The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-05-05

In his excellent address to the graduating
class Of st. Mary's Hall, at Burlington, last
month, Bishop Doane, after a characters.
tically poetic exordium, and brief allusion
to the commencement Of their worldly ca.
reer, spoke as follows:
1.-The times are out of joint Corrup-
tOn stalks on high places. LiceDtiousness IS
has well nigh lost its shame. ln6delity is
bold and brazen-faced. The wave of bar.
barism is rolling back upon US. For these
things your sex is greatly answerable. Wo-
men are not true TO themselves. They wink
at vice. They make compromise with
worldliness. They tolerate irrelgion; and
they are the victims Of their own unfaith-
fulness. 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 il woman were but true 10 God, true
TO their position, true to themselves, they
would have strength from Him 10 hold the
world in check. No woman ever fell, but
by her own consent. As, at the FIRST the
woman s the tempter. There is no man,
that has passed into brute, TO do as tigers
do, that can resist the matchless majesty of
q 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 to lay the bride upon license. But the
age is seli.indulgent. And sefindugence
grows by what it feeds on.
Women are occupied by fashion. Wo-
men are slaves, to dress. Women are will.
ing to be fattered. Women are unscrupu-
lous in their amusements Young women
Set up for themselves. They look upon their
parents as old fashioned They are impa-
tient Of domestic restraints. They are
averse TO domestic occupations. They vote
their homes bore. They congregste away
from its control. They indulge in usseason.
able hours to meet the other sex more than
half way. They make themselves debtors
for their escorts to places OF 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 op-
portunity, than themselves. 10 this way,
home is stripped Of it's sanctity. 10 this
way, the female ar loses it's freshness, and
it's fragrance. The woman 10, 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.
am well 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 a. faithful wives ! hear Of
them as faithful wives. hear Of them as
devoted mothers. hear Of them az loving
sisters hear OF them as obedient daugh.
tiers. They are centres Of good influence 10
society. They are stays and ornaments Of
the Church. 1t may be said OF them
" Many daughters have done yirtuously. bat
these excel them all
To Join this hopeful company, beloved
ones, you are 70 go out now. You are 10 70
With instructions by which their minds were
moulded. You 60 With thes Influences
which God has sancli.ied 10 the uansforma.
ton Of the.r hearts. You g with the prayer.
which have bsen Won down ffom Heaven Tor
them, the eons1A,ions Of the Comforter
You 30 with the blessing which has CON.
meudsd them 70 the car aEt keeping Of the
Holy one Be srong in tie Lrd dear
children and 10 ,be power o. Hs might"
Keep yozr Bitd~s ever 70 yJlr hearts
HAve y1u' pnyrr Booy ever 10 yoa'
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