The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-01-30

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to shield her from the rude and hcentiouI
violence of man. She loves all her daugh
) ters, and desires to have them all good, but
the wickedness of man, the pride and
vanity of life, and the pleasures and pomI
: of the world, too often impair the results
of her mission. By sanctifying marriage
as sacrament she did much to purify and
refine the intercourse between the sexes
but in the early ages of her mission she
had great difficulty in toning down the
rude habits of the fierce barbarians that
'swept over Europe. And during the mid
kdle ages some of the rude princes and
barons of France, Italy and Germany gave
her great trouble on this very question.
The desire to be free from the permanent
restraint of this sacrament, together with
a laundering after the property of the
Church, had much to do with the so-called
reformation, for Henry VIII. and the Elec-
tor of Hesse were not the only ones who
wanted wives ad HDitum. However, time
and statistics have clearly proved that,
even if we could consider it apart from its
character as sacrament, and look upon it
in the light of mere human pOlicy,aas Il
means of contributing to the happiness and
wholesome welfare of society, the Church
was and is right.
The Church has labored much and long
to place her daughters in their true posi-
ton in life, and she desires them to main
tain it. She teachers them to be gentle and
patient in disposition, modest and retiring
in manners, yielding in everything except
in the performance OF duties, and pure of
heart in thought, look, word and deed.
She desires that they should cultivate that
purity, delicacy and refinement of senti-
ment which God planted in their hearts,
and which we sometimes see bloom into a
bldsh upon the cheek of a true woman.
To desire the approbatio of those whom
we respect is but natural and laudable, to
cultivate morbid appetite for indiscrimi
nate admiration is a great weakness. Let
woman respect herself, and man will al
ways respect her. \-
Woman has had and still has herImission,
and has done and is still doing her work.
She has always exerciseda great influence
over the world, though, from the way in
which she exercises it, the world seems un->
conscious of it's extent. How few think
that the career of most men in life, whe
ther a success or failure, and still more
perhaps the very character OF their death,
is the legitimate result of the good or bad
teaching and discipline of the mother in
early life. Woman's influence is greatest
where it is least seen-in the nursery, by |
the fireside, and at the breakfast table.
Her home is her kingdom, and from that as !
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it is in the chamber of the sick that her
value is best appreciated, her power most |
felt Her gentle, patient, tender sympa
thy is often more to the patient than +I'a
medicine of the doctor. The duties of do
nestle life and the works of charity are her
mission. She has no other and can have
no higher. She was taken from mans side
to show that she was always to be depen-
dent upon Kim, to be as it were part of
him, to be always with him, to comfort
him with her presence, to make him happy
by her sympathy and refine him by her as
ISOLATION. She was intended to be the
mother of men, but never to be man, nor
to fill a mans place. Outside of domestic
life there is no field for her to walk in ex-
cept that of charity. She who forgets or
neglects her real mission, and has morbid r
desire to enter upon one never int nded for ,
her, ceases to be true woman, and is low
cred in the respect and estimation of every
Just and true man. But she who knowing
her mission abides in it, and tries to per-
form its duties faithfully, is not without her
even in this Yorld.-All who
1noW-her- loxe-aBd- respect her, wtifr He
who counts the hairs on her head Will give
grace to her heart and strength to her
hands, and enable her to pass safely
through the storms of life. OF such a wo-
man the Scriptures say: Strength and
beauty are her clothing, and-she shall laugh
n the latter day"
THE WEATHER.-For the last two months
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