivated1 piety promoted1 and 
virtue protected4    #a4 ,she gave to   
her husband1 and he did eat4 ,it was    
altogether  natural4 ,she was the       
provider in the home1 as he was the     
keeper of the  garden4 ,she gave him and
 he ate4 ,man fell because of woman's   
fall4 ,a  woman can repel a man4 ,it is 

difficult for a man to resist the wiles 
of a woman4 ,god has placed in woman a  
fearful power1 and devolves  unmeasured 
responsibilities upon her in the home1  
in society1 and in  the world4    #b4   
,the second result is seen in the effect
 produced4 ,lust conceived  and brought 
forth sin1 and sin brought forth shame4 
,and the eyes of  both of them were     
opened1 not so as to have an advanced   
knowledge of  things pleasant1          
profitable1 and useful1 as was promised 
and expected1  but of things very       
disagreeable and distressing4 ,their    
eyes were  opened to see that they had  
broken ,god's law1 lost his favor1      
destroyed their home1 and left          
themselves exposed to the terrors of    
the judgment4 ,they heard the voice of  
the ,lord ,god walking in the  garden in
 the cool of the day1 and ,adam and his 
wife hid themselves  from the presence  
of the ,lord ,god among the trees of the
 garden4    ,they knew that they were   
naked4 ,in place of conscious innocence 

and  purity came the sense of guilt and 
shame4 ,we are not to understand1  says 
,dr4 ,conant1 that there is allusion    
here to any physical effect  of the     
eating of the forbidden fruit4 ,so gross
 a conception is foreign  to the spirit 
and purpose of the narrative4 ,as the   
language in ch4 ii4  v4 #e1 is an       
expression of purity and peace of mind1 
so the language  used here is the       
expression of conscious guilt1 of       
self-condemnation  and shame4 ,look at  
that criminal arrested4 ,see him shiver 
as if cold4  ,his nature is exposed     
because it is weakened4 ,righteousness  
is a  defence4 ,a man in sweet communion
 with ,god is girded with strength and  
endurance1 with recuperative energies1  
of which a man is ignorant when  he is  
alienated from ,god1 and exposed to     
wrath4 ,for the word of ,god  is living 
and powerful1 and sharper than any      
two-edged sword1 piercing  even to the  
dividing asunder of soul and spirit1 of 
joints and marrow1  and is a discerner  

of the thoughts and intents of the      
heart4 ,and there  is no creature that  
is not manifest in his sight2 but all   
things are  naked and opened to the eyes
 of ,him with whom we have to do4 ,the  
,lord  ,god was abroad4 ,they hid       
themselves4 ,they were afraid4 ,ah1     
there is a  nakedness which the culprit 
feels1 which cannot be covered up4      
,god's  eye pierces through every form  
of concealment1 and lays bare the cause 
of ruin and the deed of shame4 ,it is   
impossible to hide from ,god4 ,if  this 
world is deceived by our disguises1 and 
pasteboard faces1 and  long robes1 the  
,being with whom we have to do shall    
laugh at our  calamities and mock when  
our fear cometh1 as we shall stand out  
in our  true characters1 and shall be   
judged for the deeds done in the body1  
whether they be good or evil4    #c4    
,sin not only changed their relations to
 each other1 awakening their  animal    
nature and killing their spiritual hope 
of sweet communion with  ,god1 but it   

changed their relations towards ,god4   
,they became aliens to  him4 ,they lost 
their love1 and were tortured by fear4  
,they feared him  whom they once loved4 
,and ,jehovah ,god called to the man1   
and said to  him1 ,where art thou8 ,and 
he said1 ,i heard thy voice in the      
garden1 and  was afraid because ,i was  
naked1 and hid myself4 ,and he said1    
,who has  showed thee that thou art     
naked8 ,hast thou eaten of the tree     
which  ,i commanded thee not to eat8    
,and the man said1 ,the woman whom thou 
gavest to be with me1 she gave me of the
 tree1 and ,i ate4    ,adam1 in his     
beginnings of sin1 furnishes an example 
to sinners1 which  has been abundantly  
copied4 ,he says1 ,the woman whom thou  
gavest to be  with me1 she gave me of   
the tree1 and ,i ate4 ,he finds fault   
with  ,god the giver1 and fails to      
condemn woman the sinner4 ,the passage  
is  sometimes falsely interpreted1 as an
 unworthy attempt of the man to  cast   
the blame of his offence on the woman4  

,but the emphasis lies on  the words    
whom thou gavest to be with me1 by which
 utterance he  seeks to transfer the    
responsibility from himself to ,god1 who
 gave him  the companion by whose       
example he was betrayed into sin1       
instead of  placing it upon the woman1  
who was the guilty cause4 ,thus he      
refuses  or neglects to denounce the    
sin2 but takes for granted that woman   
was  as ,god made her1 and acted in     
accordance with her mechanism4 ,hence1  
,adam argued1 if any one was            
responsible1 it was her ,maker4 ,she    
acted  in accordance with the nature    
which had been given her4 ,we hear this 
doctrine advanced daily4 ,i am what ,god
 made me4 ,a cotton mill weaves  cotton 
because it was made to weave cotton4 ,it
 is not responsible4 ,it  weaves well or
 ill in accordance with the skill of the
 mechanism1 and  not in accordance with 
the desire of the proprietor4 ,if it    
weaves  ill1 you blame the maker4 ,if   
well1 you praise the maker4 ,adam1 in   

his  reply1 ignored woman's moral       
nature1 and talked of her as though she 
had been a machine4 ,the woman whom thou
 gavest to be with me1 she  gave me of  
the tree1 and ,i ate4 ,he forgot his own
 higher nature1  forgot his position1   
and fell4 ,how he differed from the     
second ,adam we  shall see before we are
 done4    ,it is noticeable1 not only   
that ,adam ignored woman's moral nature1
 and  the ruin wrought by sin1 but he   
asserts a truth4 ,woman was given to    
man to provide him with food1 to spread 
the feast1 and to keep the  house2 and  
in her vocation1 and while performing   
the duties assigned  her1 she led him   
astray4 ,it is noteworthy that ,god does
 not reply to  ,adam1 but turns to woman
 with the question1 ,what is this that  
thou  hast done8 recognizing the fact   
that she turned from ,god1 and turned   
towards ,god's enemy1 and in listening1 
sinned2 and in sinning1 fell2  and in   
falling1 carried with her man2 and in   
carrying man1 whelmed the  race in the  

ruin of the fall4    ,in speaking of    
woman as a tempter1 we are not to forget
 that she is  woman4 ,the serpent       
beguiled her1 and she ate4 ,satan found 
in her an  ally2 an so pleased was he   
with the results of the partnership he  
has  never dissolved the firm4 ,while   
woman1 as a helpmeet1 becomes an ally   
of ,christ1 as a tempter she is the ally
 of ,satan4 ,not as a woman1 but  as a  
tempter1 she is the ally of the evil    
one4 ,satan works in her1  as a tempter1
 both to will and to do according to his
 good pleasure1  whenever she submits to
 his sway4 ,the reason for this is      
recorded in  the ,word of ,god4 ,some   
sneer at the reference to this          
time-honored  record2 but we reassert   
the truth4 ,the ,bible is the revealed  
will of  ,god1 and it declares the      
,god-given sphere of woman4 ,the ,bible 
is1  then1 our authority for saying     
woman must content herself with this    
sphere1 and try to meet its             
responsibilities1 or she will lose      

self-respect and cast away the regard of
 the community4 ,without the  ,bible1   
her life is everywhere proven to be     
gloomy4 ,with it1 and  beneath its      
protection1 she becomes an heir of hope4
    ,notice the characteristics of her  
power as a tempter4    #a4 ,she is      
regarded as ,god's best gift to man4    
,she fills a place in  man's heart which
 is empty without her4 ,it is difficult 
to think of  her as an ally of ,satan4  
,we prefer to think of her as ,god's    
first  and best gift to man4 ,even a    
fallen woman is regarded as a poor      
unfortunate1 and is tolerated because   
the many claim she has been more  sinned
 against than sinning4 ,excuses are     
woven for her1 out of the  statements   
ever afloat1 that she was in a starving 
condition1 and was  driven to           
desperation2 that she was turned out    
upon the world1 was  deceived1 led      
astray1 and shipwrecked1 and then did   
not care1 and so  went from bad to      
worse1 until she became the wreck of her

 former self1  and was given up to lust 
and the pollutions of shame4 ,god forbid
 that  we should cast stones at her4 ,in
 the words of ,christ1 let us rather    
say to every fallen woman1 ,go1 and sin 
no more4 ,but when a woman  persists in 
sinning1 we should speak of her in the  
language of  ,scripture1 and boldly warn
 against her wiles4    ,a fallen woman  
is not ,god's gift to man4 ,before her  
fall she was ,god's  gift4 ,in beauty   
,eve still remains the model4 ,the      
artist delights to  paint her1 and the  
poet sings her praises4 ,but in conduct 
she is a  warning4 ,scripture pictures  
her going to ,adam1 hiding from him the 
ruin wrought1 and pressing to his lips  
the fruit which carried death4  7,then  
she was the devil's gift to a sin-cursed
 world47 ,a fallen  woman--a woman who  
refuses to love ,christ and to serve    
him1 who sweeps  out into the paths of  
dissipation and of lust1 and becomes a  
seductive  wile--is the devil's ally2   
for she forsaketh the guide of her      

youth1  and forgetteth the covenant of  
her ,god4 ,for her house inclineth unto 
death4 ,none that go unto her returneth 
again1 neither take they hold  of the   
paths of life4    ,against such a woman 
,god warns us in the thunder tones of   
wrath1  and the picture of her doom is  
lurid with the glow of the devouring    
flames1 for her feet go down to death   
and her steps take hold on  hell4       
,this is but a single characteristic of 
her power as a tempter1 and  we love to 
think that it is the least employed4 ,a 
mind retaining the  perception of       
woman's worth1 shrinks from the idea of 
linking her name  with impurity4 ,we    
cherish the hope that she is virtuously 
inclined1  and cannot bear to think that
 she willingly forsakes the right and   
casts herself down the steeps of ruin4  
,ah1 woman1 when this is not the  case  
society has a right to cast you off4 ,it
 is because of this  faith that the good
 despise the woman who persists in      
folly1 and who  secretly tries to seduce

 the unwary4 ,god's judgments seem not  
too  severe1 and the language is none   
too strong1 though the denunciation  is 
terrible and the destruction certain4   
,god makes no apologies for  sin4 ,a    
fallen woman is an abomination4 ,her    
crimes are terrible4 ,she is  the foe of
 the home1 and the enemy of all that is 
pure4 ,hence she  is thrown out upon the
 rocks1 and left there to die1 unpitied 
and  unbefriended1 without ,god and     
without hope in the world4 ,by every    
virtuous person she is despised4 ,hence1
 between a virtuous woman and  ruin     
there is a bridged chasm2 whoever       
crosses that bridge leaves  hope1 and   
honor1 and happiness behind4 ,think of  
the thousands about us  going1 unprayed 
for1 down to perdition6    ,society     
tolerates a man as it does not tolerate 
a woman4 ,god did  business with ,adam1 
but he does not mention ,eve after her  
fall4  ,society recognizes a fallen man 
as it cannot recognize a fallen woman4  
,thus her crime is proclaimed to be the 

greater than man's1 even by the  world4 
,let us be just4 ,we do not heap the    
blame all on woman1 even of  her fall4  
,all we say is1 she bears the burden of 
the woe4 ,in this fact  she is warned4  
,society may pity her3 it cannot        
palliate her guilt4  ,thus is she       
advised against throwing herself away1  
and casting off her  allegiance to      
,christ1 to herself1 and to humanity4   
,let her fall1 and  almost without      
exception she is hopelessly ruined4     
,society points the  finger of scorn at 
her1 and1 what is worse1 the barriers to
 virtue  having been broken down1 they  
seem to be destroyed4 ,it is as         
difficult  to get back what a woman     
loses when she falls1 as it would have  
been  to have forced an entrance back   
into ,eden after the banishment4    #b4 
,the fact that she is a woman gives her 
influence4 ,in her terrible  work beauty
 is an aid4 ,god says1 ,desire not her  
beauty in thy heart1  neither let her   
take thee with her eyelids4 ,that is1   

look for  something besides a pretty    
face or a twinkling eye4 ,pretty is that
  pretty does1 is a good motto1 and     
utters a truth which is quite too       
frequently ignored4 ,beauty is not to be
 despised or condemned4 ,god1  who      
painted the lilies' bloom1 and covered  
the sky with the wondrous  tints of a   
glowing sunset1 must enjoy beauty1 and  
surely made it to  please and to bless  
us4 ,yet when it comes to be used as an 
agent of  evil1 it is to be shunned and 
disregarded4 ,in all this world there is
  nothing so empty as a heartless1      
brainless woman1 with a pretty face4    
,yet beauty is a power2 so the heathen  
declare1 ,every woman would  rather be  
handsome than good4 ,that may be true in
 heathen1 but it is  not true of all in 
,christian climes4 ,if there is one     
woman who thinks  more of dress than    
duty1 more of shadow than substance1    
more of ,vanity  ,fair than of ,virtue's
 bower1 then beware4 ,you are not an    
ally of  ,christ4 ,at once begin a new  

life1 if you would shun the dangers and 
avoid the terrible doom threatening you4
 ,cast away that which excites  passions
 and gives the body unrest1 and seek the
 food for mind and  soul which gives    
rest and peace4 ,seek ,christ1 and      
through him victory  over self and over 
sin4 ,do something to brighten your home
 life and to  honor your ,master4 ,clear
 your soul from the taint of vanity4 ,do
 not  rejoice in conquests1 either that 
your power to allure may be seen by     
other women1 or for the pleasure of     
rousing passionate1 feelings that       
gratify your love of excitement4 ,it    
must happen1 no doubt1 that frank  and  
generous women will excite love they do 
not reciprocate2 but1 in  nine cases out
 of ten1 the woman has1 half            
consciously1 done much to  excite it4   
,in this case she shall not be held     
guiltless1 either as  to the unhappiness
 or injury of the lover4 ,pure love1    
inspired by a  worthy object1 must      
ennoble and bless1 whether mutual or    

not2 but that  which is excited by      
coquettish attraction1 of any grade of  
refinement1  must cause bitterness and  
doubt as to the reality of human        
goodness so  soon as the flush of       
passion is over4 ,and that you may avoid
 all taste  for these false pleasures1  
steep the soul    ,in one pure love1 and
 it will last thee long4    ,the love of
 truth1 the love of excellence1 whether 
or not you clothe  them in the person of
 a special object1 will have power to   
save you  much of evil1 and lead you    
into the green glades where the feet of 
the  virtuous have trod4 ,preserve the  
modesty of your sex by filling the  mind
 with noble desires1 that shall ward off
 the corruptions of vanity  and         
idleness4 ,a profligate woman1 who left 
her accustomed haunts and  took service 
in a ,new ,york boarding-house1 said1   
',she had never  heard talk so vile at  
the ,five ,points as from the ladies at 
the  boarding-house4' ,and why8 ,because
 they were idle2 because1 having        

nothing worthy to engage them1 they     
dwelt1 with unnatural curiosity1  on the
 ill they dared not go to see4 ,this    
seems like an exaggeration4  ,yet       
,margaret ,fuller is responsible for the
 utterance4,a ,avoid  idleness4 ,the    
mind1 like a mill1 must have some       
thought in the hopper  of reflection1 or
 the machinery will prove to be         
self-destructive4  ,shun flattery4 ,the 
woman who permits in her life the alloy 
of vanity2  who lives upon flattery1    
coarse or fine1 is lost1 and loses the  
tribute paid the woman by the           
iron-handed warrior1 whom he rejoiced to
  recognize as his helpmeet1 saying1    
,whom ,god loves1 to him he gives  such 
a wife4    ,footnote ,a3 ,woman of the  
,nineteenth ,century1 p4 #afh4    ,the  
influence of married women over their   
younger sisters may be  beneficent and  
good4 ,it often is pernicious and bad4  
,young women judge  of men very much by 
what married women say concerning men4  
,if they  speak of men as virtuous and  

pure1 as noble and generous2 if they can
  talk of their husbands as of men who  
have honored them with their  love1 and 
whose kindness blesses their daily life1
 then will the  maiden of a pure heart  
believe that her dream is real1 and that
 the  man of her choice is pure2 whose  
heart is free and open as her own2  all 
of whose thoughts may be avowed2 who is 
incapable of wronging the  innocent1 or 
still further degrading the fallen1--a  
man1 in short1  whose brute nature is   
entirely subject to the impulses of his 
better self4 ,such men there are in     
countless numbers1 who have kept        
themselves free from stain1 and who can 
look the purest maiden in the  eye and  
not shun the glance4 ,through ,god's    
grace they have been saved  from the    
path full of peril1 and desire nothing  
more than to share  the confidence and  
friendship of the pure4 ,if1 on the     
other hand1 the  unmarried are assured  
by the married that1 if they knew men as
 they  do1--that is1 by being married to

 them1--they would not expect           
continence or self-government from them2
 if mothers permit their  daughters to  
mingle freely with the dissipated and   
vile because of  rank or wealth1 and    
when warned that such are not fit       
companions for  a chaste being1 reply1  
,all men are bad sometimes in their     
life2 but  give them a pure wife and a  
home and they will not want to go wrong1
  then be not surprised if homes are    
converted into abodes of perpetual      
sorrow1 if not of shame1 and the fair   
young bride is left to weep over  the   
sacrifice of virtue1 of honor1 and of   
love1 on the altar of an  unholy        
passion4 ,the influence of a pure woman 
over young women is  invaluable4    ,do 
not forget the unfortunates who dare not
 cross your guarded way4  ,if it do not 
suit you to act with those who have     
organized measures of  reform1 then hold
 not yourself excused from acting in    
private4 ,seek  out these degraded      
women1 give them then tender sympathy1  

counsel1  employment4 ,take the place of
 mothers1 such as might have saved them 
originally4 ,if you can do little for   
those already under the ban of  the     
world1--and the best considered efforts 
have often failed1 from a  want of      
strength in those unhappy ones to bear  
up against the sting of  shame and the  
frigidness of the world1 which makes    
them seek oblivion  again in their old  
excitements1--you will at least leave a 
germ of  love and justice in their      
hearts1 that will prevent their becoming
  utterly embittered and corrupt4 ,and  
you may learn the preventives  for those
 yet uninjured4 ,these will be found in 
a diffusion of mental  culture1 simple  
tastes1 best brought by your example1 a 
genuine  self-respect1 and1 above all1  
the love and fear of a divine in        
preference to a human tribunal4 ,let    
woman live for ,god and the  development
 of her higher nature1--live so that she
 can be  self-helped1 as well as        
helping1--then if she finds what she    

needs in  man embodied1 she will know   
how to love1 and be worthy of being     
loved4  ,much is said about the underpay
 of woman as a cause of temptation4 ,it 
is for the interests of society that    
there should be an equality of          
compensation wherever there is an       
equality of distribution4 ,it is well   
for woman to ask herself if she is ready
 to assume the burdens that  come from  
an equality of compensation1 such as    
giving up the prospect  of marriage1 or 
of sharing with man the toil of the     
field1 of the  factory1 as well as of   
the house4 ,would woman be willing to   
take upon  herself the responsibility of
 planning to economize1 of building     
churches1 railroads1 of entering into a 
competition with man8--,woman  is       
dependent1 not independent4--,for this  
reason man toils to keep his  wife1 and 
is ashamed to have his wife keep him4   
,his pride lies in  having his home a   
joy and his wife a helpmeet1 rather than
 to have his  wife a rival and his home 

empty of happiness4    ,it is not alone 
by an excess of passion or of beauty    
that woman  becomes a tempter4 ,the     
absence of love1 and of beauty1 sins of 
omission as well as sins of commission1 
are sources of temptation4 ,man  desires
 an educated woman4 ,intellectually and 
spiritually she must be  able to meet   
his wants1 and render help1 or she is a 
failure4 ,he tires  of a useless toy or 
plaything1 and cries out for a helpmeet4
 ,another  has said1 ,the bad           
housekeeping1 and the neglect of        
domestic duties1  on the part of many   
wives1 is1 no doubt1 attributable to the
 slovenly  tenements1 and inadequate    
providings1 and careless neglect of the 
husbands4 ,but more husbands1 we fear1  
are driven to shiftlessness  and        
discouragement--driven to the saloon and
 gambling-room--by the  extravagance or 
inefficiency1 the disorderly            
arrangements or badly  prepared food1   
the irritating complaints or exacting   
demands of those  who preside in the    

home4 ,none but a man of low instinct1  
of base  passion1 of weak character1    
will turn away from and neglect a home  
where order reigns1 where a cheerful    
smile1 well-prepared food1 neatly       
arranged table await him2 where a word  
of cheer greets him1 and where  patient 
forbearance is exercised1 even with his 
irregularities and  faults4 ,it is the  
part of woman to win2 and her winning   
arts should  not be laid aside when she 
grasps what she has considered a prize4 
,she  should seek in every way to win1  
beyond the possibility of loss1 the     
abiding love1 the unwavering confidence1
 the undoubting respect of  her husband4
 ,if woman would be man's equal1 she    
must challenge the  equality by proving 
herself mistress of those arts that     
minister the  highest comfort to his    
physical nature1 as well as to his      
affections1  that further his interests 
as well as his happiness4    ,alas6 how 
many fail here because they know not how
 to make a home  pleasant4 ,such are the

 slaves of servants and the creatures of
  circumstances4 ,in some cases the     
fault is man's1 in others it is         
woman's4 ,perhaps in all cases both are 
somewhat at fault2 yet the              
responsibility rests on woman to make   
home a delight4 ,when she fails  she    
must take the consequences4 ,failure    
with her is often a mistake4  ,she knows
 no better4 ,ignorance1 in some1 is     
wilful1 but in more it  is educational4 
,their mothers1 through ill-judged      
kindness1 mistaken  notions of life1 or 
careless neglect1 suffered them to grow 
up without  the necessary practical     
training2 or else they failed before    
them2 and  inefficiency and             
slatternliness1 bad cooking1 and worse  
manners1 are  the patrimony bequeathed  
in perpetuity to the daughters4 ,happy  
is the  man who has a wife capable of   
getting a better meal than the hired    
help1 and whose smile is the light of   
his dwelling6 ,sometimes a girl  knows  
how to win1 but cares not to keep4 ,she 

