The social circle. To mold characters to fashion herself and others after the model character of Christ. Her place is not on life's great battle-fields.
Man belongs there.
But woman must abide in the peaceful sanctuaries of home and walk in the noiseless vales of private life. There she must smile upon the father, the brother, the husband, when, returning like warriors from the fight, exhausted and covered with the dust of strife, they need to be refreshed by the sweet waters drawn from affection s spring and cheered to renewed struggles by the music of her voice. There, in a word, she must form the character of the world, and determine the destiny of her race. In this companion instructional text, Rev. Wise poetically defines the place of woman and her divine calling as a spiritual beacon amidst a dark world. Yet home for the Itinerant s wife could not be a place.