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WHAT IS DUTY
innot be brought to the right path by a gentle and ving and chaste wife, is indeed very rare. The orld is not yet as bad as that. We hear much about rutal husbands all over the world and about the imurity of men, but is it not true that there are quite ; many brutal and impure women as men? If all oinen were as good and pure as their own constant ssertions would lead one to believe, I am perfectly atisfied that there would not be one impure man in he world. What brutality is there which purity and hastity cannot conquer? A good, chaste wife, who hinks of every other man except her own husband s her child and has the attitude of a mother towards ll men, will grow so great in the power of her purity hat there cannot be a single man, however brutal, sho will not breathe an atmosphere of holiness in her resence. Similarly every husband must look upon :ll women, except his own wife, in the light of his wwn mother or daughter or sister. That man, again, who wants to be a teacher of religion must look upon very woman as his mother, and always behave towards her as such.
The position of the mother is the highest in the world, as it is the one place in which to learn and *xercise the greatest unselfishness. The love of God s the only love that is higher than a mother's love; all others are lower. It is the duty of the mother to think of her children first and then of herself. But, instead of that, if the parents are always thinking of themselves first, the result is that the relation
