What Frances E. Willard Said (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from What Frances E. Willard Said

You cannot dream yourself into a char acter. You must hammer and forge your self into one.

Some men say if women are ordained to preach, it will disrupt the home. As well might they talk of driving back the tides of the sea. The mother-heart will never change. Woman enters the arena of literature, art. Business - what you will - becomes a teacher, a physician, a philanthropist, but she is a woman first of all, and cannot deny herself. In all these great vocations she has still been true to the kindred points of heaven and home.

Are they not all ministering spirits? Let us be glad of immortality, and of all those who have loved it, as all great souls have done. Let us wait like a sentry on duty, listening for the word of command in this brief earthly battle, that we may become skilled soldiers in the great unseen battle of the forces of good, when, with no weariness following our work, we are God's true, bright messengers to the suffering and be wildered of this world.

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