This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...years of childhood. We shall never kindle altar fires in the dark lands without her help, and these fires will never be smothered if her religious enthusiasm fans them. Is the decline of family altars in the Christian homes of America expository of a new type of womanhood? If it is, that fact is the greatest rebuke to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...years of childhood. We shall never kindle altar fires in the dark lands without her help, and these fires will never be smothered if her religious enthusiasm fans them. Is the decline of family altars in the Christian homes of America expository of a new type of womanhood? If it is, that fact is the greatest rebuke to Christian women I know. Let us not make the mistake of supposing that the humble place which women in heathen lands hold is indicative of a feeble personality. I assure you on the observations of all who have made observation in China, that women there are comparatively as potential as in America. The effort to suppress her personality has maimed but has not slain the innate force of womanhood which dwells in every Chinese woman. She is not a figurehead. She is a victim of a false social order, and has a false respect for social custom which makes her submissive to a degree to assumed masculine superiority and to conform too readily to social abuse. Under such conditions you will not understand her unless you look beneath custom. There you will find many signs of her irrepressible force of character. A story told me by a missionary in China will perhaps illustrate my meaning. A Chinese gentleman asked the missionary, "Do your men in America rule the women, or do the women rule the men?" The missionary replied, "Well, the men think they rule the women, but as a matter of fact the women boss the men." The Chinese gentleman's face lighted up, and he said, "The same way in China!" Women suffer their feet to be bound in China not because they are too weak to resist the will of man, but for the same reason that women in America dress outlandishly: they are slaves to custom, and in that respect show their chief weakness....
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