Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-06-30
VOLUME XXXIX.-NUMBER -.
WOMAN.

Woman. thou art not the ful fallen creature
Which erring mortal thought would fain imply,
And rob thee with a cold and ruthless hand,
thy true and perfect nature;
But in the realm of Truth We clearly may des
cry
Thine own true selfhood, as Gods" full though
expressed
OF man the highest type, and crowning work o
Love,
In image full of God, from creations dawn i'm
pressed
Upon thee, by Him from whom no thought car
~'e- ba loot
Or snatched away by lying serpent's subtle
voice.
Nay! thou art stll-within that sacred realm
awOke.
Thou vast not from Adam, while he slept,
rib drawn forth, to form lesser concept still
OF man. to be so soon accursed Of God and die;
Nor yet to lure him with temptation, low to fall
And lose thereby his innocence, defeating thus
At the very outset, Gods own eternal purpose.
Nay! this is but subtle error, from out the mist
Which from the earth went up and covered all
its face,
That mortal vision cannot penetrate nor go be
yond;
Where false and ghostly phantoms rise from ou,
the gloom
Ofcarnal sense for time to lure and charm,
Or else, to chill with fear and paralyze with
death
The Adam dream-from which he ne'er shall
But into dark forgetfulness shall fall away,
Dreamer and dream alike untrue, unreal aud un-
Within that realm Of light Of Truth abides, and
touched
By blightng curse of sin, disease Ortlestb,
Who from the ever flowing fount of life
Most freely may partake through all eternity.
Herein doth woman dwell the perfect child OF
God:
Because, beyond this realm no land can be;
There is no realm beyond the reign Of Him
Who from out His own eternal fuliness,
Hath all things formed, and found them good,
And by Omnipotence and Love hath kept them
But yet this Truth from human vision long was
hid
Behind veil of subtle error-ilusive sense.
But now, at last, revealed through one by whom
The mighty voice of Love with Joy was heard
After long years Of patient waiting yearning to
behold
The spirt-light without the veil of matter.
One whose heart had long been chastened,
On whom Affections hand had heavy lain;
away.
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To draw aside this veil, and peer beyond,
And there behold the sacred ever shining light
OF Gods own Love, illumining every conscious
thought,
Revealing man unfallen and immortal. pure,
Atone with God, In Christ complete and full,
In image perfect formed, His own complete e.
Election.
This one-this chosen one Of God-to thus atone
For woman's part In Eden's legend of the subtle
serpent,
An humble Woman; unto whom the vision
brighter grows
And errors hidden ways are now laid bare.
And thus deceptions power Is torn from man
away.
Her sacred task the path reveals. makes plain
the way
For all to come and find the veil removed,
And there behold, as face to face, the Christ.
In whom are all made one, with sin cast OUT.
No more its pleasures to desire nor pains to fear
And full redemption find while here on earth.
And this 10 woman's sphere-t0 lead the way
OF mortal man from out those sombre shadows.
From out oil carnsl senee and sims dominion,
And turn his thoughts from earth away
To holier Being, to Minds supreme domain.
Where wi. dom's hand unerring guide doth give
And L owe doth fashion In her purest strain
The words Of life, the bread Of Heaven.
And there to " cast the anchor Of his hope
Bevond the veil Of NATTER" and sense desire,
Within that fair Shekinah, into whose sacred
light
Our elder Brother hath before us led the way.
Woman. this sacred work OF love may now
Thy heart inspire, thy latent powers eulist
In holier cause than yet thy hand hath found
Within the path allotted thee by human need,
For BY divine appointment thou art called
To lead the race from out its weary search
For life, where only death 10 found,
From out the grave Of sense within whose
gloom
Are buried the imn,or al hopes Of man
And place his feet on frmer ground.
On Christ the Rock.