The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR DAUGHTERS?

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moral nature evolved sufficiently to feel how paramount to
all other demands are those of right and duty.
Let our sons and daughters be taught that they are
children of God, so divine in ancestry, so royal of parentage, that they must carry themselves nobly, and not consent to meanness, low, selfish lives, and vice. Let them be
taught that to love God is to love whatever is good and
just and true; and that loving brothers, sisters, schoolmates,
and humanity as a whole, is also loving God, since God is
our common Father, and "we are all brethren."
They should be trained to regard earthly life as the first
school of the soul, where there are lessons to be learned,
tasks to be mastered, hardships to be borne, and where
God's divinest agent of help is often hindrance; and that
only as we learn well the lessons given us here, may we
expect to go joyfully forward to that higher school to
which we shall be promoted, where the tasks will be nobler,
the lessons grander, the outlook broader, and where life
will be on a loftier plane. While the coldness of skepticism
seems to be creeping over the age,--mainly, I believe,
because of its great immersion in materialism of life
and activity,--it is possible to train children to such a
far-reaching, telescopic religious vision that they will overlook all fogs and mists of doubt. The low fears and dismaying presages that weigh down so many souls, will be
dispelled by the clear atmosphere in which they will dwell;
and with hearts throbbing evenly with the heart of God,
they will say confidently, "Because He lives, I shall live
also."

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