gives place in her heart1  and a welcome
 in her home1 to others more readily    
than to the one she  has given her      
plighted troth4 ,this is criminal4 ,a   
woman who does it is  a suicide4 ,she is
 bent on ruin1 and will find the pit ere
 long4    ,consider her wiles of speech4
 ,mystery here brings ruin to man as it 
brought ruin to woman4 ,young ladies of 
culture and of refinement are  not      
ashamed to employ the language of the   
,parisian to lead astray the  companion 
of her life4 ,god curse the language and
 the forms of speech  whose words drop  
with the very gall of death1 which revel
 in elegant  dress as near the edge of  
indecency as is possible without        
treading  over the boundary6 ,her wiles 
of speech are bad1 but her wiles of love
  are the most perilous of all4 ,man    
needs love4 ,he is fond of it4 ,it is   
his joy1 come from whence it may4 ,love 
is the mind's light and heat4 ,a  mind  
of the greatest stature1 without love1  
is like a huge pyramid of  ,egypt--chill

 and cheerless in all its dark halls and
 passages4 ,a mind  with love1 is as a  
king's palace lighted for a royal       
festival4 ,shame  that the sweetest of  
all the mind's attributes should be     
suborned to  sin4 ,think of it6 each    
wile1 rightly used1 is a power given to 
woman  to make her man's helpmeet1 and  
wrongly used will make her man's        
destroyer4    ,some one asked a minister
 for his conception of the personal     
appearance of the devil4 ,his reply was1
 ,a false-hearted and  well-dressed     
gentleman1 or a vain and fashionable    
woman4 ,woman was  ,satan's first ally1 
though he worked in ambush1 and         
approached man  in concealment4 ,in the 
wisdom of his choice we discover the    
peril of  woman4 ,it may be well briefly
 to review the public manner in which   
,satan employs her talent for the ruin  
of man and in opposing the rule  of     
,christ4    #a4 ,passing over her social
 power1 and without referring to her    
wiles  of speech1 of dress1 of flattery1

 and of love1 think of her in the  arena
 of politics1 joining her forces to     
infidelity1 and with the  disbelievers  
of the ,bible1 to obtain for woman a    
place for which she  is not fitted1 and 
which will destroy her peace1 injure and
 undermine  her influence in the home1  
and cause her to neglect wifehood and   
motherhood1 to turn from the interior   
world of a quiet home1 to the  outside  
world of conflict and strife4 ,it is the
 boast of a writer in  favor of ,woman's
 ,rights1 that among the disbelievers of
 revealed  religion1 ,i have not found1 
during a life of half a century1 a      
single  opponent to the doctrine of     
equal rights for males and females4 ,the
  correctness of this statement is to a 
wonderful extent true4 ,the  believers  
of the ,bible claim that the teachings  
and commands of the  ,word of ,god are  
in opposition to the doctrine4 ,when    
woman joins the  ranks of the infidel1  
she turns from ,god1 and loses her power
 in her  former sphere4    #b4 ,if there

 is one foe more than another1 that     
threatens us as a  nation1 nearly all   
agree in pronouncing that foe to be     
,romanism4 ,take  this fact in          
connection with the obvious truth1 that 
it is fashionable  to pander to ,rome4  
,because of this tendency ripening into 
results1 the  ,state of ,new ,york1     
politically1 is lost to ,protestantism1 
and is as  much ,roman ,catholic as is  
,italy or ,rome4 ,whence comes this     
influence1  or producing cause8 ,can we 
trace it to woman8 ,it will be admitted 
that  the influence of ,roman ,catholic 
servants in our homes has never been    
measured4 ,the nurse teaches the child  
the use of the beads1 and  familiarizes 
the child1 committed to her keeping1 to 
the cross1 as  an emblem of worship4    
,imagine the alarm of a ,christian      
mother1 when1  because of the absence of
 the nurse it became a necessity to see 
the  child to bed1 when1 to her         
surprise1 the little girl of five years 
pulled out from beneath the pillow her  

beads and cross1 and began  going       
through the ,papal forms of worship6    
,the mother wisely forbore a  rebuke1   
changed her nurse1 and led her child    
back to ,christ1 and so  rescued her4   
,how many children are finding in their 
nurses1 rather  than in their mothers1  
their religious teachers8 ,the influence
 of  ,romish servants in our homes is   
felt in still another way4 ,because  of 
them there is a barrier to discussion1  
or even to conversation1  concerning    
this monstrous error1 which1 like the   
frogs of ,egypt1  invades our very      
bread-troughs4 ,no man dare express his 
mind  concerning ,romanism at his table 
if the servant is a ,romanist1 lest  he 
lose the services so much in demand1 or 
lest he be reported to  the priest1 and 
so be placed under the ban or the       
displeasure of the  ,church of ,rome1   
which is used as an engine of political 
and social  power against the truth as  
it is in ,jesus4    #c4 ,the influence  
of education deserves consideration4    

,fashionable  women send their daughters
 to ,roman ,catholic institutions of    
learning1  where the ,sister or ,mother 
,superior carries her to the chapel1    
bows  reverently before the altar1 and  
kissing the cross1 exclaims1 ,how can   
,protestants be so blind as to reject   
the cross on the ground that it  savors 
of ,popery1 when they know that all     
their own hopes of salvation  must hang 
upon it8 or where the morning service   
concludes with a  prayer to the ,mother 
of ,god1 in these words3 ,most holy     
,virgin1 ,i  believe and confess thy    
most holy and immaculate care of man1   
pure and  without stain4 ,o most pure   
,virgin1 through thy virginal purity1   
thy  immaculate conception1 thy glorious
 quality of ,mother of ,god1 obtain  for
 me of thy dear ,son1 humility1 charity1
 great purity of heart1 of  body and of 
mind1 holy perseverance in my cherished 
relations1 the  gift of prayer1 a holy  
life and a happy death4,a ,thus is the  
dogma  of the ,immaculate ,conception   

thrust upon the memory1 and the gate is 
opened to a denial and rejection of     
,christ as the ,saviour1 and to an      
acceptance of ,mary as the ,intercessor4
 ,the result manifests itself in  two   
ways4 ,the fashionable boarding-school  
girl comes to think kindly  of ,rome1   
and rebukes all opposition to the church
 as bigotry or  ignorance on the part of
 those with whom she associates4 ,the   
influence  is noticeable4 ,it is        
fashionable to attend the ,papal        
,church1  fashionable to contribute to  
its prosperity1 fashionable for men to  
smother their opinions1 fashionable for 
the politician to seek the  favor of    
that power that furnishes1 in its       
subtlety and in its power  to work in   
darkness1 a perfect mechanism for       
,satan4    ,footnote ,a3 ,miss          
,bunkley's ,book1 pp4 #bb and #fh4      
#d4 ,our wealthy women1 by their        
patronage of ,roman ,catholic fairs1 and
  by their gifts to the so-called       
charitable fund1 enable the enemies  of 

the cross of ,christ to build these     
magnificent cathedrals and  religious   
establishments1 while the churches of   
,christ languish for  support4    ,give 
to woman the ballot1 let these girls in 
our kitchens become  voters1 and it will
 not be difficult to understand how a   
man's foes  shall be those of his own   
household4    ,the ,remedy4 ,induce     
,protestant girls to work1 by treating  
them as  sisters rather than as         
servants4 ,talk free in the house and at
 the  table against ,romanism1 let the  
consequences be what they may4 ,educate 
children so that they shall know the    
characteristics of this lifelong  foe of
 the church of ,christ2 and1 lastly1    
resist this movement to  change the     
order of ,god's government in the home  
and in the state4    ,ignore it as we   
may1 the beguiling serpent is busy with 
our ,eve in  ,america1 this ,eden of    
liberty1 and ,god only knows the result4
 ,it is  a question which cannot be     
trifled with4 ,that the drift to-day is 

against the teachings of the ,bible1    
none can doubt4 ,victory for ,satan  is 
a terrible calamity for humanity4 ,let  
us then1 as an antidote1  preach        
,christ1 and strive to make woman the   
helpmeet of man and the  ally of our    
,divine ,master1 and then she becomes   
the deadliest foe of  ,satan1 and the   
most aggressive champion of the truth4  
,her rash hand1 in evil hour1    ,forth 
reaching to the fruit1 she plucked1 she 
ate6    ,earth felt the wound1 and      
nature from her seat1    ,sighing       
through all her works1 gave signs of woe
    ,that all was lost4      ,,milton4  
,,the ,,glory ,,of ,,motherhood4        
,to understand the tragedies of the     
present1 it is essential that we        
re-read the tragedies of the past4 ,too 
many1 in forming their opinions  of what
 should be1 ignore in their calculations
 what has been1 and  what must be4      
,those who are dissatisfied with the    
position assigned to  woman1 must recall
 the fact that ,god's decrees are       

unchangeable4 ,we  may resist them1 but 
we cannot destroy them4 ,they were in   
existence1  before our birth2 they will 
survive our dissolution4 ,it is for us  
to  recognize ,god as ,ruler as well as 
,creator1 and adjust our views1 our     
lives1 and our labors in accordance with
 an infinitely wise system1  formed in  
the counsels of an eternity past1 and   
running on to the  eternity of the      
future4    ,if we speak of ,woman as    
,god ,made ,her1 of ,woman as a         
,helpmeet1 we find  a warrant for it in 
the ,word of ,god4 ,in ,eden she was    
,god's ally4 ,when  she fell1 she       
became1 in sin1 the ally of ,satan4 ,the
 truth may be  unpalatable1 but it is   
the truth4    ,in considering woman as a
 mother1 we stand on the hill-top of the
  past4 ,before us lies a valley1       
stretching on from the ruin wrought in  
,eden by sin1 to the restoration wrought
 in the world by ,christ4 ,during  these
 ages of wickedness1 of sorrow1 and of  
crime1 woman felt the  curse heavy upon 

her4 ,she was made to feel that the woe 
pronounced  upon her was a fact2 and    
yet1 during all these ages of trial1    
there  was a gleam of hope shining into 
her soul1 because ,god said1 ,and ,i    
will put enmity between thee and the    
woman1 and between thy seed and  her    
seed2 he shall bruise thee on the head1 
and thou shalt bruise him  on the heel4 
,thus there came to woman1 who had the  
first encounter  with the wily enemy of 
the race1 the hope of a triumph over1   
and a  subjugation of this enemy1       
through her offspring4 ,it is an        
instinct of  a boy to crush the head of 
a snake2 but you cannot readily get a   
girl  to do so3 she will run from the   
beast so identified with her sorrow4    
,the reason for this is explained in the
 prophecy of ,eden4 ,in a  mystical     
sense1 ,christ1 the deliverer foretold  
in ,genesis1 the eminent  seed of the   
woman1 was to bruise the head of the old
 serpent1 the  devil1 that is1 destroy  
him1 and all his principalities and     

powers1  break and confound all his     
schemes and ruin all his works1 crush   
his  whole empire1 strip him of his     
sovereignty and authority1 of his power 
over death1 and his tyranny over the    
bodies and souls of men4 ,here1  then1  
was a purpose worth living for and      
suffering for4 ,true1 ,satan1  or the   
serpent1 is to bruise his heel1 or wound
 his human nature2 but  there is no     
promise of his triumph4    ,it is not   
difficult to discover how this hope must
 have thrilled the  heart of ,eve with  
joy4 ,her life was not to be a failure4 
,though clouds  might rest upon her1 it 
was impossible to shut out the fact that
 the  star of hope was soon to rise1 and
 to usher in the dawn of a glorious     
day4    ,much has been written against  
the fact that a daughter is not prized  
in a home as much as is a son4 ,we can  
understand it1 when we go back  to ,eden
 and see that the seed of the woman1    
called a he1 a male  child1 was to be   
the instrument of working out the       

disinthralment  of the race4 ,the       
feminine gender is sometimes used in    
declaring the  glories of the future4   
,zion is called a bride1 but her glory  
is  all reflected from the bridegroom4  
,woman is a helpmeet1 but the           
king-bearer is the man ,christ ,jesus4  
,the world turned from ,christ  because 
he had the appearance of a man4 ,it was 
a great mistake4 ,it is  not a popular  
saying1--women say it is not            
complimentary to them to  declare       
it1--yet it remains true1 that ,god     
draws by the cords of a  man4 ,all along
 the past men have been recognized as   
the gift of ,god4  ,women rejoice when a
 man is born into the world2 not that   
women are  disliked1 but because there  
is something involved in life more than 
mere existence4 ,there are faint        
foreshadowings of the tasks laid on  the
 race4 ,work is to be done for ,god and 
man4 ,principalities and  powers are to 
be fought and overcome4 ,an invisible   
world is in league  against the race1   

and an invisible ,god1 once robed in    
flesh1 and  living among men1 is ,our   
,advocate with ,god1 our ,redeemer and  
,saviour4  ,there is significance in the
 language1 ,i have gotten a man from the
  ,lord4 ,the language of ,eve1 as a    
mother1 furnishes the key-note to  that 
maternal song which yet floats through  
the world1 which makes  women in ,china1
 in ,india1 in ,africa1 and in ,south   
,america1 among the  inhabitants of     
,russia1 and of ,paraguay1 anywhere and 
everywhere1  rejoice with the same old  
joy1 when a man is born into the world1 
because then she feels that somehow she 
has given birth to a hero and  a        
champion who shall be identified with   
that song of world-triumph  which is yet
 to cover the earth as the waters cover 
the sea2 and the  only exception to this
 is found among the ,hebrews1 where a   
virgin was  revered as the possible     
mother of the ,messiah1 and so received 
her  dignity as a reflection from the   
man4 ,to understand this problem of     

human nature1 we must go back to ,god1  
and study his word4 ,those who  reject  
the ,word1 of ,god are surrounded by    
mysteries which they cannot  solve4     
,they behold tendencies1 and instincts1 
and dispositions1 which  are explained  
in ,genesis1 and which are parts of     
,god's prophesies yet  to be fulfilled  
in this world4 ,ignoring the prophecy1  
they cannot  comprehend the facts of    
existence1 which must exist and will    
exist1  whether men will hear or        
forbear4    ,says a writer of some note1
 ,the severe ,nation which taught that  
the  happiness of the race was forfeited
 through the fault of a woman1  showed  
its thought of what sort of regard man  
viewed her1 by making  him accuse her in
 the first question to his ,god1--who   
gave her to  the patriarch as a         
handmaid1 and by the ,mosaical law bound
 her to  allegiance like a serf1--even  
they greeted1 with a solemn rapture1 all
  great and holy-women as heroines1     
prophetesses1 judges in ,israel2 and  if

 they made ,eve listen to the serpent1  
gave ,mary as a bride to the  ,holy     
,spirit4 ,in other nations it has been  
the same down to our day4  ,in this     
extract1 the ,jewish nation and the     
,bible are referred to in  the same tone
 that we refer to ,mahommedans and to   
the ,koran4 ,is not  this tendency      
perceptible elsewhere8 ,in looking at   
woman1 we ignore  the ,bible1 and ,god1 
and history1 and talk of her as though  
the past  had no influence with the     
present and future4 ,the ,bible1 ,god1  
and  history have to do with the present
 and the future1 and whoever  studies   
history has been compelled to recognize 
the truth4 ,this same  writer was       
compelled to declare1 ,it is the destiny
 of man1 in the  course of the ages1 to 
ascertain and fulfil the law of his     
being1 so  that his life shall be seen1 
as a whole1 to be that of an angel or   
messenger4 ,this is his destiny1 because
 it is ,god-given4 ,hence man  was the  
bearer of good tidings all along the    

past4 ,prophets were  generally men4    
,christ was a man4 ,the apostles1       
,christ's chosen  standard-bearers1 were
 men4 ,the powers in the moral and      
spiritual  world are men4 ,all that is  
great in history1 all that thrones one  
nation upon a mountain height and buries
 another in the fathomless  grave of    
infamy1 comes from man4 ,the ages were  
dark1 because of the  lack of a man4    
,christ came1 and the apostolic age     
became the noontime  of the world1 not  
because of what the race did for        
themselves1 but  because of what was    
done for the race4 ,if a nation sinks1  
because the  man who has the brain1 the 
wisdom1 the power from ,god1 is wanting1
 who  shall build up a people in hope1  
inspire them with grand resolves8  ,it  
will rise and prosper when the man      
comes4 ,christ was a necessity1  because
 infinite work was to be performed4 ,is 
he not a necessity now8  ,is it not a   
man in ,christ1 and with ,christ1 who is
 ever the worker  on the earth8 ,christ 

speaks through the gospel1 and the key  
of the  moral universe is still upon his
 shoulders4 ,this hope and dream came   
to ,eve way back there in the confines  
of the wilderness1 and so  incidentally 
as well as actually1 she became         
identified with it1 and  rejoiced when  
she could declare1 ,i have gotten a man 
from the ,lord1  whom she believed to be
 the promised seed4    ,notice1 to ,eve1
 as to woman now1 a baby was more than a
 little child2  she saw in him all the  
possibilities of a man1 who was to      
become a foe  worthy to meet the enemy  
of her soul4 ,her faith in this child to
 be  born was similar to our faith in   
the ,child that was born in ,bethlehem4 
,hence her joy when she exclaimed1 ,i   
have gotten a man from the ,lord4    ,it
 will seem to many as singular that     
there should be no mention of  the      
daughters born of ,eve4 ,the generations
 or names of men are given1  but not of 
the daughters4 ,even there and then the 
custom now prevalent  in the ,east found

 its origin4 ,no account is made of the 
birth of a  daughter in that land4      
,congratulate a man upon the accession  
to  the family of a daughter1 and the   
father will hide his shame with         
difficulty1 and exclaim1 ,o1 that ,god  
had given me a son6    ,again1 in       
reading this story some will be         
surprised to find no mention  made of   
the mother's grief when her youngest    
child was slain1 and that  no mention is
 made of the mother's death4 ,we know   
that after ,seth was  born1 ,adam lived 
eight hundred years1 and begat sons and 
daughters2  but woman's curse bore      
fruit4 ,men ruled over her1 and her     
individuality was lost in the headship  
of ,adam4 ,do not blame me for  saying  
it2 ,i simply declare the fact4 ,this   
state of things continued  until ,christ
 came4 ,when ,mary gave birth to ,jesus1
 woman resumed her  place4 ,the curse   
was met by its antidote4 ,from ,god came
 the wave of  influence which met the   
wave that flowed out from ,eden1 the    

conflict  began1 higher and higher rose 
the flood1 until the ark of hope by it  
was placed on the mountain peak of human
 history1 in sight of all  races1 and   
tribes1 and peoples of the whole world4 
,calvary is set over  against ,ararat1  
as ,mary is set over against ,eve4      
,after the birth-song  of ,eden came the
 tragedy1 in which ,abel lost his life  
and ,cain his  character4 ,after the    
birth-song of ,bethlehem came the       
tragedy of  ,calvary1 in which ,christ  
gave up his life1 that he might open to 
man1  enveloped in the ruins of the     
fall1 a way back to the ,eden in reserve
  for the redeemed4    ,in speaking of  
,eve as a mother1 there is little that  
can be said  founded on fact4 ,eve      
passes from sight1 though the prophecy1 
,and ,i  will put enmity between thee   
and the woman1 and between thy seed and 
her seed2 he shall bruise thee on the   
head1 and thou shall bruise him  on the 
heel1 worked on1 and lived on1 and found
 its fulfilment in the  triumph won by  

