WOMAN MUST SPEAK OUT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 48, 27 February 1890, Page 2

WOMAN MUST SPEAK OUT.

(To tbe Editor.) Sib,—-Kb good raau can'imagine how tnnch a woman "who steps ever co little ouis of the ruts'of cnstom may be persecuted by men, without* "offering,the slightest eseuso for each perseeafaon, X&esce, &n flflfci"fciy &■%' {Tressive SoejalPtirSfcy Awociatioois nwded to profecS end*, asd toash wotxssi» tJiat wliat too many ssea call love aad v/h&t -women call love are as -wwie *sg p®Us, ft« 4 to irara bee, if sib© -swM J»oi<l h<sn«t»? ail pßtc® , , ewcl ftsywsM flWw ?(BjsvsaeK o? the eaemy to *?g3<Ksi and md jEbsffissti .-a? ess- 5® iS , © ?»s;y te , hm teeae &W- .teasi^e* - siJ 4©»"t» ife« agf^; <sSun%'t«ap(SS9 S® Jew *9 3p>^. «*! •srcaMapwi <?wergffehJn|r i<s> Jfe Wfe-y^ , ;

any argument needed to prove its bitterness 1 No. We have but to appeal to the inner consciousness and actual experience of everyone; for rest assured that if the pure in heart see God they see man also, and woman has to forgive him seventy times seven.

If a word to the wise is sufficient, it is not to the guilty; the word " must be repeated with tiresome reiteration before the irrevocable "no" is accepted, then perchance life itself is " Gossip " is the bad man's own shadow; he is haunted by ib, fears it, but to the true-hearted, whose life gives ib the lie, gossip is but as the passing of a summer cloud. Much pleasant social intercourse were possible between the sexes, were man more intellectual and less animal, but his vanity is such that a woman cannot be natural in manner, buoyant in spirits, without being misunderstood. Are, therefore, naturalness and buoyancy wrong? No, for ever no. They are the sweetest flowers of human life ; the pity is that they are rare, tiuit insipidity obtains. Womanmust be so bright, so pure, so true, without levity or flippancy, as bo shame man's vices out of existence. We don't wanba nation of roundheads droning psalme through the nose. And since Professor and Mrs Aid is are so entirely one re social purity as to make the chastity of both rexes the golden rule of Hie, I would n.sk them, with your permission, Mr Eriibor, to become the sun of our moral firmament, to come heroically forward and bear, if need be, tho financial burden of an actively aggressive Social Purity Association. Under their guidance and solo responsibility ib would doubtless be found to work more efficiently than with a comparatively irresponsible committee. Make the association a Jubilee carol that we cannot choose but hear, a something more than talk. Don't give this bright, beautiful world over to the bad man ; save him from himself, help him to see his wonderful capacities, his great plastic power of doing or becoming; almost anything; to see that the animal must serve, not rale, the intellect if he would be happy. Deal gently with the erring; it ia easy to fall, but repentance quickly follows, except in hardened cases. By the divine possibility of the fulness of God in everyone, by all the misery that may be crowded into even an hour, I would ask the strong to bear the sins and sorrows of the guilby in such a way as to make them strong by so doing. When you raise the devil in the bad man you may be pretty certain you are doing good work. Be nob daunted in well-doing

Ellen E. Ellis,