of man.  It is therefore better for the woman not to go to the extremes of the modern civilization, whose evils are equal to, yes, and far surpass, its benefits.  Have you not noticed that the leaders of modern civilization in our age, have imitated, if not surpassed, all the excesses of riot, and lust and rapine, ever practiced under the barbarism of the ages of antiquity?  Do not the women of this age go lower in shamelessness than the women of ancient times?  Here we see them veiling their faces with the flimsy gauze of artifice, and befouling the pure waters of life with the turbulent stream of their own vanity.  They pollute the purity of real beauty by the foul arts of beautifying, and cry out in loud rude voices in every assembly and gathering.  They strut about in vain-glorious conceit, and flaunt their gaudy apparel in indecent boldness.  They claim what does not belong to them and meddle with what does not concern them.  They do not blush to cloud the precious jewel of modesty with the selfish airs of passion.  Nothing is said which they do not hear, nothing occurs which they do not see.  They become bold, unblushing and unwomanly.

“Such being the state of things, there can be no doubt that an excess of this kind of civilization for woman amounts to about the same thing as the excess of her rude barbarism in ancient times.  The two extremes meet.  The dividing line between them then, that is, the middle course, is the proper one for woman to take.  To this middle course there must be some natural and legitimate guide.  This guide is a sound education, and on this subject we propose at some future time to write, inasmuch as the education of woman is one of the most important of subjects.  Woman is the one fountain from which is derived the life of man in its earliest periods.  She is the source of all training, and the root of character.  Have you not heard that she who rocks the cradle, moves the world?”

It is evident that the author of this paper has not been so happy as to see the noblest type of a sanctified Christian civilization, such as can be seen in the Christian homes of America and England, or even in the truly Christian homes of Syria.  Let us hope that the day is not far distant, when even in Aleppo, a pure Christianity shall have taken the place of that semi-barbaric system styled the papacy, which enthralls the intellects and hearts of so many of the nominal Christians of the Orient, and when the enslaved inmates of the Moslem hareems shall be set free, not to indulge in the license of a Parisian libertinism, but with that liberty wherewith Christ makes His people free!

THE VALUE SET ON WOMAN’S LIFE IN SYRIA.