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Last Updated on : Saturday, October 11, 2014

 

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Chapter 1:
A Godly Woman's Etiquette


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Such has been written concerning the position of woman by those who look at her from a merely secular point of view. Her rights have been discussed; they have been advocated, they have been vindicated, or they have been denied according to the temper of the writers who have taken her case in hand.

But to the woman professing godliness, these utterances amount to nothing for practical guidance. She may, sometimes, allow herself to be entertained by them, but she will not take her cue from such sources, lest she be led astray. To her there is but one standpoint from which to view her own position; and from which to judge what is becoming and dutiful. To the Scriptures of Truth she must turn for guidance. In them she must find her "model", her manual for direction in all the affairs of life; her book of fashion, and her instructor in true etiquette.

The world's etiquette is mostly the beautiful form of emptiness, or worse. A godly woman's etiquette will be without dissimulation. Her love will be genuine, springing from principle rather than the impulse of partiality, which will render the service of her hands more graceful, engaging, and acceptable than all the elegant posing of her deluded sisters in the flesh. Having, by the belief of the glad tidings and union with Christ in baptism, placed herself under law to him, the object of her greatest solicitude will be, in all cases, to ascertain the will of Christ concerning her ways. It matters little to her, and ought really to affect her little, what any outside of His law may think of her; and, indeed, she must not even allow the opinion of her brethren and sisters to unduly influence her conduct. Christ first, must be her motto, and the desire to please him must be the guiding principle of her life. She must make up her mind to encounter difficulties.--Jane Roberts

 

 


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