Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Consecrated Womanhood A Sermon Preached in the First Congregational Church, Portland, Oregon

Marvin, Frederic Rowland, 1847-1918; Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904 [Author of introduction, etc.]· 2 chapters· 5,536 words

To those who have long lamented the prevailing tendency in Christian churches to deny to women the honors and responsibilities of sacred offices and duties, such a sermon as "Consecrated Womanhood," written by an American clergyman is like a breadth of fresh air in Neapolitan...

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1. Part 1

To those who have long lamented the prevailing tendency in Christian churches to deny to women the honors and responsibilities of sacred offices and duties, such a sermon as "Co...

2. Part 2

John Stuart Mill, dedicating his immortal "Essay on Liberty" to the memory of his beloved wife whose earthly frame he had laid to rest beneath the shades of beautiful Avignon, d...