one hand, women are the chief sufferers through the confusions of human
affairs, they have at least a wonderful chance of finding and applying
the remedy. The world can never make good to them the wrong it has done
them; yet they may, if they will, put the world inexpressibly in their
debt. No doubt mankind does not deserve it, but the one perfect lover
in history was willing to die for an undeserving world. It can never be
other than a great calling to follow where He leads the way.

A woman of great experience tells me that here I ought to suggest that
in that minority of cases where it is possible, an unmarried woman may
with great advantage adopt a child. There are many children in the
world to-day without parents, and these children have a greatly
lessened chance of life. But when one of these children is adopted in
the way suggested a great benefit is brought firstly to the child,
secondly to society, and thirdly to the woman herself, who thus
acquires a worthy object for all the passionate devotion she possesses.
Having known this plan adopted in several instances, I have wondered
why it is not more common, at least when financial considerations make
it a possibility.

No doubt to take this course or any of the other courses here suggested
will need courage. But all successful ways of life need courage. Life
itself is a challenging summons to courage. There is no happy way
through for those who sit down in fear or who give in to their own
distresses. Fate is a tyrant only to those who will not face him with
spirit. A full and satisfying life has to be snatched from under the
enemy's guns, but it can be so snatched. Neither men nor women need
give in though often defeated. "Unconquering but unconquered" may be
the best motto that we can hope to deserve, but for all those who
inscribe it on their banners a strange happiness does creep into the