WEAK WOMEN by A. F. Valentine

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, March 4, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 10

WEAK WOMEN.

By A. F. Valentine

We often hear it said that most of the Christians are “weak women.” They are, are they? Well, most of the criminals are strong men. “Most that attend the prayer-meetings are women.” Exactly; and most that hang around 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, obscenity, and blackguardism, and wander as roughs and hoodlums around the streets and slums of the city, or squander their money in gambling and sin. If piety proves women’s weakness, does drunkenness prove man’s strength? If women are ruled by preachers and class-leaders, 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 lock-up? If piety is a mark of mental weakness, it might be well for some of the drunken lords of creation who talk infidelity while their wives take in washing, if they were a little weaker in mind themselves, instead of being so wise and worthless as they are.—A. F. Valentine, in Live Patron.