She seemed as if
she had been insulted in being thought unable to carry it, and sent
her husband back from the door in any thing but a gracious mood,
leaving the good teacher half bewildered and half amused at this
reception of her intended kindness.
Indeed, until some of them were converted, all that was lovely and
of good report in woman was entirely wanting. They were trodden
down, but at the same time exceedingly defiant and imperious. If
they were not the "head," it was not because they did not "strive
for the mastery." They seemed to have no idea of self-control; their
bursts of passion were awful. The number of women who reverenced
their husbands was as small as the list of husbands who did not beat
their wives. Says Miss Fiske, in writing to a friend, "I felt pity
for my poor sisters before going among them, but anguish when, from
actual contact with them, I realized how very low they were. I did
not want to leave them, but I did ask, Can the image of Christ ever
be reflected from such hearts? They would come and tell me their
troubles, and fall down at my feet, begging me to deliver them from
their husbands.
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