The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1858-04-27
From the N. Y. Tribune, 10th.
Woman an. Her Work.
LECTURE BY THE REV. DIR. CHAPLIN.

LECTURE BY THE REV. DIR. CHAPLIN.
DR.. Chapin lccturcd to large audience
last night at Mozart Hall on the above
suLj"ct. Nearly all the Aldermen, the
Common Council and the ten Governors,
with Mr.. Postmaster Fowler were present
lie said that the originality of any thought
is secondary to its truth. If it is old, it
should he welcomed on account of respect
due to age. His subject led him to con-
slider whether woman is potentially what
she ought 10 lc. Tie relation between
man and woman is the most beautiful ex.
preston Of the great law of nature. Wo.
man is simply tie equal Of man nothing
more, nothing less. We have 10 right
to determine what is womans 81 here by
any arbitrary prejudccs. cannot recog-
nlze amy such fact as mans rights or wo.
mans rights; only recognize human
rights. Woman's orbit is the orbit of her
humanity, end lenco she ought to be
mans cqual--beiore the world, before the
law. as sh" is before God. And let no
one bo dis ubed ly visions of strong mind
cd women with spcc'aclcs, lecturing on
Kansas. The question is, what is truth,
and not what are the imaginable consc-
qucuccs. Man may Iun against Gods
will, but cannot alter it. / urge that No
man should actually be something more
than she has been held to be. She has
been placed above the scale, and cast be-
low it; she has been mans slave and his
empress. In one place you may see her
the poor drudge Of the wash.tub or the
needle, working to support drunken hus.
band; in another place we see ner in some
parlor, listening to The confectionery of
small talk furnished py some dandy. So.
ciety around us is but little more than a
modification of these two pictures What
We want is some way Of dcliyerance for
woman from being mese slave, and some.
thing more substantial! than those accom-
plishments which make her a mere gew-
gaw. The legal argun cnt has already
been presented, so ] shall pass on TO the
subject of womtn's education. Woman
ought to be rendered less dependent upon
man. Our present state Of society too Of
ten so trains her as to make marriage an
absolute necessity. am glad if there is
some advance in this respect; am glad
if won en- and clercymcn are regarded as
something else than respectable paupcrs.-
Woman can become what she should be,
and do what she should do. only by
genuine education. ! cannot see why
there should be a very sharp discrimina-
tion between the education of boys and
girls. II a certain kind of learning will
develop the intellect Of the boy, why not
of the girl? You may say woman cannot
lie Newton or Shakespeare.
Well. if she can't she won't; end SO
where's the barml Laughter.] Why
should woman with liberal education
be less fitted for the duties Of wife or a
mother2 If in the cultivated mind there
is reserved force for emergencies, why
should woman be debarred from that bless.
cd skill that unlocks the treasures Of truth
and open communion with the distant and
the dead In many cases woman is bro't
up not to self reliance, but simply to
make settlement for life. We all have
n horror Of female gamblers but how ma
ny women are really gamblers for lucky
match2 DO VIC wonder there is often the
gamblers loss rs well rs his hazards In
the worlds version, it is not charity but
money that covers multitude of sins.-
The rich profiga.o receives the hand of
virtue and beauty. But there would not
be so many serpents in the parterrers Of
fashion, if there were not Ewes in the gar.
den to listen. In rude society, woman
was bought and sold as slave, and some
OF our manners are not much better
Christianity teaches us that woman has
soil; but many men act rs though they
had not accepted, and many women as
though they had none TO give. Women
have a right TO a proper culture, not rs
woman's rights, but rs human rights; as
mans equal and companion, she requires
a training which will develop every hu.
man faculty. The true way to find the
sphere Of anything is to educate il TO the
highest capacity. A genuine culture will |
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