“Some say ‘tis folly to be moved. ‘The dog, he dieth--why not thou?’ They lie! We loved! The ill reproved!-- Is Oscar nothing now? “O Patrick of the crosier staff, The wondrous Book, the anthems slow! If thou the riddle know’st but half, Help those who nothing know! “Who made the worlds? the Soul? Man’s race? The man that knoweth, he is Man! I, once a prince, will serve in place Clansman of that man’s clan!” AFFIRMATIONS. “Instead of considering the physical condition of a nation determining its moral character, we must always regard the moral as determining, as well as moulding and modifying, the physical.” “As the divine modifies the moral, so the moral modifies the physical, or external.” “In education all sight has been lost of the _reality_ which is regeneration, and only when this is brought into the soul, will it be fit to receive the spirit.” “As the body grows older, the mind grows younger, when the will conceives with the divine will in the permanent ground.” “Christ is desirous to divorce the soul from Satan, and to do this he begins by making the soul uneasy.” “There are thousands who have been taught to think from learning have yet to be taught to think from the living basis within the will that sustains the thinker.” “Know thyself is a false maxim. _Be whole_--_or one_--and one with thy Lord.” “Only does the Jesus spirit in the soul make the soul exhibit the divine essence.” HOW THE CHURCH UNDERSTANDS AND UPHOLDS THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN. FIRST ARTICLE. AGES OF MARTYRDOM. Women are receiving just now, at the hands of a certain class of agitators, a degree of attention which may be flattering to some, but which certainly is not only intrusive, but unnecessary with regard to many. They are told that their rights are trampled upon, that they must assert and defend themselves, and take their place in the great battle of life. Now, these exhortations have generally been met by copious references to all the undoubted precepts of old, which made the domestic life woman’s own sphere, and consecrated her the minister of all man’s comforts. This sphere of home duties is incontestably theirs; and what is more, while they can help man in his avocations, man, on the other hand, can scarcely help them in their own. But in addition to this, their inviolable territory which they intend never to abandon, let them boldly claim a share of man’s kingdom, and let them make good their claim. People have listened to many women and to a few men on the subject of the so-called “Women’s Rights:” let them listen with indulgence to one woman more, who comes claiming far greater things than they dream of, and yet showing that her claims are but long-established and real _rights_, recognized, defined, limited, and protected by an older code of jurisprudence, and a longer tradition of immemorial custom, than they have as yet been told of by the press or in the lecture-room.