Excerpt from Womanhood at the Cross-Roads
Readers of 'Womanhood at the Cross-Roads' will realise that it is largely addressed to the problems confronting the more educated section of society, not because these problems are the most important, but because they have apparently received less attention than those primarily concerning the wage-earning section of the community. There is among the more leisured classes an immense reserve of force, hitherto very imperfectly utilized for the benefit of the body politic. In the crisis of our fate, our country needs every gift of daughters as well as sons, if wise solutions are to be reached; and those to whom wealth of opportunity has given balanced judgment, organising power, above all a lofty vision, are not justified in hoarding their treasures for the delectation of a narrow circle, but are bound to seek every means of rendering them available for the country as a whole. The capacity for leadership is often strongest in sensitive souls which shrink from anything approaching publicity. The degree of vision is the measure of responsibility.
Time was I shrank from what was right
From fear of what was wrong.
I would not brave the sacred fight
Because the foe was strong.
But now I cast that finer sense
And surer shame aside,
Such dread of sin was indolence,
Such aim at Heaven was pride,
So when my Saviour calls, I rise
And calmly do my best,
Leaving to Him with silent eyes
Of hope and fear the rest.
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