Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

measurable. But have seen something com
pared with which that scene was bright and
songful 1t was q young woman who had
been all her days amid wealthy surroundings,
BY the visit OF death and bankruptcy n the
household turned out on acold world without
one lesson about how TO get food OF shelter.
and into the awful whirpoo Of city life
where strong ships have gone down, and for
twenty years not one word has been heard
from her. Vessels last week went out on the
Atlantic Ocean looking for O shipwrecked
craft that was left alone and forsaken on the
sea few weeks ago, with the idea OF bring
ing Il into port But who shall ever bring
again into the harbor Of peace and hope and
heaven that lost womanly immortal. driven
In what tempest. aflame in what condagra-
ton, sinking into what abyssl o God, helpl
D Christ, rescue,
Nv sisters. give not your tims to learning
fancy work which the world may dispense
with when hard times come, but connect
your skin with the indispensables Of life.
The world will always want something 70
wear and something TO eat. and shelter and
fuel for the body, and knowledge for the
mind and religion for the soul. Aud all
these things will continue to be the neces-
saries, and IL you fasten your energies upon
occupations and professions thus related the
world will be unable to do without you.
Remember that IN proportion as you are
skillful in anything your rivalries become
less. For unsxilled toll, women by the mill
ion. But you may rise to where there are
only a thousand: and still higher till there
are only hundred; and still higher till
there are only ten; and still higher In some
particular department till there Is only Q
unit, and that yourself. For a while you
may keep wages and a place through the
kindly smypsthies Of an employer. but you
| will eventually not get more compensation
than you can make yourself worth.
Let me say to all women who have already
entered upon the battle Of life that the time
Is nearing when woman shall not only 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
more adaptation. But this justice will come
to woman, not through any sentiment of gal
| lautry, not because woman is physically
weaker than man and therefore ought to
have more consideration shown her, but be-
cause through her finer potrral taste and
more grace Of manner and quicker perceps
tion and more delicate touch and more edu-
catod adroitneSs. she will, in certain callings.
/ be to her employer worth 10 per cent more
or 20 per cent more than the other sex. She
will not get it by asking for it, but by earn
ing it, and IL shall be hers by lawful con-
quest
Now, men Of America, be fair and give the
women chancel Are you afraid that they
will do some Of your work and hence harm
| your prosperitiesi Remember that there are
scores Of thousands of men doing women's
work. Do not be afraid God knows the
end from the beginning and he knows how
and when it gets too full he will end the
world and il need be start another. God will
halt the inventive faculty which, by pro.
ducing machine that will do the work Of
ten or twenty or hund red men and women,
will leave that number Of people without
work. hope that there will not be invented
another sewing machine or reaplng machine
or corn thresher or any other new machine
for the next 500 years. We want no more
wooden hands and iron hands and steel
hands and electric hands substituted for men
| and women who would otherwise do tho
work and get the pay and earn the Gvelf-
hood.
But God will arrange all, and all we have
to do is to do our best and trust Him for the
rest Let me cheer all women fighting the
battle OF life alone, with the fact that thou
| sands Of women have in that way won the
| day. Mary Lyon, founder of Mount Holy
oake female seminary, fought the battle
| alone; Adelaide Newton. the tract distrib-
utor alone; Ndelia Fisk, the consecrated
missionary, alone; Dorothea Dix, the angel
of the lunatic asylums, alone; Caroline Her
|
brother, alone; Maria Takrzewska, the heroine
Of the Berlin hospital, alone: Helen Chal.
mers, patron Of sewing schools for the poor Of
! Edinburgh. alone. And thousands and tens
of thousands Of women whose bravery and
selfsacrifce and glory of character the world
has made no record, but whose deeds are in
the heavenly archives of martyrs who fought
the battle alone, and though unrecognized
for the short thirty or fifty or eighty years
Of their earthly existence, shall, through the
quintillion ages of the higher world. be
! pointed out with the admiring cry: "Thess
are they who came out of great tribulation
and had their robes washed and made white
by the blood of the Lamb"
Let me also say for the encouragement Of
all women fighting the battle Of lite alone,
that their conflict will soon end. There is
one word written over the faces of many Of
them and that word is Despair. MY sister
you need appeal to that Christ who com.
forted the sisters Of Bethany In their do
nestle trouble, and who in his last hours for
got all the pangs of his own hands and feel
and heart as he looked into the face of mater
nal anguish and called friends attention te
il. in substance, saying: John, cannoi
take care of her any longer. Do for her as ]
would have done il had lived. Beholt
thy motherm II under the pressure Of
unrewarded and unappreciated work YOU
hair is whitening and the wrinkles come
rejoice that you are nearing the hour Of es
cape from your very last fatigue, and may
your departure be as pleasant as that o
Isabella Graham, who closed her life with
smile and the word peace" The daughte
of regiment in any army is all surrounded
by bayonets of defense, and in the battle
whoever falls, she is kept safe. And you ar
: the daughter of the regiment commanded b
: the Lord Of Hosts. After all, you are no
,, fighting the battle of life alone. All heave
is on your side. You will be wise TO apprc
pirate to yourself the words Of sacre
rhythm:
Cne who has known iu storms to sail
, have on bOard
4 Above the roaring OF the gale
heac my Lord.