The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-11-07

ton of ignorance into the light oi GER
tain knowledge?
And now before our mental vision
comes that beautiful romance, wneIe
Rebecca, all wrapped in the folds OF Ill
vine strength, is awaiting ghercnampl0n.
Word is brought to her that the shades
are changing upon the circle Of the diali
the tempter is at her side, but her faith
and her herOism have grown to such
proportions that she can say to him:
ifNy soul and senses keep touch and
time; the flames may have my body,
but nv soul shall not be made a thing
of barter.n And now the hour allotted
has passed, and she is living only by
the sufferance of her foes. She has
transferred her hopes from man to God,
when into the lists come weary horse
and t-besprinkied rider, and Brian
De Bois Guilbert is unhOrsed. SO hath
woman in her extremity and her PAIN
flung down the gauntlet, and taught by
an intuitive faith in principle, she Is
certain that the sun Will not Throw
Ienpthened shadows across the lists" ere
heJ. champion appears and 10! greater
than man comes to the rescue, for the
infinite God has accepted the challenge.
When the angel of progress roll away
the stone from the sepulchre where the
/ love principle lies entombedI then VIII
burst upon the world the resurrection
morn. Already there are signs oi
! breaking day. Those who are standing
upon the watch-towers of thought tell
us that a star has arisen which betOkens
dawn, and which will guide woman to
hOlier destiny; and that star pro-
claims the rising of the sun of intelli-
I gence, whose rays will drink up all the
damp and the dew, and dispel the chill
and the mould that has gathered over
earth through the long dark night of
| masculine rule. And as this sun OF
! righteousness arises and ushers in this
! beautiful morning, the thinkers and the
workers will be aroused to a sublime ac-
| tiyity, and the chasm between ignOr-
ance and real knowledge will be bridged,
that sorrowing, suffering humanity may
walk fearlessly TO the kingdom of the
gods.
The nuptials of ages will then be SOL
emniZed. All of value in the masculine
age will have been preserved and car
ried forward 10 quicken and vitalize the
active forces ofsubsequeut periods. The
masculine and feminine forces, having
by and through sad experience thrown
of their imperfectiOns and weakness,
will. as wisdom and love, be joined in
thoIy wedlOck, and the milleniai age
will be the divine child of this divine
marriage All the vital forces in the
realm of mind and matter will be in =
state of equilibrium; pure marriages Will
be the rule and not the exception among
the children of men, and governments
will be based upon justice and equity.
And there will be little or no sickness
for, harmony prevailing, there will be =
power generated in each Individuality
that will repel disease. And as har-
mony is developed, sin will disappear to
give place to every deific virtue embOd-
led in the human soul. And then will
have passed away the conditions which
. make depraved women, they having
eaten of the tree Of knowledge which
ever inspires to choose the right, they
will have gained footing on the higher
plane of female eXcellene-nOt by the
, efficacy of the blood of anybody's lamb,
J but by the heroic efforts of their own
, noble deeds in the law of growth, as one
vast sisterhOOd march on to higher and
still higher conceptions Of fadeless
truth.