Second Annual Report of the Woman's Missionary Council of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for 1911-1912 . eemer cannot fail ultimately toprove a detriment to the very spirits that are attracted by is jealous God. It is not so much that he resents{personally the homage given to another, or that with profoundinsight he forecasts the disaster that comes to the human spiritwhen given to any kind of idolatry. Mariolatry is idolatry,however far removed from the grosser materialistic forms of it. But whether or not we attempt to trace back to its originthe doctrine which has cau
Second Annual Report of the Woman's Missionary Council of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for 1911-1912 . eemer cannot fail ultimately toprove a detriment to the very spirits that are attracted by is jealous God. It is not so much that he resents{personally the homage given to another, or that with profoundinsight he forecasts the disaster that comes to the human spiritwhen given to any kind of idolatry. Mariolatry is idolatry,however far removed from the grosser materialistic forms of it. But whether or not we attempt to trace back to its originthe doctrine which has caused it, the condition of womanhoodin Roman Catholic countries speak for itself. It is a conditionthat must be remedied, and for which no other remedy is soprompt and so efficient as the gospel. With the preaching ofthe gospel go schools and the exaltation of the individual. Anignorant woman is always a helpless woman, and a helplesswoman is sure to be a prey to mans cruelty and domineeringspirit. What woman in Mexico and in other countries domi-nated by Catholicism suffers and has suffered can onlv be meas-. FOREIGN depart:ment, 271) iired by the blessings which evangelized Christianity brings tuwomanhood. It is natural that the ministry of women to their sisters inthese backward nations should begin first with the schools in Mexico have already achieved the notable re-sult of forcing the Koman Church to give in its institutionsthe substance as well as the shadow of true education. Theyhave been also in Mexico powerful stimulants to the develop-ment of the public school system. Better still, they are sendingout a constant stream of fresh, sprightly, modest, virtuous,fearless young women to mingle in a society where womansattitude has too long been one of timid submission to wrong,of hopeless accession to evil. That the w^omanhood of Mexicoabounds in native vigor, intellectual sprightliness, an(i do-mestic virtue history supplies a thousand proofs. From thedays when a
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