The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-10-09
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$500 to $4,000.
WOMAN AND HOME.
THE LEAvEN THAT HAS SPREAD
! THROUGH THE WHOLE LUMP.
Woman's Power - Children and Speech.
Well Dressed For Five Minutes - The
Guxst Chambsr-woman's Noblest Ca
resr-To Clear Turbid Water.

Well Dressed For Five Minutes - The
resr-Te 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 a law of demand and supply.
and the demand for women In The various
departments where they have hitherto 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 nav no place,
ps par In his spiritual state would have nj
need Of them, and their illustrations per-
tained only to his physical condition. Aft
er great deliberatiSn and much discussion
Of 20 important a subject by the wisest
men Of the time It was settled that woman
has q soul. BY degrees the thought has
been gaining ground that she is OF some
account In the world and can be OF service
to her fellow mortals as q spiritual and
moral teacher.
Therefore woman's sphere has been wild
ening from the kitchen and nursery until
II has entered nearly all the avenues and
departments OF life. She fills the pulpit in
many churches, though her entrance there
was vigorously opposed by her brothers in
the ministry, who wished women to be &C
tive 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 rafies to
raise money to carry on Gods work. But
they thought 1t preposterous that women
should have an idea Of Biblical truths, or
TO pretend to explain them, or to seek to
snlighten the people and make the world
better.
No matter how earnestly n woman might
feel called to preach or how anxious she
might be to do her Masters bidding, her
b~rother-who had himself felt called, who
had hopes and aspirations and a longing to
dosome good thing with feelings in his heart
similar in every respect to her own-said
that the work Of preaching Gods truths
did not belong to her; that she was seeking
20 get out of her sphere, and that she wal
mistaken about Gods calling her. He for
got that woman was considered At 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 wom-
ans being fitted TO treat the sick. She
could be a nurse. and the recovery of a very
sick patient often depended more upos the
skill Of the nurse than upon that of the
physician, but a woman be an M. ID. and
prescribe for the sicki Neveri She had
not the ability or the nerve. Societies OF
learned doctors discussed the matter and
passed resolutions that they would not
counsel with a woman, no matter from
what school she had graduated. But wom-
an continued to study and persisted in
knocking mt the doors of the various
schools until they gained an entrance. The
education OF woman, once begun. was like
the little leaycn that leavened the whole
lu~mp.-Rachel s. Tenney. NJ. d., In wom-
ans Journal.