When God created Adam, it was found that he had no helpmeet, so woman
was created to be his companion.
St. Paul says: “The woman is the glory of man,” and still farther
elaborating the idea of the helpmeet says: “Neither is the man without
the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.”
That is as much as saying that the man and the woman must stand side by
side in this world as companions and helpmeets toward the glory of the
Lord.
The Holy Scripture is full of allusions to good women. Thus: “A virtuous
woman is a crown to her husband,” 2 Prov. 12, 4. “Her price is above
rubies,” Prov. 31, 10. “Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and
almsdeeds which she did.”
As the mother of the Christ, woman, in the person of the Virgin Mary,
has been put upon a high pedestal for a pattern and a model to all good
women.
Her part in the world may be well explained by the words of the orator:
“The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.”
The greatest deference and respect is the due of every woman, since she
is the mother of the race, and its guardian and protector when in the
helpless period of infancy.
The most beautiful and unanswerable tribute to women is paid by King
Lemuel in the words of the prophecy that his mother taught him. It is to
be found in Proverbs 31, and includes the entire chapter of 31 verses.