Now what is the difference between the condition of women there and here, then and now? The only difference is that which is made by the gospel of the Son of God. O, women! To-day you would have been hitched to the.
plough, or you would have been leaping upon the funeral-pyre, or you would have been ground under the heel of man’s cruelty and insolence, were it not for the fact that in this land and in this age the Lord Jesus Christ appeared, with love in his voice and omnipotence in his arm, and stood above this grave of womanhood, and said, “forth!” And she has come forth in the dignity of a Christian hope.—TALMAGE.