p. 104 | Educated Women by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 1, 1883

Educated Women.

By Editor

Educated women have a wide sphere. There is, indeed, some discussion as to its exact bounds. Some doubt, for instance, whether they have a legitimate function in the pulpit. Our own view is that character and ability are God's chart of duty.

But whatever may be decided in regard to the pulpit, there is one field where educated women are in demand. That is the home. The educated woman is the best wife, the best mother, the best house-keeper, the best economist. The "coming men" could afford to pay all the expenses of a full training for their future wives merely for the greater good they would receive from them. In these days we pity the ignorant mother. Six years of hard study are well invested, if for nothing more than to be able to answer a thousand questions which curious youngsters will be asking in a few years.