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garrets and tenements where the necessities
of life are bringing many to the verge of
starvation, and there study what New Eng.
land must, will and shall be unless it is
stripped with the work underneath hot
with the fires of volcanic eruptions. You
let 1t become a law that no value shall be
known but the money-value of the things
and you have taken the longest step toward
the naturalization of all values. These
things which stand as high as glory itself
are not valued unless they have a money
value. Take house for instance. 1t may
be really valuable because it makes a home
for young couple, wherein to grow
all the graces. But who cares for the
empty house? Put cook into the kitchen.
fire into the CRATE and smoke into the
chimney, frame little curly-head into the
window, put the rounds of laughter, Of
young voices. and of music, and you now
have a home. That home has now become
connected with all the community.
During the five years | have been upon
the lyceum platform l have considered
that place the right one to be devoted to
the teaching of human duties. | say one
of the first things in the Divine economy il
that God so arranged the world that the
most needful and most enjoyable things we
have are not to be priced by money. Who
could price the air, the water, while even
beauty is above the tyranny of personal
ownership. Over all the heavens stretch
the light, the stars are common property.
You cannot fence in the perfume of your
flower garden, you can't roof in your noun
tains so but what the rich and the poor can
see them alike. This is the universe which
God has given to us all as birthright.
Much as wealth should be desired and striv-
1t can never purchase honor, buy back a
broken trust or a pledge unfulfilled or wash
away the stains of dishon0rable life, or
rear again the PROSTATE column of blasted
integrity 1t can purchase flattery, but
friendship, love and esteem and the favor
of Almighty God it cannot buy. Still
wealth is greatly to be desired In com
mon with wealth then comes increased
temptation. There are those here tonight
who began life poor, but they brought to
their duties pure hearts and fought the
battles, inspired by the hope that your chill
dren may enjoy and step up to higher life
and destiny. 1t was once remarked that
esome shall die and others shall live to
carry back the banners to the capital and
reap the rich reward" Whether failing in
your tirst enterprise, rich or poor you all
have felt this magnificent uplifting hope.
For one | am proud that with you ARE
in This grand old inheritance God be
praised that this New England hatred OF
poverty, this love of labor was born in me.
What is there woise to see than the specta-
Gle of a lazy man? Who, no matter how
much ability he may have, never attempts
to manifest it. That is not to be man,
but to do something and make opportunity
luminous with your endeavors-that is the
true man. Perhaps you may ask why not
say something about the laziness IN silks
and satns? In regard to that | do not
believe that women are as lazy as men are
anywhere speak with the "reminiscences
of years before me. l cannot recall single
New England mother that was ever lazy.
(Applause). How sweet to our ears the
hurrying hustle of these household feet that
serve us | remember form that was
light. the feet that were ever busy, and
who when age had dimmed hei faculties,
when she who had been the lite of the
household for forty years, was obliged to
lay by her many cares, still her hands were
never idle how much she wrought and
mended until the white angel came.
If you would allow me the expression as
to wonan's sphere what looks well in man
does not in woman. We must draw the
line somewhere One was made to mold
and make and handle the coarser things of
this life-that is man the ether the finer
qualities-that is woman, 1t is her mission
to mollify and assuage, TO sit as queen in
the kingdom, making service easy by love
for her. Hence it is that ease and leisure
become her so well, and fits in with her
nature, and the normal condition of her
life. The woman who is never quiet is
domestic horror. Much as we admire ac
tivity we believe there is a realm where
quiet reigns.
One reason why poverty is so dreadful is
seen in the development of woman. 1t
1t makes her coarse and checks the tirer
qualities of her character. The woman
who is compelled to think on about the
food for the family and the clothing for The
| children is not quite what mother should
| be. There is more than one man who will be
| a theft because his home is so desolate this
year for want of money, for no other reason
| than because they stand at that point where
| thousand whirl winds combine to whirl
| them towards the devil. We should never
| apply christianity until we take the good of
| human nature. We should not leave men
| to 90 to the devil. We can see how much
| doctrine and creed is in the church and make
| our churches less as buildings and more as
| temples where dwells the Holy Spirit. Zap
| plause) As l think of the women in power
| ty, out of that circle l could select one
whose story would tell of agonies known
| not to us here; of comforts long lost, of
envy, of hatred, of hope lost and faith in
her mothers God swept away, unassisted
by any church, beaten by drunken hus-
band, she has staod and borne it. The pic
ture she could draw would stand out
gaunt, dreadful, ghasly. You would say
l know nothing of such things, but that is