The Forrest City times., 1888-10-13

l.a out will gladly do l. Better just put thrss I goods ont of sight for the present and mex. l season VIC will pisa sofDsthing about them will help you 10 some goois that y5u can sch l for me on commission and will go down to l ore cf the wholesale houses end tell them 1 that know ynu aud pill back you up and il you want { few doilsts 0 bridge over thc ] present I can let yOa lave them. Be a upper lip and remember that YOU have two friends, God and myself. Good rnorningF' The old merchant goes away and the young man goes behind his desk and the tears roll down his cheeks. IL Is tho first time be has cried D saster made hif- msd st overriding. and nal at man and mad at God. But ths Fndnfss . ,..s,.. & a,a. -.s the tears seem to relieve bis brain, and his spirits rise from tes 'eioW zero 10 eighty in the shade, and he comes out ot the crisis And about three years after, this young merchant gees into the old uierchanps Store and says: "Wel my old friend. vas this morning thi1kirg oyer what yoa dld for me three years ag0. f6u heildd nie out ot an awful crisis in my commercial history lsaped wisdom snd ptosrerity has come, and the psiior has gone out Ci irt wife's checks and the roses that were there when courted her in her fathers house have bioOmed again. and my business is splendid, and l thought ought to let you know that you saved manln In a short time after. the old mer- chant who had been q good while shaky iu his limbs and had poor spells ts callet to leave the world, and one morning after he bad read the tweuty-thrd psalm aboat "Ths lord Is my Shepherd" he closes his eyes on this world. and sn pugei who had been for many years appolrted 10 watch the old mars dwel.- ing cries upward the news that the patriarebs spirit IS abcu. sscsndlus. And the twelve angels who keep the twelve gates Of heaven unite in crying down to this approaching ! split of the old man. Come 10 at any Of the twelve gates you choose, Come 10 anl welcome for it has been told all over tbess Celestial nelghborhools that you saved man.n
 There sometimes come exigeneles in the l life or a wotnan One morning about two years ago I saw ia the newspaper that there | @Es ( t0ing 4c'-'au iu New York whose pocketbOok containing tharty-seyen | dollars and thrty-tbree cents had been | stolen and she had been left without far | thing at the bselnaips pf winter in a strange | city, and no work. And alihd1ght sHe was ( ] stranger. did rot allow the nine o'clocll mail to leave the laifiSpcst en the corner without | carrying the ihlrty-seven dollars add thrtT- | three cents: and the case was proved genu- | inc, Nov hsre read shskspere's tragede es ana ali Victor iiugos tiaeeties Ede aN kl2<- l ander Smiths tragedies, but l never read ! tragedy more thrilling than that case. and similar cases by the hundreds and thousands | In all our large eitiesi young women without | money and without homo and without work in | these great inaelslroifis Of metropolitan life. | When such case comes under your observa | tiou, how do you treat iti "Get out of the | way we have no room fin our esta ab shfnert | for any more hands. 1 don't believe ID wont | en anyway. they are a lazy, idle, worthless set John, please show this person out of he | door" Or do you compliment her personal appearance and say things to her which if | any man said 10 your sister or daughter you would kill him on the spoii That is one way, | and 1t is tried every day in these large cities and many Of those who advert Sc for female bands In factories and for eoyernesses in ] families have provel themselves unit to be | in any place outside Of hell
 | But there Is another way, and 1 saw 1t the | other day in the Methodist Book Concern in | New York, where young woman applied Tor work and the gentleman in tone and manner | said in sEbstahees My daughter, VIC employ women here, but do not know cf any vacant | place in our department You had better in- | puirc at sneh and such place, and ! hops | you will be sbCcessfu iu getting something to | dou The embarrassed and huInlliatet Christian confidence. She started out wi.,, a hopeful look that think must have won for her place in which to earn her bread l | rather think that cons derate and Christian ! gentleman saved woman. New York and Brooklyn ground up list year about thirty | thousand young women, and would like 10 | grind tip about as many this year Out or | all that long process on Of women who march l on with no hope for this world or the next | battered and bruised and scoited at and flung | of the pfecipIcej fot cnc but might have been saved for home and God and heaven. But | good men and good women are not in that | kind of business. Alas for that poor thingl | nothing but the thread of that sewing-giri's
 needle held her, and the thread broke. l | have heard men tell in public discourse wh at a man is, but what io wonaul Uutl some | one shall give better definition l will tell | you what a woman is ID rect from God | sacred and delicate gift with affections SO
 great that no measuring iine short of tue in.
 finite God can tell their bound. Fashioned | to reine and sooth and lift and irradiate home and society and the world. Oi such | value that no one can appreciate it. unless his mother lived long enough 60 let him un- derstand it. or who in some great crisis of life when all else failed him, had wife to reinforce him with q faith in God that noth- | ing could disturb. Speak out, ye cradles and tell of the feet that rocked you and the anxious faces that lowered over youl Speak out, ye nurseries of all Chr stendom, ant
 ye homes, where desollte or still in full
 bloom with the faces of wife, mother, aud daughter, and help me 10 define what Voman | Is. If man during all his life accomplish
 nothing else except 10 win the love and con
 fidence and help and companionship Of a good woman, he is garlanded victor and | ought to have the hands of all people between
 here and the grave streatched out to him in | congratuation.
 But as geograDhers tell us that the depths of the sea correspond with the heights Of the | mountains, l have to tell YOU that good
 womanhood is deep down. The grander the
 palace, the more awful the conilsgration that
 destroys fl. The grander the steamer Oregon
 the more terrible her going down just of the
 coast Now l should not wonder II you trem-
 bed a little with a sense Of res possibility
 when say that there Is hardly person in
 this house but may have au opportunity to
 save woman. It may in your case be done
 by good advice or by financial help, or by
 trying to bring to bear some one of a thous md
 Christian influences You would not have to
 go far. If. for instance, you know among
 your acqualntanees a young woman who IS
 apt to appear on the streets about the hour
 when gentlemen return from business and
 you find her responding to the smile ot entire
 strangers, hogs that lift their hat. go to her
 and plainly tell her that nearly all ihe de-
 stroycd 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 and breaking down in health
 and spirits trying to support her children,
 now that her husband Is dead or an invalid
 doing that very important and honorable
 work but which is little appreciated, keeping
 a boarding-house, where all the guests, ac-
 eording 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 10 get
 her more patrons and tell her
 Of divine sympathy. Yea, If you see
 a woman favored of fortune and with all kind l ly surroundings finding in the hollow fiat
 
 ing for herself and for time as if there were
 no eternity. strive to bring her into the king
 dom of God as did the other day Sabbath
 school teacher whO was he means of the con-
 version of the daughter Of a man of immense
 wealth, and the daughter resolved 10 join the
 church, and she went home and said: Path
 CT, am going to join the church and l want
 you to eome.n "oh, no" he said, 'I never
 go to church.r ''Well," said the daughter
 If were going to be married, would you not
 go 10 See me marriedl" And he said: "Oh,
 yesn "Well," said she ''this Is of more i'm.
 portance than that" So he went and has
 gone ever since and loves 10 go l do not
 know but that faithful Sabbath-sehool teach
 CT not only saved woman but saved man.
 There may be in this audience gathered from
 all parts of the world, tue most cosmopolitan
 assembly in all the earth, there may be a man
 whose behavior toward womanhood has been
 perfdious. Repentl Stand up. thou master
 piece of sin and death that l may charge
 you! As far as possible, make Teparaiion l no not hoast that yOu have her in YOur IDWer