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Originally Posted by QueenEsther  From his book Female Piety
"Christianity has provided a place for woman for which she shines; but take her out of that place, and her lustre pales and sheds a feeble and sickly ray. Or to change the metaphor, woman is a plant, which in its own greenhouse seclusion will put forth all its brilliant colours and all the sweet perfume; but remove it from the protection of its own floral home into the common garden and open field, where hardier flowers will grow and thrive, its beauty fades and its colour diminished."
"Neither reason nor Christianity invites woman to the professors chair, or conducts her to the bar, or makes her welcome to the pulpit, or admits her to the place of ordinary magistracy."
"Who, but a few wild visionaries, and rash speculatists, and mistaken advocates of women's rights, would take her from the home of her husband, of her children, and of her own heart, to wear out her strength, consume her time, and destroy her feminine excellence in committee-rooms, on platforms and in mechanics or philosophical institutions?" | Rose, when I read that book, I'm pretty sure those exact excerpts were among the three passages I cut and pasted into my Stickies (desktop notes on a Mac) to be reviewed and meditated on and delighted in for weeks.  (If that sounds extreme, just step onto a college campus and see how many such wilted flowers are walking around, perhaps directly because of how much deadly fertilizer is sown in the classroom that attacks both nature and grace...) Thanks for posting these.
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Laura
attending Old Peachtree PCA, GA
"...Christ comes to meet the despairing with new aid, who not only regenerates us by his Spirit that we may obey God, but makes also that our endeavor, such as it is, should obtain the praise of perfect righteousness." - Calvin
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