“IN THE DAWN.”

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 246, 18 December 1915, Page 11

“IN THE DAWN.”

(V’. Jane Sutherland.) Dinna ye heart it? God’s pibroch loud-sounding, For woman, long silent, in servitude dumb, Has heard, and has answered, her foemen confounding -- Jehovah’s redemption of woman has come. Is woman the “weak one”? Let those her disdaining Remember what Cod to the Serpent has said — “Oppose thee shall woman, My will her constraining, Her seed shall in victory trample thy head.” Soul-fettered, and silenced by priests’ admonition, The ages have passed in one long travail-pain; Denied education, Cod gave intuition, To hear, see and know what man cannot attain. And though 'mid the pots they have toiled for long ages, Dishonoured; degraded by foemen of old, Their wisdom and courage adorn Scripture pages, Though soiled, the doves’ feathers flash silver and gold. The word of the Lord has gone forth to His daughters, A great host of women-proclai m rs has He. The power of Kvil, their children • It.it slaughters, Shall end its career in the fiery t?a. The march of events tell of coming salvation, Not only for women, but all of the race, For only “free” women can bear a free nation, Whom war shall not slaughter n>>r vices debase.

“Dinna ye hear it.'” O ye, that i:e sleeping, Awake, and like Deborah, utter a song; Jehovah to woman His promise is keeping, He will “lead her captivity captive ' ere long. Jehovah! “His name unto each generation”; Deliverer! Come down the woman to free; We stand in the dawn of Christ’s reign for salvation, “And all flesh together Cod’s glory shall see!”