"From that sweetest silence, the restful peace of happy innocent girlhood,
God called her to her divine work of helpin' redeem a world from sin. And
did not this woman's love and willin' obedience, and sufferin' set her
apart, baptize her for this work of liftin' up the fallen, helpin' the
weak?

[Illustration: "He'd entered political life where the Bible wuzn't
popular; he'd never read further than Gulliver's Epistle to the
Liliputians."]

"Is it not a part of woman's life that she gave at the birth and
crucifixion? Her faith, her hope, her sufferin', her glow of divine pity
and joyful martyrdom. These, mingled with the divine, the pure heavenly,
have they not for nineteen hundred years been blessin' the world? The God
in Christ would awe us too much; we would shield our eyes from the too
blindin' glory of the pure God-like. But the tender Christ who wept over a
sinful city, and the grave of His friend, who stopped dyin' on the cross
to comfort His mother's heart, provide for her future--it is this womanly
element in our Lord's nature that makes us dare to approach Him, dare to
kneel at His feet?

"And since woman wuz so blessed as to be counted worthy to be co-worker
with God in the beginnin' of the world's redemption; since He called
her from the quiet obscurity of womanly rest and peace into the blessed
martyrdom of renunciation and toil and sufferin', all to help a world that
cared nothin' for her, that cried out shame upon her.

"He will help her carry on the work of helpin' a sinful world. He will
protect her in it, she cannot be harmed or hindered, for the cause she