The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-05-10

and in your influence on the temperance
question and onsevery great moral ques-
ton in society, for uponsthe right solu-
ton of these questions the happiness of
your future home depends and in it your
own destinies are involved.
Another important field Of usefulness to
woman is in the church OF Christ. How
poor Zion would feel to-day if she were
robbed of her wealth of consecrated wO-
manhood so devoted to the Savior's work.
0 how the church is blest and made
strong by her earnest active force of
Christian women, who count it an inn
portant field of their usefulness to be
''workers together with Cod in the great
work of the worlds salvation. And we
say that the coming woman, the woman
of the future who will rank highest both
in the estimation of God and of the
world, will be she whose influence is true
to God in everything, that whether in her
home, or in society, or in the nation, or in
her public life, or in the moral world, she
may make; her influence felt in blessings
ON the world. Young women of to-day,
the best offering you can bring to God, is
the conservation of your early woman
hood to him, and in this way only can
you be sure of making your lives sub
lime.
We come next to speak of domestic caGl-
ttt7e as suggesting to us very important
part of the mission and work Of woman.
| We cannot do better here than to take
the scripture lesson we have read this
evening as the basis of our thoughts.
| This last chapter of Proverbs gives the
bible description of model woman. She
! is not one of the cheap limitations of wO-
manhood that may be found in the mar
ket for sale and willing to be bought at
any price. "Her price is far above ru-
bies." In Gods sight gold.is dross COM
| pared in value to a true woman. And
humanity can never fully invoice the
wealth of true womanhood described in
this chapter. o how her life sheds forth
its benedictions in the domestic circle
where she moves! ''The heart of her
| husband doth safely trust in her." "She
will do him good and not evil all the days
of her life" Every home is truly blest
that has in it the presence of grand wo-
man of the bible type.
She is not an idle woman finding moth
ing to do. Gods inspired picture Of wo-
manhood has no idleness in it. Listen
"She seeketh wool and flax and worketh
willingly with her hands" "She riseth
also while it is yet night and giveth meat
to her household" ''She layeth her hands
| to the spindle and her hands hold the dis
| taft" Whatever else all this may mean,
it means at least this much, that true
builds sham aristocracy in society that
assumes to lift high its head above the
workers of the world. But God himself
is busy worker, and Gods only true no
bility, either of women or of men, are the
Industrious ones of the earth, who count
it an important part of the great mission
of life, to work.
Again this model domestic woman de-
scribed in this chapter is full of economy
and thrift. "She is like the merchant's s
ships; she bringeth her food from affair."
"She considereth field and buyeth it;
with the fruit of her hand she planteth a
vineyard 'She maketh fine linen and
selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the
merchant" Instead of settling down in
the false idea that woman in society
sometimes gets, that her mission in life is
to fold her hands in idleness and spend
the money as fast as her husband can
make it, this woman of the bible type
counts it one glory of her WomanhoOd
that by her economy and thrift, and even
I by the labor of her own hands in furnish
ing wares to the merchants, she may thus
work hand in hand with her husband in
accumulating property, and in making a
comfortable living for the home. Some
people have a sickly sentimental idea that
a woman is too sweet angelic and heaven
1y for anything much but to be worship
ed. Dear delicate creature that she is, so
delicate that the wind could almost blow
her away, her very delicacy in many cases
Though not by any means in all cases.
The delicate feeble frame of woman, and
especially of women in the larger cities,
arises from the fact that they have done
so little work to develop their physical
strength. Gods perfect type of a woman
has physical strength that has been de-
veloped by use. She girdeth her loins
with strength, and Strengthened her
| nd ,hroi If hot thiS nc11ira1
description of woman who recognizes
that even her physical frame and mus
cleS have mission and a work in life, is
a great deal more practical and sensible,
and reflects more true honor upon woman
hood, than all the ETHEREAL sentiments
about her that would make her appear so
angelic as to allow no mission for her
physical powers.
But this exemplary woman of whom
we read in the word of God, is not so sell
fishly lost in the interests of her own do
mestic circle, dis to forget the wants of
humanity around her. ''She Stretcheth
out her hand to the poor; yea she reacheth
forth her hands to the needy" And thus
she becomes in a grand and real sense an
angel of mercy to all who are around her
in aff1ictiOn and in want.
She is careful provider for the wants
| of her own household "Her household
herself coverings of tapestry. Her cloth
ing is silk and purple. Her husband is
known in the gates, when he sitteth
among the elders of the land" And she
counts it one high Office of ler womanhood
to care well for the wants of her home.
"She openeth her mouth with wisdom
and in her tongue is the law of kindness
A wisdom that is practical and counsels
well those with whom she speaks, and a
kindness that wins those who hear her to
her wise counsel for life.
"She looketh well to the ways of her
household" One great part of woman's
work consists in carefully training fOI
life those under her care. And who shall
say that this is limited sphere, when the
of her training, are to endure through all
eternity, as the fruit of her work. All
honor to this woman of the bible type
who magnifeS her Office in the home cir
clel "Her children arise up and call heI
blessed her husband also and he praiseth
her" "a woman that feareth the Lord
shall be praised" "Give her of the fruit
of her hands: and let her own works
praise her in the gates" If every home
in every land had such grand woman as
this enthroned in it, ruling it by her scep-
tire of love, how soon would the nation
and the world be right. This is Gods
picture of the glory of domestic woman
hood. Let no woman count it a narrow
| field of work, when God has clothed it
with an influence as vast and as wide as
eternity itself.
Again, we claim that the coming wo-
man will be she who has realized in some
degree at least the Importance of mental
| culture. And yet how many young wo-
men of society to-day give no attention to
the training of their minds, as though
mental culture were anything to be taken
into account in preparation for future
usefulness. You will allow us here to
mention a young lady who lives in the
great but distant State of New York and
who is recognized as the champion wax
| chewer of the "Empire State Her life