The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-08-11

ing the professions" and filling all po-
sitions of responsibility, honor and
trust, is fast becoming obsolete. OF
any wide aud extensive culture, schools
can Only lay the foundations.
A woman's mental stature is not ma
tured and finished when she graduates.
Her teachers can only assist her in lay
ing the foundation upon which she
must form her life hereafter.
1t rests with her whether it shall be
a life adorned and beautiied with ali
that science. art and culture can make
it; one which shall make the world
better for her having lived in it-one
which shall cntitle her to receive nftcr
"life's fitful fever is ended that Judge
ment from our blessed Lord: "Well
done, thou good and faithful servant;
thou hast been faithful in few Things
| will make the ruler over many" OF a
life overgrown with the weeds of neg
lect and sel6shness, unused opportu-
mites and buried talents, to whom
Christ, the Judge, shall say, "Thou
hast not sown, neither shalt thou
reap"
Let me earnestly urge you to set
apart some time each day to the Sys-
tematic study of something which can
be turned INTO practical uses.
Let women receive all the polish
possible, but not at the expense of all
that is useful.
individuality, perseverance, patience
selfreliance, virtue, love and faith in
herself and faith in God are the COM
Ponent parts of true woman's charec
acter, and from these she draws strength
to bear her share of lice's battles and
and burdens.
When storms of adversely and waves
of sorrow pass over her defenceless
head, then faith III her own true heart
bids her look to that God who has
promised to be always near the help
less and a refuge for those who trust
him.
A woman, firm in the right, with
moral courage enough to set aside the
,miles, as well as the frowns of society,
fearless of its cenxure and Indifferent
to It's praise, relying upon God for
help, never has failed in accomplish
ing her work, aud never can.
In our short vision, all her efforts
may seem to come to naught, but the
good seed sown by the hand ever SO
frail, which scattered it, in Gods own
time will spring up and bear good fruit
Society always follows deferential.
; lv after force. The world will readjust
its conventional limits of woman'f
: sphere, when she shows by Ler force
of character what she can do well.
No amount of eloquent denuncia
tion of the tyranny of man, or brilliant
defamation upon the capabilities O
! woman will advance her one inch, bu
/ every foot she conquers for herself by
mastery thought and torceful life, sht
D will hold, and Tennyson has beauti
S fully said: "Woman's cause is mans
;, they risk or sink together, dwarfed o
!, G. dixie, bond or free. If she b
mentally small, slight natured, misera
s bic and weak, how shall men growp
If young women could realize tn
n fact that their lives can be, to a grea
e extent, what they have the force +
make them, and their influence 81
e mothers is the handspring of all mora
u and social life, they would feel tina
;? life is not "fleeting show but ster
u reality Every effort, every aspiration
every act of self deni. i for the benefi
L of others brings its own reward.
4 To careful culture for years ant
n then force it to be satisfied with tn
d empty fashionable life most wome
% lead is sinful, and ends in an old ag
e of irritability and discomfort.
/ Honorable activity and servile toi
are not necessarily Identical, and tn
v earnest souled woman discerns instinct
p lively that to be discharged from a ser
Gus aim in life is not an honor, but Al
to affront; she feels that life of activit
to is necessary to happiness. The page
m of society novels tell in many ways th
c belittling, degrading and demOralizin
lg effects Of such literature.
i. When we have accomplished OF
ty missions here we lay them aside, b'
h cause nothing subject to disease an
st decay can enter into the presence
). God.
CT Our souls, enlarged by eharitab
works, patience, longsufering and sci
en denial, or dwarfed and stunted by ne
re ect and self.shness alone can appes
I. before Him for His Judgment.
v. Happy are those whose soulscan be-
be His scrutiny, and to whom He W
u say, "Well done, thou good and fait
lot faI servant, enter into the glory Of Il
ho Lord"
es- Let US try to keep before us tl
truth. every power denied developme
ST. impoverishes society TO the extent al
l.