Both before and since the days when they ministered to our Lord, followed him to Calvary with their tears, were last at the cross and first at the sepulchre, the church has exhibited many instances of high and holy heroism on the part of women.
However deserving of the name in ordinary circumstances where martyr’s fires were fiercely burning, and scaffolds flowed with blood, and prisons overflowed with captives, women have not showed themselves to be the “weaker sex.”
On the contrary, when adherence to principle involved painful sacrifices, men have found such support in gentle women, as I have seen the green and pliant ivy lend the wall it clung to, when that, undermined and shaken, was ready to fall.—GUTHRIE.
