that God
would care for her motherless child left to battle with the world. I
wonder how they will explain it to her when they meet her up there! I
wonder will they be able to get away with that old fable about their
being afraid of women "losing their femininity." I wonder!

There is a story recorded in that book, whose popularity never wanes,
about a certain poor man who took his journey down from Jerusalem to
Jericho, and who fell among thieves who robbed him and left him for
dead. A priest and a Levite came along and were full of sympathy, and
said: "Dear me! I wonder what this road is coming to!" But they had
meetings to attend and they passed on. A good Samaritan came along,
and he was a real good Samaritan, and when he saw the man lying by the
road he jumped down from his horse, and picking him up, took him to the
inn, and gave directions for his care and comfort, even paid out money
for the poor battered stranger. The next day, the Samaritan again
passed down the road from Jerusalem to Jericho, and about the same
place found another man, beaten and robbed, undoubtedly the work of the
same thieves. Again he played the part of the kind friend, but it set
him thinking, and when the next day he found two men robbed and beaten,
the good Samaritan was properly aroused. He took them to the inn, and
again he paid out his money, but that night he called a meeting of all
the other good Samaritans "out his way" and they hunted up their old
muskets and set out to clean up the road.

The road from Jerusalem to Jericho is here, and now. Women have played
the good Samaritan for a long time, and they have found many a one
beaten and robbed on the road of life. They are still doing it, but
the conviction is growing on them that it would be much better to go
out and clean up the road!

In a certain asylum, the management have a unique test for sanity.
When any of the inmates exhibit evidence of returning reason, they
submit them to the following tests. Out in the courtyard there are a
number of water taps for filling troughs, and to each of the candidates
for liberty a small pail is given, and they are told to drain out the
troughs, the taps running full force. Some of the poor fellows bail
away and bail away, but of course the trough remains full in spite of
them. The wise ones turn off the taps.

The women of the churches and many other organizations for many long
weary years have been bailing out the trough