With these brief, introductory words, we come to our subject proper. And should you, dear woman, whom we seek to glorify in the following pages, be blessed and comforted in the unfolding of God’s love towards womanhood, and your own faith take a firmer hold upon the Father’s thought of you, do not, after reading this book, put it away in your book-case, but place it in the hands of some tempted, discouraged, struggling soul, and thereby let others become sharers of the same helpful words, and, possibly, in so doing, you may not only save precious souls, but add many stars to your own crown of life. As ever, respectfully, THE AUTHOR. ALBANY, N. Y. WOMEN IN WHITE RAIMENT. CHAPTER I. The Paradise Home in Eden. MAN’S FIRST HOME A GARDEN--EVE THE ISHA--THE SCENE OF THE TEMPTATION--HIDING FROM GOD--REFUSING TO CONFESS, JUDGMENT IS PRONOUNCED--THE SAD RESULTS OF SIN--EVE BELIEVED THE PROMISE. Perhaps there never lived a woman who has been “talked about” so much as this first woman in White Raiment, for who has not said, If Eve had not been beguiled into a violation of the one commandment by partaking of the fruit of the forbidden tree, we would all be as happy and sinless as was she and her husband before that act of disobedience. But we shall miss the great lesson Eve’s experience intended to convey if we fail to recognize that God put humanity on probation, and the fact of the first temptation is the symbol of every temptation; the fact of the first fall is the symbol of every transgression; the great mistake that lay in the first sin is the symbol of every effect of sin.