The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-02-12
Special Dispatch to Cincinnati Enquirer.

Brooklyn, Feb. l.-The opening hyml
at the Tabernacle tLis evening was;
awake, my soul, to joyful lays,
And sing thy Great Redeemer's praise
The following is verbatim report o
the sermon of Rev. DR.. Talmage:
SUBJECT -"WoMAN's OPPORTUNITY"
TExT-solomon's Song. vi 49, "There are three
score queens"
So Solomon by one stroke sets fortl
the imperial character Of true Christian
woman. She is not slave, not hire
ling, not subordinate, but queen, anC
in my text Solomon sees about sixty o
these helping 10 make up the royal pa
geaEt Of Jesus. In former sermon
showed you that crown and Courtly at
tendants and imperial wardrobe were
not necessary to make queen, but thai
graces of the heart and life will give cor
onation to any woman. l showed you
at some length that woman's position in
the world was higher than mans, and
that, although she had often been de-
MED the right Of suffrage, she always did
vote and always would vote by her in
fuenCe, and that her chief desire ought
to be that she should have grace rightly
to rule in the dominion which she has
already won. began an enumeration
Of some Of her opportunities, and this
evening 1 resume the subject. In the
first place, woman has the special and
superlative opportunity of blessing and
comforting the sick. What land, what
street, what house has not felt the smi-
ting of sickness? Tens of thousands of
sick beds What shall we do with them ?
Shall man, with his rough hands and
heavy foot and impatient bearing, min.
isterP No. He can not soothe the pain.
He can not quiet the nerves. He knows
not where to set the light. His hand is
not steady enough to pour out the drops
He is not wakeful enough to be a watch,
er. The Lord God, who sent Miss Dix
into the Virginia hospitals, and Florence
Nightingale into the Crimea, and the
Maid of Sarag0ssa to!appease the wounds
OF the battlefield, has equipped wife and
mother and daughter for this delicate
but tremendous mission. You have
known men who have despised woman,
but the moment disease fell upon them
they did not send for their friends at the
bank, or their partners in business, or
their worldly associates their first cry
was, "Take me to my wife," The dissi-
pated young man at the college SCOTS at
the idea of being under home influences;
but at the first blast of the typhoid fever
on his cheek he says, "Where is mother2"
Walter Scott wrote, partly in satire and
partly in compliment, when he said:
10, woman in our hours Of ease,
Uncertain, coy and hard 10 please,
When pain and anguish wiring the brow,
A ministering angel thou"
I think the most pathetic passage in
all the Bible is the description of the
lad who went out in the harvest. field of
Shunem and got unstroke-throwing |
his hands on his temples and crying out,
"Oh! my head! my headp and they
said, "Carry him to his mother" And |
then the record is HE sat on her knees
till noon, and then died." Is is an awful
thing to be away from home in strange
hotel, once in while men coming in to
look at you, holding their hand over
their mouth for fear they will catch the
How roughly they turn you
In bed ! How loudly they talk How
you long for the ministries of home I
knew one such who went away from the
brightest of homes for several weeks
business absence at the West. A tele.
gram came at midnight that he was on
MS death-bed, far away from home. By
express train the wife and daughters
vent westward; but they went too late.
de feared not to die, but be was in agony
% live until his family got there. He
ried to bribe the doctor to make him
i've little longer. He said: ~ am will.
ng to die, but not Alone" But the pul.
es auttered, the eyes closed and the
leart stopped. The express trains met
q the midnight; wife and daughters 20.
ng westward, lifeless remains of hus-
and and father coming eastward. Oh
was a sad, pitiful, overwhelming spec. 3
aCle. When We are sick, we want to be J
lex at home. When the time comes for I
8 to die, We want to die at home. The
DOM may be very humble, and the faces |
hat look into ours may be very plain
ut who cares for that2 Loving hands c
bathe the temples. Loving voices to q
Peak good cheer. Loving lips to read {
he comforting promises of Jesus.
Again, woman has superlatiVe right q
take care of the poor. There are hun. 8
reds and thousands of them in all our {
ties. There is kind Of work that men
IN not do for the poor. Here comes a "
roup of little barefoot children to the C
Oor Of the Dorcas Society. They need n
be clothed and provided for. Which q
these Directors Of banks would know y
oW many yards 1t would take to make n
lat little girl dress2 Which Of these G
lasculine hands could fit hat to that O.
tile girls hesdP Which Of the wise Il
len would know to tie on that new pair a
shoesP Man sometimes gives his "
1arity in a rough way, and it falls like A
le fruit of tree in the East, which
uit comes down 80 heavily that it b
reaks the skull of the man who is try. I
g to gather it. But woman glides so ii
'ftly into the house Of destitution, and al
lds out all the sorrow Of the place, and r,
Its 30 quietly the donation on the Ca. II
%, that all the family come out on the II
ont steps as she departs, expecting that Il
ON under the shawl she will thrust fc
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