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    312 OUR TEN THOUSAND.

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    Tomed War ! War Since ! Is 1848 The Cry ...

    face each to other face ' s and ashes shoot to the eacli winds other . down The , onl or with advance shot w and e seem shell to scatter have y

    ma ch sure ariots d l y , is than that Thi in of s the warring murdering times of of 1 nation our bows nei against ghbours and arrows nation more , as spears quickl yet we y and and only armed more read

    . these of ; safe fearful in our sig island hts , althoug home h we even have in not Eng been land calle there d to are look weep upon ing

    be eye spared s and aching the sight hearts of blood mourning ! Yet for in Eng their land slain there . Long is war may _, needed and - we a requiring much heroismrand braveryas are

    now war on the plains as of Italy , in Indi , cou a , ag China e , , or wherever , the dread read Bellona in history reigns , of and a famed for this " ten battle thousand -field women " wholed are on wanted by a . heroic We

    ,, leader " ten thousand , performed " now miracles who of will daring enrol and themselves were successful as the . soldiers "We want of

    truth against falsehood , of virtue against vice , of justice against oppression , of light against darkness ; in short , soldiers command of the cross is

    "led Take on , not the by an cross earthl and y , follow but by me a . Divine " "I who leader am whose the the truth up way , , and the life . "

    There is now the conflict of great principles going on , the battle the to of good hear chill the and flutt evil ering , and of the of the the contest irits wings of waxes darkness of the fierce angels as and they of strong li keep ght , watch : and we to seem and feel

    presence sp guard over their respective hosts . Why are the laborers still so few in number when so much work is waiting * to be done ? An

    isolated woman here and there appears , and by her own unwearied exertions performs a thousand offices of mercy , so unlooked for and

    so out 'of the usual monotonous embroidery life of the sex ., that at first , the public , startled from its cherished and hugged opinion of

    woman ' s passiveness and negativeness , does not feel certain whether to praise or blame . At lengthafter much discussion about the

    , " domestic hearth" and home duties , it being * proved beyond all gainsaying that there is not a single flaw in this worker whose soul

    is exception steeped " in and the honored heavenly according dew of l charity y . Yet , these she is one accepted twoor as dozen " an

    , , , have " excep ever tional been women doing " since are the only dawn doing of Christianit what hundreds y , and of doing the , not sex

    from necessity , but from the love of God and love of their neighbour .

    Emerging as we now seem to be from the denseness of a material no age , the or latent time and however flickering antagonistic spiritualism can , th extinguish at Divine element is in manifold which

    forms age gushing , upwards , struggling for , vent , as from , supposed extinct volcanoes the heavenward flames again burst forth . We

    have slept a long sleep , and the watchmen now call , " Women arise , you are wanted . " Not here and there , not a dozen or two , but

    hundreds . As in the days of old when our ancestral sisters

    312 Our Ten Thousand.

    312 OUR TEN THOUSAND .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/24/