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    OPEN COUNCIL. 358

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    LL—OPEN COUNCIL.

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    _:««» " Madam, To the Editor of the Engl...

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    The Queens Of Society. By Grrace And Phi...

    whose ranks a _" queen of society" could find no place , even did her _asjDirations lead her to desire it . Thus arbitrarily placedhowever

    , , ( since the same rule will measure the mountain as the mole-hill , ) her character should not have met with such sorry treatment . Does

    Madame Holand's recorded prayer , when in prison she contemplates her own death , —

    be " great Divine , good . Supreme , and happy Being , , Soul Thou of whose the world existence , Princi I p believe le of all in tha because t I feel t I better than what to oin

    must Thy S have pirit , " sprung from something I see , I come j

    justif 1 ' Where y such is an the apostrop hope in the he last as the days following of Madame ?— Roland or her husband ? Where is the true of faith ? The in air

    from her cell , brazen courage to the world , yet weep one ing in desp private venting invective How blank these deaths without a future to look to !"

    How is such an apostrophe as this warranted by the narration of Madame Hoi and ' s trial ? When condemned , her recorded words to

    those who brought her to the scaffold are , — to " what I onl I y feel wish whate you , in ver re price turn for you the attach harm to you it . " wish me , peace of mind _equal

    And on the scaffold , she asked but one favor , that an old trembling manbrought to the scaffold with hermight be executed firstthat he

    might , not be pained by the sight of , her death . Gentler , and , withal truerwords niight have been spoken of so heroic a victim . Madame

    , Holand lived in days of gigantic evil : a nonconformist to the existing state of things out of which such evil days had arisen , the

    church itself could not be excepted ; and if in aspiring- to something * higher and holier she threw away the doctrines of her church , it can

    never be laid to her charge that she threw off with them the virtues which Christianity teaches .

    These memoirs have however their merits if they suggest to the Christian reader , though by negative inference only , the beauty

    of one great practical emblem of his faith , — -Charity .

    Open Council. 358

    OPEN COUNCIL . 358

    Ll—Open Council.

    LL—OPEN COUNCIL . [ As these pages themselves are intended responsible for general for the discussion opinions expressed , the Edito . ] rs do not hold

    _:««» " Madam, To The Editor Of The Engl...

    _ : _««» " Madam To the Editor of the English Woman ' s Journal ,

    , of las I full t mon y agree th , viz w . , th tliat sugg a sisterhood estion " three or institution " of " A Subscriber might be , organised " in your Journal to meet of the

    time somo . I also numerous rejoice to wants think of with the your poorer corresponden fc and middle t t classes hat the of idea the present " not unfamiliar distasteful to the it

    is so certainly not or quite " barren of results public . _" as was fifty years ago , " and it

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 353, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/65/