The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24
The Prcsidcnvs sister.
MISS CLEVELAND ON THE RosTEuN-soNR
THOUGHTS SUGGESTED by nKR LECTURE.


THOUGHTS SUGGESTED by HER LECTURE.
In June, 1888, Miss Elizabeth Cleveland,
present mistress Of the White House, de-
livered an address before the Emira, N. Y.
Female College, which the Presbyterian
Ecdngeia pronounced ''great," > deserved
compliment to an excellent woman. II was
ENTITLED "Altruistic Faith" and for her
illustration she took Chedidja, first wife of
Mohammed, who was rich and much older
than he was when she married him. When
asked in later years why he did not put
her away and take younger wife, he re-
piled that he loved her best because she be.
leved in him when all men despised him
Chedidja's faith made Mohammed.
There is faith In God, faith in self, and
in humanity. The first produces the 9TH
ers. Faith in humanity believes that life is
worth living and worth saving. You will
have much hunger and thirst, will crave
affection when the bloom of youth Is sup
planted by the ashen hue of age will cry
aloud for help in infrmities, must needs
come, because those on whom women rely,
though themselves powcrless to relieve
them of their intolerable aches, pains, pros-
trations, sleepless nights Of agony and
days of distress, because of the narrow
ness Of their, code and the selfishness OF
their purpose, RESTRAIN them from resort
ing to those agencies which may lift women
to plane OF greater usefulnes, and to a no
bier life.
Many woman lacks the faith of Chedid-
ia. If they had faith in their own reserve
OF physical power, confidence in the per-
sonal experience OF others would follow
and instead OF a race of suffering mortals
slaves to the prejudices of those whose
only interest in them is bounded by their
professional fees,-we should see nobility
of station reinforced by nobility of mind,
and robustness Of life
The power to rid themselves Of the aches,
pains and the desperate despair which af-
fiict them, is in women, and ought to
come out. You all have countless
amount of testimony Some one will say
to you go on and you will conquer"
"How?" Do as your sisters have done
Have faith in their indisputable experen-
ces. We want more life and fuller and
need all the help we can get Man would
fail were 1t not for the Chedidjas. There
is much in good digestion to keep woman
sweet and lovable. There is more in thor.
ough action of the great blood purifying
organs-the liver and kidneys, for If they
are deranged women can not have the ply
sical comfort so craved and prayed for. To
secure this, the help they need,-the help
that thousands have already used and to
which they say they owe all they possess,is
Warmers Safe Cure. Mrs. Maria c. Tread
well, Stamford, Conn, president of the
State Woman's Christian Temperance
Union) well known leader, says it is the
only thing which seemed to reach my CASE
These unprejudiced thousands have bless
ed the world because they have become
Chedidjas, who have felt it their duty to
declare their own faith and to inspire their |
sisters with confidence in the extraordinary
up-building energy Of this wond erful dis |
covery.
Miss Cleveland has evidently an original |
and fertile mind, and we are indebted to
her interesting lecture,-a few tho lights
from which we have copied, for text
out OF which the above suggestions have
grown.