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    344 NOTICES OF BOOKS*

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    practical : the last we cite treats of the same subject , but In its theoretical and religious aspect . The author of _" Mary , the

    Handmaid of the Lord / ' treats the subject of " Woman ' s Service" in itshigh and spiritual character .

    We all know what it is to feel depressed and disheartened—to feel ourselves so small in comparison to the greatness of the work before

    us—the success achieved so inadequate to the ardor of our aspirations—the efforts made so inferior to the necessity of the occasion ;

    —it is , then , well to have our thoughts raised above the crushing cares , the littlenesses of every-day life , to be able to look into the

    far beyond , and to have the blessed truth brought home to our souls , that no exertion , however feeble , made in God's service is unassisted

    hy His quickening grace , and that when this one desire is naade the stedfast rule of our life , doubts and difficulties will vanish

    and an inward peace of mind will be felt which can never be taken away .

    It is all this that the writer of this little work would impress upon the minds of her readers in her admirable treatise . We must

    be content with one extract : — uests . " The and Book _Hebekah which lifting shows the us Sarah itcher kneading of water the to t cakes he li for of Abraham the ' s

    g strang , , shows us also Deborah p , the mother in Israel , the ps poet and weary the heroine the bread , and Esther idleness , the ' and deliverer 4 rose while her ifc peo was ple yet . And niht of and her laid who her ' ate hands not

    to the spindle , ' it is written , , ' the heart of her husband g safe , ly trusted in , her , and her children arise up and call her blessed . '

    home " It t was oilin a t hi o g weav her lot e th eir w armen omen t t o and be the . servants their food the and ir hus then ban to ds be at their , counsellors g in perplexit g yas with the prepare old Germans , than to be

    enshrined in the sentimental visions , of a knight-errant , and , sit embroidering impossible lances for their flower smiles s and . impracticable The manlhonor battles of whilst those desponding old Goths was lovers worth bro all ke y

    the cordial languishing understanding idolatry from of troubadours those stanch and warriors transfixed would squires have out ; wei one g look hed all of the sihs of all the knihts and poets who ever broke lance or penned sonnet

    gg in nobler honor . The of their esteem mistresses of the ' one eyebrows contained , because more the true qualities reverence esteemed than all were the iiomage of the otherand loftier than all the titles romance or chivalry ever

    ; invented instead of are exalting the names it ; — it friend degrades , wife , the mother object . Worshi worshi p pped debases as well a creature as the worshipper . *********

    " The German ideal , penetrated and illumined by a higher , even that liomes which Jesus of Christian said was Europe God ' s of purpose England from and Eng the lish beginning America , has The ended romantic in the

    ideal sank into the Courts of , Charles II . and Louis XIV . The . conventional refinements which tend to deprive woman of work deprive her ; also of dignity .

    as and To from be his trul hel what y pmeet the is trul equal . Effeminacy manl and companion is as far of removed man , she from must what be his is trul fellow y womanl -worker y y .

    " But in that expression y , the handmaid of the Lord , ' much more is

    imp ment lied than and crown mere work of service . The is work submission must . be This service sentence and the , inwardl very commence y digested - , is the

    in the antidote various keys to restless in which ambition , the strings as much it , touches as to indolent are tune inactivity d , it may . Uttered be the

    344 Notices Of Books*

    344 NOTICES OF BOOKS *

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 344, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/56/