Columbia gazette., 1854-04-08
MISCELLANY.
WOMAN'S MISSION.

The longer live, the less grows my
sympathy with women, who are always
wishing themselves men. I cannot but
believe that all in life that is truly no.
bic, truly good, truly desirable, God be-
slows upon us women in an unsparine
measure as upon men. He only de-
sires US, ia his great benevolence, to
stretch forth our hands and to gather for
ourselves the rich joys Of intellect, Of
nature, of study, of action, Of love, and
| of usefulness, which He has poured forth
around us. Let us only cast aside the
false, silly wells of prejudice and fashion,
which ignorance has bound around our
eyes; let US lay bare our souls to Gods
sunshine of truth and love; let us exer-
else the intelligence which He has be-
slowed on us upon; worthy and noble OBJ
jects, and THIS intelligence may become
keen as that of men; and the paltry high
heels and whaleboue supports of mere
drawing-room conventionality and young
ladyhood withering up, we shall stand in
humility before God, and proudly and
.rejoicingy at the side of man! Differ
cnt always, but not less nobly, less rich
ly endowed And all thss we may do
| without losing one jot or one title of
our womanly spirit, but rather attain
solely to these good, these blessed gifts,
through prayerful and earnest devcl-
opment of those gems of peculiar purity,
of tenderest deEicacy and refinement,
with which our Heavenly Father has so
especially endowed the woman. Let
beauty and grace, spiratual and eternal,
be the garments of our souls. Let love
be the very essence of our being-lovc
of God, of man, and Of the meanet Gre
ated thing-lovc that is strong to endure,
strong to renounce, strong to achieve
Alone through the strength Of love-
the noblest, the most refined of all
strength-our blessed Lord himself hav-
ing lived and died teaching to us-have
great and good women hitherto wrought
their noble deeds in the world; and
alone through the strength of an all-em-
bracing love will the noble women who
have yet to sriAe. work noble works or
enact noble deeds. Let US emulate, if.
you will, the strength Of determination
which we admire in men, their earnest
ness and 6rmness of purpose, their un-,
wearying energy, their largeness of vis-
ion; but let as never sigh after their low
er so-caaed privilege, which, when they
are sifted with thoughtful mind, are
found to be the mere husks and ehaf of
the rich grain belonging to humanity,
and net alone to men. The assumption
Of masculine airs or of maseulae attire,
or of the absence of tenderness and
womanhood in mistaken struggle after
strength, can never sit more gracefully
upon US tlfan do the mems old hats, and
great coats, and boots, upon the poor
old gardencresses Of the English garden.
Let such of us as have devoted ourselves
to the study of an art-the Interpreter
to mankind at large of Gods beauty
especially remember s,-that the high
est ideal in life, as well as in art, has
ever been the blending of the beautiful
and the tender with the strong and the
intellectual l.-Mies Hoscitts Ayt- Stu
dent an Maa,ioa.
SEVEN MEN HuNe ON THE SAME
T&EE.-The Ca1averas Chronicle says,
the old eak upon which the Swiss horse
thief Schwartz or Black, was recently
hung by portion Of the citizens of Jack
son, has become famed for being the
point from which the mob-tried GRIMM
ais have made their exit. This makes
the seventh who has paid the forfeit Of
his life, without law or Judge, on this
tree. The Chror.cle says that Judge
Emo has iss.ied warrants for the arrest OF