Much has been written against the fact that a daughter is not prized in a home as much as is a son.  We can understand it, when we go back to Eden and see that the seed of the woman, called “a he,” a male child, was to be the instrument of working out the disinthralment of the race.  The feminine gender is sometimes used in declaring the glories of the future.  Zion is called a bride, but her glory is all reflected from the bridegroom.  Woman is a helpmeet, but the king-bearer is the man Christ Jesus.  The world turned from Christ because he had the appearance of a man.  It was a great mistake.  It is not a popular saying,—­women say it is not complimentary to them to declare it,—­yet it remains true, that “God draws by the cords of a man.”  All along the past men have been recognized as the gift of God.  Women rejoice when a man is born into the world; not that women are disliked, but because there is something involved in life more than mere existence.  There are faint foreshadowings of the tasks laid on the race.  Work is to be done for God and man.  Principalities and powers are to be fought and overcome.  An invisible world is in league against the race, and an invisible God, once robed in flesh, and living among men, is Our Advocate with God, our Redeemer and Saviour.  There is significance in the language, “I have gotten a man from the Lord.”  The language of Eve, as a mother, furnishes the key-note to that maternal song which yet floats through the world, which makes women in China, in India, in Africa, and in South America, among the inhabitants of Russia, and of Paraguay, anywhere and everywhere, rejoice with the same old joy, when a man is born into the world, because then she feels that somehow she has given birth to a hero and a champion who shall be identified with that song of world-triumph which is yet to cover the earth as the waters cover the sea; and the only exception to this is found among the Hebrews, where a virgin was revered as the possible mother of the Messiah, and so received her dignity as a reflection from the man.  To understand this problem of human nature, we must go back to God, and study his word.  Those who reject the Word, of God are surrounded by mysteries which they cannot solve.  They behold tendencies, and instincts, and dispositions, which are explained in Genesis, and which are parts of God’s prophesies yet to be fulfilled in this world.  Ignoring the prophecy, they cannot comprehend the facts of existence, which must exist and will exist, whether men will hear or forbear.

Says a writer of some note, “The severe Nation which taught that the happiness of the race was forfeited through the fault of a woman, showed its thought of what sort of regard man viewed her, by making him accuse her in the first question to his God,—­who gave her to the patriarch as a handmaid, and by the Mosaical law bound her to allegiance like a serf,—­even they greeted, with a solemn rapture, all great and holy-women as heroines, prophetesses, judges in Israel;