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    • XLV.—THE POSITION OF WOMAN.
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      The English Woman's Journal.

      THE ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL .

      PUBLISHED MONTHLY .

      Vol. Yi. January 1, 1861. No. 35.

      Vol . _yi . January 1 , 1861 . No . 35 .

      Xlv.—The Position Of Woman.

      XLV . —THE POSITION OF WOMAN . A IiECTUBE DEIIYERED IN _GLASGOW , OCTOBER 7 , 1860 . BY THE EEY . H . W . C .

      " Whosoever My Shall Brother Do , The An...

      " Whosoever my shall brother do , the and will sister of , and my Father mother which . "—Matthew is in heaven xii . 50 , . the same is

      As in the character of God , and in Jesus Christ , there is a ming so in ling" of just the human two elements character we these term masculine same elements and feminine must be ,

      every blended womanl ; " the the true true man woman must have must much have within much within him that her is that , " pure is

      y , manl For y . the perfecting our very thought of Godwe need as an

      , essential element the woman's heart—those attributes peculiarly feminine are those peculiarly worshipful . I suppose , most of us in

      childhood , in our transgressions have confessed to our mother first ; in our misfortunes have run first to her knee ; in our fears have

      cried first to her name ; wakening in the terrible dark , have refused have to be felt pacified a sli , save ht imp by atience her voice when . I bab imag y ine would most not of let us , us fathers quiet ,

      him , * resisting g our _caresses , struggling against our attentions , * but was still in a moment when mamma took him in her arms .

      in In our our weariness sins and and strugg dreaming les ; in ; our it is wilfulness just this mother and waywardness ' s heart the ;

      soul seeks for in its God—just this mother ' s heart . The man , with his intense passionshis stern , struggleshis weary wanderings , his

      > , beni sence ghted he can dreams rest , without craves still a fear his mother and whose in heaven smile —in can whose still pre the

      -, anguish of his cry—into whose unslumbering ear he can pour the tale of a broken lifeassured of no scornful contempt , —whose eye

      will note the lineaments , of childhood ' s fairness beneath the wrinkles of manhood's caresand whose judgments will look more to the

      ; possibilities If those element of the s future which than in human to the speech degradation we term of the masculin past . e and

      feminine are blended in the loftiest conception of God ; and the soul in its fondest trust clings unto Him as mother and father in one

      VOI / . VI . X " >

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    • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/1/