290 SERMON PREACHED ON THE ISLAND. 
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 expec- 
tations 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 com- 
mitted 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 present 
to be when she reflects on the wonderful good- 
ness of God in preserving the life of the late 
Mr. John Adams, until a knowledge of the 
Christian religion was extant among you. Had 
he been cut off when ye were in your childhood, 
in all probability, your husbands would be 
bowing to a stock or a stone, and ye, instead of 
uniting in the worship of the true God, would 
not indeed have been permitted to enter the 
temple of idols, but would have remained all your 
lives the slaves of sensuality and caprice; de- 
spised by your tyrannical masters, scorned by 
your own children, deserted in your sickness, and 
without hope, and without God in the world. 
" Bless God, then, for Jesus Christ, my female 
friends. Serve Him with sincerity of heart, and 
