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Show ! "Xone so blind as he who will n..t . " t-women t-women agitators oi the day. who vcu'd i',, u,,,v arraign the church as the foe of pp.i-;..., stumbling block in the way of the advaii.'.-u.n! an, "emancipation'' of their sex. wuld tlir,, ,-, .,. their best friend and ihe most devoted and n. ful champion of their cause. Ilitm-y ji ,.,,:, ing more indubitably than the fact that ;,, ;,.:.,,, ity has always exercised the mo.-t p"t- nr i1Ifi.,. 1 cnces for the material and spiritual adva!i.vi,i( . of womanhood. Is not the devotion of rho ci;,., i to the Blessed Virgin, because she was exj'!:, , ,,. ! the Heavenly Father immeasurably abov .-. creatures, an influence of paramount poten,-.- -;n raising womanhood from out the slough of d.-n,. da t ion into which it was plunged by pa era n rivi'i.i- tion ; ' |