Women in white raiment

JOHN LEMLEY,
EDITOR OF
THE ZION’S WATCHMAN,
AND AUTHOR OF
“The Christ Lifted Up,” “Land of Sacred Story,” “Wonders of Grace,” “Personal Recollections,” Etc.
“They shall walk with me in white; for they shall be worthy, ... and shall be clothed in white raiment.”—Rev. iii: 4, 5.
THE FIRST EDITION.
Albany, New York, 1899.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1898, by JOHN LEMLEY, in the office of the Librarian at Washington. All Rights Reserved. CHARLES VAN BENTHUYSEN & SONS, Printers, Electrotypers and Binders, ALBANY, N. Y.
It has long been in our mind to write this book, in which we seek to set forth the beautiful lives of representative women of the Bible. There has been much written about prophets, kings and priests, about our Lord and His Apostles, about scenes, of different types of character, customs and manners of Oriental life, but so far as we know, nothing has been written about the womanhood of the Bible. We believe a study of these lovely Princesses of God will be both profitable and instructive.
That we may have a suitable background for our pen pictures of these Daughters in Israel, and also, by way of contrast, show what the Bible has done for womanhood, let us briefly take a glance into countries where the Bible has been a sealed book, for the position of women among the Hebrews has always afforded a pleasing contrast with that of their heathen sisters. The position of Jewish women is just what we would expect among a people who were indebted for their laws to the Creator.
It has always been Satan’s shrewdest trick to degrade motherhood, and to cause her to be treated with contempt, knowing that she it is who stands at the fountain head of the race, and her hand always shapes the life and forms the civilization, hence the universal oppression of womanhood in all heathen lands.