Woman's mission.

Date:
1842
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    take up the tone of conciliation, not of defiance, of explanation, not of mystery. The consciousness of being above the world, ought to increase, not lessen, our love and charity to those that are in it. What are the words of the greatest of missionaries, the most devoted to man s interests,—the most self-sacrificing of all the apostles;—“I would be all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. “ To be good and disagreeable is high treason against virtue. And if the world is some- times prone to call evil good, and good evil, we must allow that the champions of the good provoke it to do so, by taking up an offensive position, c iin^ foi ward under the banner of the Prince of Peace.” It IS not from narrow prejudice, or from ascetic and bigoted views, that such frequent strictures have been made in this book on the utilitarian philosophy; but from an honest conviction that the best and highest interests of man are thereby compromised. ISo candid person will refuse to admit that, for some reason or the other, inscru- table to us, the increase and perfecting of physical improvements have a tendency to concentrate the thoughts of man upon self. Is it because the more exquisite perception of the glories of this world shut out from us the remembrance that we were born for a still nobler and better ? Strange incon-