Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-27
MN TABERNACLE SERMON.
.,, Women Who Fight the Battles of
Life Alone"

WI. TO BE Her Own supervisor and
W" ,'..,,. Her Own Destiny-Thc Story of
,,,.. Doyc and the tult"re.
o,,,rS. Jan. S.-The Rev. T. De |
,,,i'. ralmaee, ID. D., preached at the
.MH.iI WIZ. this morning the first of a
.,.s of sermons to the women of America.
ss. b practical hints to men. The subject
VIZ MS discourse was "Ihe Women Who
o. g;,,,t the Battles Of Life Alone." and the
,ny was from Proverbs XIV, l; Every
'eN woman buildeth her house." DR..
,Talmage said:
" o,nan mere adjunct to man, an ape
My to the masculine volume, an APP
p sndd. a sort of afterthought, some.
. se, thrown in to make things even
. .h". j. the hercsv entertained and implied
.l III some men. This is evident 10 them:
Womon's insignifcance as compared to
wan is evident to them, because Adam waa
,;,, created and then Eve. They don't
,aad the whole story or they would find
,t to the porpoise and the bear and the
''mk we're created before Adam, so that
lotion might prove that the sheep and
~, 1oc we're greater than man. No! We
,l,n was an independent creation, and was
tended. if she chose. to live alone, to
n'o,S alone, act alone, think alone, and
iabt her own battles alone. The Bible
avs il is not good for man to be alone,
,nt never says it is not good for woman to
,s alone. and the simple fact is that many
women who are harnessed for life in the
marriage relation would be a thousand fold
hstter off if they were alone. God makes
NO mistake, and the fact that there is such
large majority of women in this land
mroyes that He intended that multitudes
IF them should 60 alone.
Vbo these men who. ypar after
hang around hotels and engine houses
and tLeater doors, and come in and out to
bother busy clerks and merchants and me-
chonics, doing nothing even when there is
nentv TO do? They are men supported by
heir wives and mothers. If the statistics
Of any OF our cities could be taken on this
snbiect Won would find that vast multitude
Of women not only support themselves, but
masculines. A great legion of men amount
TO nothing, and o woman by marriage
manacled to one Of these nonentities needs
condolepce. A woman standing outside
the marriage relation is several hundred
thousand times better off than a woman
badly married. Many bride, instead of
wreath of orange blossoms, might more
properly wear bunch of nettles and night
shade. and instead of the Wedding March
q more appropriate tune would be the Dead
March in Saul, and instead of banquet of
confectionery and ices there might be more
appropriately spread table covered with
apples of Sodom, which are outside fair
and inside ashes.
sense in other things has married one of
these men to reform him. What was the
result? Like when dove noticing that a
vulture was rapacions and cruel set about
10 reform it and said: 81 have mild dis
position, and like peace, and was brought
up in the quiet of 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 an altar of rock
covered with moss and lichen the twain
were married, a bald headed eagle officiat-
dominion of earth and sky l thee endow.
and promise to love and cherish till death
do us part" But one day the dove in her
flight saw the rulture busy at a carcass and
cried: "Stop that. Did you no: promise
lne that YOU would quit your carnivorous
and filthy habits il l married YOU" "Yes, I"
said the vulture, "but if you don't like my
way you can leave" and with one angry
stroke Of beall and another fierce clutch of
claw the vulture left the dove eyeless and
wingless and lifeless. And flock of
said: "See there! that comes from a
doves marrying a vulture to reform him. -
Many a woman who has had the hand of
young inebriate offered, but declined il or
VINO Was asked to chain her life to IL man
'eiilsh or OF bad temper and refused the
Shacllles. will bless Gcd throughout all
eternity that She escaped that earthly pan
demonium.
Besides all this, in our country about
,no',u''o men were sacrificed in our civil
war, and that decreca ,nJO,O0O women to
cellbacy. Besides that, since the war sew
e1al armies of men as large as the Federal
and Confederate armies put together have
fallen under malt liquors and distilled
spilts SO full OF poisoned ingredients that
'ne work was done more rapidly, and the
victims fell while yet young. And il So
'H0' men arc destroyed every year by strong
drink before marriage, that makes in the
twenty-thrce years since the war 100, 900
men slain, and DEGREES 800. 900 women 10
eelbacy. Take then the fact that so
many women are unhappy in their mar
rage, and the fact that the slaughter of
ooo men By war and rum combined
decides that at least that number of women
shall be unatanced for life, my text comes
III with cheer and potency and appro-
pilateness that | never saw in it before
when 1t says, Every wise woman buildeth
ner house, that is, let woman be her own
architect, lay her own plans, be her own
supervisor, achieve her own destiny.
IN addressing these who will have to
hsht the battle of life alone l congratulate
you on Your happy escape. Rejoice for
ever that You will not have to navigate the
faults OF the other sex, when you have
faults enough OF your own. Think Of the
oereavements you avoid, Of the risk of
lnassimilated temper which you will not
nave to run, of cares you will never have
10 carry, and Of the opportunity of outside
Usefulness from which marital life would
have partially debarred you, and that you
are tree TO 90 and come as one who has
the responsibilities of household can
seldom be. God has not given you hard
LOT as compared with your sisters. When
young women shall make up their minds
al the start that masculine companionship
IS IS not necessity in order to happiness, and
mat mat there is strong probability that they
WIZ have to fight the battle alone, they
Will be getting the timber ready for their
own fortune. and their saw and AK and
pane sharpened for its construction, since
Every wise woman buildeth her house. F"
AS no boy ought to be brought up with
out learning some business at which he