,christ4 ,it is certainly significant1  
that ,eve1 through  whom sin came1      
should pass out of the world's mind1 and
 ,mary1 through  whom ,christ came1     
should vault to a seat in the affections
 of a world8  ,is it not also           
significant that ,mary should become an 
object of  worship to many millions of  
people in this and in other lands1 and  
that ,satan1 through ,mariolatry1 should
 strive to do in the ,new  ,dispensation
 what he wrought by ,idolatry in the    
,old8 ,the opposition of  ,satan runs   
on4 ,the purposes of ,god run on4 ,the  
prophesies of the ,word  of ,god abide1 
and are sure of fulfilment1 in spite of 
,satan4 ,against  prophecy combinations 
of men and nations have united2 but the 
truths  sweep on resistlessly1 and reach
 the destination for which ,god         
ordained them4    ,the curse that came  
to woman in the hour of her fall rested 
on her  until ,christ came4 ,unto thy   
husband shall be thy desire1--an        
expression of subordination and         

dependence4 ,he shall rule over thee1   
expresses the general effect of the     
apostasy on woman's relations in  the   
married state4 ,the stronger party in   
this relation1 instead of  being the    
guardian and protector of the weaker1   
did use his superior  power to oppress  
and debase her4 ,such has always been   
the case1 except  so far as the         
influence of revelation has counteracted
 the evils of  the fall1 such is the    
case to-day4 ,woman owes her recognition
 to  ,christ1 and she is indebted for   
her position in the civilized portions  
of the world wholly to the gospel4      
,wherever ,christ is not worshipped     
woman is despised4    ,woman as a       
mother1 under the ,old ,dispensation1   
differs in many  important respects from
 woman as a mother under the ,new4 ,the 
history  of woman is divided into three 
portions3 #a4 ,woman as ,god made her2  
#b4  ,woman as ,sin made her2 #c4 ,woman
 as ,christ made her4    #a4 ,the       
position of woman1 between her          

humiliation in ,eden and her            
restoration in ,bethlehem1 was in many  
respects sad to contemplate4  ,she was  
more of a slave than an equal4 ,eve     
passes1 unrecognized and  unnamed1 to   
her grave4 ,sarah1 the wife of ,abram1  
finds mention1 and is  described in such
 a manner that you behold her sharing   
her husband's  love1 though the picture 
of her in the home is not a pleasant    
one4 ,we  can hardly understand how     
,abram could have suffered her to enter 
the  house of ,abimelech1 nor how she   
could have taken ,hagar to her husband1 
and thus again have led man astray--the 
man whom ,god called to be the  ,father 
of the ,faithful4 ,eve1 the mother of   
the race1 tempted ,adam1 and  ,sarah1   
the mother of the patriarchs1 tempted   
,abram2 and lack of faith  in ,god was  
the cause of their ruin1 and consequent 
humiliation4 ,there  is something sad   
about the manner of her life4 ,her home 
was a simple  tent1 surrounded by flocks
 and herds1 and crowded with rubbish of 

every description4 ,woman in the ,east  
is very much to-day what ,adam  saw her 
on his first entrance into the          
wilderness4 ,the effects of sin         
followed her from generation to         
generation4 ,the gloom of the night is  
still over her as she spends her days in
 out-door labor4 ,she weeds the  cotton1
 and assists in pruning the vine and    
gathering the grapes4  ,she goes forth  
in the morning1 bearing not only her    
implements of  husbandry1 but also her  
babes in the cradle2 and returning in   
the  evening1 she prepares her husband's
 supper and sets it before him1 but     
never thinks of eating of it until after
 he is done4 ,one of the early          
objections the ,nestorians made to the  
,female ,seminary was1 that it  would   
disqualify their daughters for their    
accustomed toil4 ,in after  years woman 
might be seen carrying her              
,spelling-book to the field  along with 
her ,persian hoe1 little dreaming that  
she was thus taking  the first step     

towards the substitution of the new     
implement for the  old4    ,nestorian   
parents used to consider the birth of a 
daughter a great  calamity4 ,when asked 
the number of their children1 they would
 count up  their sons1 and make no      
mention of their daughters4 ,the birth  
of a son  was an occasion for great joy 
and giving of gifts4 ,neighbors hastened
  to congratulate the happy father1 but 
days might elapse before the            
neighborhood knew of the birth of a     
daughter4 ,it was deemed highly         
improper to inquire after the health of 
a wife1 and the nearest  approach to it 
was to ask after the house or household4
 ,formerly a man  never called his wife 
by name1 but in speaking of her would   
say the  mother of so and so1 giving the
 name of the child2 or the daughter  of 
so and so1 giving the name of her       
father2 or simply that woman  did this  
or that4 ,nor did the wife presume to   
call her husband's name1  or to address 
him in the presence of his parents1 who1

 it will be  borne in mind1 lived in the
 same apartment4 ,they were married very
  young1 often at the age of fourteen1  
and without any consultation of  their  
own preference1 either as to time or    
person4    ,there was hardly a man among
 the ,nestorians who did not beat his   
wife  when the missionaries commenced   
their labors4 ,the women expected to be 
beaten1 and took it as a matter of      
course4 ,when the men wished to talk    
together of anything important1 they    
usually sent the women out  of doors or 
to the stable1 as unable to understand  
or unfit to be  trusted4 ,in some cases1
 says the author of ,woman and ,her     
,saviour1  this might be a necessary    
precaution2 for the absence of true     
affection1 and the frequency of domestic
 broils1 rendered the wife an  unsafe   
depositary of any important family      
affair4,a    ,footnote ,a3 ,woman and   
her ,saviour1 pp4 #ah and #ai4    ,in   
,paraguay a female child is described by
 ,southey as lamenting1 in              

heart-breaking tones1 that her mother   
did not kill her when she was  born2 and
 ,sir ,a4 ,mackenzie declares that there
 is a class of women  in the north who  
performed this pious duty towards female
 infants1  whenever they had an         
opportunity4 ,but wherever ,christ is   
known and  loved1 the daughter is a gift
 of ,god as well as a son4 ,woman owes  
to  her ,saviour all she has of joy in  
time1 as well as all she has of  hope in
 eternity4 ,though she does not obtain  
the headship1 though her  sorrow and her
 pain are not removed1 though her desire
 continues to be  to her husband1 and   
though the rule of the husband continues
 in every  well-regulated home1 yet     
woman is elevated to become a           
shareholder of  the pleasures of the    
home1 of the honors and emoluments of   
life1  of the riches obtained by toil1  
and of the enjoyments derived from      
culture4 ,woman in the ,christian home  
is the soul1 the pride1 the  ornament1  
and the helper4 ,through ,christ she    

obtains a recognition1 so  that when we 
speak of man we mean the race1 men and  
women1 for these  become the two halves 
of one thought1 so that no especial     
stress is  laid on the welfare of       
either1 but the development of one is   
secured by the development of the other4
 ,to such an extent have the            
disabilities been removed from the sex1 
that a leading writer has  been         
compelled to admit1 that in our own     
country1 women are1 in many  respects1  
better situated than the men4 ,good     
books are allowed1 with  more time to   
read them4 ,they are not so early forced
 into the bustle  of life1 nor so       
weighed down by demands for outward     
success4 ,they  have time to think1 and 
no traditions chain them1 and few       
conventionalities1 compared with what   
must be met in other nations4  ,doors   
swing open to them1 and they are invited
 to walk the fields of  literary and    
artistic success1 and whatever tends to 
the development  of their higher nature 

is freely placed within their reach4    
#b4 ,the trials of motherhood deserve   
notice4 ,we have seen the hopes  that   
came to ,eve1 and beheld their          
realization in and through ,christ4     
,the trials were born of sin4 ,eve's    
eldest child1 ,cain1 possessed a        
narrow1 selfish nature4 ,he was a tiller
 of the ground4 ,abel was a  keeper of  
the sheep4 ,the first born met this     
curse in the soil4 ,the  second born    
looked forward to the restoration4 ,in  
process of time ,cain  brought of the   
fruit of the ground4 ,tradition has it  
that he brought  what was left of his   
food1 of light and tempting things1 flax
 or hemp  seed4    ,abel brought of the 
firstlings of his flock1 which was a    
proper type  of ,christ4 ,his offering  
pleased ,god1 ,cain's niggardly gift    
displeased  ,god4 ,the selfish man      
wreaked his vengeance in the usual way4 
,he slew  his brother1 who was better   
than himself4 ,the heavens are black    
with  gathering gloom4 ,murder is in the

 air4 ,the shock is felt everywhere4    
,god comes1 and sternly asks1 ,where is 
thy brother8 ,cain impudently  replies1 
,am ,i my brother's keeper8 ,then comes 
the curse4 ,it is a  self-invited curse1
 for the gift he gave to ,god is the    
harvest in  future for himself4 ,ah1    
what a lesson4 ,how early it is taught4 
,if you  hate ,god1 if you regret what  
you give1 if you make it small1 if you  
see to it that you give the leavings    
rather than the firstlings1 then        
beware4 ,cain said his punishment was   
greater than he could bear4 ,he is      
getting back what he gave4 ,the command 
is1 ,give1 and it shall be given  back4 
,the converse is true--,keep1 and it    
shall be kept back4    ,the hopes of    
,eve were centred in the victory to be  
achieved over the  enemy of her life1 by
 means of the triumph to be won by her  
children4  ,her trials really began when
 she saw that sin was not an accident4  
,it  was rebellion which bore fruit4    
,her treachery to ,god came back to her 

in this treachery of her first born to  
her second child1 whom she  loved with  
maternal tenderness4 ,thus the gates of 
evil were thrown  open1 and they filled 
the land with violence1 and the flood   
became a  necessity4    ,what was true  
of ,eve was more or less true of woman  
until ,christ  came4 ,she inherited     
sorrow1 and was born to a life of       
humiliation and  wretchedness4 ,the     
history of woman in the olden time and  
at this hour1  wherever ,christ is not  
known1 is full of sorrow4 ,in ,christ   
she finds  an emancipator from sorrow4  
,there is another strange fact4 ,in the 
,old ,dispensation1 the first born  son 
is the child of promise4 ,but wherever  
the influence of ,christ's  gospel      
rules1 there the rule of the first born 
disappears1 and all1  both sons and     
daughters1 share in the patrimony of the
 house and in  the honors of the        
household4 ,despite this1 it is natural 
for a father  to love his first born son
 the best1 and for the mother to find   

her  heart clinging involuntarily to the
 younger and weaker4 ,from the          
unfortunate the father may turn1 but the
 mother never4 ,she will bind  her love 
tightest about the birdling that1 from  
some misfortune1 is  unable to leave the
 maternal nest4    ,turn we to the ,old 
,testament1 we find that whenever man   
was brought  near to ,god1 as was       
,abram1 ,isaac1 ,jacob1 ,joseph1 and    
others1 woman was  held in respect1 and 
was permitted to exercise an elevating  
influence  in the home2 and yet it      
remains true1 that in nearly every      
instance  she failed to prove herself a 
helpmeet4    ,sarah introduced ,abraham 
to polygamy1 ,rebekah was a pattern of  
lying1  and ,rachel of deception4 ,the  
three celebrated women of history are   
destitute of those characteristics which
 make of a wife a companion1            
counsellor1 and friend4    ,do we study 
the history of ,miriam1 of ,deborah1 and
 ,esther8 we behold  women rising up in 
the name of ,god to help their people to

 save their  kindred4 ,they were the    
introduction to a noble succession4     
,woman then1  as now1 is loved for      
bringing help to those on whom ,god     
devolves  responsibility4    ,the       
picture best loved and most praised in  
the ,old ,testament is that  of ,hannah1
 the mother of ,samuel1 as she fits him 
for his post of duty  in the service of 
the ,lord4 ,in ,hannah the world finds  
their beau ideal  of a mother1 actuated 
by principle and ruled by love1         
recognizing her  allegiance to ,god1 and
 her obligations to her child and       
husband1 and  there is hardly a child in
 this ,christian land who does not dwell
 with  delight upon this fact1 that each
 year the mother made for her boy a     
little coat4 ,it was a motherly deed1   
and links her to the history of  the    
race by the blessed tie which finds its 
origin in maternal care4    ,ruth comes 
next1 because of her fidelity to her    
mother1 and her love  of virtue4 ,it is 
by her life we are introduced afresh to 

the golden  vein of prophecy that runs  
through the ,old ,testament1 and which  
ever  pointed towards the coming of     
,christ as the hope of woman and the    
hope of the world4 ,esther's love of her
 race1 and her noble daring  of ,eastern
 despotism for the good of her people1  
lifts her to a high  place1 though as a 
wife and mother we know nothing more    
than that she  was hedged round by the  
iron regulations of a paganized court4  
,the  revelations made concerning the   
daughter of ,jacob1 or of ,bathsheba1   
the loved wife of ,david1 and in fact of
 nearly all of the women of the  ,bible1
 prove that the women of the olden time 
left as well as received  an inheritance
 of shame4 ,the names we have mentioned 
are among the  brightest and the best4  
,we will draw a veil over the characters
 of  women such as the wife of ,lot1 or 
of ,potiphar1 the would-be seducer  of  
,joseph1 or of ,job1 the betrayer of her
 husband in misfortune1 of  ,jezebel1   
the fury1 or of ,delilah1 the traitress 

to her husband1 and of  a score of      
others1 that make the age in which they 
lived seem like the  night of humanity4 
#c4 ,woman obtains her recognition in   
,christ4 ,from the moment ,god          
pronounced sentence upon ,eve to the    
moment when the angel appeared  to      
,mary1 man was recognized as the head4  
,even ,miriam wrought through  ,moses1  
and ,deborah1 the judge and prophetess1 
lays no claim to  personal communication
 with ,god1 but quotes his promises1 and
  stimulates ,barak to action1 ,so also 
when the angel came from the court  of  
heaven to foretell the joy that was to  
come to the world in the  birth of      
,john1 the forerunner of ,christ1 he    
came to ,zacharias instead  of to       
,elisabeth4 ,but when the message       
related to ,christ1 then the  angel     
passed by man1 and approached woman     
direct4 ,god never forgets4  ,a thousand
 years are but as a day to ,him4        
,yesterday1 in ,eden1 he  foretold the  
coming of ,christ to ,eve4 ,to-day1 in  

,nazareth1 the angel  comes to ,mary1   
and makes her heart glad with the fact1 
that she  was chosen to become the      
mother of our ,lord4 ,eve lost by sin   
,god's  companionship4 ,mary obtained1  
through ,christ1 favor with ,god and    
man4  ,the valley is spanned with this  
arch of hope4 ,the night of woman's     
humiliation is passing away4 ,and the   
angel came in unto her1 and said1       
,hail1 thou that art highly favored1 the
 ,lord is with thee2 blessed  art thou  
among women4    ,strange words these1 as
 we can readily perceive1 from the      
position  held by woman previously4 ,no 
wonder that when she saw him1 she was   
troubled at his saying1 and cast in her 
mind what manner of salutation  this    
should be4 ,and the angel said unto her1
 ,fear not1 ,mary1 for thou  hast found 
favor with ,god4 ,and behold1 thou shall
 conceive in thy  womb1 and bring forth 
a son1 and shall call his name ,jesus4  
,he shall  be great1 and shall be called
 the ,son of the ,highest2 and the ,lord

 ,god  shall give unto him the throne of
 his father ,david1 and he shall reign  
over the house of ,jacob forever1 and of
 his kingdom there shall be  no end4 ,no
 wonder that the air seemed full of     
music4 ,woman1 made so  beautiful1      
woman1 so beloved of ,god1 and so prized
 by ,adam1 before sin  blighted the bud 
of hope and spoiled the flower of       
beauty1 was now to  come forth from the 
darkness and gloom of her life of shame 
to the  light of an unclouded day1      
henceforth to be made glorious by her   
ministrations of love4 ,the glory of    
motherhood is the man gotten from  the  
,lord1 and raised to work for ,god in   
this sinful world4 ,the glory  of woman 
is to share this man's home as a        
helpmeet1 and contribute by  her love1  
and sympathy1 and efforts to his        
happiness and usefulness  here1 that she
 may wear the crown of joy in heaven4   
,,mariolatry ,,not ,,of ,,christ4       
,if ever woman had reason to sing1 ,my  
spirit hath rejoiced in ,god my         

,saviour1 it was ,mary1 the ,virgin     
,mother of ,christ4 ,god recognized her 
as a helper in restoring man from the   
ruins of sin4 ,to her the angel  spake1 
saying1 ,hail1 thou that art highly     
favored4 ,the ,lord is with  thee4      
,blessed art thou among women4 ,and in  
pondering in her heart the  strange     
coincidences1 she exclaimed1 ,god hath  
regarded the low estate  of his         
handmaiden2 for behold from henceforth  
all generations shall  call me blessed4 
,from these words it is evident that    
,mary appreciated the honor  conferred  
upon her by her ,creator and rightful   
,ruler4 ,it is a singular  fact1 that   
,eve1 betrayed by ,satan1 betrayed the  
race4 ,mary held  steadfast to ,god and 
to truth2 and yet ,satan has the second 
time taken  woman and used her as an    
ally1 and so has brought an influence to
 bear  upon the minds of men which has  
led millions astray1 and covers vast    
portions of the world with the gloom of 
a moral night4 ,mary1 the  ,mother of   

,jesus1 is made to take the place of    
,christ1 the ,son of  ,god1 and is      
declared to be the ,mother of ,god4 ,in 
this land we can  form no conception of 
the extent to which this worship of     
,mary is  carried in ,roman ,catholic   
countries4 ,to the ,italians ,mary is   
,god1 and  worship is simply the        
adoration of the ,virgin4 ,viewing      
,romanism in the  light of the ,bible1  
this is its crowning sin2 viewing it as 
a system  combined to seduce and        
enslave1 this is its masterpiece4 ,to   
understand  how it is so1 let us think  
how deep in man's nature is placed the  
feeling of the need of a being like unto
 himself1 to mediate between  him and   
,god4 ,the ,bible completely meets this 
want in the ,god-man4 ,but  ,popery     
blots out the ,god-man as mediator1 and 
in his stead presents us  with ,mary1   
who is to the devotee the one living and
 true ,god2 for1  though the ,father and
 ,son are known1 they are accessible    
only through  ,mary1 and they stand so  

far behind and beyond her1 that to the  
,romanist they are vague1 shadowy1 and  
unknown4 ,mary is the first name  to be 
lisped in childhood1 the last to be     
uttered by the quivering  lips before   
they are closed in death4 ,around the   
neck of the infant is  suspended a small
 image of the ,virgin2 when the babe    
seeks the breast  it must kiss the      
image1 and thus literally does it draw  
in the  adoration of ,mary with its     
mother's milk4 ,were the ,new ,testament
 to  be written at this hour1 ,rome     
would blot out the name of ,christ and  
substitute that of ,mary4 ,take a proof3
 ,the church close by the ,vatican  has 
upon its marble pediment1 graven in     
large letters1 ',let us come to  the    
throne of the ,virgin ,mary1 that we may
 find grace to help us in  our time of  
need4' ,the ,roman sees ,heb4 iv4 #af   
quoted1 but cannot  verify it if he     
would1 seeing the ,bible is forbidden to
 him4 ,pius  ,,ix41 at the foot of the  
column of the ,immaculate ,conception1  

erected  to perpetuate the fact that he 
was permitted to decree the dogma1 has  
,moses1 ,david1 ,isaiah1 and ,jeremiah  
casting crowns before the ,virgin1      
saying1 ,thou art worthy2 for thou wast 
slain1 and hast redeemed us to  ,god by 
thy blood4 ,when it was announced that  
the ,french occupation of  ,rome should 
cease1 the ,pope published a decree     
calling on all ,rome  to go with him to 
the feet of ,mary1 if haply by cries and
 tears they  might prevail with her to  
avert from the throne of ,god's vicar   
the  dangers that threaten it2 and in   
that act the ,pope led the way4,a       
,footnote ,a3 ,minister versus ,priest1 
page #g4    ,for this worship of the    
,virgin ,mary there is a reason4 ,satan 
could  not successfully lead astray so  
many millions of people1 despite a      
preached gospel and a printed ,bible1   
unless there was some truth lying  at   
the root of this ineradicable ,virgin   
worship4 ,this root we shall  discover  
when we recall woman's position prior to

 the advent of  ,christ1 the place she  
was called upon to fill in the scheme of
  redemption1 and the influences set in 
motion by the life of ,christ  upon the 
earth4    #a4 ,let us notice woman's    
position previous to the advent4 ,before
  ,christ came1 woman was regarded as   
inferior to man4 ,she had lost  her     
equality4 ,she was excluded from general
 intercourse1 and her  confinement to   
her own home and apartments1 without    
education1  without social recognition1 
left her without strength of character1 
self-reliance1 or resources with        
herself4 ,woman's safety in society     
lies in two elements3 her own virtue and
 intelligence1 and the  consequent      
respect for her which such a character  
inspires4 ,where  these two things are  
found1 she may participate in general   
society1  mingling freely with men as   
their equals1 and regarded1 it may be1  
even as their superiors4 ,here1 it may  
be worthy of note1 that no such         
estimate or honor is ever put upon woman

 except when ,christianity has  given   
her this elevation4    ,before ,christ  
appeared1 the qualities honored as      
divine were  peculiarly the virtues of  
the man--courage1 wisdom1 truth1        
strength4  ,womanly virtues were        
regarded as puerile and contemptible1   
and woman  herself was little better    
than a slave4    #b4 ,notice the place  
woman filled in the scheme of           
redemption4 ,it is  admitted by those   
who recognize the ,word of ,god as      
authority1 that  the ,atonement required
 the sacrifice of one whose nature      
represents  equally the dignity of the  
,law-maker and the humanity of the      
transgressor4 ,in him ,deity and        
humanity must be united3 ,deity1 that   
he may give value to the offering2      
humanity1 that he may obey the  positive
 precepts and endure the penal sanction 
of the law human  nature has violated4  
,it was therefore essential that the    
prophecy  of ,isaiah1 uttered six       
hundred years before the advent1 should 

be  fulfilled1 viz41 ,behold1 a virgin  
shall conceive and bring forth a  son1  
and they shall call his name            
,immanuel--,god with us4 ,this work  had
 been accomplished1 and ,mary was       
honored with the privilege of  taking   
the words of ,eve1 ,i have gotten a man 
with ,jehovah1 and  making it no longer 
a prophecy1 but a fact4 ,so we sing1--  
,thou wast born of woman2 them didst    
come1    ,o1 ,holiest6 to this world of 
sin and gloom1    ,not in thy dread     
omnipotent array2      ,and not by      
thunder strewed      ,was thy           
tempestuous road1--    ,nor indignation 
burned before thee on thy way2      ,but
 thou1 a soft and naked child1      ,thy
 mother undefiled1      ,in the rude    
manger laid to rest1      ,from off her 
virgin breast4    ,then1 for the first  
time1 the mother resumed her place4     
,when the  wise men came into the house 
they saw the young child1 with ,mary his
  mother1 and fell down and worshipped  
him2 and when they had opened  their    

treasures they presented unto him gifts1
 gold1 and frankincense1  and myrrh4    
,the old ,eastern custom1 which placed  
the child before the  mother1 was now   
understood4 ,god guarded against making 
,mary first1 and  at the same time      
provided for her a place4 ,when ,god    
appeared to ,joseph  in a dream1 he did 
not say1 ,take the mother and child1 but
 the young  child and his mother1 and   
flee into ,egypt4 ,this brings us       
naturally  to consider--    #c4 ,the    
influences set in motion by the life of 
,christ upon the  earth4 ,first1 let us 
review the history of ,christ's personal
  relations to ,mary4 ,up to twelve     
years of age1 his home was in           
,nazareth2 and ,luke declares 7second   
chapter1 fortieth verse71 ,the  child   
grew and waxed strong in spirit1 filled 
with wisdom2 and the  grace of ,god was 
upon him4 ,and when he was twelve years 
old1 his  parents went up to ,jerusalem1
 after the custom of the feast4 ,and    
when  they had fulfilled the days1 as   

they returned the child ,jesus tarried  
behind in ,jerusalem2 and ,joseph and   
his mother knew not of it4 ,for  three  
days he was away from them4 ,when they  
found him he was in the  temple1 sitting
 in the midst of the doctors1 both      
hearing them and  asking them questions4
 ,and all that heard him were astonished
 at his  understanding and answers4 ,and
 when they saw him1 they were amazed3   
and his mother said unto him1 ,son1 why 
hast thou thus dealt with us8  ,behold1 
thy father and ,i have sought thee      
sorrowing4    ,it is noticeable that    
,luke mentions ,joseph before he        
mentions the  mother2 and when ,mary    
speaks1 she ignores the miraculous      
conception1  and calls him the son of   
,joseph4 ,but ,jesus does not forget his
  origin1 nor does he recognize ,joseph 
as father1 but says1 ,how is  it that ye
 sought me8 ,wist ye not that ,i must be
 about my ,father's  business8 ,and they
 understood not the saying he spake unto
 them4 ,and  he went down with them1 and

 came to ,nazareth1 and was subject unto
  them2 but his mother kept all these   
sayings in her heart4 ,and ,jesus       
increased in wisdom and stature1 and in 
favor with ,god and man4--,luke  ii4    
#db4    ,again1 at ,cana of ,galilee1   
there was a marriage1 and the mother of 
,jesus was there4 ,eighteen years have  
passed since we last saw him in  the    
temple1 when ,mary ignored his          
miraculous conception1 and when  ,jesus 
rebuked her1 by asserting his ,sonship  
and by claiming ,god as  ,father4 ,at   
,cana both ,jesus and his disciples are 
invited to the  wedding4 ,and when they 
wanted wine1 the mother of ,jesus saith 
unto  him1 ,they have no wine4 ,jesus   
saith unto her1 ,woman1 what have ,i to 
do with thee8 ,mine hour is not yet     
come4 ,plainly1 and in the most         
emphatic manner1 ,christ refuses to     
recognize ,mary as intercessor or       
director4 ,a third instance is still    
more marked4 ,jesus is talking  to an   
immense multitude1 and is making a      

hand-to-hand fight with  ,pharisees and 
,scribes4 ,while he yet talked to the   
people1 behold1 his  mother and his     
brethren stood without1 desiring to     
speak with him4  ,evidently ,mary had no
 idea of the character or the mission of
 the ,man  ,christ ,jesus1 but feeling  
that he was popular1 she was glad to    
exhibit  her relationship in a public   
manner1 and so through the throng sent  
in  word1 saying1 ,tell ,jesus his      
mother and his brethren stand without1  
desiring to speak with him4 ,but he     
answered1 and said unto him that  told  
him1 ,who is my mother8 and who are my  
brethren8 ,it is not  difficult to      
picture the ,god-man shaking off the    
trammels of the  flesh and rising to the
 height of his great work4 ,what a      
contrast  is presented between the      
second and the first ,adam6 ,the first  
,adam  yielded without remonstrance to  
,eve1 who had worshipped the creature   
rather than the ,creator1 and thus paved
 the way for the introduction  of       

idolatry2 while the second ,adam--the   
,lord of ,glory--withstood the          
influences of ,mary1 rebuked her        
intermeddling and dictation1 and stood  
forth to his work in the declaration as 
he ,stretched out his hand  towards his 
disciples1 and said1 ,behold my mother  
and my brethren4  ,for whosoever shall  
do the will of my ,father who is in     
heaven1 the  same is ,,my ,,brother1    
,,and ,,sister1 ,,and ,,mother4         
,again1 while ,christ was conversing    
with his disciples1 a certain woman  of 
the company lifted up her voice1 and    
said unto him1 ,blessed is  the womb    
that bore thee1 and the paps which thou 
hast sucked4 ,thus  suddenly flamed up  
this passion for ,mariolatry4 ,it was   
instantly  rebuked by the words1 ,yea1  
rather1 blessed are they that hear the  
,word of ,god and keep it4 ,thus he tore
 the crown from the brow of ,mary  woven
 by the irreligious1 and intimated that1
 as ,mary was greater than  ,eve1       
because of her identification with      

