The Portland daily press., 1882-10-14

When lonely, we have His blessed assurasos,
Lei am withyou alvaes." VIXEN the faith-
full, though few, are gathered in his HA~S, Ne
will be in the midst OF them." To our in
quiry of our situation hereafter, He answers.
In my Fathers house are nAny mansions;
go to prepare place for you" Do We dread
tho grave? he rose from it, and ey1nk Ste
phen and stricken Saul saw Him still living.
Humanity till has its weaknesses and wants
as when He went about doing good, and as hui
man society advances the religious needs be-
come greater This ia world of wrong and
anguish; but out of our tears Of repentance for
wrong doing and prayers for strength will be
woven the rainbow archiDg over the gulf be-
| tween the seen and the unseen. We need re-
ligion not alone on Sundays and feast days, but
every hour we need the composure and refine
ment with which it only has power to hallow
human life In conclusion, the needs of the
religious nature are as unlimited as the God of
our religion is eternal.
Mrs. Rev. Lorenzo Haynes was called upon
to open the debate on the subject of the paper,
She said that art, our possibilities and other
topics had been considered and she regarded it
as eminently fitting that upon this the last
day of the Congress We should
turn to what We regard as the
highest of all; the religious feeling which
places man above other created beings
Animals have reason, intelligence, emotion,
ETC., but to mankind alone the blessed privi-
lege to know God. She sho wed the absurdity
of the claim that we are not to judge Of mat
tiers of which we have no definite knowledge,
of the mysterious and unseen. PoiRting to
one of the numerous beautiful plants about the
platform, can the wisest of us, she said. ex-
| plain the mystery of the development of the
seed into the beauty and perfume of the per-
| feet flower?
believe in God, because I need God She
| had found q belief in Immortality necessary to
the successful teaching of children. Had
| taught them that all this instruction was pre-
paration for eternity. What would be the
| effect to tell children to study hard, acquire
| much knowledge and then in 80, 40 or 60 years,
| you Will die and that will be the end of you.
| Religious belief ID needed when we stand at
| the bedside of our dying friends. Even Robt.
| Iugersoll at the grave of his brother in his
| heart of hearts admitted this universal need of
humanity. 1t is also needed to teach Is to re-
gard all as brothers to consider the in
humanities practiced in those old times. There
is more good in the world than evil. The
world is growing better When We consider
the development of primeval man into the
Millions, Humboldts. and Agassizs, should we
not have hope in humanity? At one time the
astronomers observed great pertur baton
among the planets and for long time sought
for its cause; one continued the investigation
until he had d Amonstrated that the pheno-
mona were due to the presence of plasetory
body of that time not observable, but later on
known so thoroughly that it's weight and
measuration were certain. We have all asplr-
ations, let us, therefore, trust that those sspir-
atoms result from the existence of world
unseen. (Applause).
Mrs. Wells wished to declare her pleasure
{bat ono ~ +ba ,rir auoo NJ tha coporaez
had a religious subject. Whatever else it
might be this association should first and
above all be religious. We should stand be-
fore the public and declare greater than suff-
rage, greater than temperance Is religion.
Whether we speak as Unitafians or Orthoroox
we must have loyalty and liberality-loyalty
to our convictions and liberality towards q
difference OF opinion. Thas we may work for
the good of all with far reaching charity-for
the Chinese as well as for the Old Ladies' Home
in Portland.
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell spoke of
the grea. physical weariness from which We
successfully seek for relief in natures sweet
restorer, Sleep aid that our moral nature also
rest, the rest that comes fron firm belief that
there is an Infnits arm sustaining us. We
must do oar part. We cannot got these sweet
divine Influences if we close and hedge our
selves out from the great ocean OF sympa thy.
Miss Abbie May followed and spoke of the
fye-fold nature of man, and dwelt upon the
necessity of the harmonious development of
the whole. May parents develop assiduously
the physical, mental, moral and affectional
parts of their children but neglect the spiritual
The development of the spiritual will make MS
what We are not now, tremendously developed
Nj 3 -. lx-1
requested DR.. zakrzewska to speak upon the sub
ject of DR.. French's paper, entitled Compare
tive effects on health Of professional, fashiona-
BILE and industrial life." Dr. zakrzewska
spoke of her lack of preparation owing to the
suddenness of the call. and the especial disad-
vantage under which she lahored from never
having seen the paper upon which she was ex-
pected 10 comment, it having been lost some
way in the mail on its way to Portland She
would onEoffer her opinions of the effects of
the different spheres upon the health of woman.
She first SPOKE of the different sceites of Cath
Ole sisters Of charity, who are shut up and
lead especially feminine lives, with their teach
ing, needlework, etc. A very significant reg
ulation of such institutions is that which for
bids the admission of only the most robust and
healthy ffirls, experience having demonstrated
that no others can long stand the quiet sub
dued, uneventful life of the sisterhood. 1t has
been shown that the more quiet their lives, the
more wearing. The appearance OF these women
after few years of such life is most striking,
as an evidence that it tends to break Down and
age woman Let us now consider the women
in fashionable life, devoted TO balls, and many
changes of raiment, who does not fret her
life away il teaching, embroidery and care OF
49, haat t1 ar1d ~,
producing something sweet in the way of
toilet. They also droop and fail in health as do
the women in the seclusiou of the convent.
From tliis extreme of frivolity let us now go to
the other extreme of the industrial classes of
women. In former years when ar
ticles of clothing, etc., were made
by hand, when there WIGS more OF individual
work, there was not 80 much strain as now
when they work in masses. They feel the
strain of machine work. These three, the
conventual, the fashionable and the industrial
fail the quickest. In the professional class
weuld include all women wno do not work in
classes, not lawyers, physicians, clergy, alone,
bat bookkeepers, even matrons and house,
keepers, all should be regarded as professional
who employ the brain in one direction. am
certain of the superior health Of this class Pro-
fessional people are the best preserved and
present the most youthful appearance. Their
work calls out different energies Women
suffer with their heads from the most diverse
reasons. One woman complains that the
cause of her distress is that she has eight
children; another, because she has not eight
children; one woman, because she has SO much
to do and another because she hasn't much to
engage her attention. The great complaint
have to make is that women do not know
when to stop. The desire to fill the gap
thoroughly is more common in woman than
man.
1t is the over-stimnlating, overriding in
things that have nothing to do with the daily
business.
Miss Nag, the president, would ask If there
had not been some improvement in the health
of women; if they had not in measure learn
ed wisdom in this respect. DR.. Zakrzewska re-
piled that there was unquestionably improve
ment in the health of women and men, bnt
there was still room for improvement; there
was good deal of foolishness in the world
yet Mrs. Foster wished to know if there was
not difference where the work was compul-
sorry or the opposite
DR.. Zakrzewska said there was no doubt
that where women fit for the work OF teachers,
for instance, as a means of livelihood they suf-