Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
And every soul that God has made, Who from despair their lives defend And struggling upward through the shade, Break every bond that will not bend, These are the soldiers, unafraid In the great war that has no end.
Women have had to do a lot of waiting--long, weary waiting. The well-brought-up young lady diligently prepares for marriage; makes doilies, and hemstitches linen; gets her blue...
9. Chapter 9In dealing with the relation of women to the church, let me begin properly with a text in Genesis which says: "God created man in his _own _image ... male and female created he...
12. Chapter 12When the valley is brimming with sunshine, And the Souris, limpid and clear, Slips over its shining pebbles And the harvest time draws near, The heart of the honest plowman Is f...
11. Chapter 11Lord, take us up to the heights, and show us the glory, Show us a vision of Empire! Tell us its story! Tell it out plain, for our eyes and our ears have grown holden; We have fo...
7. Chapter 7wife's name, but it does not work very well. When social conditions are corrupt women cannot escape by shutting their eyes, and taking no interest. It would be far better to giv...
13. Chapter 13Not for all sunshine, dear Lord, do we pray-- We know such a prayer would be vain; But that strength may be ours to keep right on our way, Never minding the rain!
8. Chapter 8I am sorry to have to say so, but there are some women who love to be miserable, who have a perfect genius for martyrdom, who take a delight in seeing how badly they can be trea...
2. Chapter 2When a skirl of pipes came down the street, And the blare of bands, and the march of feet, I could not keep from marching, too; For the pipes cried "Come!" and the bands said "D...
4. Chapter 4Mary and Martha were sisters, and one day they had a quarrel, which goes to show that sisters in Bible times were much the same as now. Mary and Martha had a different attitude...
3. Chapter 3"Madam," said Charles XI of Sweden to his wife when she appealed to him for mercy to some prisoner, "I married you to give me children, not to give me advice." That was said a l...
6. Chapter 6If prejudices belonged to the vegetable world they would be described under the general heading of: "Hardy Perennials; will grow in any soil, and bloom without ceasing; requirin...
5. Chapter 5This seems to be a good time for us to jar ourselves loose from some of the prejudices and beliefs which we have outgrown. It is time for readjustment surely, a time for spiritu...
1. Chapter 1And every soul that God has made, Who from despair their lives defend And struggling upward through the shade, Break every bond that will not bend, These are the soldiers, unafr...