,himself1 so whosoever should  believe  
in ,christ1 and serve him1 should be the
 equal of ,mary4 ,the  purpose of ,god  
in forming ,eve1 should be realized in  
the womanly  character resulting from a 
reception of the truth as it is in      
,jesus1  and by doing the will of ,god  
on the earth4    ,thus he severed the   
tie binding him to family1 and          
proclaimed himself  the ,son of ,man1   
and the ,son of ,god1 the ,brother of   
the ,faithful4 ,from  this declaration  
came the brotherhood and sisterhood of  
the church  of ,christ1 so that no      
matter what be the rank or position of  
the  worldling redeemed by the blood of 
,christ1 he becomes an equal            
shareholder in love1 and is recognized  
as a partaker in the fellowship  of the 
church4    ,at the cross we find ,mary  
standing with others4 ,when ,jesus      
therefore  saw his mother and the       
disciple standing by whom he loved1 he  
saith  unto his mother1 ,woman1 behold  
thy son4 ,then saith he to the          

disciple1 ,behold thy mother4 ,and from 
that hour the disciple took  her unto   
his own house4 ,once more she appeal's  
as worshipper1 and not  as the          
worshipped4 ,her name is mentioned1 with
 others1 in ,acts i4 #ad1  as being with
 the disciples in the ,pentecostal      
chamber waiting for the  descent of the 
,holy ,spirit4    ,from this scriptural 
testimony1 it is apparent that the      
,saviour1 by  his conduct towards his   
mother1 shielded the church from the    
curse of  ,mariolatry4 ,had he yielded  
in one instance1 reasons for supporting 
the  claims of ,romanism had been       
furnished4 ,mary was only a woman4 ,she 
was  honored of ,god just as far as she 
served ,god1 and when she turned  aside 
she was no more than any other person4  
,her perceptions of  ,christ's work were
 not as distinct or comprehensive as    
were those of  ,mary the sister of      
,lazarus1 or of ,mary ,magdalene4 ,in   
this ,mary was not  peculiar4 ,very     
frequently women associated with great  

workers fail to  appreciate the         
character of the work committed to them 
to do4 ,to the  world a worker may seem 
to be a wonder4 ,to the one most        
intimately  associated with him he is a 
very ordinary individual4 ,it is said a 
man  is never a hero to his servant4 ,is
 it not almost as true of his wife8  ,a 
living great man is ordinary in so many 
things in his daily life1  that the wife
 forgets his greatness4 ,the wife of    
,john ,milton saw but a  blind man in   
the bard1 dwelling upon his immortal    
thought and evolving  his world-renowned
 poem4 ,as the eagle stirs up her nest1 
compelling  her broodlings to exert     
themselves1 so ,god sometimes suffers a 
good  man to link his fortunes with a   
woman who is ill-mated with him in      
every way4 ,in the light of the fact    
that ,jesus found little or  no         
appreciation in the society of ,mary1   
and sought the home-joys  elsewhere1    
woman ought to learn a lesson4 ,is it   
not possible that you  mistake your     

mission1 and strike the rock of         
stumbling in your home1  rather than    
avoid it by ignoring that which is grand
 and admirable in  the life of him with 
whom you are associated8 ,doubtless in a
 busy man1  now full of joy1 and now    
morose2 now engrossed by a thought or   
scheme  to such an extent that he       
forgets himself and his family1 and now 
idle  and listless as a boy1--it may be 
hard1 yet it is none the less a duty    
for woman to love him for what he is1   
and to see to it that he be  ministered 
unto in his efforts4 ,o1 how dear to the
 heart of a working  man--no matter     
whether he toil with brain or hand--who 
feels that his  wife understands him1   
defends and protects him1 and keeps the 
home  bright with love1 though tempests 
may sweep across the path that leads    
him into the world6 ,there is a lesson  
here which belongs to men4  ,mary's lack
 of appreciation did not turn ,jesus    
from his work4 ,it  permitted his true  
character to appear to better advantage4

 ,it tore  down the scaffolding of      
,mariolatry1 and permitted the ,god-man 
to  stand forth in his grand            
proportions4 ,wist ye not ,i must be    
about  my ,father's business8 said      
,jesus4 ,many men make trouble at home  
an  excuse for going to the bad4 ,it is 
not an excuse4 ,the design of home      
trouble may be to send a man to ,jesus2 
to make the tendrils of love  twine     
about the heavenly rather than the      
earthly4 ,it surely is not to  induce a 
man to twine his affections about the   
devilish and earthly4  ,it is not manly 
thus to do4    ,man moves in three      
circles4 ,the first is that of ,self2   
the second  that of ,family2 the third  
that of ,country4 ,a man who properly   
performs  duties that pertain to        
himself1 we shall not call noble4 ,by   
neglecting  family he becomes less than 
a man4 ,by performing them never so well
  he comes not to merit applause4       
,distinctive nobleness begins with the  
third class4 ,it is when he rises above 

self and family1 when he looks  abroad  
on the family of mankind1 that he takes 
the altitude which in  a man is         
distinctively great2 when he feels no   
longer the little  necessities which    
compel1 or the little pleasures which   
allure1 and  yet is able to contemplate 
men as a great brotherhood of immortals1
  with a gaze analogous to ,him in whose
 image he is made2 when he can  look on 
the world through the light of eternity1
 and is willing to  suffer all things1  
and to endure all things1 that by him   
and through  him blessings may reach    
others1--then it is he does that which  
it is  the high privilege of man on this
 earth to do1 and becomes a power to    
which under ,god humanity owes all it   
has achieved in time4 ,i serve  is the  
law of the living forces of mankind4    
,each man and woman has  a place4 ,if   
they fill it1 they furnish a channel    
along which ,god's  beneficent purposes 
find their way to a lost world4 ,if they
 do not  fill it1 they are set aside1   

and the verdict of the world is1 ,served
  them right4    ,it if surprising that1
 after ,mary had been rebuked at ,cana  
of ,galilee1  that she should have      
presumed to have interrupted ,jesus in  
the  presence of the multitude4 ,it is  
instructive that ,christ taught us  that
 the tie binding us to ,god and to      
humanity1 is the most sacred  of all2   
for while it made the ,god-man a brother
 to us1 it makes us  co-workers with    
,god in carrying forward the enterprises
 with which men  are identified on the  
earth4 ,when a man is true to self1 to  
humanity1  and to ,god1 and so girds    
himself with the strength arising from  
confidence1 he deserves the support1 if 
not the admiration1 of those  with whom 
he is associated4 ,it was unworthy of   
,mary to ignore the  ,divine origin of  
,jesus1 and call ,joseph his father     
before the elders4  ,she thought to     
raise herself by lowering him4 ,he would
 not be lowered4  ,by his mother and by 
the world he knew that he had a right to

 be  recognized as the ,son of ,god4    
,this tendency to belittle greatness    
lives yet4 ,men are seldom known until  
they die4 ,we praise the dead and       
ignore the living1 as a rule4 ,there is 
too little respect shown to men         
occupying positions of public trust4    
,there is too little respect shown  in  
the household4 ,the father and mother   
are not honored in the home as  they    
deserve to be1 and in the state the same
 principle rules4 ,thou  shall not speak
 evil of the ruler of thy people1 is an 
apostolic  precept1 and the command1    
,honor thy father and thy mother1 was   
repeatedly reiterated by ,christ4    ,it
 is a significant fact1 that ,eve was   
led astray by ,satan in the  same       
direction that was ,mary4 ,mariolatry is
 only the outgrowth of the  seedling    
that lay dormant in ,mary's heart1 and  
is indigenous4 ,it is  not natural for  
us to be contented with being used as an
 instrument  for glorifying ,god4 ,we   
desire to be honored1 as something more 

than an  instrument4 ,in fact1 it is    
true1 that all are1 no matter what their
  powers or capacities1                 
instrumentalities employed of ,god for  
distinct  purposes4 ,against this power 
we revolt and are thrust aside4 ,the    
really great delight to recognize this  
truth1 and their prayer is1  ,use me for
 thy glory and for the world's          
advantage4    ,another truth            
incidentally appears1 and furnishes the 
root of  ,mariolatry4 ,we come to appear
 to the world what we really are4 ,mary 
was tempted to place herself above      
,christ1 and so we are not surprised    
that those who have turned against      
,christ should join the tempter in      
placing ,mary above her ,son4 ,the      
refutation is the life of ,christ1  who 
died for man1 and the life of ,mary1 who
 never forgot herself in  thinking of   
others4 ,the triumph of ,mary was won by
 submission4 ,had she  revolted against 
,christ1 she had lost all4 ,in the      
,first ,epistle of  ,paul to the        

,corinthians1 the apostle speaks of the 
glory of the women  as of a thing       
distinct from the glory of the men4     
,they are the two  opposite poles of the
 sphere of humanity4 ,their provinces   
are not  the same1 but different4 ,the  
qualities which are beautiful when      
predominant in one are not beautiful    
when predominant in the other4  ,that   
which is the glory of the one is not the
 glory of the other4 ,the  glory of true
 womanhood is a combination of various  
qualities1 many  of which were          
illustrated by the life of ,mary4 ,she  
was considerate of  others4 ,she was    
submissive4 ,as has been said1 ,in the  
very outset of  the ,bible1 submission  
is revealed as her peculiar lot and     
destiny4  ,if you were merely to look at
 the words as they stand declaring the  
results of the fall1 you would be       
inclined to call that vocation of       
obedience a curse but in the spirit of  
,christ it is transformed1 like  labor1 
into a blessing4 ,the origin or root of 

,mariolatry has been  accounted for in  
the following manner3 ,in all ,christian
 ages the  especial glory ascribed to   
the ,virgin ,mother is purity of heart  
and life4 ,gradually in the history of  
the ,christian church1 the  recognition 
of this became idolatry4 ,the works of  
early ,christian  art commonly exhibit  
the progress of this perversion4 ,they  
show how  ,mariolatry grew up4 ,the     
first pictures of the early ,christians 
simply  represent the woman4 ,by and by 
we find outlines of the mother and the  
child4 ,in an after age1 the ,son is    
seen sitting on a throne1 with the      
mother crowned1 but sitting1 as yet1    
below him4 ,in an age still later1  the 
crowned mother is on a level with the   
,son4 ,later still1 the mother  is on a 
throne above the ,son4 ,and1 lastly1 a  
,romish artist represents  the ,eternal 
,son1 in wrath1 about to destroy the    
earth1 and the ,virgin  ,intercessor    
interposing1 pleading by significant    
attitudes her  maternal rights1 and     

redeeming the world from his vengeance4 
,such was1  in fact1 the progress of    
virgin worship4    ,first1 the woman    
reverenced for the ,son's sake1 then the
 woman  reverenced above the ,son and   
adored4 ,this is the history4 ,to       
account  for it1 various theories have  
been advocated4 ,one1 assuming it as  a 
principle that no error has ever spread 
widely that was not the  exaggeration or
 perversion of a truth1 finds in the    
influence exerted  by ,christ the germ  
out of which ,mariolatry springs4 ,but  
surely nothing  could be farther from   
what ,christ taught4 ,by word1 by look1 
and by  action1 ,christ opposed the     
debasing and degrading thought4         
,mariolatry1  like idolatry1 is the     
outgrowth of the religion of nature4    
,the carnal  heart is at enmity with    
,god4 ,it prefers to worship something  
besides  ,god1 and so in the old        
dispensation it found its idol in the   
hero4  ,as the heathen counted for      
divine the legislative wisdom of the    

man1--manly strength1 manly truth1 manly
 justice1 manly courage1  ,hercules with
 his club1 ,jupiter with his            
thunderbolt1 so ,baal1  representing the
 primeval power of nature1 became the   
object of  idolatrous worship4 ,after   
,christ1 partly because of the new      
spirit  which pervaded the world1 and   
largely because the carnal heart1 ruled 
by ,satan1 is glad of any pretext to    
neglect ,christ1 ,mary1 the mother1     
became preferable to ,christ the ,son4  
,salvation depends upon faith in        
,christ4 ,whosoever believeth in the    
,son hath everlasting life4 ,for ,god   
so loved the world1 that he gave his    
only begotten ,son1 that whosoever      
believeth in him should not perish1 but 
have everlasting life4 ,this  being     
true1 a belief in ,mary as an           
intercessor is as sinful in ,god's      
sight1 and is as directly opposed to a  
faith in ,christ1 as was a  belief in   
,baal or ,jupiter4 ,by whatever means   
,satan induces men to  reject ,christ1  

he ruins them1 and destroys their hope  
of salvation4  ,satan induced ,eve to   
reject ,god1 to believe in him1 and to  
serve him4  ,there is no evidence that  
,mary would have consented to occupy the
  place to which an idolatrous world has
 raised her1 but ,satan cares not  for  
that1 so that he may work with all      
power1 and signs1 and lying  wonders1   
and with all deceivableness of          
unrighteousness in them that  perish4   
,the peril arising from the perversion's
 of biblical truth is  illustrated by   
the history of the diaconate as well as 
by the history  of the motherhood of    
,jesus4 ,the influences set in motion by
 the life  of ,christ deserve to be     
carefully pondered4 ,perverted1 they    
have  helped on error4 ,used and        
employed as ,christ designed them1 they 
are  subservient of the highest         
interests of society4 ,truly has it been
  said1 ,the life and the cross of      
,christ shed a splendor from heaven     
upon a new and till then unheard of     

order of heroism--that which may  be    
called the feminine order--meekness1    
endurance1 long-suffering1 the  passive 
strength of martyrdom4 ,for             
,christianity does not say1 ,honor  to  
the wise1 but1 ,blessed are the meek4   
,not ,glory to the strong1  but ,blessed
 are the pure in heart1 for they shall  
see ,god4 ,not the  ,lord is a man of   
war2 ,jehovah is his name1 but ,god is  
love4 ,in ,christ1  not intellect1 but  
love1 is glorified4 ,in ,christ is      
magnified1 not  force of will1 but the  
glory of a ,divine humility4 ,he was    
obedient  unto death1 even the death of 
the cross2 wherefore ,god hath also     
exalted ,him4 ,therefore it was1 that   
from that time forward1 woman  assumed a
 new place in the world4 ,it is not to  
mere civilization1 but  to the spirit of
 life in ,christ1 that woman owes all   
she has and all  she has yet to gain4   
,in ,christ1 manly and womanly          
characteristics were  united1 and were  
in equipoise4 ,he was not the ,son of   

the ,man1 but the  ,son of ,man4 ,it was
 not manhood1 but humanity1 that was    
made divine  in him4 ,humanity has its  
two sides3 one side in the strength and 
intellect of manhood2 the other in the  
tenderness and faith and  submission of 
womanhood2 man and woman1 the two halves
 of one thought1  make up human nature4 
,in ,christ1 not one alone1 but both    
were  glorified4 ,strength and ,grace1  
,wisdom and ,love1 ,courage and         
,purity1--,divine ,manliness1 ,divine   
,womanliness4 ,in all noble  characters1
 the two are blended2 in ,him--the      
noblest--blended into  one entire and   
perfect humanity4 ,the spirit which     
pervades the world  because of ,christ's
 coming1 and of the influence exerted by
 his  ,gospel1 opens to woman a faith   
which has been growing clearer and      
brighter for eighteen centuries4 ,by    
this we do not affirm or imply  that the
 coming of ,christ restored woman to the
 equality she enjoyed  in the morning of
 creation1 or that his coming removed   

the curse then  pronounced upon her4 ,if
 ,christ's coming removed a part of the 
curse1  then it must have removed all1  
which we know is false2 woman still has 
sorrow in child-bearing1 and man earns  
his daily bread by the sweat  of his    
brow4 ,christ's coming removed the      
disabilities from woman4 ,he  turned the
 attention of the world to feminine     
characteristics1 and  shed over them the
 halo of a divine light4 ,he brought the
 woman up  as he lowered the glory      
hitherto attached to characteristics    
distinctively manly4 ,where ,christ is  
loved1 the gladiator and  prize-fighter 
are despised1 and a meek and quiet      
spirit is honored4  ,the heart is the   
seat of power more than the intellect4  
,blessed are  the pure in heart1 rather 
than the great in intellect4 ,pureness  
rather  than strength is the ideal of   
the human heart1 since ,christ was      
slain4  ,while1 then1 it is true that   
the worship of ,mary is idolatry1 and   
that  the worship given to her is so    

much taken from ,christ1 we must not    
forget that the only glory of the       
,virgin was the glory of true           
womanhood4 ,the glory of true womanhood 
consists in being herself2 not  in      
striving to be something else4 ,it is   
the false paradox and heresy  of this   
present age to claim for her as a glory1
 the right to leave  her sphere4 ,her   
glory lies in her sphere1 and ,god has  
given her a  sphere distinct2 as in the 
,epistle to the ,church of ,corinth1    
when1 in  that wise chapter1 ,st4 ,paul 
rendered unto womanhood the things which
  were woman's1 and unto manhood the    
things which were man's4    ,mary's     
glory was not immaculate origin1 nor    
immaculate life1 nor  exaltation to     
,divine honors4 ,she has none of these  
things4 ,hers was  the glory of simple  
womanhood4 ,the glory of being true to  
the nature  assigned her by her ,maker1 
the glory of ,motherhood2 the glory of a
  meek and quiet spirit1 which is1 in   
the sight of ,god1 of great price4  ,for

 all women there is something nobler    
than to be recognized as the  queen of  
heaven4 ,let woman be content to be what
 ,god made her1 to fill  the sphere ,god
 appointed for her1 in unselfishness1   
and humbleness1  and purity1 rejoicing  
in ,god her ,saviour1 content that ,he  
had regarded  the lowliness of ,his     
handmaiden1 and rejoicing that ,god has 
honored  the characteristics regarded as
 feminine1 which she possesses1 and     
which she may use for the glory of ,god 
and the good of the race4  ,now1 as in  
the olden time1 it is her privilege to  
minister unto the  necessities of       
,jesus1 by cheerfully contributing of   
her substance  to the support of ,his   
cause1 and by lavishing her love1 upon  
those  qualities of the head and heart1 
which in ,christ appeared in perfected  
beauty1 and are to-day the charm of     
life1 the power of religion1 and  the   
glory of ,christianity4                 
,,woman',s ,,work ,,and ,,woman',s      
,,mission4      ,woman's work is a work 

of charity4 ,the fact points back to    
woman's  origin4 ,god brought her as a  
gift to man1 with characteristics and   
endowments which fitted her to be his   
helpmeet1 his counsellor1 and           
companion4 ,recall ,adam's position4 ,he
 was alone in the garden4 ,he  found no 
helper in the beasts4 ,he longed for a  
kindred spirit4 ,endowed  with a nature 
too communicative to be content with    
itself1 he requires  society1 a resting 
point1 a complement1 for he only half   
lives while  he lives alone4 ,made to   
speak1 to think1 to love1 his thought   
seeks  another thought to reveal and    
quicken itself2 his speech is lost      
sorrowfully in the air1 or only awakens 
an echo which reverberates it1  but     
cannot reply2 his love knows not where  
to fix itself1 and falling  back on     
itself1 threatens to become a barren    
egotism2 in short1 fill  his being      
aspires to another self1 but his other  
self does not exist4  ,at this time1    
when the desire for communion was       

