Stowe uses religious imagery throughout her Treatise to reinforce her conception of the domestic role of women:

The builders of the temple are of equal importance, whether they labor on the foundations, or toil upon the dome....The woman who is rearing a family of children; the woman who labors in the schoolroom; the woman who, in her retired chamber, earns, with her needle, the mite to contribute for the intellectual and moral elevation of her country; even the humble domestic, whose example and influence may be moulding and forming young minds, while her faithful services sustain a prosperous domestic state;--each and all may be cheered by the consciousness that they are agents in accomplishing the greatest work that ever was committed to human responsibility.

Like Stowe, Sigourney  in her 1835 Letters to Young Ladies (as well as her later Letters to Mothers) combines religious imagery with a a great deal of "practical advice" for women.   The following excerpts are from "Letter V: Domestic Employments":

     Since Industry is the aliment of contentmnet and happiness, our sex are privileged in the variety of employments that solicit their attention.  These are so diversified in their combinations of amusement with utility, that no room need be left for the melancholy of a vacant and listless mind.
     Needle-work, in all its forms of use, elegance and ornament, has ever been the appropriate occupation fo woman.  From the shades of Eden, when its humble proces was but to unite the fig-leaf, to the days when the mother of Sisera looked from her window, in expectation of a 'prey of divers colours of needle-work on both sides, meet for the necks of those that take the spoil,' down to modern times, when Nature's pencil is rivaled by the most exquisite tissues of embroidery, it has been both their duty and their resource.

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   Since the domestick sphere is intrusted to our sex, and the proper arrangement and government of a hosuehold are so closely connected with our enjoyments and virtues, nothing that involves the rational comfort of home is unworthy of attention.   The science of housekeeping affords exercise for the judgment and energy, ready recollection, and patient self-possession.

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    The tending of flowers has ever appeared to me a fitting care for the young and beautiful.  They then dwell, as it were, among their own emblems, and many a voice of wisdom breathes on their ear from those brief blossoms, to which they apportion the dew and the sunbeam.  While they eradicate the weeds that deform, or the excrescences that endanger them, is there not a perpetual monition uttered, of the work to be in their own hear! From the admiration of these ever-varying charms, how naturally is the tender spirit led upward in devotion to Him.