“truths, not ‘her’s,’ indeed,
But set within ‘his’ reach by means of ‘her,’”
the dark Door of Death has been changed into the White Gate of Life Everlasting, shall it not then be granted that women were needed?
This is not the time or place to enter upon the great question of woman’s mission. She has her work, and the time is coming when she shall be permitted to do it. God, in His own marvellous way, is, even now, causing the dawn of that blessed day to break, when, rising above prejudice and party spirit, she shall be allowed to take her true place, and be, in the highest sense of the word, a “Sister” to the suffering and the sorrowful; to assert and claim her “rights,” the only rights of which a woman may justly be proud.
“What are Woman’s Rights?”
“The right to wake when others sleep;
The right to watch, the right to weep;
The right to comfort in distress,
The right to soothe, the right to bless;
The right the widow’s heart to cheer,