The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-05-02
THE PRESIDENTS SISTER.
Miss Cleveland on the ROstrum-S eme
Thoughts Suggested by Her Lecture.

Miss Cleveland on the Rostrum-S eme
Thoughts Suggested by Her Lecture.
In June, 1888, Miss Elizabeth Cleve-
land, present mistress of the White-house
delivered an address before the Elmira,
N. y, Female College, which the Pres
byterian Evangelist pronounced great"
"a deserved compliment to an excellent
woman. 1t was entitled "Alsruistic
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 replied that
he loved her best because she believed in
him when all men despised him. Che
didja' s faith made Mohammed.
There is faith in God, faith in self and
in humanity. The first produces the
others. 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 supplanted by the ashen hue of
age; will cry aloud for help in infirmities
must needs come, because those on whom
women rely, though themselves power
less to relieve them of their intolerable
aches, pains, prostrations, sleepless
nights of agoay, and days of DISTRESS
because of the narrowness of their code
and the seltishness Of their purpose,-re-
strain them from resorting to those
agencies which may lift women to
plane of greater usefulness, and to
nober life.
Many woman lacks the faith of Che
didja. If 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, slaves to the prejudices of
those whose only interest in them is
bounded by their professional fees,-we
should f Sc nobility of station reinforced
by nobility of nina, Robustness Of
life.
The power to rid themselves of the
aches, pains and desperate despair which
atl1ict them, is in women, aud ought to
come out. You all have countless
amount of testimony Some one will
say to you go on, and you will con.
quer."
"How?" Do as your sisters have done.
Have faith in their experie noes,
We want more life and fuller, and need
all the help we can get. Man would fail
were it not for the Chedidjas There is
much in good digestion to keep woman
sweet and lovable. There is more in
thorough action Of the great blood puri-
flying organs-the liver and kidneys, for
if they are deranged women can not have
he physical comfort so craved and pray
ed for. To secure this, the help they
need, the help that thousands have al
ready used and to which they say they
owe all they possess,-is Warmers safe
cure. Mrs. Maria c. Treadwel, STAN.
ford, Conn, president of the State
Woman's Christian Temperance Union)
a well-known leaders, says it is the only
thing which seemed to reach my case.
These appropriated thousands have
blessed the world because they became
Chedidjas, who have felt it their duty t.
declare their own faith and to inspire
their sisters with confidence in the extra.
ordinary up-building energy of this won.
derful discovery.
Miss Cleveland has evidently al orgi.
nal and fertile mind, and we are indebted
to her interesting lecture few thoughts
from which we have copied,-for a text
out of which the above suggestions have
grown.