The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-04-27
WoMAs's MISSION.


There are those wac regard the spiritual or
ganization Of man and woman to be one and
the same modified by circumstances; the supe-
Tior strength Of the man, by means OF which
through longages and before machinery existed
he was enabled to build, fight, and dogreater
things to reduce to order a world as yet unmeet
for him, and also to keep and reign over what
he had won-and the lesser strength Of the
woman, the natural position Of wife and moth
er--have been the circumstances, they say,
sufficient to account for all mental difference;
but that, let an accident, or rather,let some
great moral necessity appear, and the woman
is found to act boldly, constantly, and with
the judgement Of the man; while he if crn
cumstances require it. evinces tenderness as
deep, and sensblity as subtle, as she ever
manlests.
This view of the case may be the right one
may be the enc that time shall prove true on
earth and inso Othersphere, ply ysical strength
equalized, its necessity perchance gone, sex
destroyed, the streams Of light descending
from the Infinite on each, shall be known to
be the the same, differing only in degree.
There is, however, some word differing from
this that seems truer to US, and we shall SPEAK
with diffidence; for it is very clear that we
know little, man or woman, Of our being, and
true work, or the spirit that should inform the
latter. Our wisdom, too, halts behind the
little that we do know: but belief that God
made man and woman, is guiding their destiny
on earth, and that the result can be no world.
wide mistake, is strong within US. The phys
ical, the material world is to become spiritual
ized-is to speak to our whole natures; and it
is evident now, that some few ages hence there
will be an almost universal demand among us,
not SO ruch for each others work, as for the
motive for such work. Looking forward
through the seeming endless vista Of the worlds
future the Imagination becomes warmed, pu-
rifed, exalted, by the sight of those nUble
workers. Self gone from among them. with
ambition, love Of distinction, and self compla-
Cency, untringly we see them SOW and reap
on the shores Of the great eternity, knowing
that the little blossom they rear will be gath-
cred by the Eternal. and in the meantime,
make the air around rich with its fragrance
No matter whittier it be borne-how silent Its
minIsny-the little seed shall be sown with
most earnest care, watched with sublimest
patience; yet all their fellows see perchance
is a smile that seemeth to them not OF earth
for the wind may have borne the fragrance
aloft, and just yet it descendeth not. But is
real work OF FALL kinds, in the future or present
time, to be done unfortunately by man or
woman! and, if so, why we're two likes crea-
ted! and we cannot hold that the question OF
sex, or its result, is a sufficient answer Man
was not forme for bread alone,' but is man
in virtue Of his soul, that has chosen for IL
self, indeed, SO beautiful temple that we
can only approach it with reverence, and find
in It endless subject for grateful admiration.
But this, in all its beauty, is but the altar, not
the sucrifce, and has TO be obedient to the
soul, which is the Alpha and Omega Of the
whole matter; man, in short, that which lives
after him engraven on the marble or the page
THAT which the angels welcome to their
home, and to which God shall say, well
done!'
The work Of the present and the future is
work for individuals; each is to work after
his kind doing the thing he is best fitted to do
right earnestly; the result Of such work on the
community, is a secondary affair, conse-
quence, wise, loving ordinance Of God,
which consequence reacts again and again,
it may be on the individual who is the cause.
Then, real social life, mutual help and symoa-
thy, arc not only words, but represent living
truth. And man cannot live gracious whole