Women in White Raiment,

BY

JOHN LEMLEY,

EDITOR OF

THE ZION’S WATCHMAN,

AND AUTHOR OF

“The Christ Lifted Up,” “Land of Sacred Story,”
“Wonders of Grace,” “Personal
Recollections,” Etc.

“They shall walk with me in white; for they shall be worthy, ... andshall be clothed in white raiment.”—Rev. iii: 4, 5.

THE FIRST EDITION.

Albany, New York,
1899.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1898, by

JOHN LEMLEY,

in the office of the Librarian at Washington.

All Rights Reserved.


CHARLES VAN BENTHUYSEN & SONS,
Printers, Electrotypers and Binders,
ALBANY, N. Y.

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY.
Women Owe their Elevation to the Bible—The Condition of
Women in Heathen Lands Contrasted with the Condition of
Women in Bible Lands—God’s Thought of Woman in the
Creation—Her Rights Under the Hebrew Economy—Christ’s
Tenderness Towards Womanhood—Blessing Others.		 7-19
CHAPTER I.
The Paradise Home in Eden.
Man’s First Home a Garden—Eve the Isha—The Scene of the
Temptation—Hiding from God—Refusing to Confess, Judgment
is Pronounced—The Sad Results of Sin—Eve Believed
the Promise.		 21-35
CHAPTER II.
Womanhood in the Patriarchal Age.
Sarah the Beautiful Princess—Her Faith Tested—The Mistake
of Her Life—Her Lovely Character—Rebekah—An Oriental
Wooing—Eliezer’s Prayer—The Bride’s Answer—Meeting
Isaac—A Mother’s Love for Her Son—Jacob’s
Flight—Rebekah, the Beautiful Shepherdess—Seven Years’
Service for Her—Laban’s Deception—Leah, the Tender-Eyed—Human
Favorites—Divinely Honored—Rachel’s Tomb
the First Monument to Human Love.		 36-70
CHAPTER III.
Womanhood During the Egyptian Bondage and in
the Desert of Sinai.
Jochebed—Her Remarkable Courage—Thonoris—Her Compassion—Heroic
Labors Seemingly Unrewarded—Zipporah, the
Midianite Shepherdess—Glorifying Daily Labor—At a Wayside
Inn—Miriam—Her Song of Triumph at the Red Sea—Her
Affliction at Hazeroth—An Eventful Life.		 71-8
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