Ibid Ibid

There never was a better illustration given of how well women can help in the camp, if she tries to, than during our late war. Men forged the cannon. Men fashioned the musketry. Men manned the guns. Men unlimbered the batteries. Men lifted the wounded into the ambulances. But women scraped the lint. Women administered … Read more

I saw in the museum at Venice an instrument with which one of the old Italian tyrants was wont to shoot poisoned needles at the objects of his wanton malignity. I thought of gossips, backbiters, and secret slanderers, and wished that their mischievous devices might come to a speedy end. Their weapons of innuendo, shrug, … Read more

Sins seldom come alone; where there is room for one devil, seven other spirits more wicked than himself will find a lodging. We may say of sins as Longfellow says of birds of prey, in his Song of Hiawatha.—. “Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded … Read more

Illustrative preaching is intended as well for the unlearned as the learned, for converting the unlettered poor, whose souls are as precious in God’s sight as those of philosophers or kings. An humble woman well expressed it, “I like best the likes of scripture.” She comprehended best, and was most interested and edified by those … Read more

When one speaks the name of my mother, and says to me, “Roxana,” it is no Greek that I think of; it is she that was a Connecticut woman, bred in an obscure neighborhood, quiet and retiring, but full of deep pondering of things beyond her age, and of a heart rich and rare. And … Read more

A Christian woman went to the tract house in New York, and asked for tracts for distribution. The first day she was out on her Christian errand she saw a policeman taking an intoxicated woman to the station house. After the woman was discharged from custody, this Christian tract distributor saw her coming away all … Read more

We ought to be induced away from all harshness by the fact that we ourselves are to be brought into high tribunal at the last, and that he shall have judgment without mercy that has shown no mercy. You are accustomed with rough grip to shake men for their misdeeds, waiting for no palliations, listening … Read more

I plead for education, not because it is the highway to prosperity in law, or in medicine, or in the pulpit, or in political life, or in science, but because it means manhood. I plead for education as the indispensable condition of a continuing, complete, and perpetuated happiness.—IBID.