stifling him1 he  slept1 and from his   
side ,god took a rib and made woman1 and
 brought  her to him4 ,behold ,adam4 ,he
 sees her1 and is in rapture4           
,grace was in all her steps1 heaven in  
her eye1    ,in every gesture dignity   
and love4    ,milton describes ,adam as 
saying--      ,i now see    ,bone of my 
bone1 flesh of my flesh1 myself         
,before me2 ,woman is her name1 of man  
,extracted3 for this cause he shall     
forego    ,father and mother1 and to his
 wife adhere2    ,and they shall be one 
flesh1 one heart1 one soul4    ,the     
imagination paints this scene4 ,in fancy
 we behold ,adam winning  ,eve1 for she 
would be wooed1 and not unsought be won4
 ,won she was1  and ,adam was brought to
 the sum of earthly bliss4 ,they dwell  
together  in sweet accord1 ,adam fears  
for her safety when apart from him4     
,evil  threatens them4 ,together they   
would be strong1 he thinks1 apart they  
would be weak1 and so in fear he speaks 
of the enemy lurking in the  garden1 and

 seeking to find them asunder4          
,hopeless to circumvent us joined1 where
 each    ,to other speedy aid might lend
 at need2    ,whether his first design  
be to withdraw    ,our fealty from ,god1
 or to disturb    ,conjugal love1 than  
which1 perhaps1 no bliss    ,enjoyed by 
us excites his envy more2    ,or this or
 worse1 leave not the faithful side     
,that gave thee being1 still shades thee
 and protects4    ,the wife1 where      
danger or dishonor lurks1    ,safest and
 seemliest by her husband stays1    ,who
 guards her1 or with her the worst      
endures4    ,eve resents the imputation 
of weakness1 and insists on being left  
forever fancy free to roam at will4 ,in 
self-confidence she goes forth  and     
falls1 and in falling introduces sin    
into the world4    ,let us review the   
past1 and recall a few facts which1     
deserve  consideration1 before we enter 
upon the contemplation of ,woman's ,work
  and ,woman's ,mission4 ,it will not be
 denied that ,eve was created to be  a  

helpmeet4 ,that ,satan tempted her1 and 
converted the helpmeet into a  tempter4 
,in that light we have considered her   
power4 ,we have seen that  ,eve1 in     
bringing ruin to man1 turned her back   
upon the ,creator and  ,preserver of    
mankind1 and paved the way for the      
introduction of  idolatry1 the shadows  
of whose multiplying altars shrouded the
 old  world in the gloom of night4 ,from
 the ruin of ,eve to the restoration  in
 ,mary1 the history of this world       
resembles a deep valley filled with     
death and sorrow and gloom4 ,in ,adam   
all died1 in ,christ all shall be  made 
alive4 ,bethlehem with its manger is set
 over against ,eden with  its bower4    
,during that old dispensation1 manly    
qualities were honored  and womanly     
qualities were ignored4 ,the effects of 
sin are seen4 ,god  doth not hold       
guiltless the sinner4 ,the consequences 
of sin run on4  ,they made woman's life 
wretched4 ,they changed the helpmeet    
into a  slave4 ,do not rebel1 woman1 at 

the utterance1 nor suffer yourself to   
feel that ,god does not care for woman1 
or that he willingly afflicts  her4     
,it is at this point you do well to     
survey the field4 ,we know that  ,god's 
purposes run on4 ,that ,god was not and 
will not be defeated4 ,that  the plan   
formed in the councils of eternity is   
sure to be successfully  executed4      
,hence ,god's idea of woman is yet to   
bless the world4 ,what sin  destroyed   
,christ came to restore1 and more than  
to restore4 ,in heaven  if not on earth 
we shall see woman as ,god made her1 and
 as ,god  glorified her4 ,this brings us
 to the consideration of what ,christ   
did  for her4 ,he did not permit ,mary  
to become ,intercessor1 and so give a   
sanction to ,mariolatry1 which in evil  
is second only to idolatry4  ,he did not
 lift woman to the position of ruler1   
nor did he give any  sanction to the    
wild vagaries of the ,christless ones1  
who are striving  to overturn the       
foundations of society1 and who rebel   

against  motherhood1 wifehood1 and      
sisterhood2 but he did turn the         
attention  of the world towards the     
graces of womanhood1 and while he turned
 his  back upon those manly qualities of
 labor1 of pluck1 of brute courage1  he 
turned his face towards meekness1       
gentleness1 and love1 and made  the     
vales of life to blossom with a new     
beauty4 ,he welcomed woman as a         
companion4 ,he sought her for sympathy's
 sake1 and opened his heart to  her in  
the fullest confidence4    ,let us      
notice this truth4 ,in making woman's   
work a work of charity1 he  continued in
 the ,new ,dispensation the work which  
was commenced in the  ,old4 ,he lifted  
the thread where woman broke it1 and    
reuniting it again  sent her forth into 
the world to bless it with love1 with   
sympathy1  with ministrations of        
tenderness1 with an elevating           
companionship1  which makes man worthy  
of his origin1 and helps him to fulfil  
the  mission of ,god's anointed4    ,and

 though ,satan has taken this new       
thought and perverted it1 as he  has    
perverted all the rest1 and though he   
has employed the ,church of  ,rome1 by  
organizing women into orders and        
sisterhoods of charity1 so  that woman  
may again be enslaved and destroyed2    
though the story of  her confinement in 
nunneries and establishments little     
better in form  than prisons1 and far   
more cruel in character1 has been       
written1 let  us not be discouraged1 but
 believing that ,christ's plan is best1 
let  us learn what his will is1 and then
 let us do it in the fear of ,god  and  
in the love of truth1 assured that his  
ways are higher and better  and grander 
than ours1 and that it is safe to trust 
,god even where  we cannot trace him1   
remembering that he doeth great things1 
past  finding out2 yea1 and wonders     
without number4    ,in considering      
,woman's ,work and ,woman's ,mission1 we
 discover that they  go hand in hand1   
and faith is the bond which unites them4

 ,separate  woman's work from her       
mission1 and you divorce it from that   
which  makes it honorable and           
praiseworthy4 ,it is the spirit of      
faith1 and  love1 and hope1 and charity1
 which pervades the life of the true    
woman1 that is her glory and her praise4
 ,the difference between woman  as a    
drudge and woman as a helpmeet1         
describes the relation existing  between
 her work and her mission4 ,work        
separated from this path of  faith1     
love1 and charity1 becomes unholy to the
 world and unbearable  to her4 ,the     
holiest of all work for a mother is to  
care for her child4  ,that child1 so    
helpless now1 is to reward her by acts  
of love and  deeds of valor4 ,take away 
from woman her faith1 let her feel that 
her  work is a degradation1 and there is
 nothing more beautiful in her          
attentions to a child than there would  
be in her attentions to a pig4    ,when 
in the country the children and their   
parents were floating in a  little boat 

on a river's surface1 they admired the  
lilies with their  white leaves spread  
out on the wave4 ,after they had looked 
upon the  flower1 ,i asked them to      
observe the roots1 and see in what they 
were embedded4 ,they replied1 ,the roots
 are in the mud4 ,that lily  illustrates
 truthfully the spiritual character of  
woman's work4 ,though  her life may be  
passed in drudgery1 yet the flower of   
her life is  seen in the neatness1      
beauty1 and comfort of the home1 and her
 joy  is derived from the commendation  
received by her diligence and toil4     
,truly has the poet told1 in this homely
 way1 how    ,,love ,,lightens ,,labor4 
,a good wife rose from her bed one morn1
      ,and thought1 with a nervous      
dread1    ,of the piles of clothes to be
 washed1 and more      ,than a dozen    
mouths to be fed4    ,there were meals  
to be got for the men in the field1     
,and the children to fix away    ,to    
school1 and the milk to be skimmed and  
churned2      ,and all to be done that  

day4      ,it had rained in the night1  
and all the wood      ,was wet as it    
could be1    ,and there were pudding and
 pies to bake1      ,and a loaf of cake 
for tea4    ,the day was hot1 and her   
aching head      ,throbbed wearily as   
she said--    ,if maidens but knew what 
good wives know1      ,they would1 be in
 no hurry to wed4      ,jennie1 what do 
you think ,i told ,ben ,brown8          
,called the farmer from the well2       
,and a flush crept up to his bronzed    
brow1      ,and his eye half bashfully  
fell2    ,it was this1 he said1 and     
coming near1      ,he smiled1 and       
stooping down1    ,kissed her           
cheek--'twas this1 that you were the    
best      ,and dearest wife in town6    
,the farmer went back to the field1 and 
the wife1        ,in a smiling and      
absent way1    ,sang snatches of tender 
little songs        ,she'd not sung for 
many a day4    ,and the pain in her head
 was gone1 and the clothes        ,were 
white as foam of the sea2    ,her bread 

was light1 and her butter was sweet1    
,and golden as it could be4      ,just  
think1 the children all called in a     
breath1        ,tom ,wood has run off to
 sea6    ,he wouldn't1 ,i know1 if he   
only had        ,as happy a home as we4 
,the night came down1 and the good wife 
smiled    ,to herself1 as she softly    
said1    ',tis sweet to labor for those 
we love--        ',tis not strange that 
maids will wed6    ,there is a glory in 
motherhood which robes woman in beauty1 
and fills  the home with the light of   
heaven4 ,the mother1 busy with her      
cares1  and attending to the wants of   
her children1 is honored wherever       
,christ  is loved4    ,now1 because the 
world links woman's work and mission    
together1  the world is full of pictures
 of the mother and the child4 ,to a     
true-hearted man1 it is almost          
impossible to find any picture to which 
his nature turns with fonder delight    
than to that of a mother with  a child  
sleeping on the breast1 full of sweet   

trust and enjoying a  dreamless repose1 
or being ministered to in his nude state
 in the  morning bath4 ,the spiritual   
covers the common with a halo of glory1 
and robes woman in the light of love4   
,the same is true of the housewife4 ,in 
the daily routine of duty1 which  is    
essential to the comfort and bliss of   
home life1 there is nothing  very       
attractive in the ordinary occupations  
of the home4 ,let a woman  attempt the  
task with no outlook1 with no hope4 ,let
 her do it for so  much money1 and      
nothing more1 and she becomes morose1   
discontented1  sad and cheerless4 ,let  
her do this for love4 ,let her feel that
 she is  contributing to some one's joy1
 or that she is to use the money earned 
for some worthy purpose1 and at once the
 loftiness of her purpose  sanctifies   
her deed1 and renders that which would  
have been  unbecoming1 if done without a
 motive1 right and noble when performed 
under the pressure of a great and noble 
aspiration1 for 'tis sweet to  labor for

 those we love4    ,woman's work is     
defined by her ,creator to be a work of 
charity4 ,she is  a helpmeet4 ,a gift   
she came to man4 ,her life is a constant
 giving up  of rights and privileges for
 the happiness of others4 ,she waits on 
man  not for pay1 but for love4 ,she    
ministers to him in sickness and in     
health4 ,it is not the deed1 but the    
spirit which sanctifies the deed1  that 
makes it lovely4 ,compel her by force1  
by fear1 or by rewards1 to  do what she 
performs because of love1 and you       
destroy all the beauty  of the action1  
and convert the ministering angel into a
 menial1 the  ,god-appointed woman into 
a brutalized slave4 ,god made her a     
gift1 and  the law of her life is in    
giving4 ,she fulfils the functions of   
her  life by living in harmony with the 
law of love4 ,the woman1 described  with
 such inexpressible tenderness by ,luke 
7vii4 #cg-ej71 attracts  attention by   
this feature4 ,she came to ,christ while
 he was reclining  at table4 ,she had   

sinned4 ,still she loved4 ,here were    
,christ's feet  hanging over the table's
 edge1 while ,christ reclined4 ,as he   
was  talking1 behold this woman bending 
over them1 her hot tears raining  on    
them1 and she busy wiping off the       
tear-drops with her hair1 and  kissing  
them1 anointed them with costly         
ointment4 ,she loved1 and  therefore    
evidenced it by deeds4 ,her love1       
blossoming into action1  won ,christ4   
,he saw that she loved4 ,perhaps love   
had led her astray at  first4 ,no       
matter4 ,love she possessed1 and love   
she desired to lavish  on some object   
worthy of her regard4 ,that object she  
discovered in  ,jesus4 ,she took her    
alabaster-box of precious ointment1 and 
went after  him4 ,she enters the        
,pharisee's house2 it may have been the 
house where  she had fallen4 ,the       
,pharisee seemed to know her character1 
and so he  said1 ,this man1 if he were a
 prophet1 would have known who and what 
manner of woman this is that toucheth   

him1 for she is a sinner4  ,christ did  
not at once recognize the suspicion1 but
 supposing the case  of the two debtors1
 and having obtained from ,simon the    
declaration1  that the one would love   
most who was forgiven most1 turned upon 
him  the force of the logic1 by saying1 
,seest thou this woman8 ,i entered  into
 thine house1 thou gavest me no water   
for my feet1 but she both  washed my    
feet with tears1 and wiped them with the
 hairs of her head4  ,thou gavest me no 
kiss2 but this woman1 since the time ,i 
came1 hath  not ceased to kiss my feet4 
,my head with oil thou didst not anoint2
  but this woman hath anointed my feet  
with ointment4 ,and he said to the      
woman1 ,thy faith hath saved thee2 go in
 peace4    ,let woman's work be regarded
 as a work of charity by man1 and the   
larger portion of women will be         
satisfied4 ,the servant finds pleasure  
in service1 when the obligation is      
recognized as a debt not to be paid  for
 in money4    ,no wife would do what she

 is compelled to perform1 or suffer what
 she  is compelled to endure1 for her   
board and clothes4 ,it is when man      
refuses to give her more than these1 she
 revolts4 ,man never won woman  to leave
 her single life and her home comforts  
to enter his house as a  helpmeet by a  
consideration of the work to be done4   
,it was not in the  contract4 ,he talked
 then of love1 of companionship1 of     
help4 ,the other  was in the bond by    
mutual consent1 but it was regarded as  
beneath  their notice to talk about it4 
,her nature yearned for love1 and lives 
on love4    ,now1 when a man forgets    
that love1 companionship1 and the       
thousand  attentions which sweeten and  
brighten life1 are due to his wife1 and 
when he lifts up the drudgery and the   
slavery of life into prominence1  and   
tells her that she is only fitted to    
hold a menial place1 he  insults1 if he 
does not destroy the woman1 and degrades
 himself4 ,on  the other hand1 let a    
woman refuse to be influenced by this   

law of  charity1 and she becomes a curse
 instead of a blessing1 a hinderance    
instead of a helpmeet4    ,it is a very 
common complaint that a good servant is 
difficult to  find4 ,some are slovenly1 
some are dishonest1 while those who are 
both  able and truthful1 are pronounced 
intolerable1 frequently because of      
their impertinence4 ,all can understand 
the reason4 ,the servant has no         
interest in her employer who refuses to 
give anything4 ,the servant  works for  
so much money4 ,as to rights1           
privileges1 and perquisites1  it is not 
unfrequently either a battle or a sort  
of armed treaty  between kitchen and    
parlor4 ,many will admit this1 and will 
forget or  ignore the cause4 ,listen to 
the servants' story1 and you will find  
them complaining of the stinginess1 or  
tyranny1 or selfishness of the          
employer4    ,let the law of charity    
rule both employer and employed1 and    
behold the  change4 ,the mistress       
recognizes her weight of obligation to a

 good  and faithful domestic4 ,she feels
 that her services are beyond price1    
invaluable to her4 ,the effect is seen  
at once4 ,the sluggish step is          
quickened4 ,love takes the place of     
indifference if not of dislike1 and  the
 relations of friendship are at once    
recognized4 ,no mistress has a  right to
 expect that her servants will be bound 
to her by the ties of  friendship1 if   
she manifest no friendly feeling for    
them2 or that they  will become devoted 
to her interests1 if she take no        
interest in their  welfare4 ,the law of 
mutual dependence must be recognized and
 obeyed4  ,god is love4 ,god loves4     
,therefore1 it is a pleasure to love and
 serve  ,god4 ,it is a pleasure to serve
 whoever is appreciative and lovable4   
,it  is a task to serve those who are   
unappreciative and unlovable4 ,at the   
same time a ,christian servant has no   
right to slight her work1 or be         
unfaithful1 because of the harshness or 
unkindness of her employer4  ,live for  

,god1 and serve ,christ in serving well 
those by whom you are  employed1 and you
 will not lose your reward on earth nor 
in heaven4  ,trusty and true1 your      
services will become of immense         
importance1 and  doors to usefulness    
will open before you because of the     
superintending  care of ,him who is too 
wise to err and too good to be unkind4  
,let not  woman dislike the term service
 or servant4 ,christ honored it by      
becoming the servant of all1 and made it
 honorable by commanding that  he who   
would be chief must serve1 and by his   
service rise4    ,woman sometimes       
revolts because her work is classed     
under the head  of domestic1 and yet    
this is the chief characteristic that   
must  distinguish it4 ,that is1 her work
 must have a look homeward1 whether  she
 toils in the store or factory or       
printing-office or kitchen4  ,somehow   
the stream of love must sing as it goes 
babbling by1 ,home1  home1 there is no  
place like home1 else woman fails in her

 life-work4    ,her education must fit  
her for a home and for home work4 ,let a
 man  learn that he married a toy1 a    
plaything1 a lay figure1 useful only    
for the purposes of exhibiting his taste
 in jewelry and dress1 who  desires to  
be petted and fondled1 to be caressed   
and flattered1 but  who is incapable of 
doing anything to contribute to his     
happiness at  home or to his influence  
abroad1 and he comes to feel that she is
  an encumbrance4 ,if he clings to the  
old love1 and cherishes the old         
conviction1 he learns to treat his wife 
as a plaything1 and to forget  her as a 
helpmeet4 ,he thinks of her as of a toy1
 which may be used or  cast aside at    
pleasure4 ,she knows and feels the lack 
of his love4 ,if  she becomes           
dissatisfied1 and refuses to make the   
effort to become a  helpful wife and a  
loving companion1 or to be influenced by
 the law  of charity2 if she determines 
to seek happiness in obtaining the      
admiration of others1 which once        

unwittingly came from her husband2  then
 is she probably ruined1 and becomes a  
body of death fastened to  one who looks
 forward to the grave as a refuge and a 
release1 or who  finds in the society of
 other women that pleasure which is     
denied him  at home4 ,perhaps nothing is
 more disgusting than to see an empty   
brain  hidden behind a pretty face1 or  
an empty heart concealed beneath  costly
 drapery4 ,a woman who is handsome and  
is illiterate1 who is  incapable of     
speaking entertainingly1 is far more    
homely than a plain  face in front of a 
well cultivated intellect2 and a plain  
dressed  woman1 with a heart full of    
love1 is to be preferred to a splendidly
  dressed form which is destitute of    
soul4 ,jewels1 laces1 and silks are  not
 a fit dress for a corpse1 and yet a    
heartless woman is to a man  who knows  
her as soulless as an inanimate body    
coffined for the tomb4  ,having thus    
briefly considered the necessity of     
linking woman's work  and mission       

together1 let us define her work1 and   
consider what is her  mission4    ,woman
 has work to do4 ,though idleness does  
not destroy her as it does  a man1 yet  
it does not become her4 ,merely to      
display her charms for  the admiration  
of others cannot be the destiny of one  
created with a  woman's hand and head1  
and endowed with woman's soul4 ,from the
 nature  of the case1 her work should be
 womanly in its character2 that which   
is within doors rather than without2    
which belongs to the ornamental  rather 
than to the mechanical4 ,there is no    
sense in woman's working in  the field  
while man measures tapes or counts      
thimbles1 or in his doing  other in-door
 work for which woman's light touch     
renders her better  qualified4 ,when we 
look at women who have become coarse in 
the  expression of their features1 and  
ungainly in form and movement1  through 
the weight of their daily toil1 we see  
the folly of those who  would make the  
woman the equal1 or the rival1 instead  

of the helpmeet  of man2 and feel       
indignation that1 since many of our     
women must earn  their own livelihood1  
we have not a more natural division of  
labor1  which would assign to man the   
heavier1 and to woman the lighter  kinds
 of work4 ,as woman's faith blesses as  
well as saves her2 it is  essential that
 her work be linked in some way to the  
exercise of  faith1 and to the unfolding
 of love4 ,for the character of the work
  exerts an influence upon woman's body 
as well as upon her soul4 ,if  you will 
contrast the looks of a happy housewife 
or domestic with the  looks of a        
majority of the faces that are seen in  
factories1 the truth  of the position   
taken will be abundantly sustained4 ,it 
matters not so  much where the roots of 
woman's life-work grow1 if up through it
 all1  and above it all1 the vine may   
twine its tendril1 and send forth its   
flower1 and yield its fruit4 ,for this  
cause the love of ,christ and  the hopes
 of a ,christian life seem so essential 

to her growth and  development1 that it 
is almost impossible to write of a      
happy1  contented woman1 without        
describing a woman whose faith in ,jesus
 has  regenerated and disinthralled her4
 ,love is the prime requisite to        
successful endeavor on a woman's part to
 be her husband's true  helpmeet2 and   
so1 in discharging the duties incident  
to a life of  toil1 woman must be       
soothed and sustained in her tasks by   
the joys of  a ,christian life4 ,hence  
the ruin wrought in shops and factories1
 in  stores1 and homes where ,christ is 
cast out1 and where the bliss of  high  
and holy living is denied4    ,woman's  
mission is to be inferred from a        
consideration of the wants of  man4     
,created to be a helpmeet for man1 it is
 essential1 if we would  determine her  
mission1 that we ascertain for what     
purpose man needs  her influence4       
,god declared1 ,it is not good for man  
to be alone1 and woman was  brought to  
him as a companion1 to charm his life1  

to prolong it by  sharing it with him4  
,her vocation1 by birth1 is a vocation  
of love4 ,to  be his helpmeet1 not his  
rival2 not to increase1 but to lighten1 
or to  support him1 under his cares2 to 
recognize him as the immediate object   
of her existence1 instead of fancying   
that he was formed to wait on  her2 this
 is the end for which ,god has called   
her into being4 ,as has  been said1     
,this representation may not satisfy the
 ambition of some1  who do but degrade  
themselves by aspiring to occupy a      
position for  which they are neither    
intended by ,god nor qualified by       
nature1--even  as men and angels fell   
when they sought to become as gods1--but
 in  reality it tends to woman's        
elevation2 and1 as the whole history of 
,christianity doth show1 where its truth
 is most recognized and relied  upon1   
there woman is happiest and greatest4   
,the word mission1 as applied to woman1 
refers to the purpose for  which she was
 created and brought to man4 ,in        

