, than all our privileges of
jurisdiction can pretend to have against you. You have more strength in
your looks, than we have in our laws; and more power by gentleness, than
we have in our arguments."

Have I circumscribed too much the sphere of woman? Does she aspire to
other and broader scenes of occupation? If God hath endowed any one with
the spirit of a prophetess, let her prophecy; if of teaching, let her
wait on that office. Wheresoever a capacity is bestowed, it is the
sign-manual of Heaven. Forbid it, honor, justice, and all that is manly,
that I close one avenue opened by the Divinity. But I have spoken of
woman in the mass;

"Common clay, ta'en from the common earth,
Moulded by God, and tempered by the tears
Of angels, to the perfect form of woman."

She who is faithful to her Home, to the sacred calls of Charity, and to
the holy impulses of her Social being, fulfils no mean office. She ranks
with the glorious sisterhood, who have gone to the rest of the sainted.
Let her soul be baptized into the spirit of God, let his glory be the
seal of her deeds, and she shall at length join that great company, who
"neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of
God."

Chapter II.

FEMALE INFLUENCE.

Christianity a bond of union. Why woman was created. Her influence
on Society; on Intellectual Culture. Madame Galvani. Miss
Herschel. The Mother's Influence. Bonaparte's Remark. Alfred the
Great. Influence on Society. Home friendly to piety and virtue.
Man's Temptations. The plea of Eve. Fraternal and Sisterly
Influence. The Mother's sway over her Children. Woman's Political
Influence. The Christian Religion. The Church. Religious
Education. Benevolent Enterprizes. The Minister of Legislative
Beneficence. Responsibilities correspond to Influence. Madame de
Stael's description of Society in Paris. Woman by Nature a
Teacher. Domestic Claims. Patriotism. The women in the French
Revolution. A Family in the West. Claims of Religion.

Christianity was designed for the benefit of all classes of mankind.
There are none so high that it cannot raise them still higher; and none
so low, as to escape its kindly notice and fostering influences. It
unites in one fraternal bond, all who bear the impress of God. As a
social religion, breaking down every wall of partition, and bringing the
whole race into fellowship, its fundamental principle is, "We are
members one of