The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-11
WOMAN AND HER HOME.
THE LEAvEN THAT HAS SPREAD
THROUGH THE WHOLE LUMP.
Woman's Pover-ChiIdren and speech
We'll Dressed for Five Minutes
The Guest Chamber-Woman's Mob
lest Career-To Clear Turbid Water.

The great necessity of the present
hour is for women TO prepare themselves
for the various positions to which they
are being admitted.
There is law of demand and supply,
and the demand for women in the vari-
Gus departments where they have hith-
erto been unknown is increasing. 1t
was once thought that women had no
souls, that they were created solely TO
minister TO the wants and passions of
men. and that in the great hereafter
they would have no place, as man in
his spiritual state would have no need
OF them. and their ministrations per-
tanned only 10 his physical condition.
After great elaboration and much dis
cussion of so important a subject by the
wisest men of the time it was settled
that woman has a soul. By degrees
the thought has been gaining ground
that she is some account in the world,
and can be of service to her fellow NOR
tails as a spiritual and moral teacher.
Therefore woman's sphere has been
widening from the kitchen and nursery
until il has entered nearly all the ave-
nues and departments of life. She fills
the pulpit in many churches, though
her entrance there was vigorously op-
posed by her brothers in the ministry,
who wished women to be active in
church work and never doubted that
the Lord had called them TO the work
of preparing articles TO be sold at
church fairs and of selling chances in
raffles to raise money to carry on Gods
work. But they thought it preposter-
Gus that women should have an idea of
biblical truths, or TO pretend TO explain
them, or TO seek 10 enlighten the people
and make the world better.
No matter how earnestly a woman
might feel called TO preach or how an
&ious she might be to do her Masters
bidding, her brother-who had himself
felt called. who mad hopes and aspira-
lions and a longing to do some good
thing, with feelings in his heart similar
"a every respect TO her own-Said that
the work of preaching Gods truths did
not belong to her; that she was seeking
to get out of her sphere, and that she
was mistaken about Gods calling her.
He forgot that woman was considered
fit TO be the mother of Christ, while no
man could be his father. As though an
all wise God had any respect for the sex
of the souls willing and anxious to do
his work!
The medical fraternity rebelled at
woman's being fitted TO treat the sick.
She could be a nurse, and the recovery
of a very sick patient often depended
more upon the skill of the nurse than
upon that OF the physician, but a wom-
an be an NJ. D. and prescribe for the
sick? Never! She had not the ability
or the nerve. Societies of learned doc
tors discussed the matter and passed
resolutions that they would not counsel
with a woman, no matter from what
school she had graduated. But woman
continued 10 study and persisted in
knocking at the doors of the various
schools until they gained an entrance
The education Of woman, once begun
was like the little leaven that leaveued
the whole lump.-Rachel =. Tenney, NJ.
d, in Woman's Journal.