Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-06-16
Bishop Doane on the Fair Ser.

In his excellent address to the gradua-
ting class of ST. Mary's Hall. at Burling-
ton, last month, Bishop Doane, after a
Enthusiastically poetic exordium. and q
brief allusicn to the commencement Of
their worldly career, spoke as follows:
"The times are out of joint" Corrup-
ton stalks in high places. Licentiousness
has we'll nigh lost its shame. In6delity is
bold and brazcn faced. The wave of bar
barism is rolling back upon us. For
these things your sex is greatly answerable
Women are not true to themselves They
wink at vice. They make a compromise
with worldliness. They tolerate irreligion,
, and they are the victims of their own un-
iaithfulness. The stronger sex look mp,
in best things, to the weaker. They have
all had mothers They have all had sis
ters. 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 no man, that has passed into a
brute, to do as tigers do, that can resist
the matchlcss majesty Of resolved wo-
mar. And stronger than anything but
God, when it is strong in His strength.
would be the power of woman, to put
down rndencss, and TO lay the bride upon
license. But the age is self indulgent.-
And self indulgence grows by what it feeds
on.
Women are occupied by fashion. Wo-
men arc slaves to dress. Women are will
ling to be tattercG. Women arc unscru-
pulous in their amusemcnts. Young wo-
men set up for themselves. They look on
their parents as old fashioned They arc
impatient of domestic restrains. They
are aversc to domestic occupations They
vote their homes a bore. They congrcgate
away from its control. They indulge in
unreasonable hours to meet the other sex
more than half way. They make them
selves debtors for their escort to places of
resort. They permit the approach of ia
miliarity. They tempt the hidden devil
Of their nature. They forget their Bibles
They forget their prayer books. They are
women of fashion. They are woren of
the world. What else they are is rather
shaped by opportunity than themselves
In this way home is stripped Of its sanctity.
In this way the female air loses its fresh
ness and its fragrance. The woman is no
longer what she was made to be, "a help
meet" for the man. And a man ceases
to be what God designed him for, her
partner, her provider. 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 the altar-counted now by thous-
anis--are for the most part, women of an
other sort. 1 hear of them as faithful
wives. hear of them as devoted mothers.
| hear Of them as obedient daughters
They are centers of good influence in soci-
ETY.. They are stays and ornaments Of the
church. 1t may be said of them: Many
Daughters have done virtuously, but these
excel them ALL
To join in this hopeful company. below
ed ones. you are to go out now. Yen are
to go with instructions by which their
minds were moulded You go with these
influences which God has sanctified in the
Transformation of their hearts. You GO
withthe prayers which have been won down
from heaven for them; the consultations of
the comforter. You so with the blessing
which has commended them to the care
and keeping ofthe Holy One. "Bc strong
in the Lord, dear children. "and in the
power of His might" Keep your bibles
ever in your hearts. Have yonr prayer
books ever in your hands. Be true 10
your church. Bc true to your God. Fol-
low after them who left His cross last.
and found his grave the first. Follow after
her whose sacred legends CLEANS upon you
now, it may be. for the last time: "behold
the handmade Of the Lord!" Remember,
always. to be "holy women" Keep your
hands ever on the cross. Fix your eyes
over on the crown. Lambs Of the Lamb.
in mcekness and loneliness; be dovelings
Of the Dove, in peace and purity, and
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