WOMAN'S MISSION.

White Ribbon, Issue 1, 1 July 1895, Page 8

WOMAN'S MISSION.

'Tis thine to curb the passions' madd'ning sway, And wipe the mourner's bitter tear away; Tis thine to sooth, when hope itself has tied, And cheer with angel smile the sufferer's bed To give to earth its charm, to life its zest, One only task—to bless, and to be blest. -Graham 1 )o the thing that's next you, Though it's dune at whih ft, Helping when you meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.— Kingsley. Conch km no WoMBM. Are there not women who inspire us with courtesy, who unloose our tongues, and we speak ; who anoint our eyes, and we see ? We says things we never thought tohave said. For once, our walls of habitual reserve vanished and left us at large ; we were children playing with children in a wide field of flowers. Steep us, we cried, in these influences for days, for weeks, and we shall be sunny poets, and write out in many-coloured words the romance that you are. Emerson. The (Quaker marriage ceremony is a very simple affair, the contracting parties merely agreeing t take each other 44 until it shall please the Lord by death to separate us." A story goes that there was once an old Friend going to be married who was very loud of emphasising his sentences by little additions of his own, and when making the declaration he finished up " Until it shall pl< the Lord, in His infinite mercy, by death to separate us "