Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-26
destruction. Walter Scott has written
the truest, and finest unipspircd thing
that was ever said about women in
the we'll known lines:

that was ever said about women in
the we'll known lines:
60 Woman. in our hours Of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And va,i.blo as the shade
BY the light quivering aspen made
When pain aud anguish wiring the brow,
A mipistering angel thouw
Christianity was tho first system
that took notice of women. That in
comparable character drawn by the
divine pencil rested his philosophy on
Love, and found it's promptcst echoes
in the female heart. Here for the
first time in the history of the world
do we find great teacher gathering
around him band of women-asso
ciated with him by the most delicate
and tender rclations-so far as we
know with no pretensions to intellect,
but bound to him by Lore which
followed him to the Tomb. We find
him going through every city and
village "and tho twelve were
with him, and certain women, which
had been healed of evil spirits and IT,
firmities, Mary called Magdalcnc, out
of whom went seven devils, and
Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Ierod's
steward, and Susanna, and many
others, which ministered unto him of
their substance" Then there is that
exquisite account Of the faith of the
Syro.Phenician woman with her
"Truth, Lord yet the dogs eat of the
crumbs which fall from tho masters
table''-and that vivid sketch of. the
woman of Samaria at Jacobs Well
and the widow Of Main with her dead
child and that woman whom he pro-
tectcd with that infinite sympathy,
"He that is without sin among you,
let him cast the first stone at herr
and those sisters Of Lazarus with their
/" Lord, if thou had'st been here, our
brother had not dicd''-and that
woman (which was a sinner" who
brought "an alabaster box of oint-
ment," and "did wash his feet with
tears, and did wipe them with the
hairs Of her head"-and then Ito
which we have referred) "Mary Mag
dalene, and that other Mary, weeping
at the sepulchre."
And the inspired penman in the
Acts of the Apostles carries on the
narrative of the early church -''Thcse
all continued in prayer and supplica-
tion, with the women, and Mary the
mother of Jesus, and his brethren"
It was Rhoda, ga damscl," who met
Peter delivered. out Of prison it was
Lydia of Thyatira that entertained
Paul-"if ye have Judged me faith
full "-in her house it was ut Bera
that "many honorable women
believed and there are the "four
daughters Of Philip" at Ccsarca-and
Dorcas- Priscilla-and Urbanc-
Tryphena and Tryphosa-Euodias and
Syntiche-and Claudia-and the
select lady"-and the household of
Chloe.
And it is upon woman-we say it
with reverence-that the Christian
Church rests now. They arc, as every
minister will testify, the life of every
living congregation. From them goes
forth the spirit of love, and of conse-
Grafton, which vitalizes the struggling
principle of Christianity. 1t is by
them chiefly that is illustrated all that
is "true," all that is "pure," all that
is lovely" all that is of "good re-
port" every "virtue," and every
"praise" that makes human life en-
durable. All this comes from the
simple circumstance that women are
more docile and tractable than men.
Men strive to the last women soon
bend before the stern discipline of
life, and open their hearts to the
lessons of wisdom-and once initiated
into the philosophy of selfRenuncia.
ton, the unfathomed depths of
:Woman's Love never cease to- flow
until the springs are sealed by the icy
wand and touch of death.
IT, 10 paf1 IN por;o.4b.+, ,,~.n l-.