Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-08

REV H. L. WAYLAND ON THE EMANcIPA.
TON OF WOMAN Last Sunday evening. Rev
H. L. Wayland of this city, gave an able and
practical discourse on the above subject which
showed that he had given it thorough and can.
did investigation, that few have done outside the
ranks Of its immediate advocates
He preached frou the text, "shall this won.
an be loosed." No, answered bigotry, worldli-
ness, and masculine selfshness, on the one hand !,
Yes, said Christ, said humanity, common sense.
and religion, and most of all on the Sabbath day
He briefly sketehed the legal and social disabiii
ties OF woman, her limited education, the limited
number of her employments resulting in suffer,
ing and death, in prostitution, in ill assorted
marriages, and aimless lives Man, he said. if he
violates the law, can be tried by a iufy of his
peers, woman, never. The young man does not
, think of completing his education until he is
twenty five, and then goes on learning all his
life the young woman finished hers at eighteen,
and stops there. She returns home to fill IN her
time with dress, attending balls, and perbaps
throw herself away by marrying one so utterly
beneath her as to deserve only her contemDt
He cited the contentment of woman with her
present position in society, a sad proof of her
servitude. Says one, do not want ANYTHING
now. my husband lets me do as please. Let's
you! who gave him the right to let you does
not the right to lei you, imply also the right not
to let
There is more involved ia this statement than
uHS NOulu az lEsl suppose. III is LTeaQlng some
what on delicate ground, and therefore of the
more Importance. Probably nothing that he said
or that any one else could say, would touch
w0man's sensitiveness SO much as. that, and it is
perfectly natural that it should Now she ina
gines herself free, and when her life is all sun
shine, surrounded by one atmosphere of love and
affection, her every wish anticipated and graft.
fed, and doubtless such there are, she would not
be very likely to reflect or realize that another's
lot was so different from her own, or if she did.
to enquire into the why and wherefore.
On the other side, she would as readily shrink
from acknowledging her servile dependence, or
private suffering, frouSths source. 1t is atoueh-
/ ing tribute to the sacredness of the relation.
But when wrong is to be righted, the instru.
mentalities for its accomplishment are always
provided He alluded to the responsibility rest
ing on herself. for her own elevation whereas.
now she is false to herself and to her sex; her
aims are low and unaspiring, the result of custom
He concluded by one earnest appeal to every
woman present to seek to make her own lie
more noble, more fully to appreciate her own
true destiny, to free herself from sin, and then
she would be able to see what was really pure
and worthy. Then would she become true to
herself, to her destiny and the world. It was a
hne Interpretation of the beautiful sentiment
that wherever the spirit of God is there is liberty
This is a very meagre and imperfect sketch of
this excellent discourse, which throughout re.
cognized the equality of woman as the only per.
manent remedy for these evils, and what is still
more, recognized her mental equality, whenever
opportunity should be afforded her capacities to
gasp and comprehend the grand truths Of the
universe.