Woman's Mission (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. RELIGION. Quel spectacle plus effrayant que celui d'un peuple actif et vigoureux, se d battant sans esperance dans les rriurs d'airain et de la fausse gloire, de la personality et de l'egoisme. Ce spectacle nous le donnons au monde, parceque la pensee religieuse nous manque; et la pensee religieuse nous manque parceque les meres ont oubli6 de la deposer sur le berceau de leurs enfans. Aime Martin. It remains yet to discover the main-spring of-all those qualities which have been so strenuously insisted upon as necessary to direct the undisputed influence of women into its right channel. In the state to which we have brought the argument, it is liable to the objection that it enforces the necessity of impossible and unattainable virtue. The qualities recommended as most essential to secure woman's influence, are indeed, as yet, plants without roots: for how can they regenerate society who are not themselves regenerate? who have not " the spirit which cometh from God only V There is but one source of regeneration, and that is Christianity: the women, therefore, who are to be regenerators of society, must be women deeply imbued with the spirit of Christianity; the spirit, not the letter, --for I would not here speak of forms, however venerable, or dogmas, however important, but of that complete surrender of heart to the cause of God, and the promotion of his glory, which is the essence of Christianity. It is of the utmost consequence that all be instructed on this point, for Christianity has too long, and too exclusively, been regarded as a scheme of redemption, and not enough as a scheme of regeneration. Is it too bold to assert, that the principal proof of its value, as a redemption, is its power of regeneration 1 for if it only promised us...