The general answer to this inquiry is very plain and easy.  God created man in his own image; male and female created he them.  The general design, therefore, of the creation of woman is precisely the same as that of the man.  He created but one race when he made them male and female, and had in view but one object.  In relation then to that object, no distinction is to be drawn between man and woman, and the perfect equality of the two sexes again becomes apparent.  Indeed, it is a matter of wonder that this question of superiority has ever risen, or at least has ever been agitated by reflecting men, who for one moment considered the manner in which our race is propagated in the world.  Nothing ever rises above its own nature.  A spark, however high it may rise, however brilliantly it may shine in the blue ethereal, can never become a star.  It ever remains but a spark, and so the offspring of a woman cannot, in its nature, rise above its origin.  A man can never become superior in nature to his mother, and can certainly never, with right or justice, exercise authority over her.  He may be stronger, wiser, and better, but he cannot be a superior being.  Such a claim is alike foolish and despicable.  The two sexes, therefore, being one in nature, their chief end is one, and reason and revelation unite in the assertion that man was created to glorify God and enjoy him forever.  God made all things for himself.  He is presented to us as the sole and supreme object of our love and worship.  His laws are our only rule of conduct, and he himself the sole Lord of our souls.  This he claims from us as creatures.  This, at the same time, he has required with the promise of eternal life to obedience, and the threatening of eternal death to disobedience; thus showing us that he regards this end as of infinite importance—­for this end, his own glory, happiness in himself.  When we had sinned he sent his Son into the world, and formed the plan to save our immortal souls from woe, while from the nature of the case it is evident that this is the highest and noblest end which man can accomplish.  What can be a higher aim than to be like God?  What can God confer superior to himself as a source of happiness?  As he is the source and sum of all good, both moral and natural, to know and to love him is to know and love all that is excellent, great, and lovely, and to serve him is to do all that is amiable or desirable, all that is pleasing to God or profitable to his rational creatures.  True happiness and true worth are thus attained, and thus alone.  There is, there can be no other design in the creation of man than this, to glorify God by loving, serving, and enjoying him; by obeying his laws, living for him, living to him.  This, then, is of course the general answer to the inquiry, What is woman’s mission?  To glorify God and to enjoy him forever.  She, as well as man, has come short of this.  She, as well as man, therefore, needs atoning blood and a renewed