considering her mission1  we are safe in
 avowing that woman found her mission1  
#a4 ,at home4  ,her mission is in the   
home4 ,her training must fit her for the
 home1  whether she serves as a wife or 
as a domestic4 ,her life is a success   
when she makes home a pleasure and a joy
 to those to whom the home  properly    
belongs4 ,it is for this reason that    
there is deep concern on  the part of   
many thoughtful minds because the drift 
of the times is  against educating women
 for the home4 ,of the women who are    
compelled  to earn their own subsistence
 many prefer the factory and the store  
to  the work in the family1 and1 as a   
result1 there are large numbers of      
young women who cannot make a loaf of   
bread or cook a meal1 who would  not    
hesitate to become wives of working-men1
 who expect to find in  them a helpmeet 
in building a home like that which      
blessed their  childhood4 ,the result is
 dissatisfaction and recrimination1     
leaving  the wife for the club1 and     

turning from the joys of the home to the
  revel of jovial companions4    ,the   
same is true of the class of young      
ladies who know something of  music1    
vocal and instrumental4 ,they can dance4
 ,they have studied  drawing            
sufficiently to be able to sketch a few 
flowers and figures4  ,perhaps they can 
speak ,french and translate ,german4    
,they know in what  position to sit1 and
 how to move gracefully4 ,all very well 
these  things in their places1 and      
fitted to increase the charm of manner  
when the eyes are lighted up by the     
informing soul2 not undeserving  notice 
either in their influence upon man1 when
 they are accompanied  by something     
better1 for1 amid all the weighty cares 
of life1 he  is sometimes in the mood   
when such things do please2 but sadly   
over-estimated when they are made the   
sole substance and end of a  woman's    
education4 ,they might nearly all be    
done by a being without  a soul4 ,they  
do nothing to draw out the noble        

qualities of her deep  womanly nature4  
,they leave her altogether unfitted for 
her peculiar  mission of a wife and     
mother4    ,now1 there are times when a 
woman1 despite her imperfect education1 
acquires after marriage the knowledge   
which fits her for the duties           
appertaining to wifehood4 ,but where    
nature yields to such training1  the    
woman fails both in filling her sphere  
and in fulfilling her  mission1 and     
falls beneath her true position as the  
helpmeet of man4  ,how bitter his       
disappointment1 who1 having been smitten
 by these  gewgaw attractions1 and      
having put faith in the mother of the   
child  that with this outward attraction
 she had corresponding qualifications   
to fill the home with helpful counsel   
and sustaining sympathy1 when he  comes 
to find that1 instead of a wife1 he has 
married a plaything1  and that his      
children are being committed to the care
 of a helpless1  unformed companion1    
rather than to the guidance of a true   

and noble  wife4    ,a proper conception
 of woman's mission as the helpmeet of  
man would  tend greatly to her          
elevation4 ,a man who knows for what    
woman has been  made1 and what advantage
 he should look for from the woman whom 
he  calls wife1 will not select a mere  
toy as the partner of his life2 and     
when woman properly recognizes her      
place1 mothers will not be content  to  
give their daughters1 nor will daughters
 be ambitious1 or even  content to      
receive only such a training as fits    
them for amusing or  pleasing man in his
 playful hours1 but leaves them         
altogether unfit  to be his companion   
under the weightier cares and graver    
concerns of  life4    ,let it be        
understood that woman's life and labor1 
mission and work1  point ever homeward1 
and whether she serve in the store or   
shop1  in the factory or in the home1   
she will be ready1 whenever ,god's      
providence opens the way1 to make home  
bright for another1 because it  has been

 made bright for herself4 ,in her       
reading1 in her planning1 in  her waking
 dreams and in her night visions1 let   
her live to make  her own home joyous1  
and she will not live in vain4 ,to do   
this  successfully in the future1 she   
must make home bright and beautiful in  
the present4 ,it is the girl1 whose hand
 is skilful in the home1 who  is prized 
as a companion1 because of the          
substantial linked with  the ornamental4
 ,the same is true of a man4 ,talent1   
genius even1 is  valueless unless it can
 earn bread4 ,there must be something to
 make  home pleasant with1 which it is  
the duty of man to provide1 else woman  
finds it hard to do her work or fulfil  
her mission4 ,this does not  disparage  
woman4 ,her intellect should not be     
regarded as inferior to  man's because  
it differs from his4 ,her mind is formed
 for a distinct  work and sphere1 just  
as truly as is her body4 ,in that sphere
 she  is endowed with faculties superior
 to that of man4 ,here she has her      

requital3 here she proves herself       
mistress of the field1 and employs      
those secret resources which might be   
termed admirable1 if they did  not      
inspire a more tender sentiment1 both   
towards her1 and towards  ,god1 who has 
so richly endowed her4 ,her practical   
survey1 equally  sure and rapid2 her    
quick and accurate perception2 her      
wonderful power  of penetrating the     
heart in a way unknown and impracticable
 to man2  her never-failing presence of 
mind1 and personal attention on all     
occasions2 her numerous and fertile     
resources in the management of her      
domestic affairs2 her ever ready access 
and willing audience to all  who need   
her2 her freedom of thought and action  
in the midst of  the most agonizing     
sufferings and accumulated              
embarrassments2 her  elasticity1--may ,i
 say her perseverance1--in spite of     
feebleness2 her  tact to practise it1   
were it not instinctive2 her extreme    
perfection  in little things2 444 her   

incomparable skill in re-awakening a    
sleeping conscience1 in re-opening a    
heart that has long been closed2  in    
fine1 innumerable are the things which  
she accomplishes1 and which  man can    
neither discern nor offset without the  
aid of her eye and  hand4 ,thus1        
mentally as well as physically1 is she  
predestined for a  work and sphere      
different from those of her stronger    
companions4 ,and1  as everything is     
beautiful in its place and season1 so is
 woman most  beautiful and useful when1 
like a modest flower1 she blooms in  the
 privacy for which her nature fits her1 
and perfumes1 with the  fragrance of her
 character1 the hallowed precincts of   
home4,a ,no  man1 says ,mr4 ,jay1 was   
ever proof against the kindness of a    
sensible  woman2 but where1 in all      
history1 can an instance be produced in 
which  an ascendency over him has been  
obtained by forwardness1 scolding1 and  
strife for preeminence8 ,no wife has    
such influence with1 or even such       

control over1 her husband1 as      ',she
 who never answers till her husband     
cools1    ,or1 if she rules him1 never  
shows she rules2    ,charms by          
accepting1 by submission sways1    ,yet 
has her humor most when she obeys4'     
,footnote ,a3 ,woman's ,sphere and      
,work1 by ,rev4 ,wm4 ,landels1 ,d4,d41  
,london4    #b4 ,woman's mission is     
social as well as domestic4 ,the        
domestic part  of her life is the       
garden1 in which the seed is planted1   
which brings  forth the flower of social
 joy4 ,a woman who is the soul of a     
beautiful  home is a power in society4  
,no matter what her talents may be1 let 
it  be known that she is a slattern at  
home1 and she is without influence4     
,the pen may serve as a feather to adorn
 her social life1 but it looks  mean    
when the use of it causes the neglect of
 the needle4    ,woman may be a secret  
power in the home4 ,she may make home   
attractive  to the refined and cultured1
 and thus prove to be the magnet        

attracting to herself and to her        
fireside those gifted sons and          
daughters1 the scintillations of whose  
genius and the dissemination of  whose  
beautiful thoughts make the home        
luminous with a light which is          
inextinguishable4 ,the influence of such
 a woman over her children and  over the
 young cannot be overestimated4    ,such
 a sphere1 so far from being            
insufficient to satisfy a true  woman's 
ambition1 is well fitted1 by its        
tremendous responsibilities1  to excite 
her fears4 ,there is not one1 perhaps1  
which a human being  can occupy1 on     
which hang more stupendous issues4      
,though less public1  it is still more  
potential than man's4    ,the influence 
of a true woman cannot be confined to   
the home4 ,home  is the fountain1 and   
the world gladly furnishes channels for 
the  diffusion of her influence4 ,in    
promoting the cause of reform1 in       
alleviating the woes of the unfortunate1
 in carrying forward the cause  of      

temperance1 in ministering to the sick1 
either as a nurse or a  physician1 in   
using her pen to delight and guide the  
thoughts of the  young and old along the
 garden paths of her own loving life1   
thick  with the blossoms of hope1 and   
made glorious by deeds of charity1--in  
these1 and in numberless other ways1    
woman1 finding her throne in the  house1
 is welcomed as a ruler in the world4   
,for woman there is a felt a necessity  
which should send her forth as a        
missionary to those like herself in     
everything but blessings4 ,think of  our
 large factory towns1 where women are   
congregated by hundreds and  thousands4 
,let it be remembered that there is     
something unnatural in  all this4 ,woman
 was made for man1 for home1 for love4  
,separate her  from them all1 herd her  
with her kind1 subtract from her the    
incentive  to endeavor1 leave her mind  
to brood in fancy1 to welcome unholy    
aspirations and degrading thoughts to   
her soul1 and you leave her to  prey    

upon herself4 ,let woman see to it that 
reading-rooms for women be  established 
in our factory towns1 that their        
boarding-houses be warmed  and rendered 
inviting1 that the talented be          
encouraged to exertion1  and that       
tidiness and neatness be made an        
incentive for all1 and woman  will do a 
work of immeasurable importance1--a work
 on which ,god's  blessing will         
rest1--and those who toil to accomplish 
it will obtain  an abundant reward from 
,him who declares1 ,inasmuch as ye did  
it to  one of the least of these1 ye did
 it unto me4    ,in the cause of ,reform
 woman's help is needed4 ,from the      
earliest  commencement of the temperance
 movement1 appeals1 arguments1 and      
expostulations have been addressed by   
earnest reformers to woman1  because it 
was felt that on any great social       
question the power of  woman to help1 or
 to hinder1 was all-important4 ,when it 
is remembered  that woman is the        
greatest sufferer from the vice of      

intemperance1  that she regulates the   
customs of society1 it is apparent that 
she  should seek to abolish bad1 and    
promote good customs4 ,more than others 
she trains the young and builds up      
character1 and therefore she  should1 by
 example and precept1 implant such      
habits as may be not  only a safeguard  
in childhood and youth1 but become fixed
 as moral  principles in those she has  
reared1 when the responsibility arrives2
  because of these1 we find reasons in  
abundance why woman must help1 or  aid  
cannot reach the imperilled and undone4 
,again3 ,woman needs help4 ,addison well
 said1 ,women are either the  best or   
the worst of human beings4 ,the very    
feelings which1 rightly  directed1      
prompt her to soar even to the apex of  
the pyramid of human  virtue1 warped    
from their right exercise1 precipitate  
her to the  lowest and most grovelling  
depths of human vice4 ,is woman         
intemperate1  she differs from man in   
the gratification of her appetite4 ,he  

seeks  the social club4 ,woman seeks    
retirement1 and drinks alone and apart4 
,her appetite1 from this very cause1    
becomes unmanageable4 ,men will  stop   
drinking1 oftentimes1 when the open bar 
is closed4 ,woman1 with  an appetite    
formed1 drinks the more1 because she    
drinks in secret4  ,because of this     
fact1 woman is in peril if she form an  
appetite for  strong drink4    ,woman as
 a ,mother has work to do as a teacher4 
,we hear a great deal  about education  
in the present day2 but1 said ,mrs4     
,ellis1 my strong  impression is that   
there will have to come a teaching out  
of the  mother's heart and              
life1--herself being taught of          
,god1--such as alone  can save us as a  
nation and a people from falling from   
our high  material prosperity into a    
condition of moral degradation1 which it
 is  terrible to contemplate4 ,such     
being the case1 every woman should ask1 
,what have ,i done in those             
opportunities which ,god gave me with   

the  young8 ,what did ,i pour into that 
open heart and mind8 ,was my influence  
for ,christ or against him8 ,which way  
did ,i point out to those  uncertain    
feet8 ,who can estimate a mother's      
influence6 ,there is a  power in a      
mother's love greater than any other    
human power1--a power  to suffer1 to    
serve1 and to save2 a power which many  
waters cannot  quench1 and which is     
stronger than death4 ,as she leads1 the 
broodlings  will follow4 ,does she      
sanction card-playing1 theatre-going1   
dancing1  and what are called innocent  
recreations1 or does she set herself    
against them1 and turn the thoughts of  
her children to books that  treat of    
science1 of philosophy1 and of religion8
 ,upon the answer to  this question the 
future of children and the young        
depends4 ,many a boy  has been checked  
in a career of shame by a mother's sad  
look2 many  have been encouraged by a   
mother's smile4 ,god help women to know 
how to use their power for home1 for    

woman-kind1 for man-kind1 for  country1 
and for ,god6    ,no one has such power 
over a river as he who stands near its  
source4  ,no one has such power over the
 tree as he who plants and tends it     
while yet it is a pliant sapling4 ,and  
no earthly power is to be  compared with
 that which1 humanly speaking1          
determines the course  and destiny of an
 immortal soul4 ,under ,god the mother  
is the first  guardian of the child's   
eternal interest4 ,it is from the       
mother1 who  moves constantly among her 
little ones1 much more than the father1 
whose vocation necessitates his absence 
from home1 and prevents his  being much 
in their presence1 that children receive
 their bias4 ,her  gentle hand gives to 
our ductile natures the impress which we
 wear  through life2 her loving voice   
awakens in the soul those sweet echoes  
which never cease to sound2 and her look
 and manner fill the mind with  images  
which haunt our memory until our dying  
day4      ,o1 ,mother6 sweetest name on 

earth2      ,we lisp it on the knee1    
,and idolize its sacred worth      ,in  
manhood's ministry4    ,a mother's hand 
gave us our first welcome1 and hers was 
the last we  grasped in our farewell4   
,she is the nurse of both of our        
childhoods2  the queen of the home1 and 
the friend of the heart4      ,and if ,i
 e'er in heaven appear1      ,a mother's
 holy prayer1--    ,a mother's hand and 
gentle tear1--    ,that pointed to a    
,saviour here1      ,shall lead the     
wanderer there4    ,woman's mission is  
religious4 ,christ recognized her as a  
helpmeet1 as  a comforter1 and a        
companion4 ,woman ministered to him with
 delight1  and gladly made a            
resting-place for him in the quiet      
retreat of the  home in ,bethany4 ,he   
recognized her faith as an element of   
strength1  which saves her when properly
 exercised4 ,the spiritual life of woman
  is her glory4 ,we think of the woman  
who had sinned looking in love and      
faith on ,jesus1 bathing his feet with  

her tears1 and wiping them with  her    
hair1 kissing and anointing them1 with a
 feeling akin to devotion4  ,the        
,magdalene1 delivered of her seven      
demons1 because of her devotion  to     
,christ1 and the triumph won by her     
faith1 achieved a position  which1 in   
the regards of the church1 is equal to  
that held by the  ,mother of our        
,saviour4    ,woman's daily life is to  
her spiritual life what the debris of   
the  stream is to the water-lily that   
floats upon the surface4 ,what cares    
the servant girl of ,rome for the place 
where she toils8 ,the cathedral1  and   
the wonderful pictures that hang upon   
its walls1 are her glory  and pride4    
,look at her toil from that stand-point1
 and she becomes a  helper in the       
estimation of the world that cannot be  
ignored4 ,we have  said woman's work is 
a work of charity4 ,satan has warped the
 truth and  wielded it against ,christ2 
but as it is wrong to give up a good    
tune  because bad men sing it1 so we    

must not give up a truth because ,satan 
takes advantage of it4 ,this work of    
charity1--of giving up for others1  of  
denying self for another's advantage1 of
 abandoning comfort to  assuage         
another's grief1--so wonderfully        
illustrated by a ,florence              
,nightingale1 and by women quite as     
worthy in our own land1 whose  presence 
in the hospitals was like a benediction 
from ,god1 and whose  presence in our   
homes1 in our churches1 beside the sad  
and sorrowing  everywhere1 is proof that
 woman has a mission which she alone can
  fill1 and a work which she alone can  
perform4 ,and now abideth faith1  hope1 
and charity1 and the greatest of these  
is charity4 ,man has  faith1 he has     
hope2 but he lacks1 to a large extent1  
in the charities  which come to woman as
 gifts of ,god1 because of which ,christ
 employed  her as an agency to win men  
back to faith in ,god4 ,in the sick     
chamber  she moves with step noiseless  
as falling snow-flakes1 and speaks in  a

 voice soft as an angel's whisper4 ,her 
touch is so gentle that it  soothes the 
sufferer1 and her sympathy is more      
precious than rubies4  ,on this account 
she is man's first and last solace4     
,suffering never  appeals to woman in   
vain4 ,i never addressed myself1 says   
,ledyard1  in the language of decency   
and friendship to woman1 whether        
civilized  or savage1 without receiving 
a decent and friendly answer4 ,with man 
it has often been otherwise4 ,in        
wandering over the barren plains of     
inhospitable ,denmark1 through honest   
,sweden1 frozen ,lapland1 rude and      
churlish ,finland1 unprincipled ,russia1
 and the wide-spread regions of  the    
wandering ,tartar1 if hungry1 dry1 cold1
 wet1 or sick1 woman has  ever been     
friendly to me1 and uniformly so2 and1  
to add to this  virtue1--so worthy of   
the appellation of benevolence1--these  
actions  have been performed in so free 
and kind a manner1 that if ,i was dry1  
,i  drank the sweet draught1 and if     

hungry1 ate the coarse morsel1 with  a  
double relish4 ,park1 and many other    
travellers1 bear similar  testimony4    
,woman all exceeds    ,in ardent        
sanctitude1 in pious deeds2    ,and     
chief in woman charities prevail1       
,that soothe when sorrow or desire      
assail2    ,ask the poor pilgrim on this
 convex cast1--    ,his grizzled locks1 
distorted in the blast1--    ,ask him   
what accents soothe1 what hand bestows  
,the cordial beverage1 raiment1 and     
repose4    ,ah6 he will dart a spark of 
ardent flame1    ,and clasp his         
tremulous hands1 and ,woman name4       
,peruse the sacred volume4 ,him who died
    ,her kiss betrayed not1 nor her     
tongue denied2    ,while even the       
apostles left ,him to ,his doom1    ,she
 lingered round ,his cross and watched  
,his tomb4    ,how precious is such     
sympathy in her who is to be the solace1
 because  the helpmeet1 of man6 ,how it 
qualifies her for being the priestess of
  the temple of home2 the gentle nurse  

of helpless infancy1 manhood's          
counsellor and comforter6      ,o       
,woman6 ,woman6 thou wast made1         
,like heaven's own pure and lovely      
light1    ,to cheer life's dark and     
desert shade1      ,and guide man's     
erring footsteps right4    ,this is a   
power which monarchs well might envy1--a
 power to bless  mankind and honor ,god2
 a power which1 working in obscure and  
limited  sphere1 is yet felt in the high
 places of the earth1 and identified    
with the deeds of men whose names are   
renowned in the history of the  world1  
and shine as stars in the diadem of     
,god4          ,,woman versus ,,ballot4 
,three facts stand in the way of        
,woman's being helped by the            
,ballot1--,god1 ,nature1 and ,common    
,sense4 ,the purpose for which ,god made
  or formed woman is clearly avowed in  
the history of her origin and  in the   
assignment of her duties4    ,in        
discussing this question1 whether the   
ballot1 and all the  immunities growing 

out of the right to vote1 shall be      
granted to  woman1 it is essential that 
we inquire reverently and earnestly1 on 
which side is ,god4 ,that the question  
in its philosophical treatment  can only
 be fathomed by the profoundest         
intellect1 and that it can  be embraced1
 in all its details1 only by the most   
comprehensive  knowledge1 is but a      
partial statement of this truth4 ,the   
question can  only be understood1       
measured1 and gauged by that ,being who 
sees the  end from the beginning1 and   
can follow into its infinite            
ramifications  the influence which must 
result from our actions4 ,god does      
understand  it4 ,being infinitely wise1 
there can be no new issues1 no new      
facts1  or combinations of facts1 to    
influence the decisions of the          
,omniscient  ,mind4 ,it becomes us then 
to inquire what sphere ,god assigned to 
woman4  ,having found it1 we shall see  
that ,nature and ,common ,sense unite in
  making manifest the wisdom in adhering

 to the ,divine ,plan4    ,the necessity
 of recalling attention to the          
portraiture of woman as  ,god made her1 
is the more apparent1 when we remember  
that those who  ask the ballot for woman
 practically ignore the teachings of the
 ,bible  and the right of ,god to rule1 
and claim by word1 as well as by deed1  
that they have outgrown the wisdom of   
the past1 and have entered upon  a stage
 of progress in advance of old time     
precedents4 ,we believe in  the rule of 
,god1 and in the wisdom of ,god1 and    
claim that ,omniscience  is not         
dependent either upon a morning         
newspaper1 or upon the crude            
conjectures of a godless ,infidelity1   
for wisdom or light in adjusting  means 
to an end1 or in assigning to woman her 
proper sphere4    ,again4 ,we are       
impelled to seek wisdom from ,god1      
because we seek for  it in vain         
elsewhere4 ,as to how the ballot is to  
help woman1 even its  advocates give us 
no light4 ,whether it is proposed to    

lighten by its  aid the penalties1 and  
do away with the ruin of the fall1 we   
are left  in doubt4    ,if we give to   
woman the ballot1 shall the equality    
which woman lost1  when she ate of the  
forbidden fruit1 be restored1 and shall 
she be  made again the equal of man8    
,shall the sorrow in child-bearing be   
removed8 ,can housework1 or the duties  
of motherhood1 and wifehood1 and        
sisterhood1 be met and discharged by the
 use of the ballot8    ,these are       
questions which deserve to be answered4 
,it is patent to  every one that this   
attempt to secure the ballot for woman  
is a revolt  against the position and   
sphere assigned to woman by ,god        
himself4 ,it  is a revolt against the   
holiest duties enjoined upon woman4 ,it 
is  an attempt to reorganize society    
upon a new basis2 to change the         
relations of men and women2 to secure   
the millennium by a vote1 and by        
majorities to do away with the rule of  
,god4 ,the ,bible declares that  the    

headship of the house devolves on man4  
,man is lawgiver4 ,woman is  not slave3 
she is helpmeet2 the sharer of man's    
joys and sorrows2 the  light of his     
home1 if there be any light in his home2
 the solace of  his life1 if his life   
have solace2 the mother of his children1
 if  children there be4 ,now1 as then1  
woman1 in her natural state1 before  she
 makes the attempt to unsex herself1 and
 render herself a monster1  finds it in 
her nature to look to man as lawmaker1  
and expects to  submit to his rule in   
the home4 ,we do not say that all women 
submit  cheerfully to this rule1 for    
there are some who do not4 ,but when    
this  is the case1 from the nature of   
things1 happiness takes its flight1  the
 marriage-bed is defiled1 woman becomes 
an outlaw in her heart1 and  the two    
bound together by a chain rather than by
 the silken cord of  love1 are          
candidates for a peaceable divorce or a 
continuous battle4    ,the advocates of 
the ballot for woman hope through its   

aid to secure  an overthrow of this     
rule1 or escape from this so-called     
bondage4 ,they  demand a change in      
public sentiment regarding the sphere   
woman is to  fill1 securing to her an   
equality before the law1 in             
representation1  in privileges1 and in  
wages4    ,in other words1 there are    
women who hope and expect to do away    
with  the disabilities incident to the  
female portion of the community1 and  by
 education and culture1 obtain for woman
 this same strength1 this  same ability 
to study1 to think1 to work1 and to     
plan1 that is enjoyed  by man4 ,in      
short1 some believe that a woman can be 
so changed that  she can1 for all       
practical purposes1 get on without man's
 help or  protection4    ,against this  
revolutionary scheme we protest1        
because1 by a reference  to the ,word of
 ,god1,a we find reasons for believing  
that it is in the  constitution and     
nature of woman1 with some slight       
modifications1 to  occupy the place     

assigned her in this land1 where        
,christian influence  unites with the   
better instincts of humanity in         
lightening her  burdens1 smoothing her  
pathway1 and filling her lap with the   
tributes  of manly regard4    ,footnote 
,a3 ,i am aware that this sneer is often
 made3 ,the same class  oppose us who   
defended the divine right of slavery4   
,this is untrue  so far as ,i am        
concerned4 ,i was second to no man in   
condemnation of  slavery1 because the   
,bible condemned it4 ,that one          
utterance1 ,god hath  made of one blood 
all nations of men for to dwell on all  
the face  of the earth1 was the seedling
 out of which liberty1 equality1 and    
fraternity grew4 ,liberty was won       
because of the faith1 and prayers1  and 
efforts of a ,god-believing and a       
,christ-loving church4 ,their  prayers  
and their faith girded the nation with  
strength1 and their  prowess1 aided by  
those who followed their lead1 secured  
victory4          ,i4    ,the           

