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

, form. I'VE by no means depreois,
ate the beauty OF our fisit friends :
occasionally they are very beautiI
full. ''o"'
But the strength of woman lies
10 hvr practice Of that 'fighest of
all moral achievements onaiee
to which men rarely ever ettend--
in SelfRenunciation. AS wife, as
mother, ne sister, as q nero mem
Der of. society, the Christian wo.
man lives for Tho benefit Of others,
and has ceased to have selfish aims
Of her own. Andthis 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 dislntegration
for tho selfishness Of men--that
tor which ambition is only anoth.
or name--would lead them, if un-
restrained, to mutual destruction.
Walter Scott has written the tru-
cat, and finest uninspired thing
that was ever said about won en-
in the we'll known lines:
20 Woman, In OUR hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. ...
And variable ua tile shade .. ..
By the ght qnveriug aspen made
When pain unl anguish, wiring tho brow,
A ministering angel thou |" :. . ....,
Christianity was the first syy.
tenn that took notice of women.
Thatincomparable character drawn
by tho divine pencil rested his phi.
losophy un Love, and found it's
promptest echoes in the female
heart. Hero for the first time in the
history Of the world do we find
a great teacher gathering around
him a band Of women-associated
with him BY tho most delicate and
tender re!ations-so far as we
know with no pretcnsions to intel.
lect, but bound to him by a love
which followed him to tho Tomb.
We find him going through every
city and village * * sand the
twelve were with him, and certain
women, which had boen healed Of
evil spirits and infirmities, Mary
called Magdalcne, out Of whom
wont seven dovils, and Joanna, the
wife ofChuza, Herod's steward, and
Susanna, and many others, which
ministered unto him Of their sub.
stance" Then there is that ex-
Quisite account Of the faith Of the
Syro-Pbenician woman with her
Truth, Lord; yet tho dogs eat Of
tho crumbs which fall from the
masters table"--and that vivid
sketch Of tho woman of Samaria
at jacobs Well-and the widow
Of Main with her dead child-and
that woman whom he protecte1
with that infinite sympathy, "IIo
that IL without sin among you, lot
him cast the first stone at her"-
and those sisters Of Lazarus with
their "Iord, if thou had'st been
here, our brothor had not died"-
and that woman (which was q
sinner" who brought ian alabas-
ter box Of ointment," and "did
wash his feot with tours, md did
wipe thom with tho hairs Of her
head"-and thon (to which wo
have reforredD "Mary Magdalcne,
and that other Mary, weeping at
the sopulchro."
And tho inspired pcnmah in
the Acts of the Apostles carries on
the narrative of the early church
"ThoBo all continued in prayer
and supptication, with the wome on.
and Mary tho mother Of Jesus, and
his brethren." .o..sh hi,,.r
1t was Rhoda.,"a damseb" who
met Peter delivered out Of pris-
on it was Lydia Of Thyatira that
entertained PanI-"if ye'" hhvo
Judged mo f.ithfuI"--in hor house
it was at Bera that "many honor.
able women" believed !; and there
are the -four daughters Of Philip"
at Cesarea-and Dorcas-and Pris.
cilia-.and Urbano-Tryphennand
TryphosA-Euodias and Synticbe
and Claudia-nnd tho "elect la.
dy"~-and tho household Of ChIoc.
= And it is upon wonan-we say
it with reverenoo---that tho Chris
tian Church rests now They IRE,
as cvery minister will testify, tho
life Of every living congregation.
From them goes forth the spirit
of, love, and Of secrati'o n !,
which vitalizes tho struggling
principle Of Christianity, It ia by
thom chiefly that is illustrated al
that is "true," all thatois pure"
tall that is ''lovoIy,,"Ta all that is of
:"good report" every virtue" and
every "praiso" that makes human
lifo endurable. All this' comes
from the simple circumstance that
women are, MORE dociie and tract
Ee6le,than ,mep9. Men etriyaltotho
last; women SOON bend before the
stern discipline Of liRoih and d'i6ben
!sf!s ssss s',ss$a e sis sss
PhiloBopbS of, HslfiRenmHciation. :.