llow compliments
addressed to her vanity, but she must keep silence in the
churches and all religious meetings; if there are only six
persons present woman may not ask God's blessing to rest there,
nor presume, should one man be present, to give utterance to her
religious aspiration.

Every class of society, and especially each sex, need religious
teachers of their own class and sex with themselves, having the
same experience, the same hopes, aims, and relations. Human minds
are so constituted as to need not merely intellectual
instruction, but the strength imparted by an earnest sympathy
born of a like experience. In order rightly to appreciate the
wants of others, we must know and realize the trials of their
situation, the struggles they may encounter, the burthens, the
toils, the temptations that beset their different relations.
These should be apprehended to some extent, and the more the
better by the person qualified to speak to the spiritual wants of
all. Each relation, therefore, needs its teacher--its peculiar
ministry. No one can demonstrate by college lore the weight of a
mother's responsibility.

No man--not even the kindest father--can fully apprehend the
wearisome cares and anxious solicitude for children of her who
bore them. The tremblings of a mother's soul none save a mother
can feel. Man may prepare sound and logical discourses; he may
clearly define a mother's duty; he may talk eloquently about her
responsibility; he may urge upon her strong motives to
faithfulness in the discharge of her maternal duties; he may tell
her what her children should be in all life's varied aspects. She
hears the good instruction and advice with more or less of the
feeling, "_You_ cannot _know_ of what you are talking."....

The Church needs a varied ministry. Not alone is the power of
mind needed, but the zeal and the inspiration of the inner life;
the unction of love and faith and courage produced by a struggle
amid life's realities. Not the dreamer, but the toiler can best
affect the lives of others through their hearts. In this ministry
the sexes must blend harmoniously their ministrations to others
from their own lives and experiences. This must be the Divine
order. Reason teaches it to the calm observer. Our souls respond
to t