The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-05-11

That were a strange map, which traced, with
individual lines, these annual swarms, of two
and twenty years. To China. To South
America. To Great Britain. To the islands
of the sea. To every State and Territory OF
our own vast empire. To the forests Of Maine.
To the rico fields of Georgia. To the sugar
plantations Of Mississippi To so many happy
homes. To so many peaceful parsonages. To
so many hearths of cOntentment, To 80 many
hearts Of love. Alas, that must add, to so
many early graves; just, greeuing, with tho
springl And that were a still stranger map,
which sketohed as God looks down, upon them
all, the pathways of that inner life; which each
is travelling on, toward that unseen world,
which hangs about us, like the sky; which, in
one moment, may close in upon our souls;
whose issues are unchanging and eternal; as
tho God, who orders them, in justice and In
mercy.
Beyond this vale OF ftoars.
There is a life above;
unmeasurcd, by the light of years;
And all that life 10 love,
There is death, whose pang
Outlasts the loeting BREATH
Oh what eternal horrors hang
Around the second deathI
Lord God Of truth aud grace,
Teach III that death to shun;
Lest we be driven from Thy face;
ForeNermore, undOne."
My children, upon this devious and event
full pilgrimage, you are to enter, now; un-
shielded, by the sacred homo, which has, 60
long, been your shelter. FROM its privacy, il
peacefulncss, its purity, its piety; the sound
of its continual scriptures, the music of its
continual songs, the fervor of its continual
supplications, the fragrance Of its continual
sacraments; you are to go out into the world,
which cares, but little, for these things. ]
thank God, for the inestimable confidence that
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to Him, to water, with His grace, these plant
ings of His word. / beseech Him, mercifuly,
to grant, that they may live, and grow, in
you: nurturing your souls with spiritual and
immortal food; sheltering your young heads
with their broad, cool shadow against the h OF
blasts of temptations; and cheering you on
with their refreshing fragrance, through what
ever He may order, for your chastening, as His
children, until they bring you, where the palms
of Paradise spring up, forever green, by the
pure river of the water of life. Remember,
my beloved, you have not these inestimablc
blessings, for yourselves, alone. You hold
them, as a sacred trust, for your homes, for
the church, for your country, and for your
kind. "The times are out of joint" Corrup-
tion stalks in our high places. Licentiousness
has, we'll nigh, lost its shame. Infdelity is
bold and brazen- faced. The wave of barbar-
ism is rolling back upon US. For these things
your own sex is greatly answerable. Women
are not true, to themselves. They wink at vice.
They make a compromise with worldliness.
They tolerate irrelgion. And they are the vic
Tins 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 woman
ever fell, but by her own consent. As, at the
first, the woman is the tempter. There is no
man, that has not passed into brute, to do as
tigers do, that can resist the matchless majesty
of resolved woman. And, stronger than al
law, stronger than anything, but God. when it
is strong, in his strength, would be the power
of woman; to put down rudeness, and to Law
tho bride upon license. But, the age is self
indulgent. And, self.indulgonce grows by
what it feeds on. Women are occupied, by
fashion. Women are slaves, to dress. Women
are willing to TO hattered. Women are care
less of their companionship. Women are un-
scrupulous, in their amusements. Young wo.
men set up for themselves. They look upon
their parents, as old-fashioned. They are i'm
patient Of domestic restraints. lThey are arergC
to domestic occupations. They vote their home
bore. They coDgregate away from its control
l06y lOuulke IN uusGhSOnHDle lOurS. Iley
meet the other sex more than half way. They
make themselves debtors, for their escort, ia
places of resort. They permit the approachrs
of familiarity. They tempt the hidden devil
of their nature. They forget their Bibles
They neglect their prayer books. They arc
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 sanctiy. In this
way the female atmosphere loses its FRESHNESS
and its fragrance. The woman is no longer
what she was made TO be, "a help for
the man. And man ceases to be, what God de-
signed him for, her partner, her prop and he,
protector.
am we'll persuaded by the report which
comes to me from every quarter of the land
that the women who have gone out from be-
fore this altar-couuted now by thousands
are for the most part women of another sort
hear of them as faithful wives. hoar Of
them as devoted mothers. l hear of them
as loving sisters. 1 hear of them as ODE.
dent daughters. They are centers of good
influence in society. They are stays and
ornaments of the Church. 1t may be truth
fully said of them: "Many daughters have
done virtuously, but these excel them all =
To join this hopeful company, beloved ones
you are to go out now. You go, with the III
structions by which their minds were
moulded. You go, with the influences, whic
God has sanctiied, in the transformation ui
their hearts. You go, with the prayers
which have won down from heaven, for then
the consultations of the Comforter. You 60
with the blessing, which has commended
them, to the care and keeping of the Holy
One. "Be strong in the Lord" dear chill
dren: "and in the power of His might
| Keep your Bibles ever in your hearts. Have
your prayer books ever in your hands. Bt
true, to yourselves. BE true to your homes
| BE true, to your Church. BE true, TO you
God. Follow after her, who sat down a
Jesus feet, and heard His word Follow
after them, who left His cross tho last, anC
found His grave the first. Follow after her
whose sacred legend CLEANS upon you now
| it may be- for the last time "Behold tn
handmade of the Lord" Remember, always
that you are women. Reminder, always, {,
be holy women" Keep your hands, ever
on the cross. Fix your eyes, ever, on tn
crown. Lambs of the Lamb, in meekne,
and gentleness and lovingness be dovelng
Of the Dove, in peace, purity and piety
Dear daughters Of my heart, God bless you
The Rev. William s. Dwight, d. D., of Port
land, Me-, delivered the annual sermon befOr
the American Home Missionary Society, at tn