The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-08

and help me 10 define what woman is. II I
man during all his life accomplish nothlnt
:, else except to win the love d conhdenc'
and help and companionship of gooc
, woman he is n garlanded victor and ough
to have the hands CT all people betweei
here and the grave stretched out to him II
congratulatlon.
But as geographers tell us that the depth
of the sea correspond with the heights Of
the mountains, have to tell you that gooc
womanhood is not higher up tan bad
womauhood is deep down. The grander the
palace, the more awful the confiagratior
that destroys it, The grander the steamer
Oregon. the more terrible her going down
inst off the coast. Now | should not won
der if you trembled a little with a sense OF
responsibility when / say there is hardly q
person in this house but may have an OPP
portunity to save woman. 1t may In
your case be done by good advice, or by
financial help, or by trying to bring to bear
some one of a thousand Christian influences.
You would not have 10 go far. If, for in
stance, you know among your acquaint-
ances young woman who is apt to appear
on the streets about the hour when gentle
men return from business, and
you find her responding 10 the
smiles of entire strangers, hogs
that lift their hat, go to her and plainly tell
her that nearly all the destroyed woman
hood of the world began the downward
path with that very kind of behavior. Or
if, for instance, you find woman III tinan-
cial distress and breaking down IN health
and spirits trying to support her children,
now that her husband is dead or an invalid,
doing that very important and honorable
work, but which is little appreciated, keep
| ing boarding house, where all the guests,
according as they pay small board, or pro-
pose, without paying any board at all, to
deccmp, are critical of everything and hard
| to please, busy yourselves in trying to
! get her more patrons. and tell her
! of divine sympathy. Yea, If you see
a woman favored of fortune and with all
| kindly surroundings finding in the hollow
| batteries of the world her chief regalement,
living for herself and for time as if there
were no eternity, strive to bring her into the
kingdom of God as did the other day
| Sabbath school teacher who was the means
of the conversion of the daughter OF a man
| Of immense wealth, and the daughter re-
solved to join the church, and she went
home aud said: Father, l am going to
| join the church and want you to come"
''Oh, no." he said, 81 never go to church"
"Well, said the daughter, "if | we've 60
see me marriedF And he said: "Oh, yes"
"Well," said she, this is of more
| Importance that that So he went and has
| gone ever since. and loves to go. | do not
| know but that faithful Sabbath school
| teacher not only saved a woman but saved
a man. There may be in this audience
| gathered from all parts of the world, the
most cosmopolitan assembly in all the earth,
| there may be a man whose behavior toward
woman has been perfidious. Repent!
Stand up, thou masterpiece of sin and death,
that | may charge you'll AS far as possible,
| make PREPARATION. Do not boast that you
have her in your power and that she can
| not help herself. When that fine collar
| and cravat and that elegant suit of clothes
| comes off and your uncovered soul stands
in judgment and before God, you will be
better off if you save that woman.
There is another exploit that you can do,
and that is to save child. A child does
not seem to amount to much. 1t is nearly
year old before it can walk at all. For the
| first year and half it cannot speak a word.
| For the first ten years 1t would starve if it
| had to earn its own food For the first
| fifteen years its opinion on any subject is
absolutely valueless. And then there are
so many of them. My! what lots of chill
| drenl And some people have contempt for
| children. They are good for nothing but
to wear ont tae carpets and break things
| and keep you awake nights crying. Well.
vonr estimate of child is quite different
from that mothers estimate who lost her
child this summer. They took it TO the
salt air of the seashore and to the
tonic air of the mountains, but
no help came, and the brief paragraph of
its life is ended. Suppose hat life could be
restored Ivy purchase, how much would that
| bereaved mother gives She would take all
the Jewels from her fingers and neck and
bureau and put them down. And if told
that that was not enough, she would take
her house and make over the deed for it
| and if that were not enough, she would call
| in all her investments and put down all her
mortgages and bonds; and if told that wers
not enough, she would say: 81 have made
over all my property, and if / can have that
child back will now pledge that will toll
with my own hands and carry with my own
shoulders in any kind of hard work, and
live in cellar and die in a
garrett. Only give me back that
lost darling" am glad that
there are those who know something of the
value Of child. It's possibilities are ire
mendous. What will those hands yet do9
Where will those feet yet Wake Toward
| what destiny will tsat never-dying soul be-
take itself9 Shall those lips BE- the rome
of basphemy or benedictions Come, all We
| surveyors of the earth, and bring link and
chain, and measure il you can its possible
| possessions. Come, all ye astronomers of
the ear h, with your telescopes, and tell us
if you can see the range Of its eternal fight.
| Come, all we chronologists, and calculate
the decades on decades, the centuries on
centuries, the cycles on cycles, the eter-
mites on eternites of its lifetime. Oh, to
save a cnild Am | not right in putting
that among the great expfoitsa Yea, it
beats the other two, for if you save the
child you save the man or you save the
woman. Get the first twenty years of that
boy or girl all right and l guess you have
got manhood or womanhood all right, and
their entire earthly and eternal career all
right But what are you going to do with
those children who are worse off than if
their father or mother had died the day
they were born2 There are tens of thou
sands of such. Their parentage was against
them Their name is against them. The
structure Of their skulls against them. Their
nerves and muscles illuminated by the
inebriety or diSsoluteness Of their parents,
they are practically Mt their birth laid out on
PLANK in the middle of the Atlantic ocean
in an equinoctial gale and told TO make for
shore. The first greeting they get from the
world is to be called a brat. or a ragamuffin,
or wharf rat. What to do with them is
the question Gifted asked. There is another
question quite as pertinent, and that is,
what are they going to do with usl They
will, ten or eleven years from now, have as
many votes as the same number OF we'll
born children, ard they will hand this land
over TO anarchy and political damnation
just as sure as we neglect them. Suppose
each one of us save boy or save girl.
You can do it. Will youl | will Take a
cake of perfumed soap, and fine-tooth