out of Egypt.”  The Bible so states it.  Huldah and Deborah were prophets.  Rahab was the first convert in Canaan; she and her family were all that was blessed in that cursed city of Jericho.  Esther saved the whole Jewish nation.  A woman smashed the head of the wicked Abimelech as did Jael the wife of Heber also.  In the Psalms, 68:11, the original says:  “The Lord gave the word.—­Great was the army of women who published it.”

Jesus did his first miracle at the request of a woman, still he rebuked her.  He felt her powerful influence and would know no higher will except his heavenly Father’s.  Christ defended woman, saying:  “Why trouble ye the woman, she hath wrought a work on me,” hereby rebuking men to interfere with any woman’s work when it is good.  Christ never rebuked even the harlot.  There was not a greater preacher than the woman at the well that brought out the city of Samaria to see Jesus.  Philip had four daughters that prophesied.  Women were the first disciples, they followed Christ from Galilee.  He chose the men, the women chose Him.  Pheobe was a deaconess of the church of Cenchrea.  The Bible records no act or word of woman against Christ.  With sufferings not one was caused by a woman.  The poor prostitute bestowed the most loving service when she wept at His feet, kissing them.

This gives some of the Bible women.  There have been others in all ages.  One instance in the early history of Rome.  There was a band of men who first settled Rome.  They wished to get wives for themselves and this was the plan by which they got them.

The Romans made a great feast; had games; invited the Sabine nation to come with their wives and daughters, which they did.  In the height of the footraces and archery, the Romans rushed in among their invited guests and each snatched a woman.  The Sabines returned and prepared for war.  The lines of battle were drawn.  The stolen women had a conference and decided to stop the war.  They rushed in between the Sabine men, their former husbands and fathers, and the Romans, their last husbands, and forebade bloodshed by saying:  “You will have to kill each other over our dead bodies.”

If those heathen women by their act could reconcile two nations, is it not a rebuke to women in this Christian age for their cowardice in not coming forward and demanding recognition in the matter of being a go-between, for one class of men are arrayed against another..

A hundred thousand of our sons are being sent to drunkard’s graves and a drunkard’s hell every year.  By a bold stand for the right, to defend our loved ones, let us rush between and stop this deadly strife, with the same heroism of the women of Rome, “over our dead bodies.”  Women will get the ballot in time, but it can be hastened only by women themselves.  It will be a great victory for mankind when women can veto the curse of mankind.  The mother impulse is stronger with women than any, and when she can