Man had marked this woman's sin by a scarlet letter, which had such potent and disastrous efficacy that no human sympathy could reach her, save it were sinful like herself. God, as a direct consequence of the sin which man thus punished, had given her a lovely child, whose place was on that same dishonoured bosom, to connect her parent for ever with the race and descent of mortals, and to be finally a blessed soul in heaven!
Let Man judge - the men and women who not sinless themselves have no moral authority to cast stones and those goodold boys who view women as evil temptresses upon their own *virtuous natures* or no better than playthings for boys being boys; again, in the end, may God judge all men and women and may Jesus save us.
