The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-26

| the unfolding ages, and it can be ex- clusively neither Jew nor Greek, cir cumcision nor mathematician, wise nor l unwise. bond nor free, male nor fe- male; but Christ is all and in all, and without respect of persons
 "So versatile and resourceful is life 1 in Jesus Christ that it can adapt it. | self and its functioning to any kind of person or society; hence it takes all kinds of persons and societies to | express it in all it's versatility and resourcefulness in the earth. Women have their peculiar sphere and kind 1 of functioning in bringing in the king l dom of God according to their fem l mine gifts and graces; and that is, among other services, to express the | beautiful, the gracious, the gentle, the good in their own beautiful personal 1 ities
 | Thus they are charged with cu1 l ture and exemplification of the eth- ! ica1 the aesthetic, the refined, the l gentle, the winsome; and to meet this Responsibility and perform this task they must give heed to adorning the ] person to thus express this holy | charge. It is for this reason women pay more attention to dress and get | ting themselves up than men; for | they thus are but expressing their
 natures and fulfilling their functions l in society.
 ! "If you will look at this audience l you will see that the adorning is
 mainly with the women, where it
 ought to be; for they know what to do with 1t. It is meet for them to use the cosmetics. braid the hair. wear | jewels of gold and put on fine ap- 1 parel; and thus they adorn the world
 in their physical appearance and cul-
 tivate good taste and aesthetic senti-
 ment, which we men need so much
 and so poorly know how to attain.
 NEW PERSONALITY TO ADORN
 But these holy women have a new
 personality to adorn. the hidden man 1 of the heart. that which is incorrupt-
 ible in the spirit It is theirs so to l get up this hidden man of the heart that this spiritual personality may ! express itself in chaste behavior with piety in it's full winsomeness before | men. The morally beautiful and good, l the meek and gentle and gracious are
 thus adorned with chaste behavior coupled with reverence. Do you not
 remember when your mother told you 1 that this was ugly, that that was beautiful and lovely; and did you ever 1 experience deeper moral conviction and | sentiment than when she thus taught you ethics in terms of aesthetics? You saw in her the morally beautiful and l good in that which was incorruptibIe
 Of her meek and gentle spirit, as she by her chaste life coupled with piety won your heart to God in the prayer
 hour at her knee. So holy women have l ever done
 1 "The worth of holy women, Peter tells
 us, Is in the sight of God of great price. We men, not much possessed with the
 meek and quiet spirit think we have the
 utilities in our social tasks and that we
 are the useful sex; while the women are
 of secondary value, a ministry of adorn-
 ment at most, and hence incidental funo-
 tionaries in the social and other service
 of the times. But it Is not so in the
 sight of God. where the higher values lie
 in the beautiful and gracious and good. 1 If you wish to know true worth look
 through the eyes of God, not those of mammon. We try to measure service in | it's materialistic return, in commercial values, by the gold it will get, thinking that life consists in the abundance of the
 things one possesses; but not so with
 God and those who would be rich to- ward God; for 1t is theirs, whatsoever
 things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever l things are lovely, whatsoever things are gracious; if there be any virtue. and if
 there be any praise, to reckon the value | of these things So women contribute to | and truest values, it's moral and social virtures, which in the sight of God Is of great price.
 MONEY WELL SPENT
 ''The money your wife spent for that
 hat was abundantly worth that spend-
 ing. It brought in moral and social values to you and your home much more than that which you spent in mules and land
 and goods. And, what Is more, she spent it on her husband; that she might adorn the woman who was to exemplify the beautiful and good and gracious in his home, until his edifcation and education in the higher worths of life. Women in this task of teaching the world it's ethics
 and aesthetics and grace have a hard
 and most important task; and they do 1t with greater efficiency and with less
 capital than men do their peculiar social service and functions.
 We need to put more of the world s
 wealth at the service of women for the promotion of their sphere and kind of functioning for it's progress. The enamel patton of women means the setting of
 her free to perform her own live-service