is not,
When but for _this_ it is not, that we weep;
We creep in dust to wail our lowly lot,
Which were not lowly, if we scorned to creep;
That which we _dare_ we shall be, when the will
Bows to prevailing Hope, its would-be to fulfill."

It can be done. This demand of woman can be nobly and
successfully asserted. It can be, because it is but the
out-speaking of the divine sentiment of woman. Let us not then
tremble, or falter, or despair--I know we shall not. I know that
those who have taken hold of this great work, and carried it
forward hitherto, against obloquy, and persecution, and
contempt, will not falter now. No! Every step is bearing us to a
higher eminence, and thus revealing a broader promise of hope, a
brighter prospect of success. Though they who are foremost in
this cause must bear obloquy and reproach, and though it may seem
to the careless looker-on, that they advance but little or not at
all; they know that the instinct which impels them being divine,
it can not be that they shall fail. They know that every quality
of their nature, every attribute of their Creator, is pledged to
their success.

"They never fail who gravely plead for right,
God's faithful martyrs can not suffer loss.
Their blazing faggots sow the world with light,
Heaven's gate swings open on their bloody cross."

Pres. MAHAN: If I would not be interrupting at all, there are a
few thoughts having weight upon my mind which I should be very
happy to express. I have nothing to say to excite controversy at
all, but there are things which are said, the ultimate bearing of
which I believe is not always understood. I have heard during
these discussions, things said which bear this aspect--that the
relation of ruler and subject is that of master and slave. The
idea of the equality of woman with man, seems to be argued upon
this idea. I am not now to speak whether it is lawful for man to
rule the woman at all; but I wish to make a remark upon the
principles of governor and governed. The idea seems to be
suggested that if the wife is subject to the husband, the wife is
a slave to the man--if He has said, in the sense in which some
would have it, even that the woman should be subject to the man,
and the