The New York herald., 1876-03-20
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
SERMON By REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE ON
woMEN's RIGHTS


woMENs RIGHTS.
At tho morning service Rev. T. Dc Witt Tamaco
announced before commencing the sermon that the
Presbyterian General Assembly Of the United States
would be held in the Tabernacle, commencing May IT,
The delegates will number about 500 ccrgymcn. Tho
Presbytery will continue in session for fifteen days
He requested the people Of the congregation mako
suitable preparations for entertaining the delegates at
their houses during their stay in Brooklyn. Mr. Tat
mage took for his tcxt:''So God created man in his
image in the image OF God created he him; male
and female created he them'-Gencss l., 81 God
made man and woman for specific work and TO move
particular spheres-man TO be reghant in his realm,
woman 10 be dominant in hers The boundary line
between Italy and Switzerland between England and
Scotland Is not more thoroughly marked than this di-
vding line between the empire masculine and the en-
prc feminine SO entirely dssimiar are the fields in
which God calls them that you can no more compare
them than you can oxygen and hydrogen. water aud
grass trees and stars All this talk about the superb
orty OF one sex to the other everlasting
OF ink and speech. deny to man the throne ntcllec-
tual. deny TO woman the throne afcctiona. No
human phrascoogy viii ever define the spheres, while
there intuition by which we know when a man is
In his realm, and when woman rs in her realm, and
when either OF them Is out Of IT, No
bungling Legislature ought to attempt to
aud that the line. My theory is that II woman
wants TO vote she ought TO vote that II
TO embrodcr and Keep house he ought TO be allowed
TO embroidcr and keep house uAughterl There
are masculine women and cifcminate men. You have
right TO interfere with any ones doing anything
that Is righteous. The question OF capacity will settle
finally the whole qucstion-this whole subject When
woman is prepared TO preach shc Will preach, aud
neither conference nor presbytery can hinGor her.
When a woman Is prepared TO move In the highest
commercial spheres she will have great innucncc
exchange aud no boards Of trade hinder her Heart
and brain can OVERLY any barrier that politicians
set up. and nothing can keep her back or keep her
down but the question OF incapaciiy There arc wo-
mcn know, OF most undesirable nature,
who wander up and down the country,
having homes OF their iorsaking
their own homes, talking about their rights, and
know very well that they themselves arc ht neither 10
vote nor TO keep house Their mission seems 10 be
TO humatc the two NJ the thought OF what an
one OF us might become No ono would want TO live
under the laws that such women would enact, 10
have cast upon society the children that such
would raise. The rights that have they
already have IL their possession Her position this
country IS not OF commseraton, but OF con-
graduation She sits to-day a throne high that
all the thrones earth piled top OF each other
would not make for her footstooL Away down below
this platform which she stands arc the ballot box
Congregational asscmbagos and legislative halls Women
always have voted and always viii vote. how many
would have been insufficient TO stand tho test which
their moral principle was put had IL not been ior
wes prayer that sounded louder than the clamor OF
pnrtisanship. The grand absorbing right that
WOMAN mas HOME HAPPY.
That realm one has disputed with her. Oh,
woman thank God that you have home, and that
you may be happy IN IL Better be there than wear
Nictorias coronet What right does woman want
than TO be queen IN such Tealmy The eagles OF
heaven cannot fy across that dominion. Compared
with this work OF training kings and queens Tor God
and eternity how Insignificant seems all this work ot
voting Tor Aldermen, Common Councimen, Sher'hs,
Mayors, constables and Presidents To make truc
and noble woman such as ! have described In the
Christian home sphere how many thousand would you
want Of those people who 20 in tho round OF goddess
ness, fashion and dissipation, dstortiDS Their body
until IN their monstrosity They seem 70 ou'do tho
dromcdary and hippopotamusl going so far toward
disgracefu apparel they dare go so as not 10 be
rAsiadby tha no''eas tiAs hAhaxinr snrrnw 10 ihs