The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-21
THE FOLLTEs or THE WOMAN
MO VENENT.


TThe lecture that follows, delivered recently
in Chicago. and printed in recent number of
the Christian Reqister of that city, presents
the truths of the woman emancipation move
ment. as il is termed, in sound and forcible
manner. Every girl in the land should read
this discourse, and learn wisdom therefrom.
AS for the wild-eyed, long haired "reformers,"
il is possible that not even this trenchant argu-
ment can affect their self-complaceAcy, but all
manly men and womany women will be de-
lighted with it. Mr.. Collier spoke as fol-
lows Il
The woman movement should be cause OF
surprise to no one. The great wonder is that it
has made so little head way. The most difficult
sphere and duty to which any human being is
born is that of wife and neither. This shall
strive to make plain hereafter. 1t is in the
original intent and ordering of nature, and
every attempt to annul this intent and order is
abnormal and chaotic. The highest place. the
place of dignity and divinest power, of which
we know anything in this world, is the place
where wife and mother hold sway.
WOMAN TO DO THE FINER AND OWNER THINGS.
OF woman life is born. Man is of woman. The
life of the race is the gift of woman; is in the
keeping of woman. In Christian times 1t has
been freely accorded to woman to do the finer
and diviner things-things that pertain to the
spirit and character of the race, while man has
accepted the instinct of his sex, aud groveled
in the lower and material things Now, say,
we are not to be surprised, as many seem to be,
that certain women seek to get rid of these ter
rible responsibilities and take to themselves the
ways and works of men. / cannot pass freely
and of good heart into this discussion without
acknowledging that this movement is not of the
feminine but of the masculine instinct. 1t is
unfeminine in its IDEAS in its methods and in its
Votaries. Women who have the sense of their
high calling of God; who are thankful to Heaven
every day that they were born women and not
men; to be the wives and mothers of men their
inspiration and crown of rejoicing, have little
afhation with their ideas, the methods, the vo-
taries of the movement. Those whom the uni
versal consciousness of humanity deem the typi-
cal and ideal women are those who know the
secret of their celestial birth and prerogatives,
and would not come down from the height of
dignity, repose, and sacrifice, where by their
Sex they are uplifted, to take duties man has
always consented to perform, and give up digni-
ties which man, by his sex, is naturally and
eternally debarred from performing.
THE MASCULINE WOMAN UNFORTUNATE.
When the masculine bias dominates in woman,
that woman chafes at her physical sex, and
would prefer the platform to the nursery.
impugn no ones motives; l state facts. A
woman so fortunate by birth, inherited tempe
rament, and moral habit as to maintain in her
nature the dominance of the feminine quality,
sees higher sphere-duty, influence in moulding
the intellectual, moral, and social life of her
family, her husband, her children-than could
possibly open to her in Senate or on platform; and
If without these natural and normal surround
ings of the family, she need not be without a
circle of acquaintances where she can find ave-
nues for the exercise of womanly virtues, and
avenues impossible to the entrance of man.
TRUE TYPE OF WOMAN.
SO beg time and attention that may, with
the spirit and words of admiration and serious
chivalry, assert that the truest women the world
Over-truest in that they are nearest nature in
that the type of woman is most lucidly before
their eyes-are not responsible for the grossne3s
and unseriousness, the uncouth and impatient
ideas and methods of what is known as the
Woman Movement Certainly they will not
consent to be held responsible for the lax,
We are called upon by lady lecturers
riage and Divorce" These women lectur-
ers pervert history and drag in Christ
and his apostles to sanction what is nothing less
than free-loveism, and in Christian ethics and
civil law would be termed licentiousness. / do
not misrepresent. am too deeply serious in
this discussion to set up men of straw tor the
pugilistic purpose of knocking them down. Nor
do mean to play the role of an alarmist. have
no intent to use frightful names to scare people
away from dreaded truth or needed reform.
WEen Of aGGSt fof
cannot see how the question of time
can affect the morality of the matter. If people
may live together year, and then separate,
with the sanction of the law, why may they not
live together in the sanctity of husband and wife
for a week or day, and then separate with the
approval of conscience, society, and God And,
in plain words, what is this scheme in its last
analysis, stripped of its limsy rhetoric but free
love and libertinism?
WIFE AND MOTHER FIRST.
If it is said that prostitution exists any how,
must say that thank God that it is not with the
sanction of the law or the purest men and
women; and may Almighty God prevent it ever
should be! Ireturn from this depression to say
that true wife and mother is fulfilling the di-
Vinest, because most natural, functions of which
any woman is capable. She may write book
and speak with power from the platform; but
If she regard these performances as her first
work, as her utmost gift she is either unfortu'
nate in her temperament or basely low in hel
estimates.
WOMAN AS THE HIGHEST EXPRESSION OF GODS
POWER AND INTELLIGENCE.
The order of creation gives us woman as the
highest expression of Gods power and intelli.
gence. God made man, and man found himself
incapable, and less than cipher in himself
Man had faculties, but none above the plane oi
reason, which doomed him to come to his con.
clusions by the slow process of logic. Then God
made woman when the first principle of mathe.
MATES was annulled-twice QUE are two-and
the one and the one became one, as in chemistry
All the faculties of woman are above the plane
OF logic, not below it. She has fancy, imagina.
tion, Intuition. She knows without logic; she
knows because she knows; and her intuition
after all, holds the lamp for the timid feet Of
reason.
woMAN's LOT IMPLIES PECULIAR SACRIFICES
/ concede without debating the grou nd, tha
womans lot implies more and more trying sacri
fees than mans. But in this very element O
sacrifice l find the highest and most paten
pledge OF woman's equality, nay, superiority
to man. Show me the greatest spirit of sacri
nee, and will show you the greatest spirit o