Notable Women of Olden Time

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There are many families among us who aim at being families of faith, who profess to walk in the steps of Abraham, to imitate his example. Let such not confine themselves to the...

There will still be Hagars--women who marry for a home, or a support; and especially while woman is educated to be helpless--unable to provide for her own wants; or while that p...

The future life of Jacob was not free from the infirmity of human purpose--the imperfection of human nature. Yet from this time he walked with God, and all his deportment was ma...

That the chosen people might be kept from the taint of idolatry, Jacob left Laban; yet Rachel had stolen her father's images--and there is then great significance in that act by...

And while the princess of Egypt surrounded her infant charge with right influences, while she provided wisely for his intellectual culture, she likewise brought the influence of...

God has graciously ordered that while the parents and guardians are to pass away, there are early ties which are enduring. Where families are properly regulated, added years str...

The faithful Israelite may have recoiled from the thought of its passing into the hands of the unholy worshippers of Baal and Ashtaroth and being polluted by their orgies. But A...

When Athaliah was ingrafted on the stock of royal Judah, she so debased it, that it seemed needful to purify it by cutting off all the branches to the very root. Yet one was sav...

Of all the cruel and bloody mandates issued by despotic monarchs, and designed to answer either the purposes of private malice or unholy policy, few, if any, have exceeded this...

Thus the aspect of the courtier was calm, though sullen, while with his own hands he acted as chamberlain to the Jew and arrayed him in robes of royalty and honour. We may imagi...