St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-26

fralltleS of our poor human nature
just as we find them associated with
all the great movements that have i'm
the past raised and blessed humanity.
VI course, we meet In connection with
1t the loud-voiced, vulgar, self-assert-
ing woman, whose loudneSs is more
manifest than her modesty. But she
Is not the new woman. We met her
under the old regime; and it may be
she is not one whit more prominent
mere than of old. Rather let us re-
Jolce IN remembering that the move
ment has gathered round 1t all the fair,
sweet lovingneSS that ever in the old
days used to make the names of moth
er, sister, and wife the synonyms of
all that was good and beautiful and
true; of all that was noble, and self
sacrificing; OF all that saving power
which many a time and oft in the his
tory of the world has won the sinner
from the error of his ways, and saved
a soul from death. Nay, ought I not
to go farther, and, believing what 1
do, remind you that the law of forma-
ton Gf [ may venture to call it So) in
the case of the real new woman must
be exactly the same as in the case of
the new man, who, st. Paul tells US,
latter God is created in righteousness
and true holiness-for we are members
one Of another?' And just as in the
ceived the grace of God; and in the
case of the church herself, the bride
of Christ, who is some day to be pre-
scented to Himself, not having spot or
wrinkle, or any such thing-a fault
n
ishes now, perhaps many repulsive
features-so let us remember that the
new woman of our modern time, and in
our modern sense, is not yet a finished
product of the Divine hand. We see
the whole movement; but it is at pres
ent in a remarkable state of transition.
A SPIRITUAL LIGHT.
We have been taught in these mod
ern days to consider the work of Gre
alton a much slower process than we
used to think it; and it seems to me,
beloved, not an altogether irrelevant
application of the passage in st. John
to use it in this connection, and to say
that it doth yet appear what she shall
be; but we know that when He ap-
pears she shall be like Him; for she
shall see Him as He is. 1t is with this
thought in my mind that have select
ed this mornings text from that in
spired love-song known as Solomon's,
wherein the royal lover exclaims as he
sees with enraptured eyes his bride
approaching, who is she that looketh
forth as the morning, fair as the moon,
clear as the sun, and terrible as an
army with banners?" You are aware
that it has. been customary to give a
spiritual Interpretation to this inspired
book, and to make it voice the mutual
love that exists between Christ, the
heavenly bridegroom and His redeem
ed church. I would point the analogy
between the church as she appears to
be now, full of earthly imperfections,
during the process of her formation
into 1.-The glorious church" g. meek and
becoming bride for 1.-The sweetest
among ten thousand and the alto
gether lovely" and the present stages
of development in 1.-The new woman"
whom we are some day to know as
the realized ideal of our perfected hui
mainly, 1.-The new man, which is re-
newed in knowledge after the image
of Him that created him; where there
is neither male nor female, Greek nor
Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision,
Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free;
but Christ is all, and in all"
Meanwhile we must be content to see
in every phase Of the progress of hui
mainly the imperfect human, as well
as the perfect divine element; and
to remember that if the law of forma-
ton did not apply to the modern Wom-
an, the latter would be out OF all anal
10 hA OF nr wv
of Gods providence and grace. The
blemishes-.'the spots and wrinkles
are the human weaknesses: but If we
are observant we cannot fail to find
in it all the germs of the 'tgloIy that
is to be revealed" in this, the most
eminent of all the works known to us
of the great Creators hand. More
over, let us not even in this question
those ancient words addressed to the
tempter lin Paradise, Il will put en-
nifty between thee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed;
shalt bruise his heel" The struggle
Of the modern woman for her free
dom is a part of the world-old strug-
gle of Christ with the powers of evil;
and can only end in one way Though
we may not exactly see how)-the
bruising of the serpent's head, and
the triumph of the kingdom of God
at the last.
May I venture upon one more com
parison? The Christian church has al
and fair ideal of womanhood, which
the pagan religions never possessed,
and which may we'll serve Christian
thought as type and pattern in it's
such a theme as the present 1 refer
to the Catholic tradition of the
Blessed Virgin, the mother of the
Lord, in whom the Eternal Word be-
Two ta1 Nd xryh0 41,A
Gabriel addressed at the Annuncia-
ton, Hail, thou that art highly ia
vored, the Lord is with thee; blessed
art thou among women" OF course,
immaculate conception is not true;
that it only obscures her true glory
and transfers to her an important
part Of the honor due her divine son.
But We, may we'll avoid the, sectarian
error of making too little of her gen
uine honors, as the Latin church has
burdened her memory with spurious
ones. We may well admit that the
glories of the mother are the ref1ec-
ton of the divinity of her Son, and
that every crown wreathed for
Mary (as some one has said is laid at
Jesus feet. Sanctified from the first
moment of her conception, and ese6-
cially set apart for the Masters uNe
through the foreseen merits of Jesus
Christ, her son, she was, as one of
the fathers affirms, "a worthy dwell
ing place for Christ, not only on ac-
count of the beauty of her person, but
because Of original grace The maid
en- life which gave our Lord birth
must have been the flower which
sprang out of all the preparatory dis
cipline which mankind had undergone
1.-The most beautiful thing which had
been seen since the expulsion from
paradise. 1.-THE Holy Ghost took from
the maternal substance such elements
as We're BETTING to the Incarnate Son,
and purified them in the taking
Therefore also that holy thing which
shall be born of thee shall be called
the Son of Cod
THE SAvIOR's MOTHER.
Mother of mercy, day by day
My love of thee grows more and
more;
Thy gifts are strewn upon my way
Like sands upon the great sea shore.
Jesus, when His three hours were run,
Bequeathed thee from the cross to
me;
And Oh, how can I love thy Son,
Sweet mother, if L love not thee?'