orms, whose
voice has called into its service the great workmen of every age,
shall, in these last days, fall especially upon woman. If she
venture to obey, what is man that he should attempt to abrogate
her sacred and divine mission? In the presence of what woman has
already accomplished, who shall say that a true woman--noble in
her humility, strong in her gentleness, rising above all
selfishness, gathering up her varied gifts and accomplishments to
consecrate them to God and humanity--who shall say that such an
one is not in a position to do that for which the world will no
longer rank her other than among the first in the work of human
redemption? Then, influenced by lofty motives, stimulated by the
wail of humanity and the glory of God, woman may go forth and
enter into any field of usefulness which opens up before her....

In the Scripture from which the text is taken we recognize a
universal law which has been the experience of every one of us.
Paul is telling the story of a vision he saw, which became the
inspiration of his life, the turning point where his whole
existence was changed, when, in obedience to that vision, he put
himself in relation with the power to which he belonged, and
recognizing in that One which appeared to him on his way from
Jerusalem to Damascus his Divine Master, he also recognized that
the purpose of his life could be fulfilled only when, in
obedience to that Master, he caught and assimilated to himself
the nature of Him, whose servant he was....

Every reformer the world has ever seen has had a similar
experience. Every truth which has been taught to humanity has
passed through a like channel. No one of God's children has ever
gone forth to the world who has not first had revealed to him his
mission, in a vision.

To this Jew, bound by the prejudices of past generations, weighed
down by the bigotry of human creeds, educated in the schools of
an effete philosophy, struggling through the darkness and gloom
which surrounded him, when as a persecutor he sought to
annihilate the disciples of a new faith, there came this vision
into his life; there dawned the electric light of a great truth,
which found beneath the hatred and pride and passion which filled
his life and heart, the divine germ that is implant