WOMEN'S RIGHTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15488, 14 December 1910, Page 2

WOMEN'S RIGHTS.

—V,>— ——— EQUALITY AND VALUES THE TERMS DEFINED. " We hear a good deal of women's rights, the equality of women, and so on," said Bishop Julius in a brief address to the Girls' Friendly Society yesterday, "but the mischief is that wa do not define the terms. Well, if wa speak of them, in kind a woman is not equal to a. man and a man is not equal to a woman. A woman would never be attractive to a man or a man to a woman if they were equal. But when, we come to values it is only man's beastly conceit that says man's wr & is more valuable. It is not a w; ■ more valuable. Where woman has a •special value, or her work has its own peculiar value, it cannot be put aside or lowered in comparison with the work which God has given to man. " Women have a quiet influence in the home which is beyond all telling," Bishop Julius continued, " and I wish we would realise once and again the real meaning of that word ' domestic. We have got to re-make the home. "W& 1 must remember that the home was practically killed by the introduction' of machinery and factories and all that belonged to" them. That was the day when the home died. There was a time when labour, thought, religion, and much else was domestic, and whei it ceased to be domestic and does cease to be domestic it becomes homeless and loses a great part" of its value, and people in their pursuit of these things practically become homeless. We must make them homevirtues again, and if the home has been killed by influences that ore rapidly disappearing we must remember in the readjustment of society that the home has its high and proper place, and it is to the women we must look to make it. Therein lies your power, which only you have, which God gave ycu, and which no one else- can supersede."