The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-04-14
THE PRESIDENTS SISTER.
Miss Cleveland on the Rostrum-
some Thoughts Suggested
by Her Lecture.

In June, 1883, Miss Elizabeth Cleve-
land, present mistress of the White
House. delivered an address before the
Elmira, n. Y, Female College, which
the Presbyterian Evangelist pronounced
great, "a deserved compliment to an
excellent woman. II was entitled cal
truistlc Faith" and for her Illustration
she took Chedidja, first wife OF Moham-
med, 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
replied that he loved her best because
she believed in him when all men de-
spised him. Chedidja's faith made Mo-
manned.
There is faith in God, faith in self, and
in humanity. The first produces the
others. Faith in human iiy believes that
lie Is worth living and worth saving.
You will have much hunger AID thirst,
will crave affection when the bloom
of youth is supplanted by the ashen
hue of age; will cry aloud for
help in inilrmities, must needs come, be-
cause those on whom women rely,
though themselves powerless to relieve
them of their intolerable aches, pains,
pTostrations, sleepless nights of agony,
and days of distress, -because of the
narrowness Of their code and the selfish
ness of their purpose,-restrain them
from resor,ing TO those agencies which
may lift women to plane of greater
usefulness, and to nobler life.
Many woman lacks the faith of Che
didja. II they had faith in their own re-
serve of physical power, confidence in
the personal experience of others would
follow; and instead of race of suffering
mortals, 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 desperate despair
which aillict them, sis in women and
ought to come out You all have a
countless amount OF testimony Some
one will say to you go on, and you will
conquer"
"lIow?" DO as your sisters have done!
Have faith in their indisputable expert
ences. We want more life and fuller,
and need all the help we can get. Man
would fail were II not for the Chedidjas.
There Is much in good digestion to keep
a woman sweet and lovable. There is
more in thorough action of the great
blood purifying organs-the liver and
kidneys, for If they are deranged women
cannot have the physical comfort so
craved and prayed for. 10 secure this,
the help they need-the help that thou
sands have already used and to which
they say they owe all they possess-is
Warmers safe cure. Mrs. Maria c.
Treadwell, Stamford, Conn, President of
the State Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union) well known leader, says
"it is the only thing which seemed TO
reach my case" These unprejudced
thousands have blessed the world be-
cause they have become Chedidjas, who
have felt 1t their duty to declare their
own faith and to inspire their sisters
with confidence in the extraordinary up
building energy of this wonderful dis
covery.
Miss Cleveland has evidently an orig
inal and fertile mind, and we are in
debted TO her interesting lecture, q few
thoughts from which we have copied,
for text out of which the above sug-
gestions have grown.