The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-04-23
THE PRESIDENTS SISTER.
MISS CLEVELAND ON THE RoSTRUM-soME
THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY HER LECTURE.

MISS CLEVELAND ON THE ROSTRUM-soME
THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY HER LECTURE.
ln June, 1888, Miss Elizabeth Cleye-
land, present mistress Of The White House
delivered an address before the Elmirs,
n. L, Female College. which tho Pres
byterlan Egangetist pronounced" great"
"a deserved compliment TO an excellent
woman. 1t was entitled ''Altruistic
FAITH, aud 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
hlm 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 i'll humanity believes that
ilfe is worth living and worth ssviIg.
You Will have much hunger and thiret.
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 pow erless
TO relieve them Of their intolerahle aches
pains, proStratlOnS, sleeples4 nights of
agony, aud days of distreas, Of
the narrowness of their code and the
seihshness OF their purpose restrain
tnem from feSortIng TO those agencies
which may lift women to a plane OF
greater usefulness, and to nohler life.
Many woman lacks the faith of Che
dIdJs. If they had faith in their own
~ serve OF physical power. confidence in
the personal experience of others would
follow; and instead of race of suffering
moitals, slaves to the preiudices of those
whose only interest in them is bounded
10y their professional fees,-we shonld
see nobility of station reinforced bv
honlilty OF mind, and robustness of life.
The power to rid themselves OF the
aches, pains and desperate despair which
atnict them, is II 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 coruuer."
dow" Do as your sisters Lave donel
Have faith IN their indisputable ~xper-
petience. We want more life and fuller.
anu need all the help we can get. Man
would fail were it BOT for the Chedidias.
There Is much in good digestion TO keep
woman sweet and lovable. There Ia
more III thorough action of the great
blood purifying organs-the liver and
kidneys, for if they are deranged women
caa not have the physical comfort SO
craved and prayed for. To secure this,
the help they need, the help that tho,,s-
lads have already Ysed and to which thev
say they owe all they possess,-is War
ner's safe cure. Mrs. Maria q. Tread
well, Stanford. Conn, president of the
State Woman's Christian Temperance7
Unionl well known leader, says s'it is
the only thing which seemed to reach
my case" These unpreiudiced thous-
ands have blessed the world because thev
have become Chedidias, who have felt it
their duty to declare their own faith ard
20 inspire their sisters with confidence
IN the extraordinary up building energy
Of this wonderful discovery.
Miss Cleveland has evide,atly an oripi-
nal and fertile mind, ar.u we are indebted
TO her interesting lecture, "a few thoughts
from which We have copied, for text
out OF whion the above suggestions have
grown,