The Gavelyte, December 1907

. . ------- Pach gives and receives from the other. "Thi,:; helprrn., Pt wa~ made from man, not from his heaq to top him, not from his feet to be trampled upon by him, out from his side to be equal to him, from ur.de1 his arm to be protected by him, and from near his heart tn lie 11,vt>d by him." From history we learn that man's po,nar is act.ivP, progressive, defen~ive woman's is ruling, guiding, counselling. Man is eminently the doer, the cl iscoverer. the defender; woman, the comforter, the teacher, the reformer. Man's intellect is for speculation and invention; woman's for order, arrange– ment and decision. Man's energy is for adventure, war. conquest; woman'~. for peace, sympathy and self-sacrifice. In the m_vthology of the ancients there was a goddes ·- the queen of the air who ruled over calm and storm. She controlled the life of man, moral, mental, and spiritual. To the Egyptain she was known as Neith. to the Greek as Athena, to the Roman as Minerva, but modern nations, having renounced this mythological queen. have enthroned in her stead. one from their midst, the Christian \V(lmen. The Greek Athena is the air, giving lifr ancl health to animal,:;, vegeta– tive power to the earth, motion to thP sea, supplying artificial light and r·onv,-,ying vibration of sou 11rl. But the Chistian woman is more than these. • hr is the :rnstainiAg life of man, the dispeller of gloom, a shining light in the community, the nucleus around which center all the pleasures and comforts of the homt-, the power behind the throne which promotes the well-being of the state. In the hands of two women, who were to rear. teach, and prepare him for his life-work, was plaeed God's c-hn~en lt>acll-'r to deli,•Pr his people from bondage. When the time arriver! for t.he mani f\. tation d God in the flesh. woman was chosen to pre. ent the ~aviour to the world. And to woman he first appearer! aftrr t hP rrsun rc-tion. To her was given the comrnanrl to Lr·ll the dif;eipll:'s that Christ was risen. The greate~t. wisr, t, and µure. t-heartecl of all ages ha\'e testified con– cerning the true clignity and worth of women. ,. omeone has said, ''Shakes– peare has no heroes only heroines." There is hardly a play that has not its pt>rfrct woman reYeal cl in ti r big hf. t t~ ]lt' of 1rnn ,nnity; Portia, Helena, ('or<lelia, Queen Catherine, , _rlYia. and Virgilia. ,\·ott "ho has given us a broad view. of corirlitions in society, has rresented the characters of Ellen llouglas. Diana Vrrnon, .Jrane nrnns ;:ind nrnny others. In these arr port-