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290 THE POSITION OF WOMAN.
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" Whosoever My Shall Brother Do , The An...
heart—so in Jesus Christ we find the union of the masculine and the feminine ; the blending of the man ' s strength with the woman ' s
tenderness . He _whojcried" Woe unto yescribes , _Phariseeshypocrites I" -.. took
little children upon , His knee and , blessed them . , He who cried _^ Get _theeLbehindime , ; Satan ; " pardoned her that
was a sinner , because , she loved much . He who cried"If thy right eye offend theepluck it out ; " prayed ,
, , " Father _" IfHh , forg soul ive is them to , on fornthey into hi know gher-sp not iritual what blessedness they do . " " writes
F . W . Newman y "it go must become a woman ; yes , however , manly thou be among , men . It must learn to love being dependent ; and
must lean on God , not solely from distress or alarm , but because it does not like independence or solitude . It must not have recourse
to Him merely as a friend in need under the strain of duty , the battering of afflictionand the failure of human sympathy ; but it must
press towards Him , when there _is no need . It must love to pour out its thoughts to Him for the pleasure of pouring them out . "
(" ' And The _^ Soul so'the , " p most . 99 . indep ) endent inen . are independent because ; they
depend upon a mightier power ; and so the strongest men are strong because they lean on amightier strength , not in distress , and alarm ,
but in trust and love . Thus also the noble woman has within her the spirit of the
-independent 1 man . A noble woman keeps her own being sacred . Love in its most absolute dependence can never forfeit the sanctities of
the - individual true man -soul has , in without a woman ceasing 's love to ¦ is be love that . it The is the very gift joy of , that her
independent any heart . And so the dependence , of woman in its most loving form is only sweet in proportion to the free '' manliness "of
her- independence itself . Nay ; the dependence of man upon woman is at least as . great as
that of woman upon man . Sometimes the world speaks as though it were woman in her weakness who is compelled to seek man ' s stronger
arm . My brethren , how often in life is it the man in his weakness who is compelled to seek woman in her strength ! Man in his
weakness—in his dull doubts and cynical , despairs , in his hard ¦•; selfishness and rude despotism— -man in his weakness , who has . to
renew his life at the fountain of a woman ' s love . The highest thought of God , then , includes the blending of those
elements typified on earth by the existence of men and women . The highest human characters include the blending of
these'selfsame elements—the true , man having within him somewhat of the noble woman , and the noble woman somewhat of the true . man . htof
I conclude , therefore , that what is true for the highest thoug _, ; God , and true for the highest human characters , is also true for the . world at large ; and that in the worldin the Stateand the Church ,
, , in the various occupations of life , the spirit and power of woman
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290 The Position Of Woman.
290 THE POSITION OF WOMAN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 290, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/2/
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