The Weaker Vessel by Hastings

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 30, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 50.

"The Weaker Vessel."

By Hastings

WOMAN is no doubt "the weaker vessel"—we understand that—she cannot carry as much whisky or lager beer as her liege lord. He imbibes old Bourbon, while she gets on with weak tea. . . . He goes to the saloon, she to the prayer-meeting. He strikes for eight hours a day, she works fifteen. . . . Finally he wearies of his hard lot and kills himself, while she tugs on and raises her children, and does about as well without him as she did with him.

"The Hebrew woman is exceptionally long lived," and so would other women be, and men also, if they would prate less about "the mistakes of Moses," and live more in accordance with that wonderful law of God which was given on Mount Sinai; and there would be none of the present alarming excess of females in civilized populations if people obeyed that law; for in Jewish families there are 112 boys born to each 100 girls, or about seven per cent. more than in Gentile families; and hence, under Jewish law there would be no surplus million of helpless unmarried women, as in Great Britain, left to be the prey of poverty, crime, and lust; but womanhood would be precious and manhood pure, and society would be blessed by the great and beneficent change.—Hastings.