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marked by an enlargement of woman's sphere of action. Born in the light, she does not fear the light.

Intellect scorns all barriers of sex and circumstances. An educated people should immediately recognize the inherent equality of man and woman. The gifts of nature are equally diffused in both sexes; all of the pursuits of man are the pursuits of woman also, and in all of them woman is only a lesser man. Pecuniary dependence leads woman into multiform misfortunes. She needs employment which shall mete out an equitable reward. She needs to be rescued from the encroachments of selfishness and materialism.

Trifling objects impart corresponding thoughts. Let woman strike for freedom, for a higher education, and, when circumstances compel, for self-support. Let her character be strengthened by obedience to the demands of the inner life. Both men and women are equally accountable to God for the right and proper use of all their talents, faculties and powers. Each is to do the best he or she can to promote

the best interests of the race and each other.

There is nothing ignominious in approximate avocations between the sexes. Their pursuits are only varied according to talent, taste and capacity. The best possible brain is as much a necessity for one sex as for the other; their rights, privileges and duties are the same; neither man nor woman can adequately perform their mission in life separately; man can never do his best without the inspiration and support of congenial woman, and woman should seek her work in vigorous and sympathetic co-operation with some congenial man.

Man needs the co-operation of woman; he cannot evolve his own excellences, neither can he manage anything intricate or complicated without her. Man can always find a wiser counsel and truer sympathy in woman than in man.

There is a mingling of the motherly and sisterly instinct, by which all true and fine feminine natures are moved, in behalf of the masculine nature in its first dawn, that so needs sympathy, and gentle consideration and provision, and that certain respect which calls forth and fosters self-respect;to be allowed and acknowledged to be somebody, lest for the want of this it should fail, unhappily, ever to be anybody. Woman can give a joy, can soothe a disappointment and make some heart conscious, for a moment, of the great warmth of human welcome and human sympathy. Nature always responds favorably to complete sincerity and sweet generosity. She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd;

And I loved her that she did pity them.

Culture and refinement gives woman the power to persuade, advise, judge, but in no wise to issue authoritative commands.

Nature is fine, in Love; and where 'tis fine,

It sends some precious incense of itself

After the thing it loves.

Woman is an essential element of perfect health and happiness to the soul of man. The ardor with which a pure woman, generous and noble in her sympathies, will enter into her trusted friend's choicest states of soul, is a redemptive sight. They will look into your eyes and see you think; listen to your voice and hear you feel. This capacity of swift perception and sympathy makes the friendship of woman a precious boon to a man who aims at greatness or perfection. There has seldom been an illustrious man who has not been appreciated, comforted and inspired by some noble woman, long before he became famous, circling around him with her unselfish ministrations like that star which is the invisible companion of Sirius.

The sexes are balanced in importance and position; balanced perfectly in their relation to each other; their duties

are reciprocal; their destinies identical, but they are not each other's equal in the same spheres of life; they are related from opposite sides of the universe, and there will ever remain a physiological and psychological difference between them.

The nuptial contrasts are the poles

On which the heavenly spheres revolve.

A positive pole implies and demands a negative-and yearns for it-even as human hearts call for love, as the flowers call for the sun's affectionate embrace.

Man in himself is both wisdom and love, and woman in herself is both love and wisdom. It is as great to be a woman as to be a man; and there is nothing greater than the mother of men. The universe has nothing better than

the best womanhood.

Truth and love are the poles of humanity; man must both see and feel the Christ-principle. By this principle, he shall be saved from hatreds, imperfections, perversions and aversions throughout the world. There should be a universal and unextinguishable philanthropy; this is the spirit of love, the spirit of Christ. Woman must give out the light and beauty received from this Divine love-principle. True Christianity, as well as true Democracy, proclaims the emancipation of all men and all women. Let woman

Be free in the strength that the hero puts on
When he tramples the thrones in his wrath;
Let the nations rejoice in the way thou hast gone,
Let the dungeons fall down in thy path.

And stay not thy footsteps, and sheath not thy brand,

Till Love reigneth over each jubilant land.

And each heart clings to heart, and each hand joins to hand,
And a voice like the voice of the sea,

It Is Finished! responds to the Father's command,

And the Earth like the Heaven, is Free!

PART THIRD.

HOME.

HARMONY IN THE FAMILY IS PRODUCTIVE OF HARMONY IN THE INDIVIDUAL.

Of all the blessings enjoyed by human beings, there is none better or more desirable than a cheerful, harmonious home. It is, therefore, the first duty of every one to endeavor to promote the most amicable relations in the home circle.

When love reigns over all, then all will be right. No matter how humble the abode, if it be thus garnished with goodness and sweetened with kindness, the heart will turn longingly toward it from all the world's tumults; and home, though it be ever so homely, is the dearest spot on earth.

We should not make any person or creature the receptory of superfluous spleen. A single bitter word may disquiet an entire family for a whole day. Woman should diffuse an atmosphere of cheerfulness and serenity. The smile, like a gleam of sunshine, may light up the darkest and weariest hours like unexpected flowers which spring up along our pathway, diffusing freshness, fragrance, beauty.

We have not begun to use kind words in such abundance as we ought. Kind words and watchful sympathy are potent to promote domestic bliss. How much good we might do with a sweet smile and a kind word! A word fitly spoken may change the whole career of a human being.

Moroseness breeds moroseness, and a murmuring voice soon hears its own echo. Manners take a tincture from our Imitation predominates in childhood; parents should

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live an example of unselfishness and noble-mindedness, if they would have their children become so. Judicious train

ing in a true home will give us young men firm and yet tender-hearted, whose taste instinctively shuns what is low and vulgar, and hence saves them from temptation which otherwise might prove fatal. How careful should parents be to make sunny, joyous, bright and attractive, their homes, for on them is built the great fabric of the years to come. The long chain of life-experience and life-time memories begin there and thought retravels the path so often, lingering here and there by the way, living over and over again the sunny spring-time memories. They, too, should instil into every member of their families not only a love for truth, honor and virtue, but also a love for temperance, correct living and all the health commandments which are needful to healthful life.

To make a home is one of the greatest and most useful studies of life. Children should choose and invent amusements at home and practice them there, and thus form ideas of such a home as they would wish to have their children enjoy.

Let there be no unpleasant remembrance to cast a shadow behind. We should be dominated by tenderness, refinement and the spirit of true politeness. For, in virtue of the law of association of ideas, it inevitably results, both in young and old, that dislike is contracted toward things, which, in our experience, are habitually connected with disagreeable feeling. The associations of childhood should be sweet and consoling; no painful remembrance of wrongs or unkindness, or of the bitternesses that emanate from a narrow sphere.

We should have a bosom full of compassion for the dear May our children never remember their parents by

ones.

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