Identifier: pathwayoflifetow00thom (find matches)
Title: The pathway of life ... to which is added a biography of Dr. Talmage
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Thomas De Witt Talmage
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Publisher: Historrical pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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where the hr^stianreligion has been dominant womans condition has been ameliorated and improved,and she is deferred to and honored in a thousand things, and every gentlemantakes off his hat before her. If your associations have been good, 3ou know thatthe name of wife, mother, daughter, suggests gracious surroundings. You knowthere are no better schools and seminaries in Brooklyn or in any city of thiscountry than the schools and seminaries for our young ladies. You know thatwhile woman may suffer injustice in England and the United States, she has moreof her rights in Christendom than she has anywhere else. Now, compare this with womans condition in lands where Christianity hasmade little or no advance—in China, in Barbary, in Borneo, in Tartary, in Egypt,in Hindostan. The Burmese sell their wives and daughters as so many sheep.The Hindoo Bible makes it disgraceful and an outrage for a woman to listen tomusic, or look out of the window in the absence of her husband, and gives as a
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(245) 246 THE PATHWAY OF LIFK. lawful ground for divorce a womans beginning to eat before her husband hasfinished his meal. What mean those white bundles on the ponds and rivers inChina in the morning ? Infanticide following infanticide. Female childrendestroyed simply because they are female. Woman harnessed to a plow as an ox.Woman veiled and barricaded, and in all stjdes of cruel seclusion. Her birth amisfortune. Her life a torture. Her death a horror. The missionarj- of thecross to-day in heathen lands preaches generally to two groups—a group of men,who do as they please and sit where they please; the other group—women, hiddenand carefully secluded in a side apartment, where they may hear the voice of thepreacher, but may not be seen. No refinement. No liberty. No hope for thislife. No hope for the life to come. Ringed hose. Cramped foot. Disfiguredface. Bmbruted soul. Now compare those two conditions. How far toward thislatter condition that I speak of would woman go if Chris

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