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€ ttr JForemotJjrrs ANNETTE LANG AF ur foremothers ! What sweetness does the name mother in any of its relations bring to the human mind ! We should repeat again and again that word It tells of sacrifices from the dawn of history when woman was sister to the brute —the mere slave of man—to this time when she is a monarch in her own home. Fore-Mothers ! that word has meaning high minded, sin- cere, active, self-sacrificing. Repeat it to-day and do it reverence. The churches do honor to their saints; the great nations do honor to their heroes; let the world to-day pledge its love to her who is a hero and a saint in all ages and all nations. It is her right for to-day the world lives in all her grandeur and all her hopes thru the influence of womanhood. Our fore-mothers! There is no history more painful to read, more pathetic, than the history of woman from the time when she was a slave—a clod of the earth—until now when she has taken her place the equal of her more fortunate brother in nearly all nations. In pre-christian civilization woman was without honor or rights. The intellectual centres of Rome and Greece did not acknowledge her. A low estimate was placed on woman as an essential element of their civilization. They did not at- tempt to enrich or elevate womanhood, and for this defect not all the victories achieved by their legions, not all the wealth gathered by the proconsuls from the countries of the world could make a compensation. A Roman citizen—a proud title this in olden days; the nation owned none prouder. But the government of Rome was a government of the men, by the men and for the men, and a reflection of this thought was found in her laws. Woman’s tender influence was lost to the nation. Grecian woman, and especially the Athenian woman, was more to be pitied. The brave Athenian warrior did not esteem or respect his wife. She was shut out from social life. She was prisoner in her own home. Her very life was at the
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caprice of her husband. Her children were torn from her arms at a tender age to become the property of the state. Man was a law unto himself. He was without love, and with- out love the family was impossible, or became impossible in our ancient civilization. The family is the source of society; the wife is the source of the family. If the source of the family is despised and degraded was it any wonder that these nations of Southern Europe soon decayed ? Was it any won- der that after four centuries of impurity, immorality, and riotous living that righteousness should assert itself? Is there any wonder that the time came when a new world and a new civilization should be born? Then came a time when God’s designs became apparent. Even as the storm cloud bursts forth and sweeps the earth in its relentless force—so from the fastness of the North came forth dreadful hordes of men—men without mercy—men without history or written language and they came, Goth and Visigoths, Huns and Vandals, onward sweeping carrying destruction in their hands. Rome went down before them. All her glory departed, and so the civili- zation of Greece and Rome was completely destroyed at the close of the 5th century. 4000 years of work had to be done over again. But this new civilization was to permit woman’s love to reign supreme. The history of Christendom furnishes illustrations abundant of the noble and effective part which Christian women have played in this regenerative work. For centuries her work was done in epochs of barbarism, lawlessness, uncultured natural childhood; or general luxury and relaxation of morals. In such eras manly virtue was rare, ever ready to lose what had been gained. But the mother at home was not so ready to give up the best that was in life in these dark ages. Her gentle purifying influence went out to sanctify and redeem society. The highest in the lower order touches the superior in the next above it. So the individual woman’s influence mellowed the character of the family, and the hope of humanity lies in the sanctity of the family. Woman’s part has been a various and dignified one. As the family life became strict woman’s influence was increased. It was then that woman placed her name high on the roll of honor. From these retreats the gentle, purifying, refining, influences of woman went forth. Some by their boundless munificence and magnanimous counsels have been worthy helpmates of rulers in their undertakings. Others like the two Elizabeths, and Margaret of Scotland, in the middle ages
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