bringing practical, lasting fruits. A most discomfiting thought! Hence I would plead to the reader to make these two questions, in the manner of an examination of conscience, before putting down the book:
1. In my spiritual action in favor of women, can I say I carry out all my duties? Do I train them in the practice of true individual, domestic, social virtues? What benefits can I count after that certain number of years of work?
2. Based on the principle: the woman is not only material help, but also moral to man: have I led her to her true mission, domestic, social, moral and religious?
Let us dispassionately reply, before God, who shall judge our judgment; before Jesus who shall make us render an account of the great mission with which he has honored us; before society that has the right on our best zeal. We shall have difficulties, made by the world, by the demon, by the flesh, by the environment, by the enemies, by false friends.. But may those words of Psalm 125 urge us on: «Euntes ibant et flebant, mittentes semina sua. Venientes autem venient cum exultatione, portantes manipulos suos».1
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