Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... the tightening hold of the heart-tendrils; so that her best clays will be the autumn time, when the happy harvest of the summer's toil returns to enrich her with that which should accompany old age, the tender pride of husband, the reverent affection of children, the "honor, love, obedience" of the family she has blessed. She will rejoice in the time to come; "her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her, saying, 'Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.'" Aptly is this pen-picture entitled "The Virtuous Woman," the woman of strengthl'ul, forceful goodness, which energizes her into usefulness and sweetens her into graciousness--altogether a " woman of faculty," as our New England grandmothers would have phrased it, with much thereto added that they might have failed to appreciate; strong-minded, skilful-handed, gentle-hearted, sweet-spoken, gracefulmannered, courteous, wise, and noble, a lady by divine ranking, housekeeper and home-maker; concerning whom it is most literally true, young men, if you happen to know any such, " her price is above rubies." The rootings of this strengthfulncss are found where every noblest life draws its sustenance, far bolow all hunger for human praise, in the feeding of her soul with the thought that, in her daily duties, she is doing the will of God, fulfilling her vocation. "Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised." Her best epitaph will be the simplest record of her faithful life: "Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates;" her obituary, the words which thankful love write in memory of her: "The blessing of her quiet life Fell on us like the dew;...
