, 1888-03-21

tltlC ID COLlIuS huCII NOIAOh man hOb O''H
get as much salary and wages as men get,
but for certain styles of employment women
will have higher salary and more wages
for the reason that for some styles of work
they have m re adaptation. But this JUS
tict will come to woman not through any
sentiment of gallantry, not because woman
is physically weaker than man, and there
fore ought to have more consideration
shown her, but because through her finer
natural taste and more grace of manner
and quicker perception and more delicate
touch, and more educated ~adrOitneSS, she
will in certain callings, be to her employer
worth ten per cent. mOrr, or twenty per
cent more than the other sex. She will
not get it by asking for it, but by earning
it, and it shall be hers by lawful conquest.
Now, men OF America, be fair and give
the women ii chance! Are You afraid that
they will do some of your work and hence
harm your pOsterities9 Remember that
there are scores of thousands OF men dong
wOmen's work. DO not be afraid God
knows the end from the beginning and He
knows how many people this world can
feed and shelter. and when it gets too full
He will end the world, and it need 0e start
another. God will halt the inventive ia
Guilty which, by producing a machine that
will do the work of ten or twenty or a nun
drrd men aud women, will leave hat mum
Der Of people without work. | hope that
there Will not be invented another sewing
machine or reAping machine or corn threSh-
err or any ther new machine Tor the next
500 years. We want no more wooden
hands and iron hands and steel hands and
electric hands substituted for men ana
women, who would otherwise do the work
and Ct the pay and earn the livelihood.
Bur God Will arrange all, and all we
have TO dO is to do our best and trust III
Him for the rest. Let me cheer all women
fighting the battle OF life alone, with the
gact that thousands of women have in that
way won the day. Mary Lyon, founder OF
Hlunt RolyOkp Female Seminary. fought
The battle alone; Adelaide Newton, the
tract li>t.ibntpr, alone; F!deIia Fisk, the
csls.c .atod missionary, alone DOrothea
DIX. the angel Of the insane asylumS,
alone; Caroline HerSchel, the indiSpenSa-
be reinforcement of her brother. alone;
Maria T~akrZpwSka, the heroine OF the Der
lin HoSpi al, alone Helen Chambers, pat
ron Of sewing SchonlS for the poor OF Edln-
burgh. atone. And thousands of tens OF
thousands of women Of whose bravery amt
self-Sac iIicr and glory Of character the
world has made no record, but whose deeds
ar, m the heavenly archives of martyrs
who fought lhe battle alone, and, though
unreCognizel for the short thirty or forty
or eighty years of their earthly existence,
shall through the quintillion ages of the
higher world be pointed out with the
admiring cry, 'TheSe are they who came
out Of great triDulatlon, and hat their
robes washed and made white in the blood
OF the lamb
Lit me also say, for the encouragement
of all women lighting the battle OF life
alone, that their conflict will soon end.
There is one wOld written over the faces
OF many of hem, and that word is despair.
My sister, you need appeal to that Christ
who CJmforled the sisters OF Bethany IN
their domestic trouble, and who in His
las, h0ugs forgot all the pangs OF His own
hands ,nl feet and heart as He looked
into he face of maternal anguish and called
IA frl~nl'S attention to il, III substance
saving, john, [ ca mot take care OF her
any longer. DO for her as | would have
done if had lived. Behold thy mother!
If. under the pressure of unrewarded and
unapprecialed work your hair is whitening
and the wrinkles come, rejoice that you
are nearing the hour OF escape from your
very last fatigue, and may your departure
be as pleasant a> that of Isabella Graham,
who closed her life with a smile and the
word peace" The daughter OF % regI.
ment in any army is all surrounded by
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