. Life and light for woman. ice. In her conservatism she stands theguardian of the traditions of the mothers, the keeper of the sacred fire oftribal life. It is usual for us to look upon the heathen woman asdown-trodden, the natural man as the natural womansoppressor, but I have come to feel the idea quite anerroneous one. True she tills the soil and wins her dailymush by the sweat of her brow, but possessing thekey to the granary she possesses the key to the situation,and the Umbundu woman is not the only one who com-plains over tasks she would not have taken away from herfor the world. She l
. Life and light for woman. ice. In her conservatism she stands theguardian of the traditions of the mothers, the keeper of the sacred fire oftribal life. It is usual for us to look upon the heathen woman asdown-trodden, the natural man as the natural womansoppressor, but I have come to feel the idea quite anerroneous one. True she tills the soil and wins her dailymush by the sweat of her brow, but possessing thekey to the granary she possesses the key to the situation,and the Umbundu woman is not the only one who com-plains over tasks she would not have taken away from herfor the world. She loves the smell of the good brown earth when therains come and, even as she forgets the pain of hertravail in rejoicing that a child is born into the world,so in the joy of the harvest festivals she forgets the acheof bending back and weary arms. But she is down-trodden in the bonds of her own superstition and conser-vatism. She is not so burdened by much serving as byher narrow vision of what service is and only the Christ,.
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