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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 17, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 43.

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WEAK WOMEN.

“Most of the Christians are weak women.” They are, are they? Well, most of the criminals are strong men. “Most that attend the prayer-meeting are women.” Exactly; and most that hang around the bar-rooms are men. “Girls get their heads filled with hymns, and tracts, and such nonsense.” Do they? Well, boys get their heads filled with whisky, and obscenity, and blackguardism, and wander as roughs and hoodlums around the streets, and slums of the city, or squander their money in gambling or sin. If piety proves woman’s weakness, does drunkenness prove man’s strength? If women are ruled over by priests, are they worse off than men who are ruled by pipes and tobacco? Is it any worse for women to talk piety in prayer-meeting, than it is for men to spout vulgarity and infidelity in rum shops? Is it any worse for a sorrowful woman to be praying in her closet, than for a drunken infidel to be swearing in the lockup? If piety is a mark of mental weakness, it might be well for some of the drunken lords of creation if they were a little weaker in mind themselves, instead of being so wise and worthless as they are.—The Christian.