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and inherent stability, but this was dependent on his keeping 
his true position as a creature, ascribing all glory to the 
Creator, and finding it his happiness to be continually receiving 
every good gift from above. 
So in the account of the creation of man in Genesis this is 
represented as the result of settled purpose. To entrust a 
creature with free will was a decision pregnant with the most 
momentous results, to which the formation of a world seems 
comparatively insignificant. There is, therefore, a dignity and 
a glory about man’s creation of which neither science nor 
philosophy can tell us anything. 
Elohim created the universe from previously non-existing 
material ; formed the man from the elements of the world ; 
and, as we shall see, “ built up " the woman from the sub- 
stance of the man. 
Intellect, strength, and wisdom, including love to the good 
and hatred of evil, combined with power to originate the good 
and to eradicate the evil, are some of the most marked and 
prominent features of the masculine character ; whilst intelli- 
gence, perception, grace, and benignity, including steadfast- 
ness of affection in cherishing and developing all that is lovely 
and desirable in those committed to her fostering care ; or in 
one word, the true companion and the true mother, mark the 
typical Eve (the mother of all living) as proceeding from the 
hand of her Creator. . 
Do we not see that these are but the reflections of various 
attributes of the Divine perfections, and that a want of com- 
prehension of the whole subject leads to serious evil ? In 
some popular theology we have a Divinity all benignity and 
shorn of power; a Universal Father, with little ability to 
restrain or to correct his unruly family, and none to execute 
vengeance on the “ vessels of wrath." The female advocates 
of “ woman's rights " seem never to have learned the secret 
of woman's true power — She openeth her mouth with ivisdom, 
and in her lips is the laiu of kindness ." I commend to their 
favourable notice the following lines of the author of “ The 
Praise of Womankind" (“Wiirde der Frauen"), — the poet 
Schiller : — 
Machtig seyd ihr, ilir seyd’s durck der Gegenwart rukigen Zauber ; 
Was die stille nicht wirkt, wirket die rauschende me. 
Kraft erwart’ ich vom Mann, des Gesetzes Wiirde bekaupt er ; 
Aber durch Anmutk allein herrscket und herrsche das Weib ! 
As regards the stronger sex, we look for strength and 
maintaining the dignity of the law ; but instead we find the 
prevalence of an emasculated philosophy , which departs in 
