Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-02-16
No. 81.

sooth are the mothers thinking about? Woman's
power for good is mighty in this world, and did the
mothers but exercise their innate power, matters
would not 60 on for centuries to come as they have
in the past Mother love can accomplish more
wonderful things than philosophy may tell Of
Nearer it is to the angels and the Divine Being
than anything permitted to exist on this earth as
far above paternal love it is as the pure heart of
little child is above the dross of earth, else why
has this condition Of affairs been allowed to 90 on
and on? What has man done to quell it, save to
wink at skillfully concealed sin and acknowledge
the guilt to consist only in being found out. Is
not such statement as the one written by won.
an at the head of this chapter enough to SOW q
seed OF regret deep enough into every woman's
heart to enable it in time to put forth tiny shoots
of earnest thought and endeavor, that shall enlist
her in the ranks of rising womahhood-of uprising
womanhood-and induce her to say let me be q
better mother let me feel responsibility outside Of
my home, for within the narrow confines of four
walls cannot extend an influence that will protect
my boy from the infamous influence of the world.
If the latent power in woman were fully aroused,
with her purifying Influence spread abroad, few
generations of good sons would put society on
far different basis from that on which it now rests
The Hon. A. G. Riddle, in his address before
the recent suffrage convention held at Washington,
concludes with the followingHibute to Mother Eve:
do not think Eve was so far wrong when she
took that fruit. This is curious place to make
such remark, but will say it here | am glad
she did. We should have been below the Digger
Indians if we had not the knowledge and informa-
ton and light and strength and power which have
come to u.s. and if they come through good
Mother Eve, God bless her. My friends, suppose
that as it is claimed from the original fall that in
this world there is but one way Of making things,
of advancing, and of achievements, and it is
through sin and sorrow and great personal suffer-
ing. Broad as the assertion is made, it is truer
than it is broad. No individual has ever advanced
in his own life except through sorrow and through
some sin that he has committed or that has been
committed about him in such way that some por,
ton of it was his. Accept the story as true, what
was one of the great consequences? Not far off
in Galilee, Galee OF the North, with its mountains
and its forests, its purhg streams and clear lakes
appeared the Messiah; and if we are to believe
popular theology he would not have appeared but
for Ewes eating the fruit. My friends, for the
teachings of that peerless One has the world paid
too large price? Put it in the everlasting equ.
ties of God himself, if, indeed, the fall was the
cause and the necessity for the Redemption, has
the world paid too great price for Jesus Christ?
For one, think not. The world is now in the
fulness of time under His teachings and under His
preachings, and the greatness Of the Savior has
been showered abroad upon us all. We have all
drank and eaten it alike. And now when come
back to this awful saying that made moment
ago. L confess that do not regret that Eve, who
is blamed in view of the evil consequences, do
not regret that she ate Of the Tree OF Life,