Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-05-03

BISHOP DuANE on THE FAIR SEx.-In his exc
cellent address to the graduating class of st.
Mary's Hall, at Burlington, N. j., last month,
Bishop Doane, after Enthusiastically poetic
exordium, and brief allusion to the commence
ment of their worldly career, spoke as follows:
1.-THE times are out of joint" Corruption
stalks in our high places. LiceAtiousness has
we'll nigh lost its shame. Infidelity is bold and
brazen faced The wave of barbarisn is rolling
back upon u.s. Fur these things your sex is
greatly anSWcrable. Women are not true to
themselves. They wink at vice. They make
n compromise with wordliness They tolerate
irreligion. And they are the victims of their
own unfaithfulness The stronger sex look up,
in the best things, to the weaker They have
all had mothers They have all had sisters
They own them in the sex to which they owe
them. And, If woman were but true to God,
true to their position, true to themselves they
would have strength from Him to h0u the
world in check No woman ever fell but by
her own consent. As, at the first, the woman
is the tempter.i There is no man, that has not
passed into q brute, to do as tigers do, that can
resist the matchcss majesty of a resolved wom-
an. And stronger than all law, stronger than
any thing but God, when it is strong, in HIS
strength, would be the power of woman; to put
down rudeness and lay the bride upon license.
But the age is selfindulgent And selt-indul'
tgence grows by what it feeds on.
Women are occupied by fashion. Women
are slaves to dress. Women are willing to be
iattered. Women are careless OF their compan-
ionship Women are INSCRIPTIONS in their
umuscments Young women set up for them:
selves. They look upon their parents as old
fashioned. They are impatient of domestic re-
StraintS. They are averse to domestic occuPa-
tons. They vote their homes bore. Ihey
congregate away from its control. They IN
dulge in unreasonable hours to meet the other
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debtors for their escorts to places oil resort
! They permit the approaches Of familiarity.
They tempt the hidden devil of their nature
They forget their Bibles They neglect their
PRAYER Books. They are women of fashion,
They are women of the world. What else they
are is rather shaped by opportunity, than by
themselves. In this way home is stripped of
its sanctity. In this way, the female ntmos-
| phere loses its freshness, and its fragrance-
The woman is, no longer, what she was made
to be, "a help meet for the man. And man
ceases to be- what God designed him for, her
partner, her prop, and her protector.
I am we'll persuaded, by the report which
comes to me from every quarter OF the land,
| that women who have gone out from before
this altar-counted now by thousandS-are, lot
| the most part, women of another sort hear
Of them as flithful wives. | hear OF them as
devoted mothers. hear of them as loving sis
ters. | hear Of them as obedient daughters
| lhey are ccnterS OF gOou influence III N''c'et
They are stays aud ornaments Of the Church,
1t may be said of them: MANY daughters have
done virtuousy, but these excel them all:
To join this hopeful company, beloved ones,
you ara to go out nov. You are to go with the
instructions by which their minds we're mould
ed. You go with the influences which God has
Sanctiied in the transformation of their hearts
You go with the prayers which have been won
down from heaven for them the consultations Of
the Comforter. You go with the blessing which
has commended them to the care and keeping o
the Holy One. "Be strong in the Lord dear
children: "und in the power of His might
Keep your Bibles ever in yOur hearts. Have
your Prayer Books ever in your hands. BE true
to yourselves. Be true TO your homes. Be true
to your Church. Be true to your God. Follow
after them who left His Cross last, and found
His grave first. Follow after her whose sacred
legend CLEANS upon you nov, it may be, Flor the
last time: "behold the handmade of the Lord
Remember, always, to be holy women" Keep
your hands, ever, on the Cross Fix yeur eyes
ever, on the crown. Lambs of the lamb. IL
meekness and genteness and lovingness; bl
dwellings of the Dove, in peace, and purity ant
piety Dear daughters of my heart, God bles:
you!
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