Woman's Cause Author:Carol Norton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: protection, individual might and dignity, enjoyed by the king of two centuries ago. But woman has, to a great extent, fought her own battles, won her victories i... more »n the closet, alone with her God, and has become the happy possessor of enlarged privileges and possibilities, only as the thought of the race has been exalted and spiritualized by the influx of light and purity from on High. True it is that the work of holy men in all ages has ushered in, step by step, the freedom that she is now beginning to enjoy. All the progress of the ages has been of necessity spiritual progress, as there is really no other. All good is of God, and the increase of good in the world means the growth of all those things among men and races that work is Roman's Cause for liberty, right, health, and spiritual freedom to the individual. While for ages woman has been steadily ascending to her rightful place as man's co-equal in all the walks of life, yet what is so widely known in all parts of the world at the present time as " Woman's Cause," is the outgrowth of the last quarter of the century, in a peculiar and marked way. In Christendom the " Woman's Movement " dominates all other questions that involve individual, social, moral, and spiritual freedom. Truly says a well-known author, "The Mother-heart of God will never be known to the world until translated into terms of speech by mother-hearted women. Law and Love will never balance in the realm of grace until a woman's hand shall hold the chapter{Section 4scales." Our nineteenth century civilization will find that its last quarter has given birth to two vital forces that have already begun to evolve a better state of things. The first is a system of religion that can be truly called scientifically spiritual. The second, the great idea ...« less