including the medical and other professions,
merely because men do it, and without regard to whether this _is_
the best that women can do; and of the jargon which urges women to
do nothing that men do, merely because they are women, and should be
"recalled to a sense of their duty as women," and because "this is
women's work," and "that is men's," and "these are things which
women should not do," which is all assertion and nothing more.
Surely woman should bring the best she has, _whatever_ that is, to
the work of God's world, without attending to either of these cries.
For what are they, both of them, the one _just_ as much as the
other, but listening to the "what people will say," to opinion, to
the "voices from without?" And as a wise man has said, no one has
ever done anything great or useful by listening to the voices from
without.

You do not want the effect of your good things to be, "How
wonderful for a _woman!_" nor would you be deterred from good
things, by hearing it said, "Yes, but she ought not to have done
this, because it is not suitable for a woman." But you want to do
the thing that is good, whether it is "suitable for a woman" or
not.

It does not make a thing good, that it is remarkable that a woman
should have been able to do it. Neither does it make a thing bad,
which would have been good had a man done it, that it has been done
by a woman.

Oh, leave these jargons, and go your way straight to God's work, in
simplicity and singleness of heart.

APPENDIX.

[Transcriber's Note: The tables below have been rotated through 90 for
easier display.]

TABLE A.

GREAT BRITAIN.

AGES.

| Nurse | Nurse |
NURSES. | (not Domestic | (Domestic |
| Servant) | Servant) |
-------------------+---------------+-----------+
All Ages | 25,466 | 39,139 |
Under 5 Years. | ... | ... |
5- | ... | 508 |
10- | ... | 7,259 |
15- | ... | 10,355 |
20- | 624 | 6,537 |
25- | 817 | 4,174 |
30- | 1,118 | 2,495 |
35- | 1,359 | 1,681 |
40- | 2,223 | 1,468 |
45- |