The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-02-15
TALMAGE ON QUEENS.
HE PUTS THE CORONET ON THE HEAD
OF TIE school, TEACHER,

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Justice of tho Law--An APPEAL for Justice.
"Among the queens whom l honor
arc the female day school teachers of
this land, said Rev. DIR. Talmage Sun
day morning in the course of his fifth
sermon to the women of mcrica. 81
put upon their brow the coronet. They
are the sisters and tho daughters of our
towns and cities, selected out of vast
number of applicants because of their
especial fitness and moral endowments.
There arc in none of your homes women
moro worthy. These persons, some of
them come out from aflluent homes,
choosing teaching as useful profession;
others go to teaching to Tighten the load
OF their parents. But / tell you the
history of the majority of the female
teachers in the public schools when |
say: Father is dead. After the estate
was settled, the family that wcro COM
Portable before were thrown on their own
resources"
Ihe tabernacle was crowded and MANY
could not gam entrance. The subject of
the sermon was "rhe Veil of Moicstv
'lt Is hard for men to earn q living in
this day." continued the preacher, .sbut
1T IS harder for women-thcir health not
so rugged, their arms not SO strong, their
opportunities fower. These persons,
after tremblingly going through the
ordeal of an examination as 70 their
qualifications to teach, half bewildcrei
step over tho sill of the public school to
do two things-instruct the young and
earn their own bread. Her work is
wearing to the last degree. The man
agemcnt of forty or fifty fidgety and in
tractable children, the suppression of
their vices and the development of their
cxccllences, tho management Of rewards
and punishments, tho sending of 20
many bars OF soap and iinotooth combs
on bcnignant ministry, the breaking of
SO many wild colts for tho harness of
life. sends her homo at night weak,
neuraigic, unstrung, SO that of all tile
weary people In your cities for five
nights OF the week there are none moro
weary than the public school teachers.
Now, for Gods sake, give them fair
chance. Throw no obstacles in the way.
If they come ont ahead in the race cheer
them. If you want to smitc any, smito
the male teachers; they can take up the
cudgels for the mselves. But keep your
hands of of defenscless women. Father
may be dead, but thcrc arc enough
brothers left to demand and see that thcy
| get Justice.
"Within stones throw OF this build
ing there died years ago one of the
| principals of our public schools. She
had been twenty-five years at that post.
She had left the touch of refinement on
multitude of the young. Sho had ont
OF her slender purse, given literally
thousands of dollars for the destitute
who came upder her observation as
school teacher. a deceased sst ers
children were thrown upon her hands,
and she took care of them. She was O
kind mother to them, while she mother
ed whole school. Worn out with
nursing in the sick and dying room of
one Of the household, she herself came
to die. She closed the school book and
at the same time the volume of her
Christian fidelity; and when she went
through the gates they cried, These are
they who came out OF great trbpiation,
! and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood Of the Lamb
'Oh, the opportunity which every
woman has OF being IL queen! The
longer L live the more / admire good
womanhood. And have come to form
my opinion OF the character of n man by
his appreciation or non-appreciation Of
woman. If man has depressed idea
of womanly character he is a bad man,
and there is no exception to the rule.
The writings of Goethe can mover have
any such attractions for me us Shake
speare, because nearly all tho womanly
characters of the great German have
some kind of turpitude. There is sell
dom womanly character in all his
Voluminous writings that would be
worthy of residence in a respectable coal
cellar, yet pictured and dramatizcd and
emblazoned till all the literary world is
compelled to SEQ. No! no! Give me
William Shakespeare's idea of woman,
and / soc it in Desdemona, and Cordela,
and Rosalind, and Imogen, and Helena,
and Hermione, and Viola, and Isabella,
and Sylvia, and Perdita-all of them
with enough faults to prove them human,
but enough kindly characteristics to give
us the authors idea of womanhood- his
Lady Macbeth only dark background
to bring out the supreme lovelinoss of
his other female characters.
"Oh, women of America, rise to your
| JOppOEbulllby bO no slHNC 10 pTlue or
worldliness or sin. Why ever crawl in
the dust when you can mount throne?
Be queens unto God forever.
"When SEQ woman going about
her daily duty, with cheerful dignity
presiding at tho table; with kind and
gentle, but firm, discipline presiding in
the nursery, going out into the world
without any blast of trumpet, following
in the footsteps of Him who went about
doing good, say: This is Vashti with
q veil on. But when see woman of
unblushing boldness, loud-voiced, with
q tongue of infinite Glitter clatter, with
arrogant look, passing through the
streets with masculine swing, gayly
arrayed in perfect hurricane OF mill
merry, L cry OUT 'Vashti has lost her
VEIL
"When / SEQ woman struggling for
political preferment, and rejecting the
duties Of home as insignificant, and
thinking the offices of wife, mother and