Life and writings of Amelia BloomerBloomer, D. C. (Dexter C.)
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Life and writings of Amelia Bloomer
Bloomer, D. C. (Dexter C.)
Bloomer, Amelia Jenks, 1818-1894; Women's rights -- United States
After carefully reading this sermon, I find nothing new or
original in it. It is but a rehash of what has before been served
up to us by the Reverends Todd, Bushnell, Fulton and others, who
are alarmed lest woman should get the start of the Creator and
overleap the bounds He has set to her sphere. It throws no new
light on the vexed question of woman suffrage, brings to view no
passages of Scripture hitherto hidden from our sight, and gives no
arguments which have not already been met and refuted again and
again. In much that he says the advocates of woman suffrage fully
agree with him. A mother’s first duty is at home with her children,
and nothing can excuse her for neglect of those entrusted to her
care. Home is the happiest spot on earth when it is a _true home_—a
home where love and harmony abide, where each regards the rights,
the feelings, the interest, the happiness of the other, where
ruling and obeying are unknown, where two heads are acknowledged
better than one, and true confidence and esteem bind together the
wedded pair. And I know of no happier homes, no better trained and
better cared for children, than among the prominent advocates of
woman suffrage. Whatever may be thought to the contrary, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton is a model housekeeper, wife and mother; and nowhere
can greater sticklers be found for the full discharge of all wifely
duties than those who are pleading for woman’s enfranchisement. So
far, then, as relates to home and children your divine has given us
nothing but what we can subscribe to, and what we have preached for
a score of years, at least, before he awakened to the necessity of
giving the women of his congregation a sermon on their domestic
duties. If they were ignorant on those matters, his words have not
come to them an hour too soon.
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