| Home Making |
Chapter 3 |
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In one of the Epistles St. Paul gives the counsel that young wives should be “workers at home,” as the Revisers have put it, signifying that home is the sphere of the wife’s duties, and that she is to find her chief work there. There is a glory in all the Christian charities which Christian women, especially in these recent days, are founding and conducting with so much enthusiasm and such marked and abounding success. Woman is endowed with gifts of sympathy, of gentleness, of inspiring strengthfulness, which peculiarly fit her to be Christ’s messenger of mercy to human woe and sorrow and pain.
“The mission of woman on earth! To give birth
To the mercy of heaven descending on earth.
The mission of woman; permitted to bruise
The head of the serpent, and sweetly infuse
Through the sorrow and sin of earth’s register’d curse
The blessing which mitigates all: born to nurse,
And to soothe, and to solace, to help and to heal
The sick world that leans on her.”
There is the widest opportunity in the most fitting service for every woman whose heart God has touched to be a ministering angel to those who need sympathy or help. There are many who are free to serve in public charities, in caring for the poor, for the sick in hospital wards, for the orphaned and the aged. There are few women who cannot do a little in some one or more of these organizations of Christian beneficence.
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