Woman's mission.

Date:
1842
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Woman's mission. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    design which is the stamp of all great works, divine as well as human. Thus all is now brought within the compass of one single principle, Christian faith,—love, self- renunciation, consistency, all the virtues recom- mended, follow as necessarily from that faith, as grapes from the vine, or figs from the fig-tree. Let Christianity then be the basis of women’s own education,—the basis of the education which they give to their children; so shall they perform their mission, not with murmuring and repining at their inferior nature, and narrow sphere, but with joy and rejoicing that they are agents in that great work, which, if they are Christians, they daily pray for,—that the kingdom of God may come, and his will be done, as in heaven so on earth. Alay we have strength and grace to echo this prayer, not only with our lips, but with our lives, and to labour in the cause as those grateful for inestimable benefits, and conscious of their mis- sion. That mission contains, perhaps, the desti- nies of society; the wish to accomplish it, the means of accomplishing it, should never be out of woman’s mind. Ought it then to be excluded from her early thoughts, ought it to be stifled by education, corrupted by worldly-mindedness, ridi- culed by folly, and checked by opposition ! This world has nothing to offer in exchange for such a