Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-20

such o case comes Under your obeerya
ton. how 90 YOU treat ID! "Gct out q
my say. Nc have no room in our cs'n5
lishmen, for any moro hanos. don
believe IN women, anyway; they are
law, idle. worthless ser. John, please
show this person out Of the door. q
DO you compliment her personal appear
aacc and say things 10 her which, II anj
man said to your sister or daughter yol
would Kill him ON The spok That is on
, way, and il is tried every day in these
cities. and many Of those who advertise
for female hands III factories and for gov
ernesses in families have proved them.
selves unfit to be in any place outside OF
he'll.
THE RfGHT A
But there IS another way. and l saw il
the other day i'll the Methodist Book
Concern in New York, where a young
woman applied for work and the gentle
man in tone and p said In sub
stance; My daughter. We employ
women here, but ! 90 not know Of any
vacant place i'll our department. You
had better inquire at such and such a
place. and ] hope you will be successful
IN getting something TO do The en-
barrasscd and Inundated seemed
To give way to Christian confidence. She
started ont with u hopeful look thas ]
thi1k must have won for her q place in
which 10 earn her bread. ! rather think
that considerable and Christian gentle.
man saved a M New York and
Brooklyn ground up last year about so,
900 YONG women, and would Ike to
grind up about as many this year. Out
of all that long procession OF womcn who
march on with no hope for this word or
the next. battered and bruised and
scoffed AZ and flung off the precipice, not
one but might have been saved for nome
and God and heaven. But good men
and good womcn are not in that kind of
business. Alas for that poor thing!
Nothing but the thread of that sewing
girls needle held her, and the needle
broke. | have heard men tel in public
discourse what a man is. but what is a
woman? Until some u shall give o
better definition | will tell you what a
woman is. Direct from God, Il sacred
and delicate gift with affections 8 great
that no measuring line short OF that of
the indnite God can tell their bound.
Fashioned to refine and scothc and lift
and irradiate home and society and the
World. OF such value that no one can
appreciate il, unless bis mother ,.ivcd
long enough to let him understand it, or
VINO in some great crisis Of life when all
else failed him
HAD A WEE
TO reinforce him with a faith in God that
nothing could disturb Speak out, yc
cradles aud tell of the feet that rocked
you and the anxious faces that lowered
over YOU, Speak out, we nurseries Of ali
Christcndom, and ye homes, whether
lcsolatc or still in full bloom with the
OF wife, mother and daughter, and
help me 10 define what woman is. If a
III during all his life accomplish moth.
ing else except to win the love and con
hdencc and help and companionship Of ii
good woman, be is a garlanded victor and
to have the hands Of all people be
tween here and the grave stretched out to
lim in congratulation.
But as geogrsphcrs tell US that the
OF the sea correspond with the
mountains, | have TO tell you that good
womanhood is not higher up than bad
womanhood is deep down. The grander
the palace, the more awful the conilagra.
ton hat destroys il. The grander the
Oregon, the more terrible her
going down just of the coast. Now |
not wonder if you trembled a
little with a sense Of responsibility when
| say That there is hardly a person in this
house but may have an opportunity TO
g woman. i may in your case be
done by good advice, or 10y financial help,
by try ing 10 bring 10 bear some one OF
4 thousand Christian influences. You
would not have to 60 far. If. for in
stance, yol know among your acquaini-
lnce5 "a young oma who is apt to ap-
pear or the streets about the hcr @hen
gentlemen return from business -ul you
find her responding TO the smile - entire
strangers, hogs that lift their ha, - TO
her and plainly tell her that nea.}y all
The destroyed womanhoOd Of the world
began the downward path with that very
kind of behavior. Or if, for instance,
you find a woman in financial distress
and breaking down in health and spirits
to support her children, now that
husband is dead or an invalid, doing
very important ard
HONORABLE WORK,
but which is little appreciated, keeping q
boarding house. where al the guests, ac-
cording as they pay small board, or pro
pose, without paying any board at all, to
decamp, arc critical OF everything and
hard to please, busy yourselves in trying
to get her more patrons and tell her Of
sympathy. Yea, If you see a
woman favored Of fort Inc and with all
surroundings finding in the hollow
batteries of the world her cl.icf regale-
ment, living for herself and for time as if
were no eternity. strive To bring her
into the kingdom of God, as did the other
day a Sabbath school teacher who was
the means of the conversion of the 0augh-
ter Of a man of immense wealth, and the
daughter resolved to Join the church. and
she went home and said: Father, | ala
going 90 join the church, and want you
to come" 'Oh, no." he said, II never
90 to church, Well" said the daupi,-
Ter, ii | were going TO be married,
YOU net 90 10 see ne marriedf'
And he said: con, yes" We'll" said
she. this is Of more Importance than
SO he went and has gone ever
since, and loves TO go. | do not know
but that faithful Sabbath school teacher
not only saved q woman bat saved a man.
may he in this audience gathered
from al parts Of the world, the most cos
mopolitan assembly in all the earth.
there may be a man whose behavior
toward womanhood has been perfidious.
Repent! Stand up, thou masterpiece Of
s;n and death, that | may charge you!
AS far as possible, make reparation. Do
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