ABIGAIL--CHURLISH NABAL--CHIVALROUS APPRECIATION--DAVID’S MESSENGERS--SAUL’S DAUGHTERS--HIS TREACHERY--MICHAL’S STRATAGEM--RIZPAH--HER HEROIC ENDURANCE AND LOVING FIDELITY--THE QUEEN OF SHEBA--HER VISIT TO JERUSALEM--THE GLORY AND WISDOM OF SOLOMON--THE HALF NOT TOLD--THE QUEEN’S ROYAL GIFTS. 118-137 CHAPTER VI. Womanhood in the Time of the Prophets and During the Captivity. THE WICKED JEZEBEL--THE WIDOW OF SAREPTA--THE TISHBITE AT THE CITY GATE--HIS STRANGE REQUEST--THE WIDOW’S UNFALTERING OBEDIENCE--AN APPEAL TO ELISHA--A POT OF OIL--THE WIDOW’S WONDERFUL FAITH--THE RICH WOMAN OF SHUNEM--HER MODEST LIFE--BARLEY HARVEST--A RIDE TO CARMEL IN THE GLARE OF THE SUN--ESTHER--HER BEAUTIFUL TRAITS OF CHARACTER--CROWNED AS QUEEN--PLEADING FOR THE LIFE OF HER PEOPLE--FOUND FAVOR WITH THE KING. 138-161 CHAPTER VII. Womanhood in the Time of the Saviour’s Nativity. AN ANGEL BY THE ALTAR OF INCENSE--HIS MESSAGE--AN ISRAELITISH HOME--IN THE SPIRIT OF ELIJAH--THE DESERT TEACHER--THE ANNUNCIATION--THE VISIT OF MARY TO ELIZABETH--MARY’S MAGNIFICAT--JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM--THE NATIVITY--HOME LIFE IN NAZARETH--AFTER SCENES IN MARY’S LIFE--HER RESIDENCE AND DEATH AT EPHESUS--THE PROPHETESS ANNA--HER WAITING FOR REDEMPTION IN JERUSALEM--THE LESSON OF HER PURE AND BEAUTIFUL LIFE. 162-189 CHAPTER VIII. Womanhood During our Lord’s Galilean Ministry. CHRIST AND WOMANHOOD--NOONTIDE AT JACOB’S WELL--THE LORD’S WONDERFUL TACT--FIELDS WHITE TO THE HARVEST--AN UNINVITED GUEST AT SIMON’S FEAST--COLD HOSPITALITY--A CONCISE PARABLE--FORGIVING SIN--A STREET SCENE--HUMBLE CONFESSION--MOST GRACIOUS WORDS--COAST OF TYRE AND SIDON--SYRO-PHŒNICIAN WOMAN--STRANGELY TESTED--HER HUMILITY--WENT AWAY BLESSED. 190-222 CHAPTER IX. Womanhood During Our Lord’s Judean Ministry. THE SISTERS OF BETHANY--THEIR CHARACTERISTICS--NOT GOOD, BUT BEST GIFTS--THE EXTRAVAGANCE OF LOVE--SALOME’S STRANGE REQUEST--HER FIDELITY--JOANNA--THE POOR WIDOW’S GIFT--HOW ESTIMATED--THE SAVIOUR’S WORDS OF PEACE. 223-244 CHAPTER X. Womanhood During the Apostolic Ministry. TABITHA--GLORIFIED HER NEEDLE--THE RESULTS OF LITTLE ACTS--LYDIA--HER HUMILITY--PHILIP’S FOUR DAUGHTERS-- PHŒBE--PRISCILLA--EUNICE--LOIS--EUDIA--SYNTYCHE--HULDA-- THE HEBREW MAID--TAMAR--MOTHERS OF GREAT MEN--THE AUTHOR OF THE BIBLE WOMAN’S BEST FRIEND. 245-266 ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE. THE ACCEPTED OFFERING 31 JACOB’S STRUGGLE AT THE JABBOK 67 THE ISRAELITES IN BONDAGE 73 MOSES RESCUED FROM THE NILE 75 MIRIAM’S SONG OF TRIUMPH 84