Year: 1874

The pair were simply human, and IT is
one of the most natural things in the
world that Adam should have felt very
proud over his possessions in Eden. We
can readily imagine that he prop osed
a walk to his newly made wife, kind of
a bridal tour if you please, around and
! through his beautiful garden. He calls
her attention to the exquisitely arranged
! flowers, whose very fragrance was wildly
/ Intoxicating, and exclaims they are all
mine, give them to you, behold bridal
present The choicest fruits, the richest
viands, the pure sparkling waters of the
river Eden, the sweet singing birds of
| Paradise are all, all. mine


| While on the lilies bosom the clustering grape
| Palls softly asleep in the dreamy state


Where they slake their thirst from the running
swell,


As the roe in the chase from the running well;
1hus you see why the cup makes mans heat
beat high,


AS a maiden's blush from her heaving sigh.
They are passing through the center Of
| the garden. Adam is reminded there is
one tree growing there that does not be-
long to HIM, perhaps by Ewes womans'
curiosity. She asks him some questions
about it. What is it2 who does it belong
to &c, &c. Now Adam doubtless told
her the literal truth about it, but there
would have been very little human about
him, if he had not added, 1T is of no
great consequence after all, this one here
to the right is worth a dozen of it, and
belongs to me" This was all very salts
factory to Eve, and she thought no more
about it until one day walking through
the garden alone she chanced to come
across the forbidden tree. And here
transpired an event to say the very least
of it the most wonderfully miraculous
One of the beasts of the field, serpent
spoke and willy and bewitchingly said,
yea, hath God said ye shall not eat of
every tree of the garden p Eve modestly
replied, 1--WE may eat of the trees of the
garden, but of the fruit of the tree which
is in the midst of the garden. God hath
said ye shall not eat of it, neither shall
ye touch it least he die" This latter SEN
tence was no doubt from Adam himself.
The serpent with a smooth and oily





That there was no danger. That she
surely would not die For that God
himself knew that in the day she eat
| thereof, that her eyes would be opened
and she wonld be as god knowing good
and evil. With bold hand she plucked
the fruit and ate seeing that it was
pleasant to the eyes, and tree to be de
sired to make one wise, she gave to her
husband and he ate asking no questions
But when he discovered that he was
found out in his sin, mark the contempt
ible cringing spirit he manifested. The
woman whom Thou gavest to be with me,
she gave ME of the tree and | did eat
He did not even so much as call her his
his wife. 1t would seem from compass
sion, yes, from sheer pity, for the want
OF manliness in the man, God turned to
the woman and said what is this thou
hast done? Mark her answer it is one
that every true, frank and pure woman
should be proud o.. because
it was simply the plain unvarnished
truth. The serpent beguiled me and l
| did eat


Custom and law were both oppressive
on woman, as shown by early history,
sacred and proIane. You may search
the entire Levitical law and you will
scarcely find a provision for the protec-
ton of woman, while man is especially
cared for. If a man, under the Mosaic
law. married woman and she did not
please him, all he had to do was simply
to write her bill of divorcement and
send her away. That is, it amounted to
once my wife; she did not please me
and | sent her away. II she pleases any
one else, l hereby give her permission
to marry. There was no necessity of ap
pearing before any disinterested. legally
authorized tribunal, and have the case
decided upon its merits. That would
have given woman a fair showing for
| justice it would have been treating her
as an equal. Now what were the provi-
sions if woman was so unfortunates as
to marry a man who did not please her?
Simply none at all. Her only alterna-
tive was to make. such bedlam of his
home that he would be glad to give her
bill of divorcement simply to get rid of
! her. If there was as much human
nature in the woman who lived under
the Levitical law, as in the woman of this
period, l think l am safe in saving
that more than one WON an managed her
own divorce suit. We find but few spec
i'll laws for her protection or advantage
until within the past and present cen
tury. In the latter in this country we
find her legal rights are greatly enlarged
and pretty satisfactorily defined She
has received similar acknowled cement
throughout the civilized world. This has
been brought about by her own effort
Our sex can claim but little credit for
the reform.


Every age has produced its wise. and
great, and good women, from the time OF
Deborah, Huldah, and Joel, to that of
Mrs Hemens, Jean lngelo, and Anna
| Dickinson.


We have found women great in letters,
great in song, great in war, and great in
peace. The naughty vietors OF Crecy,


Potter and Agincant, together with the
terrible arcners of England, shameiully


fled before timid girl of sixteen, the


Maid of Orleans.


But, letters, song and war fail to


photograph woman as God made her.


| shall not claim in the word photo


Graph may give you this evening, of u