BEGINNING TO THINK.

The past education of woman gave her an outlook which simply embraced a

husband or nothing at all, which was often only a choice between two of

a kind.

There are a great many women to-day who think that orthodoxy is as great

nonsense as I do, but who are afraid to say so.

They whisper it to each other. They are afraid of the slander of the

Church.

I want to help make it so that they will dare to speak. I want to do

what I can to make it so that a mother won't have to evade the questions

of her children about the Bible.

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