as none can teach like her--true manfulness to her husband and her sons.

And how can you best do that? Not by giving her shillings, not by
preaching at her, not by scolding her: but by behaving to her as what
she is--a woman and a sister--and cheering her heavy heart by simple
human kindliness. What she wants amid all her poverty and toil, her
child-bearing and child-rearing, what she wants, I say, to keep her brave
and strong, is to know by actual sight and speech that she is still not
an outcast; not alone; that she is still a member of the human family,
that her fellow-woman has not forgotten her; and that, therefore, it may
be, He that was born of woman has not forgotten her either. That she
has, after all, a God in heaven, who can be touched with the feeling of
her infirmities, and can help her and those she loves, to struggle
through all their temptations, seeing that He too was tempted in all
things like them, yet without sin.

It is only personal intercourse with them--only the meeting of the rich
and poor together, in the belief that God is the maker of them all, that
will do that. But it will do it.

Only personal intercourse will reconcile these people to their condition,
in as far as they OUGHT to be reconciled to it. But personal intercourse
will reconcile them to it, as far as it ought, but no further. And I
think that the system of personal intercourse attempted by this Society
is, on the whole, the best yet devised. It is imperfect, as all attempts
to make that straight which is crooked, and to number that which is
wanting--to patch, in a word, a radically vicious system of society,--
must be imperfect; but it is the best plan which I have yet seen. I find
no fault with other plans, God forbid! Wisdom is justified of all her
children; and the amount of evil is so great, and (as I believe, so