Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-06-14
ADDRESS OF REV. E. <. MILLER.


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-. n,a.r orr .,r;,. chriat,o, civilization ia
The op.o, NJ ooc;stv Tho scep,er of dominion
ia In your hand W;e,d IL rightly on the side
or tru,b npritv and religion. As is your ipfiu-
ence, SO will be society about you; SO the moral
and religious status In which you live. The sex
es are Intended to exert a mutual good infu-
ence. vour. nv ladv friends ia nv far the most
potent for oeod or III. For good. not by seek
ing the ballot nor minpling in political strife.
bv Incoming nrofessionsl reformers. or lectu-
rers-local or itiperant-in a word. by becoming
men in character. in spirit and action. for then
you " ould lose your sceptre aud cease to be the
superior being whom man delights to worship.
gentle. WOmaDlV
controlled for good. Then your scepter is bro
ken, your kingdom taken away and your power
gone Not in this way are you TO accomplish
your mission In the world. But by being your
sell, woman that you are. in all the holy sane
tifed cations of life by beng true, the noble,
pure, refined instincts of your nature; have
courage to take your position firmly, immova-
bly,, upon the side OF virtue and revealed relig-
ion. You ought to love the christian religion,
and give yourself to its service, for only where
it obtains softens and subdues the sterner,
iron nature of man. is woman ANYTHING more
than q bond slave to the whims and tyr
amy of her lord - the merest football of
bis passion. An irrelieious woman-ope who
Ia An epemv tn Cbrist-an inhdrl-is mopstros-
| ity from whom even wicked men shrink back
with horror Have courage. then. TO assume
your proper pos,tion to which all the purer.
nobler ,nstincts of vour nature noint Won. and
having assumed. have courage to maintain 1t at
| all hazards Bring man to your feet, and keep
him there by your gentle, refining, Christian in
nuence; by the beauty of your character rather
than of your person or dress. Require of man
every man-in order to win your society, some
! thing of moral fitness for association with the
pure and good See to it that the laws and reg
ulations of your kingdom, the pure circle in
IL
| chastity itself, and as underwriting as truth.
Bring men-every man-to the same rigid STAN
dard to which society holds you. See to it that
as you exclude from your society one of your
own sex upoa whom is the stain of immortality
and SIM so also as rlgldly exclude man. in his
impurity. from your association. See to it,
mothers, aaughl srs, wives sisters, that the man
whose very breath is unholy, whose very touch
is pollution, whose influence is as deadly as the
| bite of the venomous coya or the poison of the
fabed upas, see to 1t that such have NO place In
your kingdom. Let woman but take her posi-
ton firmly upon this rock and MAINTAIN il by the
helping grace of God, and very soon the grosser
| evils OF society will be checked - stayed
Drunkards and drunkard- -making will cease ,
Vulgarity, profanity and obscenity will be at
| an end. The haunts of wickedness that are de-
| coylng so many of our young men to ruin all
over the land will die out for the want of patron
| age. The dens of unholiness and brutal s-nsu-
ality will be swept away by the same power, and
the unreformable of society will hide away from
the gaze of the pure and holy. to end their MIS-
erable existence in some den or cave of the earth
| Not by the ballot, nor py violent assauhs-eith-
er in the name of religion or humanity. the most
| frenzied crusade that ever degraded the name of
woman-can ever effect this. You, woman,
potent power and influence in society, In all the
| relations of life in the Way Indicated and the
| work will be done, and the desolated homes and
the domestic social rum that we see all about US
| will have an end, and these desert places will
again rejoice and blossom as the rose, and the
beauty, purity and peace of Eden in a measure,
| will come again to our world. Have courage to
do this. Let there be organization upon this
basis, and ior this end, here, everywhere ovel
our broad land. Let not the kinduess, sympa.
ture overmaster and prevent. Take up the scep.
nrm grasp. Remember that it is man as well as
woman that YOU must elevate, refine. save. &C
out from thes. halls to-day with full purpose te
fulfill this, your great mission among men. aut
may God Almighty in His beIpinp SAVING
power go with you, and make you only bles
sing all the days of your life Once more, ther,
are two little words, all-potent, that it is you
exclusive prerogative to employ in your socia
intercourse with the opposite sex. And thes,
little words-'.yes'' and emo. - as YOU NAV us,
them will be an expression of YOUR moral cour
sge or your want of 1t, and Will make your des
tiny, See to it that YOU Use them wisely. firml,
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"u" WE'LL Anu "nen 'nat eFehtiui momen
comes, as come It Will, when some enamoret
swain shall bow down IN alteration at your feet
| voWing his love and with the.ofrer of his hand so
Letting vours in return w.,ph him IN ,h.ss haIan
i''iAs OURS III re'"rh'" e'sn III" IN these paian
thatl have given yeu to-day and if he be fshnt
| wantinp-gently kindly afHect;onofeyu If vo;
will In, s.r,,u .,d ,,,.,h.,i'..,
"hl' ou' ~ MY ano e"pnaticaiiS say No' NO
Dreak nn IN ,ne ao,ns q. II, he.1er preak now.Du