Woman's mission.

Date:
1842
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    WOMAN’S MISSION. Inthoductory Chapter. Spirits are not finely touched, But to fine issues. SlIAKSPEARE. The age in which we live is pre-eminently one of novelty; of new plans, new discoveries, and new truths—or, at least, of new opinions, whether true or chimerical. Some of these relate to the posi- tion, political and social, of woman, whose import- ance in the scale of humanity no rational being, above all no Christian, can doubt. The “ last at the cross, and the first at the sepulchre,” are dig- nified in the eyes of all Christian believers by the noble qualities of unworldliness and self-devotion; and it is one among many of the internal and col-