Acts 17:12: Many of the honourable women believed

Women in days of old
Did Jesus' flock increase,
The fearful sex were bold
Their Saviour to confess,
And gladly sacrificed their fame;
And gloried in the Christian name.

Who bare the title then
Of high or low degree,
Exposed to grief and pain
And loss and infamy,
Were call'd the fiery test to' abide,
And shame, and bonds, and death defied.

Tis not the name, but thing,
But truth of Christian grace
Doth now the scandal bring
On the anointed race:
But who will sell their character,
And Jesus' love to life prefer?

Not many rich and great
And honourable now
Renounce their pride and state,
Or dare to Jesus bow;
Women of rank the cross disclaim,
And lose their souls to save their fame.