The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-04-29
SOME WHOLESOME ADVICE FOR WOMEN.

The aather Of the following advics to women
has Just gone to reap the re ward OF we'll spent
life, and the words used were the last be ever
spoke IN puh;.e. They were contained In an adj
drcss delivered few weeks siuce. before the IL,
male graduating class Of 81. Marys Hall, Buriing.
ton, N. j. After q brief altusion 10 the COM
meuoement Of their worldly career, he spoke as
follows:
1.-THE times are out Of joint." Corruption stalks
In our high places Licentiousness has, we'll nigh,
Lost Its shame. Inhdelty 10 bold and brazeu
f.ced. The wave OF barbarism Is rolling back upon
u.s. For these things your sex Is greatly answera~
bic. Women are not~true 70 themselves. They
wink at vice. They make o compromise with
| worldliness. They tolerate irreligion. And they
are the victims of their own unfaithfuiness. The
stronser sex look up in best things to the weaker.
| They have all had mothers. They have all had
sisters, They own them 10 the sex to which they
owe them. And IL women were but true to God,
true 10 their position, true TO themselves, they
| would have strength from Him to hold the world
| in check. No woman ever fell, but by her own
| consent, As, at first the woman Is the temper
There Is man, that has not passed into brute to
do a. tigers do, that can resist the matchess ma
jesty OF q resolved woman. And stronger than all
Law, stronger than anything, but God, when IL ID
strong, 10 His strength. would be the power OF
| woman to put down Tudeness, and lay the bridal
| npon iicense. But the age is self-indulgent. And
seif-iaduIgence grows by what 1t feeds on.
| women are occupied, by Iasn1ou. women are
| slaves, to dress. Women are willing to be fiat'
tered. Women careless of their companion
ship. Women are INSCRIPTIONS. 10 their amuse"
ments. Young women Get up for themeeives
They look upon their parents, as old fashioned
They are impatient of domestic restraints. They
are averse to domestic occupations. They vote
their homes, a bore. They cosgregate away from
it's control. They indulge in unreasonable hour'
| to meet the other sex, more than halt way. TheJ
| make themselves debtors for their escorts Il
| places of resort. They permit the approaches o
| familiarity They tempt the hidden devil of theiI
nature They forget their Bibles. They neglec
| their Prayer Books. They are women OF fash ion
Thew are women of the world. What else they
are is rather shaped by the opportunity, than BY
themselves. In this way home is stripped Of III
sauctity. Ia this way, the female atmosphere
loses its fresh ness, and its fragrance. The woman
| is, DO longer, what she was made to be, ''a hell
| meet" for the man. And man ceases TO be, wha
God designed him for, her partner, her prop, ant
am well persuaded. by the report which come
who have gone out from before this altar counted
now by :housands-are for the most part, womel
| hear Of them as devoted mothers. hear of then
| as loving sisters. l hear OF them as obedien
| daughters. They are centres Of good infiuence ii
society. They stays and ornaments of tn
Church 1t may be ssid of them: Many daugh
ters have done vrtuously, but these excel them a
are to go out now. You are to 60 with the jnstruc
| tions BIZ which their minds were moulded: You
go with the influences which dod has sanctined II
the transformation of their hearts. You go will
| the prayers which have been won down from IIea
| ven for them. the consolation of the Comforter. -
kYou go with the blessing which has commende
them to the care and keeping of the Holy One. 81
strong in the Lord" dear children; land In tn
power Ct His might" Keep your nibles ever il
your hearts. Have your Prayer Books ever in you
| hands. Be true TO yourselves. Be true to you
| homes. Be true to your Church. Be true to you
Col. Follow after Thorn Nho left His Cross last
and found His grave the first. Follow after hel
| whose sacred leg md CLEANS upon You now. it ma
be for the last time: Be hold the haudmaid of tn
| Lord - Remember; always that you women
Remember, always. to be holy women.' Keel
| your hands, ever. on the Cross. Fix your eyes
ever, on the crown Lambs of the lamb, in meek
ness and gentleness and lovingness: be dwellings
| the Dove, in peace and purity and piety. pea
daughters of my heart, God bless you