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looked upon as inferior creatures, and how often 
female infants were put to death. So true is 
it tli at the dark places of the earth are full of 
cruelty, But where the Christian religion ob- 
tains, 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 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 child- 
hood, 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 ; 
despised by your tyrannical masters, scorned 
by your own children, deserted in your sick- 
ness, and without hope, and without God in 
the world. 