,scriptural ,argument4      ,to state   
our faith more definitely1 we believe   
that in ,eden woman  enjoyed an equality
 with man2 that she took advantage of   
her  privilege1 and1 transgressing the  
law of ,god without consulting her      
husband1 proved treacherous to her high 
trust1 opened the gate of  perdition to 
the enemy of souls1 and brought upon man
 and the race  the curse consequent upon
 sin1 and the ruin wrought by the fall4 
,in  consequence of this1 ,god          
pronounced a curse upon her2 gave her   
sorrow  in child-bearing1 as he gave to 
man fatigue in toil2 changed the        
relations hitherto subsisting between   
man and woman1 and compelled  her to    
live henceforth in another2 to sink her 
own individuality1 and  merge it in that
 of her husband4 ,this is the language4 
,unto the woman  he said1 ,i will       
greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy     
conception2 in  sorrow thou shalt bring 
forth children1 and thy desire shall be 
to  thy husband1 and he shall rule over 

thee4 ,this is her portion of the       
curse4 ,this portion endures4 ,man from 
that moment became ruler4 ,the  wife's  
desire was to the husband1 so that      
whatever she desires is  naturally      
referred to him4 ,he became adviser1    
lawmaker and head4 ,the  right or wrong 
of ,god's action it does not become us  
to discuss4 ,it is  right because ,god  
did it4 ,dispute the right who will1 but
 the curse  lives4 ,the serpent crawls  
on his belly and eats dust4 ,the wife   
has  sorrow in conception2 her desire is
 to her husband1 and he rules her2  and 
man1 by the sweat of his brow1 eats his 
bread4    ,but1 says some one1 did not  
the coming of ,christ change the status 
of  woman1 and place her again on the   
same equality which she enjoyed  when   
,adam led the beautiful ,eve to her     
nuptial bower1 and found it  impossible 
to exist without what the poet describes
 as      ,thy likeness1 thy fit help1   
thy other self1    ,thy wish exactly to 
thy heart's desire8    ,if we have not  

mistaken the relations subsisting even  
in ,eden between  the original pair1    
woman was not the ruler even there4     
,milton has  truthfully said1--         
,for well ,i understand in the prime end
    ,of ,nature her the inferior1 in the
 mind    ,and inward faculties which    
most excel1    ,in outward1 also1 her   
resembling less    ,his image who made  
both1 and less expressing    ,the       
character of that dominion given        
,o'er other creatures2 yet when ,i      
approach    ,her loveliness1 so absolute
 she seems1    ,and in herself complete1
 so well to know    ,her own1 that what 
she wills to do or say    ,seems wisest1
 virtuousest1 discreetest1 best3    ,all
 higher knowledge in her presence falls 
,degraded2 wisdom in discourse with her 
,loses discountenanced1 and like folly  
shows2    ,authority and reason on her  
wait1    ,as one intended first1 not    
after made    ,occasionally2 and to     
consummate all1    ,greatness of mind   
and nobleness their seat    ,build in   

her1 loveliest1 and create an awe       
,about her1 as a guard angelic placed4  
,with woman1 as ,god made her1 we are   
not acquainted4 ,glimpses of her        
pristine beauty1 and characteristics of 
her former excellence1 shine  forth2 but
 sin has marred the original picture1   
and defaced the model  fashioned by the 
,creator's hand4 ,the ruin wrought by   
the fall brought  ,christ to earth4 ,he 
opened a way back to ,eden--not on      
earth1 but in  heaven4 ,the curse       
remains4 ,the race is under it1 because 
sin is in the  world4 ,the law1 formed  
after the fall1 is the expressed will of
 ,god4  ,christ did not come to do away 
with it1 but to fulfil it4 ,then1 as    
now1 it was a law of love1 of good will1
 of peace4 ,when ,christ came1  woman's 
condition was deplorable4 ,she was the  
abject slave of man in  nearly all the  
world4 ,yet ,christ made no attempt to  
break down their  original arrangements4
 ,he knew that without a change in woman
 herself1  no external changes in her   

condition could be of any benefit to    
her4  ,he recognized the great fact that
 she herself must be educated to a      
better life1 that she must have a       
character which in itself would  command
 respect1 and make her worthy of a      
higher place and a larger  liberty4     
,truly has it been said1 ,institutions1 
of themselves1 can  never confer freedom
 upon a people4 ,they must be free men1 
capable  of liberty1 and then they will 
be able not only to make their own      
institutions1 but keep and defend them  
also4 ,so the emancipation of  woman can
 be effected only by breaking the bonds 
of her ignorance1  frivolity1 and vice4 
,a character must be given her1 and then
 the iron  door of her prison-house will
 open to her of its own accord1 and  she
 will find that the angel of liberty has
 been leading her forth  indeed4 ,in    
this direction ,jesus labored4 ,paul1 in
 his ,epistles1 gave  emphasis to the   
teachings of the ,old ,testament1 and so
 he wrote1 ,let  your women keep        

silence1 in the churches1 for it is not 
permitted them  to speak2 but they are  
to be in subjection1 as the law also    
says2 and  if they will to learn        
anything1 let them ask their husbands at
 home2  for it is a shame for women to  
speak in the church1--,i ,cor4 xiv4 #cd1
  #ce4    ,against this command many    
arguments have been brought to bear1 and
  despite this apostolic command1 some  
women insist upon their right to        
preach4 ,it is a significant truth1 that
 whoever does this1 enters upon  a      
conflict with public sentiment born of  
,god1 and subjects herself to  terrible 
mortification4 ,the refusal of lending  
,universalist divines to  share the     
exercises of an ordination with a woman1
 illustrates this  principle4 ,the      
recognition given to man as the head of 
the household1  involves the loss of    
woman's individuality1 and of her right 
to a  support4 ,it opens a window to    
life1 and shows why our higher nature   
revolts against woman being compelled to

 labor in the field4 ,that is  man's    
place1 and the labor elevates him4 ,it  
degrades a woman4 ,the  praises of      
agricultural toil for man find a place  
in song and story2  but labor in the    
field is destructive of womanhood1 of   
motherhood1 and  of wifehood4    ,we    
have seen that the ,scriptures declare1 
#a4 ,that it is not well for  man to be 
alone4 ,he is not complete until woman  
is joined to him in  marriage4 #b4      
,woman was made for man4 ,manliness is  
an attribute that  belongs to man2 it   
disgraces a woman4 ,to be womanly1 is   
the noblest  tribute that can be paid to
 woman2 but it disgraces a man1 because 
,god1 the ,creator1 placed this         
characteristic within the heart and soul
  and nature1 just as he gave a         
difference of nature1 mould1 and form1  
to the outward appearance of man and    
woman4 ,he made them for a  particular  
purpose1 and not for the same purpose4  
,they were not made  in the same manner1
 nor of the same material4 ,if woman be 

the weaker  vessel1 she is of the finer 
mould4 ,god made man in his own image1  
and  woman was created to be his        
helpmeet4    #c4 ,we have noticed the   
change in the relations which was the   
product  of the curse4 ,woman in ,eden  
was the source of influence4 ,after it1 
man  became the head1 and her desire was
 unto him4    #d4 ,since the fall1 labor
 has been multiplied to man1 sorrow to  
woman2  but such is the kindness of     
,god1 that these two facts are sources  
of  perpetual joy in the home4 ,the wife
 is proud of her toiling husband1  the  
man is tender of his suffering wife2 and
 in the bliss of childhood  happiness   
both find their reward4    ,these       
statements shrine all the facts of the  
separate histories of man  and woman4   
,it were easier to change earth to      
water1 and sea to land1  than it is to  
make a womanly woman consent to appear  
manly4 ,her ,god  made her a woman4 ,it 
is not a fault4 ,it is a glory4 ,the    
bird that  skims the wave would not     

exchange places with the bird that goes 
to  meet the sun2 but this is not to    
bring a charge against the eagle or  the
 swan4    ,one more truth1 and then we  
will pass to the consideration of  the  
lessons discoverable in woman's nature4 
,all the ,scripture  requirements1 such 
as refer to the plaiting of the hair1 to
 being  uncovered in public1 are said to
 refer to the customs of the ,east1 and 
not to bind woman in this age of        
progress4 ,the principle covered by     
those requirements then1 rules now4     
,paul said1 ,let not a ,christian  woman
 break through any of the restraints of 
womanhood1 and so appear  as do the     
harlots1 with uncovered faces and with  
plaited hair1 who  mingle freely with   
men1 and are shorn of that modesty and  
weakness so  becoming woman4 ,woman's   
right to be a woman implies the right to
 be  loved1 to be respected as a woman1 
to be married1 to bring forth to  the   
world the product of that love2 and     
woman's highest interests are  promoted 

by defending and maintaining this right4
    ,there are those who object to the  
word service1 and claim that those  who 
take the ,bible as authority wish to    
reduce woman to slavery4 ,no  charge    
could be more absurd2 and ,god's care   
for woman is manifest1  both in the     
teachings of the ,bible and in the      
constitution of the  race4 ,woman owes  
to ,christianity all she enjoys4 ,leave 
her to be  subject to the conditions    
imposed on her by unregenerated manhood 
or  womanhood1 and you leave her to     
become either a thing in society1 or    
else reduce her to a level with the     
beasts of burden4 ,in old savage  and   
pagan tribes the severest burdens of    
physical toil were laid upon  her4 ,she 
was valued for the same reason that men 
prize their most  useful animals1 or as 
a means of gratifying sensual and       
selfish  desires4 ,even in the learned  
and dignified forms of modern paganism1 
the wife is the slave rather than the   
companion of her husband4 ,she  is kept 

apart from him4 ,the education of her   
mental faculties is  neglected4 ,she is 
not allowed to walk with him2 she must  
walk behind  him4 ,she must not eat with
 him1 but eat after he has done1 and eat
  what he leaves4 ,she must not sleep   
until he is asleep1 nor remain  asleep  
after he is awake4 ,if she is sitting   
down1 and he comes into  the room1 she  
must rise up4 ,she must bow to no other 
god on the earth  besides her husband4  
,she must worship him while he lives1   
and when he  dies she must be burned    
with him4 ,in case she is not burned1   
she is  not allowed to marry1 and is    
considered an outcast4 ,there is little 
social intercourse between the sexes1   
little or no acquaintance of the        
parties before marriage1 and1           
consequently1 little mutual attachment4 
,women are not allowed to learn to read1
 because there can be no solid          
foundation laid for future influence4   
,under the ,crescent the condition of   
woman is worse rather than better1  for 

in pagan ,india she is permitted to     
share in the hope of religion2  but in  
,mohammedan countries it is a popular   
tradition that women are  forbidden     
paradise2 and it requires some effort   
for the imagination to  conceive how    
debased and wretched must be the        
condition of the  female sex to         
originate and sustain such a horrible   
and blasphemous  tradition4    ,even in 
the refined and shining ages of ,greece 
and ,rome1 where the  cultivation of    
letters and the graces of polished      
style1 the charms  of poetry and        
eloquence1 the elegances of             
architecture1 sculpture1  painting1 and 
embroidery1 the glory of conquest and   
the pride of  national distinction1 were
 unsurpassed1--even then and there1     
woman  was but the abject slave of man1 
the object of his ambition1 avarice1    
lust1 and power4    ,truly has it been  
said that nothing more surely           
distinguishes the  savage state from the
 civilized1 the ,east from the ,west1   

,paganism from  ,christianity1 antiquity
 from the middle ages1 the middle ages  
from  modern times1 than the condition  
of woman4    ,in ,china1 she is used as 
a beast of burden4 ,the ,chinese peasant
 woman  goes to the field with her male 
infant on her back1 and ploughs1 sows1  
and reaps1 exposed to all the changes of
 the weather4 ,in ,calcutta1  women are 
the masons1 and maybe seen daily        
conveying their hods of  cement1 and    
spreading it on the tops of their       
houses4    ,in a country where no       
,european man can labor1 where the      
native rests  until compelled by his    
conqueror to work1 seven thousand of    
these  women might have been seen1 in   
#ahei1 climbing to the edge of ravines1 
with baskets of stone on their heads1 to
 fill1 with these tedious               
contributions1 thousands of             
perpendicular feet1 in order that a     
railroad might wind among the mountains4
    ,in ,australia1 she carries the     
burden which man's indolence refuses2   

and in ,great ,britain1 the condition of
 women among the lower classes1         
revealed by the statistics of her mines 
and of her manufacturing  districts1 is 
such as to make a moralist blush4       
,behold her1 with a  strap around her   
waist1 dragging the coal-cart in the    
mine1 and so  ignorant1 that when asked 
if she knew ,jesus1 replied1 ,he never  
worked  in our shaft4    ,do we turn to 
,america1 we find that in the providence
 of ,god her  fortune has been advanced 
and improved by the extension of the era
 of  free government1 and by the        
diffusion of the principles of the      
gospel  of ,christ4    ,true1 in the    
past1 throughout the ,south1 a negro    
woman worked in the  field as a beast of
 burden2 but emancipation and the       
diffusion of the  principles of         
,christianity changes all this in the   
,south1 as it has  changed it in ,turkey
 and in the ,east4 ,the colored man     
builds for his  wife a house1 and toils 
for her in the field or shop1 while she 

keeps  the house1 and beautifies the    
sanctuary of the heart4    ,now1 in all 
this land1 woman's right to be a woman  
is recognized1 and  woman's right to be 
a man is opposed1 though eloquent       
orators of  either sex may declaim in   
its behalf4 ,god's law1 natural and     
revealed1  is against it4 ,woman's      
nature will be woman's nature no longer 
when  she shall desire it4    ,an       
illustration of this fact was recently  
furnished4 ,a female orator  had just   
left the platform for the horse-car4    
,she was tired1 and1  doubtless1 needed 
a seat4 ,she had been speaking in favor 
of woman's  rights1 and had berated the 
opposite sex for their unwillingness to 
grant them4 ,worn out with fatigue1 and 
excited1 her lace red1 her eyes         
flashing1 she looked around for a seat4 
,the car was full1 and among  the number
 sitting down was a workingman4    ,she 
spoke so that all could hear her1       
saying1 ,you are not gentlemen1  or you 
would not let a woman stand4 ,the       

workingman looked up1 and  replied1 ,did
 ,i not just hear you speak in behalf of
 woman's  rights8 ,the woman1 supposing 
she had found a friend1 replied in  the 
affirmative4 ,well1 said he1 ,i will    
stand up any time1 with  pleasure1 for a
 housewife or a kitchen girl2 but you   
contend for an  equality of rights with 
men2 take it1 and stand up among them4  
,the  shout of approbation proved that  
the argument was not on the side of     
woman4 ,she did not herself believe in  
the theory advanced4 ,down in her  heart
 she felt that1 because she was a woman1
 she was entitled to be  treated with   
love and respect1 with honor and        
consideration4    ,the right which      
exempts her from certain things which   
men must endure1  grows out of her right
 to be a woman4 ,we feel that it is her 
privilege and her right to be relieved  
from the necessity of working  in the   
field1 from doing many things which it  
is manly in man to do4    ,we do not    
object to woman's sharing in the toil of

 the store1 the  shop1 or the factory4  
,better this than idleness and want2 yet
 there is  a reason for pondering the   
question whether woman is wise in trying
 to  displace man for her own advantage4
 ,if any one must be idle1 let it be    
woman1 and not man4 ,it has been well   
said1 ,there are in ,massachusetts  over
 seventy thousand more females than     
males1 and probably twice  that number  
in the ,state of ,new ,york4 ,it is an  
unnatural condition of  things4 ,at the 
,west the number of men greatly         
preponderates4    ,our young men go off 
early in life1 leaving fathers1 mothers1
 and  sisters behind them4 ,the prospect
 for their sisters to marry1 then1 is   
lessened by every emigration4 ,now1 what
 shall be done in behalf of  these      
thousands of virtuous1 educated1 and    
noble girls8 ,the cry is1  make them    
into clerks1 and bookkeepers1 and       
bankers1 and give them all  the         
employments of men4 ,think it over4     
,suppose now we make these  girls into  

clerks in stores and counting-rooms1 say
 ten thousand in  ,massachusetts1 and   
twenty thousand in ,new ,york--don't we 
displace  so many young men2 drive them 
off to the ,west2 prevent so many new   
families from being established here2   
take away thirty thousand  chances of   
marriage from these females1 and enhance
 the evil we are  trying to remedy8     
,is it a blessing to woman to lessen her
 opportunities of marriage8    ,again1 a
 woman can be idle1 and not be lost4    
,whereas man1 if left  unemployed1 runs 
to mischief1 if not to crime4    ,the   
history of those manufacturing districts
 in ,england1 so eloquently  described  
by ,charlotte ,elizabeth1 where woman is
 preferred because of  the cheapness and
 skill of her labor1 proves this        
position correct4  ,the husband lives in
 idleness1 and has the care of the      
house4 ,the  result is1 that comfort and
 neatness are at an end4 ,the children  
are  reared in crime1 in indolence2 the 
men pass their time in drinking and  in 

gambling1 prostitution abounds1 and the 
health of the community1  socially1     
physically1 mentally1 and morally1 is   
destroyed4    ,on the other hand1 enter 
one of those manufacturing towns where  
the  skilled labor of man is rewarded1  
and where women keep the house with     
thrift and care1 and you behold order1  
virtue1 and prosperity4 ,this is  not   
poetry4 ,it is fact4 ,it proves that    
,god's laws must be heeded and  obeyed4 
,marriage1 said ,gail ,hamilton1 is a   
friendship of the sexes  so profound1 so
 comprehensive1 that it includes the    
whole being4 ,the  inflow of the divine 
life1      ',bright effluence of bright 
essence increate1'    blends the man    
nature and the woman nature into an     
absolute oneness1  which shapes itself  
ever thereafter into the only perfect   
symmetry4  ,thus alone comes humanity in
 the unity of the faith1 and of the     
knowledge of the ,son of ,god1 unto a   
perfect man1 unto the measure of  the   
stature of the fulness of ,christ4 ,thus

 marriage forever tends to  its own     
annihilation1--not the annihilation of a
 stream swallowed up  in desert sands1  
but of a river broadening to the        
boundless sea4 ,the  more perfect its   
substance1 the more yielding its form4  
,as it gathers  power it diminishes     
pomp1 till1 by a pathway which the      
vulture's eye  hath not seen and never  
can see1 marriage itself leads to the   
land  where they neither marry nor are  
given in marriage4    ,wherever man pays
 reverence to woman1--wherever any man  
feels the  influence of any woman1      
purifying1 chastening1 abashing1        
strengthening  him against temptation1  
shielding him from evil1 ministering to 
his  self-respect1 medicining his       
weariness1 peopling his solitude1       
winning  him from sordid prizes1        
enlivening his monotonous days with     
mirth1 or  fancy1 or wit1 flashing      
heaven upon his earth1 and mellowing it 
for  all spiritual fertility1--there is 
the element of marriage4 ,wherever      

