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c Steubenville Female Seminary.The commencement exercise* of this - far-famed institution of learning begin to-morrow, we might perhaps say , ! yesterday in lieu ot to-morrow, for 1 then Rev A M. Reid, the Principal of : the Seminary, preached the bacclau-• ! reate sermon to the school and one of• ! the largest audiences that has assem-’ bled in the Second Presbyterian Church i lor a considerable length of time. The sermon, from the words, “Mary, which I also sat a Jesus's feet/’ occurring in ' j Luke's Gospel, 10th chapter^nd 39th verse, was devoted to showing the estimation iu which our Saviour held women, and the lesson we should derive troin his treatment of her. He i said that “w hen Christ took the sitting i Martha .and accepted her as His pupil, He gave the enforcement of IIis great authority to the right of woman to the best of Teachers, and the history of her intellect, the achievements of her genius from that hour to this, have abundantly vindicated not only her claim to this teaching, but her ability to take profit from it. With less than I an equal chance for distinction in the I race, she has entered the lists, and the I brilliant feminine names that stand I among the foremost of those who have j »ddedkwiw*tHls*oMlHugijt and feeling I to our literature tell with what success I After speaking of Elizabeth Carter, I Mrs. Urowning, Mrs. Hemans and others, he said a woman, Charlotte Elliott, gave us that beautiful hymn j commencing “Just as I am without I one plea,” and that not a tew of the I most effective hymns iu the language j ! had been written by women. Thus, j on strains of clasic, sacred melody, I have they been lifting God's people I nearer their eternal home. Rut Christ did more than this by His example. IHe taught the necessity of exercise Iand the benefit of moderation. It is Iimpossible that a womau can be cheer-tul, gentle and sweet tempered—impossible to show in herself “how divine a thing a woman maybe made,” unless she have good health. Not all of ,religion consists in care lor the soul. \These sacred temples of our souls are ( given to bo cared for. Tis as much God’s law to care lor the outer as the inner life. The links which bind them can only be severed to the damage ot , ! both. The exercise which preserves I i health and strengthens the spirit, is a J ( Christian obligation, enforced in our I , Saviour’s every day hie, and as bind- I . ing as any other, and this law we aro I , too apt to neglect in educating girls, j . We hot house their brains, aud, lt;imagining their heads a high pressure I , engine, we fire away until they drive 1 t through or colapse under the tension. I c They should not learn less—rather I a more, but they should have more time ( to learn it in, so that they can take ( w ith them into life when tUeir school I a days are over, a cultivated miud uot I , unhinged and disordered by an en- J t feebled body. With education should I t come no shame for other duties. The I t wife,and sister.and friend becomes more I perfectly so after the baptism of a I thorough cultivation Rooks are not ] the enemies of household cares, aud J j that education which unfits a woman J tor the discharge of household duties, I ( is incomplete. Mary found not her I. t . ..... ’ . - — .... . . . . A. A I II* *
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Steubenville Weekly Herald
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Fri, Mar 27, 1868
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