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There is a class of women in every community whom society denominates “old maids.” The world ought to be told what uncrowned queens many of these women are, what undecorated heroines, what blessings to human be ings, what builders of homes, what servants of others and of Christ. In thousands of instances they voluntarily remain unmarried for the sake of their families. Many of them have refused brilliant offers of marriage that they might stay at home to toil for younger brothers or sisters, or to be the shelter and comfort of parents in the feebleness of their advancing years. Then there are many who have freely hidden away their own heart hunger that they might devote themselves to good deeds for Christ and for humanity. A glance over the pages of history will show many a woman's name which shines in the splendor of such self-sacrifice. Then in every community and neighborhood in almost every family, is one whose hand has not felt the pressure of the wedding ring, because some loved ones or the work of the Master outside seemed to need her hallowed love and gentle service. We should learn to honor these unmarried women instead of decorating their names with unworthy epithets. Many of them are true hero ines of neighborhood or household, the real sisters of charity of the communi ties in which they live. ‘Those who sometimes speak lightly or flippantly of them, who jest and sneer at their sister hood, ought to uncover their heads be fore them in reverence and kiss the hands, wrinkled now and shriveled, which never have been clasped in mar riage.—Philadelphia Presbyterian.
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Brownstown Banner
Brownstown, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 10, 1889
Page 7
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Kelley L.
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