Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-02-11
EVE AND HER GIRLS.
An Interesting Talk for the Old
and the Young of the Fair

An Interesting Talk for the Oid
and the Young of the Fair
Sex.
Louisville Courier Journal
The following is the full text OF an
interesting lecture delivered at the
Female High School, last Friday, by
Rev. Geo. w. Sweeney, pastor
Jefferson street Christian Church:
To contribute some practical vieHs
of womanhood to your consideration
is the object of this lecture. re-
gard woman as the diapason i'll the
HYMN of creation-an object of sub
lime interest to Creator and all crea-
ton.
Morning stars sang, and sons OF
God shouted when creation culmila
ted III Eve-the first woman. She
was created on the sixth day of crea-
tiOn, and on the same day welded to
Adam-married when only one day
old, and that without courtship.
Everything, of course, on this occa-
casion was unprecedented and
thoroughly original.
There is a pleasing speculation
that Adams side was opened in the
region of the heart, hence the left, the
weak side, and mans peculiar l0E,
of woman. No man is strong, theIk kc
fore. who has not woman ut that sid
to guard the vacuum whence her bGN
ing came.
The Hebrew word indicates both
flesh and rib, out of which she was
formed. Adam sanctioned the idea
when he said, This creature is now
bone of my bone and flesh Of my
flesh" God himself fsaid they should
be one flesh, and IN attestation of this
mysterious union Adam called her
woman" There is nothing dearer
to man than his life, and hence
Adam called her Eve-Life, her
name indicating a large conception
Of human happlness-a source of JOY
and pleasure, of strength and moral
heroism.
Adam IN Paradise, with all its vir
gin bloom, delicious fragrance and
joyful songsters, would have grown
discontented without the admiring,
sympathizing life of woman. Hence
the felicitous lines of Mrs. Sigour-
ney:'
Last came female form, more soft,
more fair,
And Eden smiled to see the stranger
there;
Man, filled with praise, in rapture stood,
God bowed to view his work, and pro
nounced it good"
A microcosm of animated nature
then was Eve-the life of humanity.
And she is to-day the life and power
of all genuine civilization. ''IIsM is
woman regarded, educated anG hon
ored?" This is an index and epol
lar star to the spirit of our progress
This, perhaps, may be one reason
why Adam in his vigorous, bright
visions of the future, called her his
life. Woman, surely, has been the
life of all the spheres and compaetsl
of human society. This life-power
God vested in woman has yet to Jake
hold of the head, heart and hand of
man in the ratio of its importance.
The vital force of woman, like the
power of electricity, tempest and
food, is measured by its effects-ef-
fects both of good and bad. This
wonderful power of woman is ex
hibited when she captivated man by
the alluring fruit of the forbidden
tree.
Overpowered by her charms and
fascinating loveliness, he snatched
the apple and ate it without single
demur. How unspeakably great then
was that power which prostrated man
in the glory of his strength, and in
the very presence of the pledge OF
death.
A second instance of her life
/ power we have in the annals of the
ante-diluyian women, who made
their beauty, without regard to moral
excellence, the chief attraction. They
filled the world with combat, murder
and rapine, and superinduced the
flood, whose effects were visible to
day on lofty mountains and in the
deep valleys of the earth. CIeopa
ira exhibits this force in rare as
semblage of endowments and crimes
Her surprising beauty. genius ane
wit, with various unrivaled charms
subdued and captivated the strong
heart of Julius Cesar. She alst
ruined the unfortunate Anthony