Article April 27, 1940 Issue

Appreciating Spiritual Womanhood

J. WOODRUFF SMITH

A student of Christian Science was counting the blessings which had come to him through the study and application of its truths. As the mental parade passed in review, he numbered among them many healings of physical and mental disturbances, a character refined, abundant supply and protection—all results of increased spiritual understanding, with its fruits of more love for God and man. Then, amid this company of joys, came a newly awakened sense of appreciation of the qualities of true womanhood.

It is regrettable that the world generally considers the qualities of womanhood to be weak. True womanhood naturally bears fruit in gentleness, intuition, tenderness, loving forbearance and forgiveness, faith in good. Surely there is nothing so strong, so noble, as an all-forgiving love, a gentle but unyielding insistence upon right, held to in the face of apparently insuperable odds! These beautiful, indispensable, invincible qualities are manifested by the best men and women. Jesus expressed them in full degree. Men such as Abraham Lincoln have expressed them in their compassionate treatment of their fellow men.

Few there must be who would deny that those individuals have served humanity best who have expressed qualities of true womanhood. History tells of many noble men and women who gave their all to some great cause which had for its aim the increase of brotherly love and the release of humanity from one kind of slavery or another. Finally, these combined efforts resulted in the readiness of mankind for the great message which came in 1866 through a New England gentlewoman who enlightened the world with her reinstatement of the Christ-gospel of healing.

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