vens and laid the foundations of the
earth," who "commanded the morning, and caused the day-spring to
know its place," is wise enough to give laws to the universe
which it shall be safe for you and me to obey? (Applause). Into
this fanaticism this world is to be educated, if it is to be
saved from going down to moral ruin and death. Remember, then, O
man! father, husband, brother, clergyman, and
politician--remember, when these words slip so easily from your
tongues, as they often do, "I grant you have the same abstract
right to do this that man has," you grant all that woman claims;
and remember, as you stand reverently in the presence of God,
that if you assert that that is not safe which He has pronounced
to be right, you claim to be wiser, not than these women or these
men who stand on the platform of the "Woman's Rights Convention,"
but you claim to be wiser than the Creator of man and woman.
(Applause).

Allusion was made here this morning--well and wisely made--to the
charge that when woman walks out into the avenues of public life,
there to gain a living for herself and her children, or to help
guide the nation, she ceases to be domestic, and faithful to the
cares and shrine of home. We heard something well said this
morning on the sphere of woman being the home, and we are told
that this objection to our movement was altogether dishonest,
contemptible, and ridiculous. It is not always such. Good men and
true, and sometimes wise men, also, really in their souls believe
that if a woman touches a ballot, her hand will be unfit for
domestic duties; that if she teaches in the public congregation,
she can not act well her part in the family circle. As I listened
to what was said here, the words called to my mind the image of a
woman of America, known as a religious and moral teacher, who
bears a name of which this nation will one day be proud, but now
slandered by a venal press, scorned by an arrogant pulpit,
little appreciated by the mass of men and women, for whom the
bearer of it is laboring night and day. The image of that woman
rose before me. The world regards her as a public woman, as out
of her sphere, and infers that she is neglectful of the cares and
insensible to the loveliness of domestic life; and as I
remembered her, I f