The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1870-03-12

this to raise them, and think how angel must
nave held it all to seraph and seraph to arc
angel, and how God must have taken them into
these broad arms and held them in His bosom,
1t makes me feel, sisters that the way SO
many OF you walk is not that way, that il
turns sharply off and has not that reward. 1t
makes me feel that there is a wide gulf yet
lying between woman as she is, and woman as
| she must be-
Ruskin, in one of his strong passages says
There is one dangerous science for women
one which let them indeed beware how they
pFofanely touch-that of theology" The warn
| ing is wise and needed. Our bitterest theolo-
know nothing of, and there again feeling is
thought, and opinion wants the grace of char
! lsy. Neither form nor theology, relgion--a
| pure, perpetual, unshaded flame within the
heart, casting its radiant glow over all men
and things, serene in life's cloud and tumult
trusting in lifes grief, and brave in lite's des-
| religion-whatever may be said of man,
is every woman's need. Let her seek and
| have and cherish and thank God for that
Which is the crowning gift adding the perfect
| ing Symmetry and proportion to her life. Big
otry, bad enough in any body is pre-eminently
unlovey in woman. When the sundered bo-
| DIES OF the Presbyterian church came together
and like right earnestness and peace kissed
sacb ether, the hymn of unity with which the
/ new ndPt:asls were solemnized was written by
a Unitarian and a woman Let won.a:9s big
s TT be swssp aaph sad ngd faith
| If / do not at least say that whatever else
| may lure or demand her, woman's true place,
first and last, must be her home. | shall be
untrue TO any one standing great conviction
Women must make more of their homes and
| make them more to those who belong within
them. In this day of outward excitement and
| many outer attractings, the old and sacred in
| foOriIv nf bnna ic annauUarnI The hOmag Ot
| to-day are not us dear as those of past gener-
alton. Great change has come over our peo-
pie. Amusements multiply and press. Young
| people have taken out license against their
parents. Parents are getting rather afraid OF
their boys and girls. Home isn't the little nu
| cleus radating joy to each, each shedding back
joy on it. II is u convenient place to have, and
| the father is the banker, and the mother is the
| boss of laundry women and cooks, but the
home is gone. sit is only IL part of the outer
world which you have rooted over and lighted
fire in," which you may make dark with
| your frown or uncomfortable by your whim
| Once it was, what it must be again, the hearts
| holy of holes once no man would desecrate
| it by deserting it once all good impulse
sprung hence and all true character grew
once the hearth at which father and mother
sat was holy and dear, and if the generations
are to get back old stability of character, and
| frmness of principle and the old undefiled re-
| llSlOu lJ muSb Ue JuTOuSn JneSe HOueSJ Ol
which you, woman ! are pricsteSses, it must
be by your garnishing them again with for
gotten graces-rc waking gone out fires, and
| sanctifying anew the only place in which a
human soul can be surely fitted for the work
and warfare of life. Heaven help us, if this
dissertation of the home gets into another gen.
Grafton
So have l tried to say something of what
woman must be and do, because | think in
| these, as in some other things she needs spe-
| cially to look at herself, and for the sake oi
| her influence correct some of the tendencies
which have got into the day and are making
against her usefulness, happiness and growth
l have no idea Of putting all duty unto her or
| attl1buting all failure to her, and | have in
my thought more the rising generation than
the risen. In these pregnant times lie germs
in whose issues we must all take interest. The
way things tend should not escape our watch
| 1t is pleasant it is easy to cry peace, but il
there be no peace then let the trumpet ring
loud and clear and not uncertainty, and let us
marshal ourselves to see what are our foes, and
where they lie entrenched. There are things
to-day that promise to trouble the future there
are faults fast growing into folles, and mis-
takes degenerating into habits. In a day OF
new want and hope, day of ever fresh oppor-
tunity, a day opening up vast fields and prom
Using vaster, doors of occupation and success
and influence opening everywhere, new era
almost here, all that is womanly should be
alert. The time for idleness and self enjoy
nsent has passed. Responsibilities and duties
tksoisn AID press Life is more sacred and
broad reaching thing. Heartlessness, frvolity,
must be prepared for, and it can only be
DreDared for bV a. faithful nOlc