Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-02-01
who have faced promiscuous crowds from

who have faced promiscuous crowds from
public platforms till they have lost the
power of blushing, and are as much at
home in bitter deuunciation, harsh crimi-
nation, and rough and ready repaftee, Us
the partizan politician and stump orator.
She has real that pit is a shame for wo-
men to speak in the church" =" that j., in
the public Christian assembly, and neither
having the disposition, nor assuming the
right to gainsay it, she concludes that it
is still more shame for women to speak
in assemblies of more general and pro-
miscuous character. She is not, there
fore among the orators at political con.
ventions, and her name does not appear
in the list of lecturers before Library As
sociations and Literary Societies. The
woman's name that does appear there SO
often, and that has come to sound hard
and unwomanly through its associations,
is not the name of the New Testament
woman.
She is not Of those who find their chief
purpose and enjoyment in life, in the gay
frivolties of fashion aud dress. She has
laorp F.o,, N .ouroo xrhos, ,,thor; - .,
she does not question, that ,.'aged women
should be in behavior as becometh godli.
ness and teachers of good things" and
that young women should be sober"
While, therefore, she knows how to en-
joy the best pleasures of life, she knows
little of ball rooms, and dances, and like
places and amusements. She has read
"that women should adorn themselves in
modest apparel, with shamefaccdness and
sobriety, not with braided hair" (espec.
tally other peoplesD 'or gold, or pearls,
or costly array, but which becometh wo-
men protesting godliness, and with good
works"
The New Testament woman is faith
ful and loving friend Of, and efficient
worker for, Jesus. She cannot forget the
honor put upon her sex in that He WAS
born of a virgin, that the Church He has
redeemed unto Himself is likened to a
bride, that many Of His most gracious
and mightiest miracles were performed at
the call aud in bahelf Of womanhood, that
it was only to u woman that lie ever said
while on earth, Thy sins arc forgiven
thee" and only Of a wolnan's act Of devo-
ton that He ever said, "Whresoever this
Gospel shall be preached in the whole
world, there shall also that this woman
hath done be told for q memorial of her.
She remembers the womanly love man.
ifcsted toward Him in the hospitalities Of
the home at Bethany, and the Cross and
the Sepulchre, and longs to show love
as tender and true. She reads of the Sa.
maritans "who believed on HIN for The
the testimony Of the woman," and testi-
flying herself Of Christ as she has oppor-
tunity, she often has the joy of knowing
that there are believing souls through her
testimony. She reads of Dorcas who was
''tull of good works and ulms-decds which
she did" aud emulates her deeds of bene-
icence and mercy, doing it as unto the
Lord. The story of the two mites cast
into the Treasury of the Lord makes her
content, if she cannot do great things for
Christ, to do the little things she can do,
not knowing but that which is least may
prove to be the greatest. She reads of
Lyda's grateful hospitality to Paul, and
opening her own doors. gives hearty
welcome to the servants of the Lord, and
cheers them in their work. She reads of
the helpfulness of Phebe in the work Of
the Apostles, of " Tryphcna and Trypho-
50, who labored in the Lord" and of the
"beloved Pcrsis, who labored much in
the Lord" and she is moved to all earn
est and hopeful Christian endeavor. Be
she maid, wife, or widow, while she reco-
gnizcs the home as the appropriate sphere
of all trucst and most womanly life. the
New Testament woman never fails to find
scope in it, and in occupations consistent
with its spirit aud the supremacy Of its
claims, for the highest and noblest, be-
cause most Christian use Of all her activi-
ties and powers.-NY. Observer. ''- "
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