The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-15

PREACHING BY WoMEN-Rev Antoinette
Brown-a very eloquent and well spoken
woman-has demonstrated the fact that wo-
preaching ever since Eve? What action of
man is there that woman does not in seme
way control? Il is very true, that he says he
is 20 lord of creation" but does not every day
bring evidence that his crown is shared by
somebody else? He says /" will GO out on
the broad sea, and be brave and enterprising,
mourning all the risks of the ocean, for the
sake Of fortune or fame And vet on the
very shore which he left with tears in his
eyes, there stands little woman, whom he
never forgets in the long voyage, and for
whose sake he would pitch fame, fortune and
voyage in one second to the devil. All that
he gains is hers. If it was not, he would
never work single stroke. What is money
good for to any man who has nobodyto share
it with
The fact is, that women do preach, we
don't say from pulpits-but from higher
and better point, for influence and effect
from their own true position as mothers and
sisters, and wives and loved ones. 1t is easy
to say that men do as they please, but it
would be well to remember that mans plea
sure is almost always found in pleasing
somebody else, and that that somebody is an
variably woman. In every relation of life,
the gentle sex do more to determine and con-
troll the acts Of men than all other agencies
com hiped: nor has fl -I-'' Ifro'.
&c ne to wish II Otherwise. Providence
seems 10 nave ordered this matter far more
wisely than we could ever hope to do. And
we are the last persons on earth to wish that
women would cease from preaching But
we think that the pulpit is not the place for
them, and we know too, that they agree with
us, excepting here and there few of the
"strong minded" Let the women 60 on
preaching as they always have done, in our
best hours-by the fire side, and in all the
endearing relations of life. Her eloquence
will not be wholly lost even upon the worst
of Us. She does not know one half of her
power over us. Let the mother preach TO
her sen, and her teachings shall climb with
the seaboy, up the tottering mast when he
looks forth upon the limitless ocean-they
shall follow him forever-and though he NAV
fall into evil, and struggle for years with
temptation and disaster those teachings
shall dwell in his heart, and bring him at last
to Heaven. Let the wife preach to her hus
band, perhaps not in words, but in looks
more eloquent than speech, and if he IS a |
man. he will be admonished and reproved |
1t is not that men desire to monopolze the |
forum and the field, and the marts of bust |
ness, that they exclude their mothers and |
sisters; but because they think that the |
stern drudgery and toll of life belong to the
ruder and the stronger sex; and because, |
more than all, they do mot like to see the
winds even of summer visit their cheeks |
too roughly" Moreover they do not love to
hazard among the outdoor scenes of every
day life, the delicacy and purity of woman
hood; and would dread to have them as
bronzed and calculating and iron-hearted as
themselves. We wish women to preach as
much as they like-and the more they do it,
the happier and better we shall be; but we
wish them to leave the pulpit and the forum
to the less gentle and less beautiful and far
less attractive advocates of truth among
their fathers and brothers.