Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — Woman’s Duty to Serve and Conserve [ARTICLE]

Woman’s Duty to Serve and Conserve

By ARCHBISHOP JOHN J. GLENNON.

Woman’s duty is to serve and conserve—to serve those who have left their homes, and to conserve the homes they have left. It is a man’s place, with his strength, to serve at the front. The woman’s place is to follow him who serves with sympathy and support. She can be a nurse at the base hospital back of the firing line. In that capacity she has a consecrated mission, for in serving humanity she is serving God. \ \ , ■ Back of the base hospital she can work at home. She can supply hospitals with equipment, the work of her own Wads; she can preserve in the home all the erstwhile virtues that peade promoted-; she can keep alive the flame of purest patriotism so that the little ones may be reared in the true meanipg of patriotism. X. ' The home is a place of service and it is only in time of war that we realize the real significance of service. Too many of our young people think the home is They care only for enough money for honeymooning, and expect after that to drift around from place to place. Women must keep the home so that those who return may find a welcome, where the torch of patriotism is unquenched and the faith of other days preserved. ■