CARDINAL MANNING ON THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 270, 25 November 1879, Page 4

CARDINAL MANNING ON THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN.

Cardinal Manning addrenFcd an audience of about 4,000 people recently in on the influence of women. Of all the powers upon earth, he paid, there was in the hands of mothers and daughters and sisters a power which could control the greatest strength of man, and this was the power of good example, of a good life, of true Christian love, the persuasion of their patience in waiting until the faults of Uiobo whom they tried to win to- better ways should be wiped out Men might reason and Wrangle, and might convince one another, but they had not the power of persuasion that a mother, or sister, or daughter possessed over a father or a brother. They could sometimes do what priests could not. The good Bishop of Ferns, who had gone to his rest, had told them that he bad often aeen women kneeling beside men and taking the pledge along with them for the purpose of giving them courage and strength to do tbat which many ot them were so cowardly that they dared not promise to do. Many a man had been brought to heaun and the sacrament and a holy death by the influence of wife or mother or sister. It was most certain that the character oi man was formed for life by the mother, and lie had rarely known a good mother who had a bad daughter or a bad son. Towards the conclusion of his remarks lie condemned the employment of married women outside their own households, saying that when a woman married she entered into a solemn contract for life that Bhe would give her time to her husband, her home and her children, and if she did not do so it destroyed the whole domestic life. ■mm ii ..__ _