The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-09-16
Wanted---Men and Women.

| We hhe. up tne papers daily, and
casting our glances down the long
columns we see many persons asked for
after the word "Wanted." Cooks and
chambermaids, coachmen and buffers,
clerks and porters, are needed here and
there and everywhere.
And yet the greatest want of this
nineteenth century we do not see adver-
tised, and if we did 1 think all that
could conscientiously apply would find
room for employment, and still there
would be acres, at least, of unoccupied
space.
Men wanted. Men who are honest
and pure. Men who are wholesome
and truthful. Men who will not be
bribed. Men who are like fair, refresh
ing fruit, sound to the hearts core.
Men wanted. Men who are un-
willing to eat the bread of idleness
Men who will scorn to wear what they
have not honestly paid for. Men who
know what ought to be done and will
do it. Men who are not egotistic, but
rather have the courage given by the
spirit to do and to dare. Men who will
give good counsel, who will set good ex-
ample for emulation, who will sympa-
thize with the grieving and succor the
distressed. Men whv will evorn to do
q base thing even in their zeal for
friend; for, as Jeremy Taylor says, he
that does "burns the golden thread
that ties their hearts together" Men
who know how to obey before they un-
dertake to command. Men who do more
than they talk. Men who do good to
their friends to keep them, to their
enemies to gain them. Men whose
hearts compare favorably with full
pocketbooks-who believe in systematic
giving, and advocate it. Men whose
hearts are moved by the sadness of
others, who are touched by little
hungry face and cold, bare feet.
Men wanted. Men who are brave and
tender, who are not ashamed to wipe
tears away. Men whose acts will bring
smiles to wan faces. Men who hush
lamentations, and are rewarded with
sweet songs of thanksgiving.
Women wanted. Women who know
their own business better than their
neighbors. Women who are true and
pure from center to circumference.
Women who will not weary in we'll
doing, who will neither flag nor finch.
Women who will not take the rear from
choice. Women who know their mission,
and do not pursue the will-o'-the-w -wisp.
Women who will daily do loving ser
vices, gentle little kindnesses-an do
them unostentatiously. Women who
will see that bare pantries are supplied
and that the shelterless find homes.
Women wanted Women who will
not drift with the tide, but will cou-
rageously stem the current, trusting to
the Omnipotent arm to support. Wo-
men who live to please God, not
people. Women with noble, generous
souls, whose hearts will utter "God-
speed" as workers grow faint and hands
grow weary. Women who will not allow
their noble impulses to be crushed by
the hand of society. Women who will
be the stepping ones to lift people up
not stumbling blocks to hinder and
trip them down. Women who listen to
the still, small voice. and heed its ad
monitions. Women with clear brains
and ready hands and willing hearts,
who know their liie-work," and do it
unswervingly.
Women wanted. Women who know
how much power there is in a
gentle, encouraging word, how much
force there is in a hopeful prophecy.
Women who will SOW their loving acts
broadcast, believing that kind words
never die. Women who extend help
ing hand all along life's pathway. Wo-
men with clear understanding, quick
perception, and good Judgment. Wo
men of patience, who do not explode at
the slightest friction. Women of fore
thought (yos, and aiterthought), of dis
elimination, and great generosity. Wo-
men who will keep their eyes fixed
upon the loving Master and. will not
listen TO the murmuring crowd. Wo-
men who will brave the scorn of this
world to be crowned of God.
Men and women wanted. Men and
women who, for the sake of mankind
and the glory of the Fathers name,
will never forget to look up--ever up
as the great Shepherd leads them on
ward toward the heavenly fold-the
land of eternal Christian IFeeklv.