The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-08-25

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ate the beauty Of our fair friends
occasionally they are very besuti
ful. 49,, .....s ,.... ...... :.
q But the strength Of woman lies
in her practice of that highest o.
all moral achievements-that one
to which men rarely ever attend
in self:Renunciation. As wife, as
mother, as sister, as O mere mem
Der Of society, the Christian wo
man lives for the benefit Of others
and has ceased to have selfish aims
of her own. And this it is which
gives them their power in society
this it is which lays upon the
rudest men the spell which conse:
crates in their hearts the name OF
woman. 1t is this which saves
human society from disintegration
for the selfishness of men-that
for which ambition is only anoth.
er name-would lead them, If ur-
restrained, to mutual destruction.
Walter Scott has written the tru-
est, and finest, uninspired: thing
that was ever said, about women
in the we'll known lines:
20 Woman, in our hours Of ease, *
Uncertain. coy, and hard TO please, O.. =:
And variable as the shade =. ..->,-.,;
By the Fight euivering aspen made
When pain sad anguish wiring the brow,
A ministering angel shou !" ....,..;
Christianity was the first sys-
tenn that took notice Of women.
Thatincompsrable character drawn
by thedivine pencil rested isphi-
losophybon Love, and found its
promptest echoes in the female
heart. Here fortbe first time in the
history Of the world, do We. Hnd
q great teacher gathering around
him q baad of iwomen--associated
with him by the mostsd delicate and
tender relatioRs-so far as we
know, with no, paetensions to iptel-
.lsct, but bound to him by a love
which followed him to the Tomb:
We find him going through every
city and village . T ::sndTthe
were With him, and certain
women, which had beer healed OF
evil spirits and. sin6rmiiies, Mary
called Magdalene, out Of whom
went seven devils, and Joanna, the
wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and
Susanna, and many others, which
ministered unto him Of their sub.
stance" . Then there: is that ex-
quisite accounted the faith of the
Syro-PheniciaR woman with her
Truth, Lord; yet the dogs eat OF
the crumbs which fall from the
masters table"--and2 that vivid
sketch of the woman of Samaria
at Jacobs =Well-and he=widow
of Main with her7dead Echild-and
that woman whom he protected
with that infinite sympathy, "He
that is without sin among you, let
him cast the first stone,at her,
and those sisters Of Lazarus with
their aLord, if thou had'st been
here, our brother had not died.
and that woman (which was a
sinner" who brought ian alabas:
ter box of oiptment," and "did
wash his feet with tears, and did
wipe them with the: hairs; of her
:head"-and thea Ito which, we
have referred) "Mary Magdalene
and that other Mary, weeping al
the sepnlchre." :: :,-.;a :. : ~. -,
And the inspired ipenman in
the Acts of the APOSTLES carries or
the narrative of the early church
'aThese all continued in prayer
and supplication, with the women
and Mary the mother Of Jesus, ano
his brethren .~ ..,:,.:. =. ..
> It was Rhoda "a damsel," who
met Peter. delivered out of pris
on it was Lydia of Thyatira thai
entertained Paul-ssif ye have
:irdged me faithful "-in her house
it was at Bera that "many honor
able women" believed; and there
are the flour daughters Of Philip
Fat Cesarea-and Dorcas-and Pris
.cilla-and Urbane-Tryphena and
and SyRtieht
and Claudia-and the select Ia
rdy"-and the household of Chloe
And it is upon .woman-we say
it with reverence that the Chris
tian Church rests now. They are
as every minister will testify, tn
life Of every living congregation
From them goes forth the spiri
of love, and Of consecrati IN
which yitalizes the struggling
principle of Christianity. tits b:
them chiefly that is illustrated al
that is :strue," all that is ''pure,
sll that is '.lovely," all that is o
"good report" " every "virtue," an
every "prsise" that makes human
life endurable. All: this come
from the simple circumstance tha
women are more docile: and tract
ABLE than men. Men strive to th
last; women soon bend before tn