Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1916 — Religious Women. [ARTICLE]

Religious Women.

The real reason why women are more religious than men today is because they are more human than men. It is not by nature that they are so. Social conditions have made them so. As we have divided the labor of the world between the sexes, the work of men is almost entirely concerned with, the production and distribution of things; the work of women almost entirely with the production and sustenance of persons. We all of us at times notice the great throngs of men who go, at the call of the whistle, in and out of our great factories. To the average man’s mind, these hundreds of men are “hands,” and the purpose of the factories where they are employed Is to produce “goods;” but to the average woman’s mind, these hundreds of laborers are human beings, and the purpose of the factories is to furnish sustenance, through pay envelopes, to men and women and boys and girls and babies yet unborn. In most of our homes the man leaves human interests early in the morning, devotes the best hours of his day to the welfare of things, and returns to persons again only for the evening's relaxation. His wife, meanwhile, has hardly done an act of labor all the day, has hardly made a plan or had a thought, which is not with considerable intimacy related to human beings -r-her husband, her children, her neighbors. —Bernard I. Bell, in Atlantic.