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not helpful summed ; or having or no ev time en ob and served place and at which mistakes , to render therefore account ield , results no fruit are . up y
whether 4 Union is as strength regards , ' the in many Bible- way women s , and , or in their none Ladies more than . Each in social one conference then learns ,
that can trul hers is witness not the that only our sphere Ladies , nor and her p women lans the have only taug successful ht one ones another . We as God has y taught each of them , and with far less chatter and gossip than is said
to " mark Every women Christian 's work woman in general has some . faculty , if she would find it out . She hel Is fitted one for some at particular a time service It is , onl and as she she ma hel y learn ps to what fulfil it God Is in ' s purposes trying to
that p her work person will endure . . And when y we think for a moment on what God's wh great eth purposes er of man must or woman be , how to instantaneousl its level y does and it shut bring out every at once human the work pride , proper
, , and vanity of the creature . " The author of ieEarning 1 a Living" enters more fully Into tlie
subject : — " One great cause of our deficiencies labor in the There care is of the teacher poor is of the childhood want of
like an organized a woman system no nurse of Women of the ' sick s like . a woman no no ministrations at the domestic hearth ; like those of a woman . When once ; the heart of a woman has
been In works won to of the mercy love . of The Christ truth , it is of her this happ is iness attested , her b deli y the ght , large to be numb employed er of voluntary workers among us ; not only would that number be immensely
increased , their work would be rendered more useful and stable , if it were conducted on a fixed plan . all In orders desiring vows an and organization institutions for Woman interference ' s Work in in the short Church whatever _y we deprecate with the ; any
conventional , usages , of society , so far as those usages , are , in accordance , with ference the spirit whatever and precepts with the of Christianity question of . marriage We especiall . Let y a deprecate woman's all devoting
interherself should she to the wish service to of the than Church it is to be a no man more to a take hindrance orders . to Iree her marriage labor for , Christ in a free home marry is what , we claim for women . "
And in a page or two further on , the difficult question of voluntary or forced labor is discussed . She asks :-
—To " hel What p in do the we missionary want , then and ? charitable What do work we claim which in men beh have alf of alread womanhood y under- ?
taken such , , for and Instance to add , to as it nursing such objects the sick as , may teaching be peculiarl women y their suitable domestic to our duties sex ; , & c . We want women to be allowed to render their fair share of help ; not
nised up the , volunteer according efficient , and to hel their but of to own those o often inclination whose desultory business , their , help leisure it of is those to hours the who due ; have but discharge the only recog to fill of
which , their life is p devoted . Except , however , as , the clergyman ' s wife , and number missionary in ' our s wife country , the Eng or lish those woman who — , the and A , let postle us remember tells us , are , how the large most is free the
we has to attend have no fixed before upon or said the responsible , service she happens of duty the to in Lord hav the e without Church money and distraction open time to her at , the her . If , Unmarried own , indeed disposal , — as ,
in she comparision may volunteer with a few those services of the ; but regul , after ar lab all orer , these . * services Ah ! ' said can be one but of small this class once to a more favored individual' how happy you are ! You have
, onl a portion y like of the the little Lord errand ' s work -boy assi , gned who to run you s , here a place and in there the household on a job . occa I am
sionally !'
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342 NOTICES CXF BOOKS-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/54/
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