The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-25
RAVENNA. OHIO WEDNESDAY,, MAY Is. 1859.
B SHOP DoANE ON THE FAIR SEX.

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In his excellent address to the graduating
class of ST. Marys Hail. at Burlington, last
month, Bishop Doane, after characteristical-
ly poetic exordium and a brief allusion to the
commencement of their worldly carter, spoke
as follows:
The times are ont of joint Corruption
stalks in our high places. LiceDtiousness has
we'll nigh lost its shame. Infidelity is bold
and and brazen faced. The wave of barba.
rism is rolling back upnn Us. For these things
your sex is greatly answerable. Won en- are
not true to themselves They wink at vice
They make compromise with worldliness.-
They tolerate irreligion. And they are the
victims of their own unfaithfulness The
stronger sex look up in, 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 women
were but true to God, true to their position,
true to themselves they would have strength
from him to hold the world in check. No wo.
man ever fell but by her own consent. AS at
the first, the woman is the tempter. There
is DO man, that has lot passed into brute to
do as tigers do. that can resist the matchless
majesty of resolved woman. And stronger
than all law, stronger than anything 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 self iudulgent And self-indulgence grows
by what it feeds on.
Women are occupied by fashion. Women
are slaves 10 dress. Women are willing to be
dattered. WomeH are careless about their
companionship. Women are unscrupulous in
their amusements. Young women set up for
themselves. They look upon their parents as
old fashioned. They are impatient of domes,
tic res raints. They are averse to domestic
occupations. They vote their homes bore.
They congregate away from its control. They
indulge in unreasonable hours to meet the 9TH
er sex. more than half way. They make them.
selves debtors for their escorts to places of re-
sort. They permit the approaches of famili-
ality. They tempt the hidden devil of their
natures. They forget their Bibles. They me-
glect their Prayer Books. They are women
of fashion. They are women of the world
What else they are is rather shaped by oppor-
tunity, than by themselves, In this way, home
is stripped of its sanctity. In this way, the
female atmosphere loses its fragrance. The
woman is no longer what she was made to be,
"a help meet for the man. A man ceases to
be be what God designed him for. her partner,
her prop and protector. eg .
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, for
the most part, women of another sort. hear
of them as faithful wives. i hear of them as
devoted mothers. hear of them as obedent
daughters. They are centres Of good inAu-
ence in society. They are stays and ornaments
of the Church. 1t may be said of them:--
Many daughters have done virtuously, but
these excel them allp @
To join this hopeful company beloved ones
you are to go out now. You are to go with
the Instructions by which their minds were
moulded. You 60 with the influences which
/ God has sanctified in the Transformation oil
their hearts. You go with prayers which
have been won down from Heaven for them
the consultations of the Comforter. Y on &c
with the blessing which has commended them
to the care and keeping of the Holy One.-
Be strong in the Lord dear children, and in
the power of His might Keep your Bible,
ever in your hearts. Have your Prayer Books
ever in your hands. Be true to yourselves
Be true to your homes. Be true to you
Church. Be true to your God. Follow afte
] them who left His Cross last, and found Hi
grave the first Follow after her whose ga
cred legend CLEANS upon you now, it may b.
: for tie last time: behold the handmaid of tn
= LordP Remember always that you are wo
t men. Remember always:to be holy women
Keep your hands ever on the Cross Fix you
eyes ever on the crown. Lambs of the Lamt
o in meekness and gentleness and loyingness; b
y dovelings of the Dove. in peace, purity an
J, piety Dear daughters of my heart, Go
l. bless you! aa g. es-s.s }s.ag, .a.t.s l.aa
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