The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-01-19

Achieve Her Own EeStiay-Ihc Story
of the Eove and the VuIsurc.
BROOKLYN, Jan. Tho Eev. I. De
Witt Talmage, D. D., preached at the
Tabernacle this morning the first of
series of sermons to the women of Amer
lea, with practical Limits iuz men. The
subject of this discou:s- va5 1.-The
Women Who Fight the battles of Life
Alone,'' and the text vas from Proverbs
xiv, 1: Every wise vo;ne' buildeth her
house" DIR. TalE7aro eai1:
Woman e mere u IiI;.C't ) man, an APP
pendi1 to the IGa-cs:line vci.Eic, ali ap-
pendagc. q sort Of Gt---'.. }.ori'ht. some
thing thrown in to ma" ;.4isl;35s even
that Is the heresy c-'ts': ,i.-c~i and i'm
piled by some llea. 4is@ i evident to
them: Woman S ms -...si-.>';.;Cc as COM
pared to man IS evident u t-.,.-n. because
Adam was fiT=t created ard then Eve.
They don't read Re whole story or they
would find that the For: DISC and the bear
and the hawk were c-eGio'i l'cf,5Ic Adam,
80 that this argument drawn from prior
ity of creation might prove that the sheep
and the dog were greater than man. No!
Woman was IN Independent creation,
and was intended, if she chose, to
live alone, to walk alone. act alone, think
alone, and fight her battles alone. The
Bible says it Is not good for man to be
alone, but never says it is not good for
woman to be alone, and the simple fact
is that many women who arc harnessed
for life in the marriage relation would be
thousand fold better OF if they were
lone. God makes 10 mistake. and the
fact that there is such a large majority
Of women in this land proves that he in
tended that nuItitudcs of them should
go alone.
Who are these men who, year after
year, hang around hotels and engine
houses and theatre doors, and come in and
out To bother busy clerks and merchants
and mechanics, doing nothing even when
there is plenty 70 do? They arc men
supported by their wives and mothers.
If the statistics of any of cur cities could
Ike taken on this subject you would find
that a vast multitude of women not only
support themselves. but masCuInes A
| great legion of men amount to nothing,
and woman by marriage manacled to
one of these none1lti,ir~ needs coincidence.
A woman standing oat.ido the marriage
relation is several hundred thousand times
| better OF than q woman badly married.
| Many a bride. Instead of n wreath of
orange blossoms, might more properly
wear bunch of ncttles and nghtshade.
| and instead of the Wedding March q
moro appropriate tune would be the
Dead March il SAM. and instead of a
banquet of confectionery and ices there
| might be more appropriately spread a
| table covered with apples OF Sodom,
which are outside fair and inside ashes.
Many en- attractive woman of good
sound sense in other things has married
| one OF these men to reform him. What
| was tie result? Like when dove MOTTO
| ing that n vulture was rapacious and
cruel SGT about to reform it and said 81
have mild disposition. and l like peace,
| and was brought up in the quiet of a
dove cote, and | will bring the vulture to
the same liking by marrying him. So
one day, after the vulture had declared
he would give up his carnivoroUs habits
and cease longing for blood of flock and
herd, at IN altar of rock covered with
moss and Echcn the twain were married,
a bald headed eagle officiating. the vul-
ture saying: With all my dominion Of
earth and sky thee endow, and promise
to love and cherish till death do us
part" But one day the dove in
her flight saw the vulturo busy at q
carcass and cried: Stop that! Did you
' Y
carEirorous and filthy habits if / married
| YOU ''Yc-j. said llla vulturc. ''ty,7t If
| you don't Ei.e Ky way you can leave, :"
| and with one ;-i.7ry stroke OF beak and
| another fierce cs-tcA OF claw the vultGre
| left the dove cytilss and wingicss and
| ifeles.. Aud Il Io11 tf robins flyi1Ig
| past cr-o>! 10 cacll s:3ies- i:4sd raid: .ssee
| there! t--;tt col.-cs llG.ss u doves mary
| ing 4 Vultsirc to rC<SI:-;.i lss1n'
Many II syo.nG;. who ia.j had the hand
| of Z young ine5ii;,te oftc1cd, bet declined
| it, or who was asked 10 chain her life to
man selfth OF Of lad temper and re
| fused the shaczlee. will Llcss God
throughout al eecrrlity that che escaped
that earthly pan.craonia,n.
! Besides all this, IL cur country about
| 1000, coo men y-crc sacqinccI ia our
civil war, ard that dcc.coi LOCO, 900
women to ccl-53cr. G>si,ies that. since
! the war several armies + men as large as
the Federal and Confederate armies put
together 1--we faiic.l u;.>;cT malt LIQUORS
and distilled sz.:ii;s 50 full of poisoned in
| gradients thai the work was done moro
rapidly, ard lie victims fen while yet
| young. And il 90. coo men ere destroyed
| every year by strong drink bcfo-e mar
riage. that makes in the twenty
| three years s;-lce the war 1.150,0
mon tl;,;I.- a.2d DEGREES 1,1so, 900
| womcI. 10 ccliJa..;. Take then the fact
that SO tl:,@y woGe,l eGe unhappy in
their nl;:r:i-:re. and Tie fact Li&t the
| slaughter of 2,1s0. Geo kzloa by, war and
rum combined .;e cidss t!aat as least that
| nuInltr CO wc414sz ri.;tA be unbalanced
| for LIE, my text co.4acs IA with cheer
nldi y 20. ency and ulsisr>,: ,.;e,sessess thai
| I DC i l.Afe -
Liver '. i~ p.-,sszs zzl Is:i%ct., her house, ,
tl;.tt *. LIT ~s,s.=sss lie her cwl architect
lay cat k-i. o~a IIss,f-. b her swn super
| VIC. ac4s>Fs AsT .~n destiny.
l. advising iiicSs who will have tx
fight tie i~ttl- - ifo alone eongratu
kte You ga !ot.i happy escape. Rejoict
| forever tIsi vnu viii not have to navi
cato the fat.lts of the other sex, wher
| You have fsulss enough OF your own
Think OF the bereavements you avoid, Of
4 the risk Of una.sirniated temper which
you will not have to run, of cares yol
will never have to carry, and of the op
portlnity of outside usefulness from
which marital life would have partially
debarred you, and that you are free t.
go and come as one who has the respon
sibilitic5 of household can seldom
be. Col has not given you
hard kt as compared with you,
sist.s~. When young women shall
make up their minds At the start tia
masculino companionship ia not seces
sity in order to happiness, "a, t4@t cher
ID strong probability t,st i:lc.r vi, Law
to fight the battlo of Ike alons. p:lcy wii
be getting the timber reads f9r t:.c.r owl
fortune, and their saw and ~ rnsl / Ian
sharpened for its construction, sine
every wise woman buildeth he
house."