The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-08-13
(C'oncludcd.)

Mary Lyon needs no other memorial,
than that institutions, which il was her
life work TO establish and promote.
She acquired her education bv perse-
vcring effort under great difficulties.
She qualified herself thoroughly as a
teacher. She was engaged for several
years in different schools. until in 1887,
she opened the female seminary at
South lladley, Mass, upon plan
which she had been gradually maturing
for years. Its peculiar feature was the
combination of domestic labor, with
the highest moral and intellectual cul-
ture. Over that Institution she prcsid-
cd until her death and many of her pu-
pills have since established schools in
this and foreign lands Oh a similar ba-
sis. She had learned the true object of
education, viz, to do good, and her in
fluencc is felt to-day, not only in many
christian homes in our own land, but
by large number OF sisters in heather
lands, who will bless God through all
eternity for Mary Lyon, the instructor
of their own teachers.
In hospitals of suffering, around the
couch of pain, is Il sphere of usefulness,
which no one can fill like q woman
In the sick room mans hand is too hard
his foot too heavy, his voice too loud
he does not know where TO set the can
die, he cannot pour the drops, his fin
gers are mostly thumbs, he is constant
ly upsetting something. lie cannot do
| it.
Florence Nightingale was born in
Florence, Italy, May, 1920. At an car
y age she became proficient in the clas-
sizes, mathematics, modern languages
and music. But her favorite study was
the methods of caring for the sick, and
while girl she visited numerous hospi-
tails. In 1919 she underwent course
of training at Kaiserswcrth. At the
age of thirty-onc she took charge of a
sanitorium for INVALID govcrnesses in
London and soon brought it to a high
state OF efficiency. When thirty-four
years of age she went to the army in
the Crimca, as superintendent of vol
unteer nurses, nincty-two in number,
and organized hospital at Scutari in
Nov. ,. On the 9TH they received six
hundred wounded soldiers, and in three
weeks the number was increased to
5000. In the face of great discourage
ments. she soon made her hospital a
model for thoroughness and perfection
of arrangements, and all the other hospi-
tails Oh the Bosporus were placed un-
der her superintendent. The soldiers
made a penny contribution to raise a
statue in her honor, but she would not
permit it, But has not she not erected
for herself a monument of fame which
will endure while time shall last.
BY similar service of efliciencs and
Ii ind Il a II
full nurses illuminated the sad scenes of
our own late war.
Men, indeed, forged the cannon, fash
Toned the musketry, numbered the
battery, worked the guns and lifted the
wounded into ambulalenccs. But wo-
men scraped the lint, administered cor
dials, soothed with gentle hand the hot
temples and stitlened joints, watched
by the pillow Of the dying and wrote
the last messages of love to the home
circle
When the generals returned nom
war the people raised Triumphant arch
cs and clapped their hands with accom-
panying shouts and strains of music,
but the story will never be told of Mrs
Brady, who went among the sick in the
swamps of Chickahominy, of Anna
Ross in the cooper shop of Philadcl-
phia, of Margaret Breckenridge, who
came to men who had lain for weeks
in the swamps unattended, and part of
the time frozen in the ground
The "historian of the future" it has
been said, will record the uprising of
the Christian women of the generation
as one of the most noticeable events OF
Christendom. IL is as if they had Just
come to n consciousness of Their privi-
| legcs in the promotion of the Kingdom
Of Christ.
Think of the growth of the Woman's
Board of Missions from the little begin
ming OF dozen years ago, when a few
women in Boston organized the first
board, specially devoted to the spir;tu-
al and social elevation of their sex.
Then came the Temperance Crusade,
a band of faithful PRAYING women,
whose prayers and cntreaties the rum
sellers could not withstand, but were
often forced TO pour ont the liquid poi
son and close up their saloons. And
now, rs result of the new life awaken
ed. our Christian women are extending
their operations and dcvising still more
liberal things.
nv hh9oiciihil spun lcu'iS iilcul W
organize home missionary association
and the board of temperance women
are extending their hands and opening
their hearts to relieve the children.
They hope to instil into the Youthful
mine an adherence of alcoholic stimu-
ants, by the electric light of science.
1t is step in the right direction.
hail with Joy any movement which will
prevent vice and crime.
An ounce of prevention is better than
a pound of cure.
Principles early instilled are most
likely to endure.
Dear sisters of Bridport, can il be
said of each one of us "she hath done
what she could?" Is there not too
much self-distrust and shrinking from
the great duties of benevolence and re-
form, too much readiness to say per-
haps, to say "woman's work does not
extend outside the family. These
things can be done better by some one
else; or we lack time, money and abil-
ity to interest the people,"
| Have we the singleness of purpose
required to accomplish any great enter
prise, whether individual or social,
like the temperance work? lIaye we
convictions Of its Importance, a persis-
tent energy that will 90 direct to.ihe de-
sired end? Are we ready to work
with the Lord, to do the little things
that lie in our path, content to be hid
den, losing thought of self in our inter-
est for others? Are we ready TO do
what we can in just the circumstances
where we are placed? Many in at
tempting to do this have done what
they thought they couldn't, have dis
covered the hidden talent, have reused
themselves from Indifference, opened
their ears TO hear the voice of suffering
their hearts TO sympathize, their
hands to relieve and triumph in their
work.
In that day when we shall face and
"known even as We are known" God
grant that we be not surprised at the
amount of undcveloped talent in our
selves and Others talents cOrrodpd and