Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-06-01
An APPEAL

I An APPEAL
\ To the Methodist Ladies Of Ohio fla behalf Of
/ a Library FOR the ohio Wesleyan Female
/ College.
The imminent need Of books in this
/ College for the young ladies led its friends
in Delaware to form Centenary Associ-
alton for the purpose Of procuring funds
! to purchase al ample and well selected
/ collection of books. Feeling that moth
ing can be more be6tting this glorious
| Centenary than the establishment of a
/ library that will aid in the development
/ Of an educated Christian womanhOod, to
! fill the various situations of Sabbath
/ school teacher, minister's wife, and mis-
/ siOnary labOrer with adaptation and sue
cess, We bend to the oar with cheerful
zeal, trusting that all needful help will
| come from those who understand knowl-
/ edge; and if needs be that these seed be
planted through self-denIal and by the
sweat of labor, more surely will they
fructIfy into an abundant harvest.
For years this pressing want of books
has panied the teachers and friends of the
institution, and it was a need every hour
felt anew, as the pupils asked for authori-
ties, and wandered In search of informa
ton, of which the textbooks had created
the demand. During the last twelve
years three thousand young women have
here passed through a complete or partial
collegiate course, and many every year
have learned those higher truths of Di-
vine love and forgiveness, which alone
bring humanity into true relations with
itself and its God. Every year we have
sent out patient workers on to our Con-
ference circuits, and into many of the
high schools throughout the State, only
regretting the inevitable lack -naoabaI
polish and varied infUTmatIOn which the
absence of a library neoessitates,
In our early history the Church was
staggering under It's self-imposed burdens:
grounds to purchase and buildings to erect
exhausted its available resources. But
now, the marvellous financial prosperity
of the nation has enabled the Church at
large to pay off indebtedness, and double
and quadruple benevolent contributions.
So we turn to Christian mothers and
daughters, with faith in their capacity, as
well as faith IN their interest in woman s
education.
The fact that Churches, nations, and
generations are surely and intimately
knit together by some mysterious inter |
est, gives US the glimpses Of that great
moral law which IS more extensive in its /
ramifeation and mercilessly exact in its
than any physical law whose +
workings We have come to look upon as
fixed as fate. And woman should re- T
member that her sex is one, and that the
interest of each individual is the interest
of the whole. five for time forget this
in our charmed family circles, a slowly
accumulating retribution may bring US
back to It's Acknowledgement The wheel
turns around, and she who yesterday com.
manded slaves, to day, at a seWing-machine
ekes out her daily bread She who Is the
daughter of virtue, is often the mother Of
vice.
Quick returns without any expenditure
is a rapid-accumulating process. but sui
3idal n the end It may answer we'll
enough for one generation, but time
wheels around another, and their sorry
plight strikes home the truth that life is
4 whole, and the human family one
Then from our Warmly-ourtained homes
where a husbands power protects. and
infancy smiles upon our breasts, let us
ook out upon the myriads of youthful feet ,
which are pressing hard on our years.
Ind acknowledge the supremacy Of men
al as well as physical law and not ask for
eturns where no outlay has been made,
n for perfect development where only a
crippled opportunity has been given :
yet Us open our eyes to the fact that the /
..nly. safety to our sex In this variable life |
les IN such an edUcation-a bringing out Y
It all the latent poWers-that each woman
7Ill be perfectly balanced character. s
bic to suffer without falling, able to turn a
er hand to the higher occupations of L
lie, It needs be, for bread. Only then T
I'LL she be enabled to calmly shane her Q
wn life, instead of being tossed and torn I
y circumstances. G
1t IS to give opportunity for such an 1
ducatlon that we are now striving to ac- t
umulate funds with which to purchase d
ooks. Ten thousand dollars we hope to
olleot during these Summer months.
lur own town IS nObly responding to our ,
5quest; and in one half hour, with but a q q
~ words Of explanation, the pupils of
le school subscribed $500, to which thew 3
Ill undoubtedly add another hundred !S
freeWlll offering from their young u
carts and limited purses, to aid in giving
lose VINO shall follow them the opportu1
tiles, for lack of which they have suffer
so keenly
Christian women, shall we withhold Y
ON the flowing and ebbing hundreds P
lat are yearly within these halls this
eat good? VIII you help US by your b.
ayers, your sugges stions, your sympa- ii
les and your contributions, in this noble b.
y
The Corresponding Secretaries of the tu
ssOcIatIOn will eudeavor to reach as ma ~ ~
as possible of those known to be in In
rested IN female education. But any e
no should wish to assist the ladies' Of
e Church, and are not directly appealed gr
can send any moneys to the Treasurer VI
the Association, In care of the writer ap
this pc
KATHERINE II. DoNELsoN.
Corresponding Secret0Tu ru