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Title: The Heroic Women of Early Indiana Methodism: An Address Delivered Before the Indiana Methodist Historical Society

Author: Thomas Aiken Goodwin

Release Date: January 31, 2008 [EBook #24472]

Language: English

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THE HEROIC WOMEN

OF

EARLY INDIANA METHODISM.

AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE

Indiana Methodist Historical Society

AT

DE PAUW UNIVERSITY,

June 16, 1889,

BY

REV. T. A. GOODWIN, D. D.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.:
INDIANAPOLIS PRINTING COMPANY.
1889.

The Heroic Women of Early Indiana Methodism.

"Arms and the _man_, _I_ sing," said the great Virgil, thousands of
years ago, and all the little Virgils have been singing the man ever
since. But who ever sings the woman? Occasionally a Debora or a Joan of
Arc, a kind of a female monstrosity, comes to the front and receives
recognition, but their conspicuousness is due more to the low level of
their surroundings, than to their individual pre-eminence. They were out
of their spheres in what gave them notoriety, and they have been so
voted by universal consent through the ages. It was not specially to
their credit that they successfully commanded armies, but it was to the
unutterable shame of the men of their period that they had to, or let it
go undone. No thanks to Betsey for killing the bear. She had to, or the
bear would have killed the baby, but everlasting shame upon her
worthless husband for making it necessary for her to do what he ought to
have done. Betsey was out of her sphere when killing the bear, and so
was the cowardly man when letting her do it.

The great Virgil graciously introduces a Dido into his song, but he does
it apologetically, and only because it was nec