Acts 16: Women, excused from public care

Women, excused from public care,
Design'd for nobler service seem;
God gives them time in frequent prayer,
His handmaids to attend on Him;
And more to piety inclined
We always see the gentler kind.

Women we own the foremost still
Where stated prayer is made to' appear,
They first the place of worship fill,
They first the joyful tidings hear,
The welcome messengers receive,
And patterns to the faithful live.