The Evening critic., 1885-04-10
THE pREsIpENr,s SISTER,

Miss Cleveland on the ROstrunl
Some Thoughts Suggested by Her
Lecture.
In June, 1888, Miss Elizabeth Cleveland
present mistress of the White House, de-
livered an address before the Elmira, N. Y,
Female College, which tho Presbyterian
Erdngclisi pronounced "great"-a deserved
compliment 10 au excellent woman It
was entitled "Altrustlc 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 a younger
wife, he replied that ho loved her best be-
cause she believed in HIM when all men
despiscd him. Chedidja'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 tho bloom of youth Is
supplanted by the ashen hue Of age; will
cry aloud for help in infrmites must
needs come, because those on whom women
rely, though themselves powerless 10 re-
lieve them of their intolerable aches, pains,
prostrations, sleepless nights of agony, aud
of their code aud the selfshuess of their
purpose-restrain them from resorting to
those agencies which may lift womep TO n
plane of greater usefulness. and to nobler
life.
Many woman lacks the faith Of Chedidia.
If they bad faith in their own reserve of
physical power, confidence in the personal
experience of others would follow; and in
stead of a race of suffering mortals-slaves
to the prejudces Of those whose only inter-
est in them is bounded By their professional
fees-we should sec nobility of station re-en.
forced by nobility of mind, and ROBUSTNESS
of life.
The power to rid themselves of the aches,
pains and desperate despails which ailllCt
them, lis in woman and ought to come out
You all have countless amount of testi-
mony.' Some one will say to you "Go on,
and you will conquer"
How" Do as your sisters have done
Have faith in their indisputable expert
onces We want more life and fuller, and
need all the help we can get. Man would
fail were ID not for the Chedidjas There
| is much in good digestion to keep a woman
sweet aud lovable. There is more in
thorough action Of the great blood purify.
ing organs-the liver and kidneys-for if
| they are deranged women cannot have the
| physical comfort so craved and prayed for.
To secure this the help they need-the
help that thousands have already used aud
to which they say they owe all they possess
is Warmers safe cure. Mrs. Maria c..
Trcadwell, Stamford, Conn. president Of
tho State Woman's Christian Temperance
Union), well known leader, says 1t is the
only thing which seemed to reach my case,
| These unprejudiced thousands have blessed
| tho world because they have become Chedid.
jas, who have felt it their duty to declare
| their own faith and To inspiro their sistnrs
with confidence in the extraordinary up.
building energy of this wonderful dis
cOvery.
Miss Cleveland has evidently an original
and fertile mind, and We are indebted to
her interesting lecture, a few thoughts
from which We have copied-for text out
| Of which the above suggestions have grown.