Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-26
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are men now who think education be-
You'd the elementary branches unneces-
sary for any but the wealthy and the
upper ten. Yet the majority of sue
cessful men have risen from poverty.
The hostility to the higher education
OF women especially, has still many adj
herents. some of them amongst men of
talent and a degree of knowledge. The
Old theory of the inferiority of the men
tai powers of the sex has nearly dis
appeared. OF late years there are eases
where women by superior industry and
application carry away the prizes in
schools and colleges even from men.
NOW it is argued that women highly
educated will not marry. II requires
but little investigation to discover that
1t is the men who will not marry rather
than the women. There is no proof
that educated women refuse to marry
men who are fit for husbands On the
contrary the educated women make
the best of wives and companions for
their husbands. and possess superior
qualifications to train and educate their
children.
Christianity would have emancipated
women from their disabilities if ii had
been rightly understood. The prophecy
of Joel quoted by the Apostle Peter on
tne day of Pentecost makes no distinc-
tion between the sexes. The Spirit was
to be in the last days poured out upon
both, and the sons and daughters We're
To prophesy. The fulfilment has been
retarded hN ill1iG.S hG SDciHtN
and women have been kept in an in
ferior position.
1t is not 80 years ago that in the state
of Maine female school teachers were
by law to he examined and certiiicated
in reading, writing and the rudments
of arithmetic only. 1t was held in some
churches to be improper for women 5
voices to be heard in social meetings.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, the Woman's Missionary Soci
ties and Woman's Clubs. and other in
fiuenCcs. have effected changes. New
occupations and new facilities have
been opened for women. Many arr
cuscessful physicians. some are ac-
ceptable preachers. They address pub
lie audiences With power and effect.
Itegilious sects have ordained some
women as preachers and pastors. some
of them as missionaries in foreign lands
have to preach. One such was called
before certain Presbyterian doctors Of
divinity and questioned. She admitted
that she preached to the natives.
But. said they. you have not been
ordained" NO." said she. but / was
foreordained." She went on preaching.
Education does not, as some imagine.
end when school or college ends.
School education is like the mechanic
learning the use of his tools What
follows or ought to follow. is to acquire
the power to use them skilfullY, So
the scholar rightly trained, has learned
how to use his mental faculties. and
should go on in the acquisition of
knowledge through life. He may gain
valuable help from the conversation Of
others, from listening TO speeches or
sermons, from reading books and from
a thousand sources that cannot be emu
merated. He may not, like Lord Mac
aulay, he able to repeat a whole dis
course after once hearing it.. But if not
stupid he may learn something day ny
day and year after year. This is edu-
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