Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-08-24
Woman.

We copy the following extract from Rev +
ID. Fulton s sermon, Woman and the Bible -
In the first two chapters of Genesis we see
woman as God made her. In the third chapter
we see woman as sin despoied her. In the
story OF Matthew or Luke we sec woman as
Christ redeemed her. In Eve woman lost her
recognition. Through Christ she regained it.
From the ruin Of Eve to the restoration in Mary
the history of this world resembles deep val
ley filled with death, sorrow and gloom. Wo.
man occasionally shOne forth in beauty, in yalor.
IN song, but the light only revealed the general
gloom, and the pervading DEGRADATION which
enveloped her life.
1t IS at this point well 20 survey the field. In
Adam death came. In Christ life was offered to
all: Bethlehem with its manager is set over a.
galnst Eden with its bower.
Inc purposes OF God run on. Hence we are
sure that Gods idea of woman is vet to bless
the world What sin DESTROYED Christ came n
restore, and more than TO restore, Cbrist Is
woman saviour, redeemer and deliverer. and
she reJolces In Him as strong tower into which
the weary and heavy-aden may run and be
saved great rock in a weary land in the
shadow Of which there is rest and protection.
oman, said one author, is campapion
whom God has given to man to charm his ey-
lstence, and to enlarge it by sharing it With an
other Woman Is not only helper for man,
but helper IKE to himself. She ought tc
march along as bis equal; and it is only in this
condition that she can bring TO him the assist
ance which he requires But II is. neyerthe
less, a secondary and dependent place. for wc
man was formed after and was made for man
taken from man. The man Is the imape and
glory ut Fod, but the woman the glory Of the
man.
Such being the order OF creation, il is in vain
to cry out against it. Thy desires shall be-
unto thy husband. He shall rule over thee
Woman Is compelled 70 look to her husband for
all that she desires He.e is her increased de-
pendence and her need TO live under his au
'holity; Against this view many revolt and
yet such Is the mercy OF God, that the moment
in which he humbles woman is also the moment
IN which he eonters upon her ministry greater
ana more humane than ever, and promises to
give to man through her the longed-tor Re-
deemer, who shall be called the seed Of the
woman.
Thus Scripture instructs Us and nsrrre teaches
the same lesson.
W hen man goeth forth from his house and
gives himself to his labor until the evening. he
chooses outward activity for his task, public life
Tor bis domain, the world for his theatre
But 1t is altogether different with woman
The heart Is her theatre. the domestic life bar
sphere, the Indoor activity her work, and the
long halr, with which the apostle is pleased 10
see her covered, is an emblem of an entire ex.
lstenee, hidden and silent, in the bosom Of
which she accomplishes most faithfully and
most honorably the primary obligations Of her
sex.
we sometimes see that ia promoting the good
OF man, woman is called to depart from the
way prescribed to her. and it NAV be to nro.
phesy, as the woman of Corinth, as the fonr
daughters OF Philip the deacon, or as the moth.
er of King LemueL. But then as ever, aside
from what is essential to the extraordinary min.
lstry with which she is clothed, she should re-
main woman, and should withdraw herself
from the eyes Of the world Ida Lewis. who
went to the rescue Of the drowning mariners
and BY her skill and strength rescued them
from Watery grave, refuses to be made man
OF, ana hides herself behind the glory of her