[312] steal another man's wife, but any woman's husband might have intercourse with other women. Christ showed how men did offend against this same law which worked so absolutely and partially against women. An unchaste thought in the breast of the man infringed the high law of purity. This teaching of the tender mutual obligations of married life was probably new to many of his hearers. The present style of woman has really been fashioned by man, and is only quasi feminine. Peace meeting at Mystic, Connecticut. Spoke morning and afternoon, best in the morning. The natural unfolding of reform. “His purposes will ripen fast” --Watts's verse. Providence does not plant so as to gather all its crops in one day. First the flowers, then the fruits, then the golden grain. John Fiske's lecture, first in the course on the theory of Evolution. ... Did not think the lecture a very profitable one, yet we must be willing that our opposites should think and speak out their belief.In the spring of 1872 she went to England, hoping to hold a Woman's Peace Congress in London. She also hoped to found and foster “a Woman's Apostolate of Peace.” These hopes were not then to be fulfilled: yet she always felt that this visit, with all its labors and its disappointments, was well worth while, and that much solid good came of it, to herself and to others. We have seen her in London as a bride, enjoying to the full its gayeties and hospitality, as bright a vision
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