AN IDEAL may seem unattainable, but when it is distinctly acknowledged as the object of aspiration, it will be found close at hand.

May I reach

That purest heaven, be to other souls 
The cup of strength in some great agony, 
Enkindle generous ardour, feed pure love,
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty

as a wise man has said, no one has ever done anything great or useful by listening to the voices from without…   Go your way straight to God’s work, in simplicity and singleness of heart.

A perfect Woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a Spirit still and bright 
With something of an angel light.

…turning away from their mission to bless, to exhort, to console, that they may struggle through a thousand meannesses into a higher position.

POWER is a gift of God, and may not be laid aside.

The regeneration of society is in the power of the woman,

We are responsible, not only for doing, but also for leaving undone: else the servant who hid his lord’s talent in the earth would have escaped condemnation.

She is to exercise herself in imagining what would be the effects upon her mind and conduct, if she were daily brought into the presence of the suffering which is not the less real because shut from her sight.