The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-16

1 top," declared the Major sarcastically
 Billy has the same feeling about women
 and religion that I had at his age: that
 every man cherishes deep down in his
 heart. A man may not be hampered by, any fear of hereafter himself, or even
 have deep veneration of heaven itself, but he instinctively looks for some sort
 of spiritual grace in the woman he means
 tc make his wife"
 "On the principal that somebody in the
 family must have conscience" said Miss
 Caroline, 'and most of the husbands
 leave it to their wives. What sort of a creature do you suppose a woman with
 out religion would be?"
 The most pitiful of all things" said
 the Major Nothing that this world of lers can compensate a woman for her la1tn Tn heaven A lot of women hope to
 hno in love compensation for the loss
 Of spiritual heritage, but few of them ever
 do however. Be ye not yoked with un- believers, the Cook Book says. I believe.
 anu those who fail to recognize that all good and lasting love is based on the
 same elements and foundation stones of
 the oldest-fashioned religion-find that
 their hopes go down like house of cards NO man ever lived. however, void he
 inight seem of religion, and faith himself.
 wio didn't secretly rejoice in the stead
 fast faith of the woman nearest him
 ihat is why good woman's influence mothers inf1uence-is the most lasting in his life."
 Miss Caroline hoped this was due-as for herself she couldn't say much about this generation of men folk.
 Let's leave the men out altogether. suggested the Major. T say that woman IS the cornerstone of the temple of the home, and no home Is home unless there Is some sort of an altar of worship there Belief Is necessity of a woman,s na
 ture. What of the woman who has no
 faith when the little new born babe is put into her arms and she feels that it IS looking to her for guidance? Where
 IS the woman who would cheat a baby
 out of Its birthright of faith? Where is
 the woman who is entrusted with a child's
 salvation who would neglect td teach it
 prayer? woman may not know that she has any faith, but a baby's pink | fingers have pointed many one back | ''<sid to tHC ISllSlOu Sne inherited from her forefathers. When such a one lays
 herself down to sleep she nstinctively
 prays the Lord their souls to keep. No
 I say it is a necessity of woman nature faith is"
 'I have often thought" said Miss Car cline, about people thinking that re- ligion insures us happiness in the future life, and I have come to the conclusion
 that in the sphere that we will eventually
 come into, it will be so much brighter and better than this one that we shall see with the blind faith that here we must cling to-"
 | .l wish I could think of what Ike Mar | vel said in his Reveries of a Bachelor about the man and woman without reli- sion." unused the Major "I always for get even my favorite authors at the crit | ical moment. But it was something to the effect that man without religion is at best but football of destiny, while a woman without religion is the worlds
 masterpiece of unproftabeness. She IS the one creature whose existence is
 neither justified nor glorifed. She could not possibly add anything to the world l since faith and it's works are all any of Us can add that will stand as gain in the l last analysis of what we have done with our lives"