lanted last year, pine trees will grow, if you do not
take some special care to prevent it. There is no danger that
from an apple will grow an oak, or, from a peach-stone an elm;
leave nature to work out her own results, or, in other words,
leave God to work out His own purpose, and be not so anxious to
intrude yourselves upon Him and to help Him govern the Universe
He has made. Some of us have too high an estimation of His
goodness and wisdom to be desirous of thrusting ourselves into
His government. We are willing to leave the nature of woman to
manifest itself in its own aptitudes. Try it. Did one ever trust
in God and meet with disappointment? Never! Tyrants always say it
is not safe to trust their subjects with freedom. Austria says it
is not safe to trust the Hungarian with freedom. Man says woman
is not safe in freedom, she will get beyond her sphere.

After having oppressed her for centuries, what wonder if she
should rebound, and at the first spring, even manifest that law
of reaction somewhat to your inconvenience, and somewhat even
beyond the dictates of the wisest judgment. What then? Is the
fault to be charged to the removal of the restraint; or is it to
be charged to the first imposition of the restraint? The
objection of our opponents remind one of the Irishman walking
among the bushes just behind his companion, who caught hold of a
branch, and passing on, let it fly back into the face of his
friend; "Indade I am thankful to ye!" said the injured man, "for
taking hold of that same; it a'most knocked the brains out of me
body as it was, an' sure, if ye hadn't caught hold of it, it
would have kilt me intirely!"

The winds come lashing over your lake, the waters piling upon
each other, wave rolling upon wave, and you may say what a pity
we could not bridge the lake over with ice, so as to keep down
these billows which may rise so high as to submerge us. But stand
still! God has fixed the law upon the waters, "thus far shalt
thou come"; and as you watch the ever piling floods, it secures
their timely downfall. When they come as far as their appointed
limits, the combing crest of the wave tells that the hour of
safety has arrived, proving that God was wiser than you in
writing down laws for His creation. We need not bridge over