Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — Woman and the Moralities. [ARTICLE]

Woman and the Moralities.

Certainly he who understands the women of any time understands the time. The mark of her moulding is on each generation, and each in turn leaves its traces upon her. She mirrors its pervading thought, reflects its most subtle influences, becomes the embodiment and illustration of its life. No stronger evidence of this can we have than appears in the widh opening of doors on every hand into all possible avenues of humau activity and influence. The interests of religion, left in olden time-to the thought and care of the priesthood, depend in too great measure to-day upon the sympathies of woman. They are to a marked degree the real allies and co-workers with the church, the hearers of‘sermons, the regular attendants at prayer meet-. Inga, the teachers in Sunday Schools and the upholders of religious observances everywhere. The week’s labors, however hard, cannot weary her out of her Church going. The Sunday newspapers may multiply pages and compass the wide world’s topics in one issue, or become a mere sardine box close packed with unsavory, unctuous news, it cannot take tho place of her religious weekly. The moralitios are her stronghold, within which she keeps watch, and wars against whatever might destroy or defile the sanctities of home.—Mary Lowe Dickinson, in Harper’s Bazar.