ere true to the
holiest impulses of her nature. Point me to the most prosperous era of
the institutions of Christianity; shew me a sect, who honor the Sabbath,
or who sustain most liberally the ministers of Christ, and I am
confident that then and there the female sex will be found most active
in defence of the holy day, and of sanctuary privileges.

Look at the Church of Christ. Who are they that confessed their Lord
before men, in the early ages of the gospel? "Within a few years after
Christ, the Christian martyrologies are full of the names of female
sufferers, who, for Jesus' sake, went to the stake, with all the courage
and inflexibility of apostles."

Whence come the majority of church communicants? Let woman reply. She,
who at first encountered danger and death, and who inspired man to do
likewise, has always been prompt to profess her faith at the table of
her Lord, and give her influence to the honor of his visible church. Had
this work been left to the other sex, where had been now this goodly
fellowship of avowed believers? Should woman ever forsake her Master, or
shrink from bearing his name at the altar, it would portend gloom,
decay, and desolation, to the fair fabric she now so devoutly upholds.

To the female sex we owe a large share of the benefits resulting from
the present enlarged means and methods of religious education. Not only
in the day school, and at the fireside, but in the Sunday school, we
find this sex occupied in one of their most hallowed services, the
training of the young. Difficulties occur in securing and retaining the
aid of male teachers in the Sabbath school. The heart of man is not
always so disengaged from the world, and so intent on the calls for a
pious benevolence to the young, as to come cheerfully and punctually to
this divine work. But our female teachers are prompt to assume, and
unwearied in the discharge of, this function. What were the institution,
without the spirit of woman operating on its vital principles, toiling
and praying, and sacrificing herself, to save those "little ones" whom
Jesus loves?

"Meekly ye forfeit to your mission kind
The rest of earthly Sabbaths.--Be your gain
A Sabbath without end, 'mid yon celestial plain."

Let me add, that the Benevolent Enterprizes which mark the train of
Christianity, have received much of their support from woman. Previous
to the coming of Christ, public charities were nearly unknown. Among the
names of