298 SERMON PREACHED ON THE ISLAND. 
the account of the land from whence your 
mothers and grandmothers came. You have 
heard them declare how the women were 
degraded in their country, being looked upon 
as inferior creatures, and how often female 
infants were put to death. So true is it, 
that the dark places of the earth are full of 
cruelty. But where the Christian religion 
obtains, there woman rises to her proper 
station the friend of man. Nor are her 
expectations of happiness confined to this 
life. She is informed in the Scriptures, that 
she has -an immortal soul, which Christ died 
to redeem, and that after death she will be 
eternally happy or miserable, as she employs 
the talent here committed to her care. She 
will understand, also, that, as the Church of 
which she is a member is required to be 
obedient to the commands of Christ, its 
Head, so must she also be obedient unto her 
husband, and for the same reason. Christ is 
the head of the Church, and the man is the 
head of the woman. 
" How thankful ought every woman pre- 
sent to be when she reflects on the wonderful 
goodness of God in preserving the life of the 
