of duties; to teach him specially, in these so-called intellectual
days, that there is something more than intellect, and that is--
purity and virtue. Let her never be persuaded to forget that her
calling is not the lower and more earthly one of self-assertion,
but the higher and the diviner calling of self-sacrifice; and let
her never desert that higher life, which lives in others and for
others, like her Redeemer and her Lord.

And if any should answer that this doctrine would keep woman a
dependent and a slave, I rejoin--Not so: it would keep her what
she should be--the mistress of all around her, because mistress of
herself. And more, I should express a fear that those who made
that answer had not yet seen into the mystery of true greatness
and true strength; that they did not yet understand the true
magnanimity, the true royalty of that spirit, by which the Son of
man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give
His life a ransom for many.

Surely that is woman's calling--to teach man: and to teach him
what? To teach him, after all, that his calling is the same as
hers, if he will but see the things which belong to his peace. To
temper his fiercer, coarser, more self-assertive nature, by the
contact of her gentleness, purity, self-sacrifice. To make him
see that not by blare of trumpets, not by noise, wrath, greed,
ambition, intrigue, puffery, is good and lasting work to be done
on earth: but by wise self-distrust, by silent labour, by lofty
self-control, by that charity which hopeth all things, believeth
all things, endureth all things; by such an example, in short, as
women now in tens of thousands set to those around them; such as
they will show more and more, the more their whole womanhood is