woman pays reverence to man1--wherever  
any woman rejoices in the  strength of  
any man1 feels it to be ,god's agent1   
upholding her  weakness1 confirming her 
purpose1 and crowning her               
power1--wherever  he reveals himself to 
her1 just1 upright1 inflexible1 yet     
tolerant1  merciful1 benignant1 not     
unruffled1 perhaps1 but not overcome by 
the  world's turbulence1 and responding 
to all her gentleness1 his feet  on the 
earth1 his head among the stars1 helping
 her to hold her  soul steadfast in     
right1 to stand firm against the        
encroachments of  frivolity1 vanity1    
impatience1 fatigue1 and discouragement1
 helping to  preserve her good nature1  
to develop her energy1 to consolidate   
her thought1 to utilize her benevolence1
 to exalt and illumine her  life1--there
 is the essence of marriage4 ,its love  
is founded on  respect1 and increases   
self-respect at the very moment of      
merging  itself in another4 ,its love is
 mutual1 equally giving and receiving   

at every instant of its action4 ,there  
is neither dependence nor  independence1
 but inter-dependence4 ,years cannot    
weaken its bonds1  distance cannot      
sunder them4 ,it is a love which        
vanquishes the grave1  and transfigures 
death itself into life4    ,these laws  
are varied by ,god's word1 and written  
indelibly upon the  nature of man4      
,surely nothing can be more manifest    
than that they must  be obeyed4         
,,ii4    ,nature teaches us the ,wisdom 
of adhering to the ,divine ,plan4       
,anatomists tell us that in the embryo  
skeleton there is a marked  difference  
of general conformation in the two      
sexes2 that in the male  there is a     
larger chest and breathing apparatus1   
which1 affects the  whole organization1 
forming a more powerful muscular system1
 and  producing a physical constitution 
which predestines him to bold           
enterprises and daring exploits4 ,the   
woman1 being differently  constructed1  
finds it natural to content herself in  

the house1 removed  from the gaze of the
 world1 and from rude contact with its  
jostling  cares4    ,there is an outside
 and an inside world4 ,the work of the  
street1 or  the shop1 or the field1 is  
no more essential to the well-being of  
the  family than is the work performed  
in the house4 ,god assigned to man  the 
field1 or out-door work1 and to woman   
the home and housework4 ,in  proportion 
as men and women fill well their        
separate spheres1 there is  harmony and 
happiness4 ,man toils1 and provides for 
the wants of his  household4 ,woman     
toils1 and sees to it that the children 
are well  reared1 and that the house is 
well kept4 ,woman is respected and      
supported1 not in idleness1 but in      
caring for the wants of those  committed
 to her care4 ,the attempt is being made
 to disregard these  natural laws1 by   
those who claim to have outgrown divine 
legislation1  and who have the hardihood
 to trample upon the laws of nature4    
,but in  vain4 ,when ,god made our first

 parents1 he made them male and female1 
and it will not be difficult to believe 
in the impossibility of the  finite     
being able to undo the work of the      
,infinite4 ,each has his and  her place1
 and nothing goes continuously right if 
husband and wife  change places4 ,keep  
the positions assigned them by the laws 
of ,god and  nature1 and all will go    
well4    ,give to woman the serious     
consideration due from every man born of
  woman's agony1 and you build her up in
 love1 endow her with respect1          
encourage her to cultivate her mind1 and
 to develop the graces of her  nature4  
,the mightiest influence which exists   
upon earth is concealed  in the heart of
 woman4 ,it follows that her elevation  
and her  happiness1 her education and   
usefulness1 are objects of deep concern4
  ,we have seen that the legislation of 
,heaven provides for the  gratification 
of the early longing of the soul for    
companionship in  making marriage       
honorable and love the holiest of       

instincts4    ,it is fashionable to talk
 against an early love4 ,it is wrong    
thus to  do4 ,youth longeth for a       
kindred spirit1 and yearneth for a heart
 that  can commune with his own4 ,he    
meditateth night and day1 doting on the 
image of his fancy4 ,it is the tendency 
of an early love to inspire  youth with 
grand aspirations and lofty aims4 ,they 
that love early1  shall become          
like-minded1 and the tempter shall touch
 them not4 ,they  shall grow up1 leaning
 on each other1 as the olive and the    
vine4    ,it is only when love is       
scorned1 when passion takes its place1  
when  man forgets that the idol of his  
heart is a probationer of earth like    
himself1 that it is his duty to be chary
 of her soul1 feeling that it  is his   
jewel4 ,it is only when a man ceases to 
be a man1 and becomes a  beast1 that he 
can consent1 even in thought1 to despoil
 woman of her  virtue2 to trample upon  
the sacred instincts of her nobler      
nature4  ,a real woman will delight to  

make herself worthy of love4 ,in the    
advancement of her mind1 quite as much  
as in the adornment of her  person1 she 
strives to make herself beautiful as    
well as lovable4 ,if  she forgets her   
duty1 and consents to seem to be what   
she is not1 so  that her admirer finds  
that the appearance which charmed him   
was not  real1 then the future of that  
woman is dark indeed4 ,her husband will 
discover1 when too late1 that the harp  
and the voice may thrill him1  sound may
 enchant his ear1 but1 by and by1 the   
hand will wither1 and  the sweet notes  
turn to discord2 the eye1 so brilliant  
at even1 may be  red with sorrow in the 
morning2 and the sylph-like form of     
elegance  must writhe in the crampings  
of pain4    ,naturally the man and woman
 will recognize the rule of ,god in the 
choice of their vocation4 ,he will go   
abroad1 and she will stay at  home4 ,he 
will earn the bread1 and she will make  
it4 ,he will build the  house1 and she  
will keep it4 ,the difference between   

their spheres of  labor seems naturally 
to be this3 one is external1 the other  
internal2  one active1 the other        
passive4 ,he has to go and seek out his 
path2  hers usually lies close under her
 feet4 ,yet1 if life is meant to be a   
worthy one1 each must resolutely be     
trod4      ,when the man wants weight1  
the woman takes it up1    ,and topples  
down the scales2 but this is fixt    ,as
 are the roots of earth and base of all3
    ,man for the field1 and woman for   
the hearth2    ,man for the sword1 and  
for the needle she2    ,man with the    
head1 and woman with the heart2    ,man 
to command1 and woman to obey2    ,all  
else confusion4    ,woman is not content
 to remain separate and apart4 ,she will
 give her  love to some object1 and     
desires to repose her faith in some     
person  worthy of her regard4 ,she lives
 for man4 ,she dresses and studies for  
him4 ,she acquires knowledge and        
accomplishments1 which are known to     
please and to allure4    ,woman1 being  

by nature dependent1 finds it easier to 
lay hold of the  offer of salvation than
 does man4 ,his independent spirit keeps
 him  back4 ,woman has only to recognize
 her dependence upon ,one higher than   
man1 and in doing this is obliged to do 
but little violence to  her habits of   
thought and feeling1 and no violence at 
all to such  sentiments of independence 
as stand most in the way of man4 ,hence 
men  shrink with horror from coming in  
contact with a godless woman4 ,in  their
 eyes she is monstrous1 unreasonable and
 offensive4 ,even an  utterly godless   
man1 unless he be debauched and debased 
to the  position of an animal1 deems    
such a woman without an excuse4 ,he     
looks  on her with suspicion4 ,he would 
not intrust his children to her care4   
,oh happy lot1 and hallowed even as the 
joy of angels1 where the golden  chain  
of godliness is entwined with the roses 
of love1 as one of our  own poets       
wrote3--      ,o1 what is woman--what   
her smile1    ,her lip of love1 her eye 

of light2    ,what is she if her lip    
revile    ,the lowly ,jesus8 ,love may  
write    ,his name upon her noble brow1 
,or linger in her curls of jet2    ,the 
bright spring flowers may scarcely bow  
,beneath her step1 and yet1 and yet     
,without that meeker grace1 she'll be   
,a lighter thing than vanity4    ,thus  
wrote ,n4,p4 ,willis4 ,he felt that a   
woman1 with ,christ in her  heart1 was  
the beau ideal of man4 ,the home is her 
kingdom1 and  the heart of husband or   
brother is her throne4 ,in that sphere  
her  influence is the most potent       
instrumentality on earth4               
,demosthenes declared that by this      
influence she can in an hour upset  the 
legislation of a year of statesmanship4 
,her power is1 however1  through man1   
not apart from him4    ,this is the     
scriptural view4 ,nowhere do we read of 
woman as though  she had a mission apart
 from man4 ,we talk of men and forget   
women4 ,it  seems almost impossible to  
legislate for woman and forget man4     

,mankind includes womankind1 but        
womankind does not include mankind4     
,it may not be complimentary1 yet it    
remains true1 that the ,scriptures  fail
 to furnish us with a model woman4      
,jesus was the model man2 but ,eve1 and 
,mary1 and ,rebekah1 and ,rachel1  were 
model women to none besides those to    
whom they were given as  wives4 ,this1  
perhaps1 is well1 for it would be       
injudicious to try and  prove to any man
 that his wife should differ radically  
from herself4          ,,iii4    ,having
 considered the teachings of the        
,scripture and of ,nature1 let  us      
listen to the ,voice of ,common ,sense4 
,under this head we hesitate not to     
declare that the hope of woman lies  in 
the recognition of the laws of ,god1 and
 the laws of her own higher  nature4    
,look at the facts4 ,who demand the     
ballot for woman8 ,they are not the     
lovers of ,god1 nor are they the        
believers in ,christ1 as a class4 ,there
  may be exceptions1 but the majority   

prefer an infidel's cheer to the  favor 
of ,god and the love of the ,christian  
community4 ,it is because of  this      
tendency that the majority of those who 
contend for the ballot  for woman cut   
loose from the legislation of ,heaven1  
from the  enjoyments of home1 and drift 
to infidelity and ruin4    ,our wives   
and mothers do not ask the ballot4 ,our 
young ladies do not  care even to hear  
the question discussed4 ,they believe   
that whatever  hinders woman from being 
the helpmeet of man does her injury4 ,it
 is  claimed that woman needs the ballot
 to secure equal laws4 ,this claim  is  
urged1 because1 it is said1 women are   
required to obey laws which  they had no
 share in making4 ,it is a mistaken     
notion4 ,woman has had  a share in the  
legislation of the country4 ,her        
influence pervades  society4 ,let her be
 true to temperance1 and intemperance is
  restrained4 ,let her be true to       
freedom1 and the pulsations of her      
heart find their way through the entire 

framework of society4 ,let her  be true 
to her own glorious nature1 and this    
attempt to unsex and  discrown her will 
meet with the swift and terrible        
condemnation it  deserves4    ,another  
has said1 ,the ,amazons have often been 
met with the statement1  that a large   
majority of the women do not wish to    
vote1 and would  not if they could4 ,the
 truth of this statement is not denied4 
,the  advocates of the ballot confess   
that many noble women affect a womanly  
horror of being thought strong-minded1  
and to offset this tendency  they       
declare it to be the imperative duty of 
women to claim the  suffrage4 ,does this
 mean that women are to be coerced in   
this  matter8 that our mothers1 wives1  
and sisters are to be punished for      
staying away from the polls8 ,we have   
never supposed it the imperative  duty  
of every man to vote4 ,and we know that 
many of the most  intelligent and       
upright do not vote4 ,such is the       
inexpressible  nastiness of our         

elections1 especially in the larger     
cities1 that men  of the cleanest morals
 think it right to keep away from them4 
,the  foulest portions of the men go    
first1 stay longest1 and stand thickest 
at the places of voting4 ,how then will 
it be when the foulest portion  of the  
women get packed into the same crowd1   
and drive modesty away by  the foulness 
of their speech and presence8 ,when the 
aggregate filth of  both sexes shall    
have met together at the polling        
stations1 as it will  be sure to do1 we 
hardly think any chaste or modest       
home-loving woman  will go near this    
stench unless compelled to do so4    ,it
 is because this scheme lifts the gate  
to the increasing wave  of corruption   
and pollution1 that we are surprised    
that so-called  statesmen give their    
countenance to it4 ,give to woman the   
ballot1 and  this country is hopelessly 
given up to ,romanism4 ,the priest loses
 the  man1 but he keeps the woman4 ,give
 to the priests the control of the      

votes of the thousands of servants in   
the great cities1 and there is  an end  
to legislation in behalf of the         
,sabbath1 the ,bible1 and the  school   
system1 temperance1 or morality4    ,the
 right to vote implies the right to     
rule1 to legislate1 to go to  ,congress1
 and to take the ,presidential chair4   
,on this point hear ,miss  ,muloch4 ,who
 that ever listened for two hours to the
 verbose confused  inanities of a       
ladies' committee1 would immediately go 
and give his  vote for a ,female ,house 
of ,congress1 or of ,commons8 or who1 on
  the receipt of a lady's letter of     
business1--,i speak of the              
average1--would henceforth desire to    
have our courts of justice  stocked with
 matronly lawyers1 or thronged by       
',sweet girl graduates1 with their      
golden hair8'    ,well has ,gail        
,hamilton said1 ,how will the possession
 of the ballot  affect in any way the   
vexed question of work and wages8 ,one  
orator  says1 ',shall ,senators tell me 

in their places that ,i have no need of 
the ballot1 when forty thousand women in
 the city of ,new ,york alone  are      
earning their daily bread at starving   
prices with the needle8' ,but  what will
 the ballot do for those forty thousand 
women when they get  it8 ,it will not   
give them husbands1 nor make their      
thriftless husbands  provident1 nor     
their invalid husbands healthy4 ,they   
cannot vote  themselves out of their    
dark1 unwholesome sewing-rooms into     
counting-rooms and insurance offices1   
nor have they generally the             
qualifications which these places       
require4 ,the ballot will not enable    
them to do anything for which their     
constitution or their education  has not
 fitted them1 and ,i do not know of any 
law now which prevents  them from doing 
anything for which they are fitted1     
except the holding  of government       
offices4 444 ,what can the ballot do    
towards equalizing  wages1 where work is
 already equalized without affecting    

wages1 as is  not unfrequently the case8
 ,there are shops of the same sort1 on  
the  same street1 with male clerks in   
one and female clerks in another1  where
 the former work fewer hours and receive
 higher wages than the  latter4444      
,moreover1 the question of female       
clerkship is not  yet settled4 ,there   
are conscientious1 intelligent1 and     
obliging  shopkeepers1 who say that     
female clerks are not satisfactory4     
,their  strength is not equal to the    
draughts made upon it4 ,they are not    
able  to stand so long as clerks are    
required to stand4 ,they have not the   
patience1 the civility1 the tact that   
male clerks have4444 ,all the  voting in
 the world can never add a cubit to a   
woman's stature4    ,woman is not       
naturally a law-maker4 ,even in our     
homes she desires  the head of the house
 to lay down the law4 ,never shall ,i   
forget the  influence exerted by the    
utterance in a convention of ,sabbath   
school  teachers4 ,a paper was read1    

complaining that in a certain ,sabbath  
school there was a lady superintendent1 
because no man could be found  to take  
the place4 ,in conclusion1 the writer   
said1 ,we need a man in  our town4 ,we  
have things that wear pantaloons1 but we
 need a man1 to  give direction to the  
school1 and to attract the nobler and   
better  portion of community4 ,it was an
 honest declaration1 and voiced a       
truth4 ,every town1 every ,sabbath      
school1 every home1 needs a man4  ,women
 of talent have tried to figure in      
politics and in the pulpit1  but a sorry
 figure they have made of it4    ,think 
of ,miss ,anthony and ,mrs4 ,stanton in 
the train of ,george ,francis  ,train1  
perambulating the country in favor of   
the ballot in ,kansas4  ,these are the  
leaders2 but let it not be forgotten    
that they  sided against the ballot for 
the negro in hopes of getting it for    
themselves1 and proved their utter      
worthlessness and untrustworthiness  by 
trailing the banner committed to their  

keeping in the slime of a  convention   
which went for the repudiation of the   
national debt1 the  defeat of the party 
of progress1 and for the overthrow of   
republican  liberty4 ,had woman         
possessed the ballot1 and had the course
 pursued by  the leaders of this        
movement exercised an influence over the
 majority1  this wonderful victory over 
the rebellious spirits of the land had  
not been achieved2 but1 in its stead1   
the stars and bars would have  resumed  
their sway1 and the stars and stripes1  
which now kiss the  breeze1 and greet   
the rising hopes of uncounted millions1 
would have  been furled in gloom and    
night4    ,it is claimed that the ballot
 will secure for woman social respect4  
,the claim is not well founded4 ,those  
who seek it lose social respect1        
because they step out of the path marked
 out for them by ,providence  and by    
,nature4 ,woman1 in her sphere1 is man's
 good angel and helpmeet2  out of it1   
she is man's bitterest foe and heaviest 

curse4    ,there is an instinctive      
respect for woman in her proper sphere1 
which  is of itself a power superior to 
any merely conventional position that  a
 woman can build up for herself by her  
own hands1 even through the  aid of the 
ballot4    ,how natural to see woman    
waited on by man6 ,sir ,walter ,raleigh 
was  praised because he cast his cloak  
into the mud to save the foot of his    
,queen from being soiled4 ,as noble acts
 have been performed by many  men1 times
 without number4 ,the uprising of       
gentlemen in the cars when  a tired     
woman enters with a child2 the          
disposition to lighten her  cares and   
sweeten her joys1 is everywhere         
considered manly4    ,education is      
essential for her4 ,she is the educator 
of the home1 for  she is its soul4 ,if  
one must be ignorant1 let it be the man1
 and not  the woman4 ,many of our most  
intelligent men have had cultured       
mothers4  ,very few sons ever grew to be
 learned whose mothers cared not for    

books4 ,this fact is appreciated1 and   
leads us naturally to conclude  that if 
woman lacks social respect it is her own
 fault4 ,if a woman  prefers            
superficiality to thoroughness2 music1  
drawing1 and dress1 to  a knowledge of  
housework1 an acquaintance with         
literature1 and the  endowments of      
common sense1 simply because brainless  
men are disposed  to seek out the       
effeminate and the frail in preference  
to the rugged  and the well-endowed1    
then she must suffer the consequences4  
,if a  young lady1 compelled to toil for
 support1 will prefer the factory or    
the store1 with its hot air and         
depressing associations1 to work in  the
 home1 because she hopes in the store or
 factory to secure the  hand and heart  
of a husband sooner than elsewhere1 she 
must suffer  accordingly4 ,but if woman 
will unite in securing a reform in this 
direction1--if the pure and the virtuous
 will say1 ,such a life as is  offered  
me in the family is in harmony with my  

future well-being1 and  ,i will scorn   
the allurements elsewhere held out1 and 
fit myself1 by  study1 for companionship
 with the noble of the land1 she will   
succeed4  ,if woman will respect        
herself1 she will be respected4    ,it  
is not by clamoring for rights that have
 been conferred upon  others2 it is not 
by restless discontent1 by partisan     
appeals1 by  stepping out of her        
,god-given sphere1 and by attempting to 
destroy the  network of holy influences 
by which he ever has surrounded her2 it 
is  not by ridiculing marriage and      
casting scorn on motherhood1 that she   
is to obtain the blessings she courts1  
but by tranquilly laboring  under this  
heaven-imposed law of obedience4        
,woman's weakness is  transmuted into   
strength when she opens her nature to   
the influences  of love1 and when she   
consecrates herself to the happiness of 
others4  ,then it is she obtains a moral
 and spiritual power to which man  is   
glad to do homage4 ,ambition1 pride1    

wilfulness1 or any earthly  passion1    
will distort her being4 ,she struggles  
all in vain against  a divine           
appointment4 ,it is from the soul of    
meekness that the true  strength of     
womanhood is derived2 and it is because 
it has its root in  such a soil that it 
has a growth so majestic1 showering its 
blessing  and fruits upon the world4    
,it was the sun and the wind that in the
 fable strove for the mastery2  and the 
strife was for the traveller's cloak4   
,the quiet moon had  nought to do with  
such fierce rivalry of the burning or   
the blast2  but as in her tranquil orbit
 she journeys round the world1 she      
gently  sways the tides of the ocean4   
,woman's influence resembles that       
exerted  by the queen of night4 ,in the 
conflicts of life she has little to do2 
but her influence is felt from the      
cradle to the grave1 and the sphere  of 
it is the whole region of humanity4     
,woman's worst enemy is he who  would   
cruelly lift her out of her sphere1 and 

would try to reverse the  laws of ,god  
and of nature in her behalf4 ,they      
deceive woman who cause  her to believe 
that she will find independence when she
 abandons the  position assigned her by 
her ,creator1 and reaches one against   
which  her nature1 the interests of     
society1 and the laws of ,god contend4  
,woman has her sphere and her work1 and 
she is only happy when she  finds       
pleasure in lovingly1 patiently1 and    
faithfully performing the  duties and   
enacting the relations that belong to   
her as woman4 ,she is  not the natural  
head of society4 ,man1 rough1 stern1    
cold1 and almost  nerveless1 is made to 
be the head of human society2 and woman1
 quick1  sensitive1 pliant 7as her name 
indicates71 gentle1 loving1 is the      
heart of the world4 ,as the heart1 she  
has power4 ,she rules through  love1 and
 finds the work set for her to do in the
 doors opening before  her loving       
nature4 ,she rules through love1 and    
becomes a blessing  greater than we can 

ever acknowledge1 because it is greater 
than we  can measure4 ,let woman take   
heart4 ,she is not in captivity4 ,the   
law of  service is on her1 as it is on  
man4 ,much of her service consists in   
suffering2 much of man's consists in    
toil4 ,before both there are  fields of 
endeavor1 white with beckoning harvests4
 ,in literature1 in  reforms1 in        
ministering to the wants and woes of    
humanity1 in making  home more and more 
like heaven1 woman has an open door set 
before her1  which no man will desire to
 close4 ,let her enter it and work4     
,there  is a law of companionship far   
deeper than that of uniformity and      
equality1 or similarity--the law which  
reconciles similitude and               
dissimilitude1 the harmony of contrast1 
in which what is wanting on  the one    
side finds its complement on the other2 
for1--      ,heart with heart and mind  
with mind1    ,when the main fibres are 
entwined1      ,through ,nature's skill1
    ,may even by contraries be joined   

,more closely still4    ,such was the   
exquisite companionship of the sexes as 
they were  represented by our first     
parents1 and such1 however they may be  
momentarily disturbed1 they will remain1
 as the ideal for all the  generations  
of men and women4 ,let woman repose her 
trust in man1 and  then1 lifting up her 
heart1 she may sing1--      ,though     
,god's high things are not all ours1    
',tis ours to look above2    ,all is not
 ours to have and hold1      ,but all is
 ours to love4