Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-01-24
FEMALE INFLUENCE.

manner concerning the power and influence
which females can exert in pleading the
cause oftbe needy:
"The great body of the people want heat
as well as light, in order 10 act I'D to the
high mark of the divine requirement. And
who can make appeals so thrilling, and SO
efieciual, and SO irresistible, as that sex
whose hearts are strung with the more vivid
and active sensibiIities Of our nature. and
whose very tones are eIoquence, and spon-
taDeously body forth the deep feelings of the
inmost spirit! III wished to ask back nv
forfeited life, even from tyrant's bloody
hand, would have roman 10 beg FOR me-
Her logic is brief, while her entreaties are
not easily shaken Off Let this sex, warmed
by the love of heaven, aud deeply commits
Grating the present degradation and the
fearful prospects Of the benighicd heather,
or the hardly less benighted Papist, turn
td1-g0fhcrerS, and the missionary box is
soon filled by kind OF voluntary compul-
sion. Not only their own sex, but men
will giye-some because they love the en-
terprise, and some because they love ardor
and energy in woman, and others because
they are ashamed to deny the request OF
lady. The history of the last twenty-five
years, if it were written in all the minutes
ness of detail, would show the amazing
moral power of the female sex in furnishing
the means for prosecuting the cause Of
Christian missions. Some have done il by
their appeals 10 others, some BY their own
liberalliy, aud not few by their deep per.
sonal self-denials
Pious females Can do much to promote
missionary spirit.
They always have done this. IF woman
acted a conspicuous part in the ruin Of our
world, so she has in its redemption. love
to read the story Of those good women who
followed Jesus Christ from place to place
and minstered to the wants of this heavenly
mssionary-and of those honorable wo.
men, mot a few who believed the gospel
and stood by the first missionaries of the
cross, even when the storms Of persecution
gathered around them, and beat upon their
holy heads ! To say nothing here of the
peculiar power of women to plead with elo-
quence and effect, the cause Of moral refine
ment and heavenly truth, to which have
already adverted, who can be impelled 10
this work by stronger saotires, than those
which are addressed to her II is only un-
der the form of pure. evangelical Christi.
anity, that woman is permitted to take her
own proper rank in society, and to enjoy
those rights which God has secured 10 her
by the constitution of nature, and in his cwn
written laws. The Pagan female is slave
and The Catholic is but little better.-If
you will look the world over with an Impair
tial eye, | challenge you to deny the truth
Of this remark.
PaganiSm and Romanism have always had
the heart fixed intensely on common obiec,
the exaltation of the priesthood in con.
nection with The political power, rand the
depression of the people. And wherever
the people, as such, have been crushed by
the combined powers Of church and state.
there individual iyrants have tro6den upon
the rights, and spurned the virtues of wo-
men.-Look over the benighted realms OF
Paganism, and let the heart bleed for the e.
male sex. Here is dark picture of tyran-
J ny and suffering. Look over those popu-
lous lands where an impure and false Chris.
tanity has blighted everything fair and prom
ising in society. and where will you find fc.
J males What rank do they sustain: and
what is their moral character speak no,
OF Individuals, but ofthe mass! You will
find them in the field holding in the hand
the implements Of husbandry, or upon the
highway, occupying the place of beasts Of
burden. And what is woman in the hands
of "a corrupt priesthood ? would not own
sister, or mother, or daughter, who
+ would 90 to "THE CONFESSIONAL" and an.
swer the questions which must be,propound.
ed at the stall Of Belialw
. EpUcArroS. The following brief but beau.
iiul passage occurs in late article In Frazer,r
Magazine Education does not commence
with the alphabet. II begins with the moth.
eI's look--a ialheI's nod of appreciation, or q
sigh of reprooi-wiih sisters gentle pressure
of the hand, or brothers. noble act of forbear.
ance--with handfulls ofhowers in free and dai,
sy mradows--with birds nests admired but moi
touched-with creeping ants, and almost EN-.
meis-wiih humming bees and glassi beehives
with pleasant walks in shady lanes-and with
thoughts directed in sweet and kindly tones and
words TO nature, TO beauty, to acts OF benevo-
lence, to deeds of virtue, and Of the sense of all
good to God himself"
GorERNMENr CoNrRAcT. We are clad "a
learn tina; our enierprsing fellow ownsn,cn,
Messrs, Kendall 4 Lawrence, have obtained 1
contract from The General Government. 70,
manufacturing rifles 10 the amount of some
10000. II could moi have been given 10 those
more capable ofdoing the job, or 10 those more
worthy OF patronage. Windsor journal,
I'm Encious Old Lady.--The Baltimore
Express tells OF an old woman who resides in
Hartford County, Md, who has most unhsp.
ny disposition. On one occasion she was
heard 10 say that she "begrudgpd poor people
the Itch, as it SEEMED TO give them SO much