Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-10-13

him, and the tears seem to relieve his prain,
aud his spirits rise from ten below zero TO
eighty in tile shade and he comes
out of the crisis. And about three Years
after this young merchant goes into the OH
merchants store and says: "Wel. my old
friend, was this morning thinking over
what You did for me three years ago. on
helped me out of an awful crisis i'll my conf
mercal history. Ilearned wisdom and pros
perity has como, and the pa!lor has
the roses that were there when
courted her in her fatherls house have
doomed again, and my business is splendid,
and thought ought to let You know that
YOU saved Il man. In n short time after,
the old merchant who had been good while
shaky in his limbs and hal poor spells
is callel to leave the world. and ono
morning after lie had read the twenty
third Psalm about 1.-The Lord is my
world. and an angel who had been
for many years appointed to watch the Old
mans dwelling, cries upward tn news that
the patiilrchs spirit is about ascending.
And the twelve angels who keep the tweive
gates of heaven unite in CRYING down to TINS
approaching spirit of the Oil man: "Coneln
Mt arv Of the twelve gates you choose!
Come in and welcome. for it haS been told all
over these Celestial neighborhoods that you
saved Il man
There sometimes come exigencies in tho
life OF woman. One morning about two
years ago saw in the newspaper that there
was young woman in New York whose
pockctbook containing thirty-seven dollars
md thrty-three cents Ind been
stolen and she hal baen left with
ont a tarthing at the beginning of
winter i'll a strange city, and no work.
And although Sho was Il stranger, did
not allow the nine O'clock mail 10 leave the
lampoSt on our corner without carrying the
thirty-seven dol ars and thrty-,hree cents:
and the case was proved genuine. Now l
have read all Shakespeare's tragedies, and all
Victor Hugos tragedies, and all Alex,
ander Smiths tragedies, but never read
and similar cases by the hundreds and
thousands in all our large cities; young wo-
men without money and without home and
without work in these great maelStronS OF
nett opolitan life. When such a case comes
under your observation. how do YOU treat it!
"Get out of my way, we have 10 room i'll our
establishment forany more hands. don't be-
iieve III woluen anyway, they are Il lazy, idle.
worthless ser. John please show this person out
OF the door" Or DO You compliment her per-
sonal appearance ana say tin nss to her which
il any man said To Your sister or daughter
YOU would kill him OH the spot. That is one
way and it is tried every day in these large
cites. ani many of those who advertise for
female hands in factories and for goserncSses
in families lave proved themselves unfit 10
lie III any place outside of hell.
But there is another way. and 1 saw it tho
other day i'll the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, Where a Young woman applied
for work. aud the gentleman in tone and
man Ter said i'll substance: My daughter.we
employ women here. but l do not know Of
any vacant place in our department.:
You had better inquire ut such and
such Il place. and | hope you will be
successful in getting something To do The
embarrassed and Inundated woman seemed
TO give way to Christian coaiidenca. She
started out with hopeful look that | think
must have won for her {. place in which to
earn her bread. ] rather think that conSid-
crate and Christian gentlemen saved n
woman New York and Brooklyn ground
up last Year about thirty thousand
Young women, and would like to grind
up about as many this year. Out OF all
that long procession of women who march
on with no hope for this world or the next,
battered. bruised, scoifed at and flung. OFT
the precipice. not one but might have been
saved for home and Col and heaven. But
good men and good women are not i'll that
Kind of business. Alas for that poor thing
nothing but the thread of that evening girls
needle held her, and the thread broke. have
heard lren tel; in public discourse what
man Is but what is a woman! Until some
one shall give better definition l will tell
YOU what woman is. Direct from Cod a
sacred and delicate gift with affections 50
great that no measuring line short of that or
the infinite God can tell their bound FASH
toned to refine and soothe and lift and
irradiate home and society and the
world. OF such. value that no
one can appreciate it. unless his mother
lived long enough to let him understand it,
or who in some great crisis of life when ull
else failed him, had wife to reinforce him
with faith in God that nothing could dis
turb. Speak out, We cradles, and tell of the
feet that rocked you and the anxious faces
that lowered over you! Speak out, We
nurseries OF all Christendom. and We homes,
whether desolate or still in full bloom with
the faces of wife, mother and daughter, and
help me to define what woman IS If man
during all his life accomplish nothing else
except TO win the love amd confidence and
help and companionship Of good woman
he is garlanded victor and ought TO have
the hanls OF all the people between here and
the grave stretched out to him in con-
graduation.
But as geograpEcrs tell us that the depths
of the sea correspond with the heights oil the
mountains, have to tell you that good
wo,n,nhood is not higher up than bad woinan-
hooi i deep down. The Srander tine palace,
the more awful the confagrati1n that DESTROYS
il. The grander the steamer Oregon, this
moro terrible her going Gown lust oil the
coast. Now | should rot wonder II you
trembled little with SENSE of responsible
ity when say that there is hardly person
in this house but may have an opportunity
to savea woman. 1t may, in your cas-, oo
done by good advice, or by financial help, or
by trying to bring TO bear some one OF
a thousand Christian influences. NGn
would not have to go far. 1t,
for instance you know among your
acquaintance young woman who IS
apt TO appear on the streets about the hour
when gentlemen return from business and
you find her responding 10 the smile oil entire
strangers, hogs that lift ti,er hat, go TO her
and plainly tell her that nearly all the de-
stroyed womanhood of the world began the
downward path with that very kind OF be-
havior.
Or if. for instance, you find woman in
financial distress AMI breaking down N
health and spirits trying to support her chill
dren, now that her husband is dead or an in
valid, doing that very important and honor
able work, but which is little appreciated,
keeping boarding house. where all the
guests, according as they pay small
board. or propose without paying
any board at all to decamp, are
critical of everything and hard to please
busy yourselves in trying to get her more
patrons aud tell her OF divine sympathy
Yea, if you are woman favored of fortune
and all kindly surroundings, finding in the
hollow batteries of the world her chief re-
galement, living for herself and for time as
if there were no eternity, strive to
bring her into the kingdom of Cod, as did
the other day Sabbath-school teacher who
was the means OF the conversion OF tue
daughter of man of immense wealth, and
tine daughter resolved to Join the church.
and sine went home and said: Father, L
am going 10 ..o:n the church and want you
to come ooh, no." he said, Il never SO to
church.
well, ;" said the daughter, 'if Iwere to be
married, would you not so to see me mar
ried" And he said: "Oh. yes" well"
said she, "this is of more Importance than
that" SO he went and has gone ever nee,
and loves to go. l do not know bat that
faithful Sabbath.school teacher not only
saved a woman but saved a man. There may
he in this audience gathering from all parts