Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-11

ever. Has man become 50 effemi
nate or cowardly that the weake
vessel needs come to the front an,
bear the heavier burdens of life
Have we, as a nation of men, be
come so degenersted, dissipate,
ard incompetent to fill the station
God designed US that we are forcet
into social bankruptcy ? that W,
must, With shamefacedness, maxi
this humiliating confession and bar
ter our birthright for less than ;
mess of pottage2 Must this grea
social structure that God has 81
beautifully arranged, and wisely
and perfectly adjusted, be ruthless
lys sassailed, torn into fragmentsanC
numbered with the things of the
past? Then there will be heard {
wall of woe, whose echoes come tII
from the Stygian shore. Social
bankruptcy, social discord, social
anarchy, fit type OF he'll. Oh,
Womanp pause and ponder well,
Be satisfied to be, in the most exalt-
ed sense. what God designed you.
Go forth to your responsible and
exalted mission lion-hearted, eagle
eyed, and with the soft, delicate,
loving hand of a ministering angel
not to drive, but to lead imam to
higher planes of life, TO purer, more
exalted purposes, to grander
achievements. Then will the meek,
blue-eyed goddess of peace, all radi-
ant as if freshly crowned with the
pure rays of a cloudless moons be
the welcome priestess at your
household altar the dove instead
of the raven shall perch over your
chamber door. There is a subtle,
mysterious power in love. God
so loved the world contains an am
nouncement that must conquer the
world. BY the exercise of this
strange power, the yvIlture becomes
the dove, the lion becomes the
lamb, and if there is a pure, unset
fish love on earth-tit type of that
love which binds cherubims and
seraphims to the throne of Cod
it is found in the pure heart OF the
educated, refined Woman, who
makes Christ her pattern and His
word the law of her life. Woman
was made to love as well as be
loved. In her very nature she is so
as to mingle her sympa-
thies and adapt herself to the vari-
Gus phases and changes of stern suf-
iering humanity. Man, unvitiated,
unbrutalized, not only admires, but
loves, that which Is chaste, pure,
noble and lovely, and derives no
little pleasure in worshiping at so
spotless a shrine.
"But let Woman leave the sphere
in which God, in wisdom and ben
evidence placed her, she not only
becomes unlovely, but to some ex-
tent, type of the angels who kept
not their first estate but left their
own habitation and are now held
In chains of darkness reserved unto
the judgment of the great day.
"Did you ever see or read of some
ancient tower in ruins, rich in his
toric memories and glory, crowned
Dy the deathIess ivy. all the dis
SEPARATIONS made by the ruthless
hand of time, or spoilations by
some sacrilegious invader, con-
,ealed by her deathIess energies
md unfading beauty. Greatness in
-uins, but in its rdins beautified by
his delicate vine which throws its
endrils lovingly into each niche
md covers the whole with fresh
less and perpetual greenness, faint
of immortality. If there
5 on earth colossal greatness in
uins, majesty uncrowned, it is
nan, among the last and noblest
gcrEs of God; in His creation-but
title lower than angels in His de-
how fallen
Created in the image and likeness
f his God-lost-noW fraternizing
yith the loathsome grave worm
nee having dominion over the
arth and all things upon it, with
ne Garden of Eden for a home,
ow bankrupt-experiencing the
litter pangs of utter destitution,
nd finally seeking repose within
ne kindly embrace of mother
lrth-the quiet of the tomb. If
Woman has a mission on Gods
reen earth, then here is the field
l which to display her matchless
overs, not in the busy marts of
'ade, not upon the rostrum or in
he forum, but at home, cherishing,
and developing all those
irtues, traits and elements which
md to restore the Eden lost, and
lpplementing it, even in its ruins,
y Paradise regained. Woman
as made out of man, SO says the
Iessed Book.
.uSbo ic cct1IIin1afad humanity anil
her refined, and exalted nature
er mission is to throw over and
round this defaced and fallen
ructure the freshness and green ,,
ess of the fadeless ivy.
"Read, if you please, the first five |
erses of the second chapter of the
postle Paul's letter to Titus. ;;
Voman' may here learn, from an I
Ispired man, the field of her mis- |
on, and how she may profitably I
that field. If she would
hoy mans respect, confidence, !
we and devotion, which is her !
then let her strive to be S
eerless in her proper dominion.
ct her fit herself pre-eminently for !
or work, that she may be able to t
row over and around her home I
lat magnetic centripetal power :
hich effectually draws all within I
le radius of her influences to a |