Amazing Reading!

Just recently this week, I read an article called “An Address Delivered Before the African Female Intelligence Society of America”. I really loved reading this article because it didn’t really point fingers at the “white man” as many say these days, but rather to ourselves, African Americans. They talked about how African Americans degrade one another, rather than lift one another up. Also, it pointed out how women can influence this trend. It stated “O woman, O woman! Your example is powerful, your influence great; it extends over your husbands and your children, and throughout the circle of acquaintance. Then let me exhort you to cultivate among yourselves a spirit of Christian love and unity, having charity one for another, without which all our goodness is as sounding brass, and a tinkling cymbal (I Corinthians 13:1). With that being said, can women put a stop to this degrading trend? Can they be the ones to save their households and to encourage them to become true Christians and raise young women and men to prosper in life? In my opinion, I believe so. In the bible says, paraphrasing, to train up a child in the way that they should go, and in the end they will not depart from it. Women play a major role in families. If you notice, many blacks grew up without a father in the household, but have you heard of many growing up without a mother or a grandmother?