The Somerset reporter., 1888-02-15
The Women.

The Rev. T Dewitt Tamage. d. D..
preached at the Tabernacle January :.
the hr-t If a series Of sermons To the
women Of America, with practical hints
70 men. The subject Of thi. discourse
was IT he Women Who Fight the Battles
Of Life Alone. and the text was from
Proverbs II l. Every wise woman
buildeth her house DR.. Talmage said
Woman mere adjunct 70 man. an APP
pendix 10 the masculine volume. an ap-
pendage. a sort Of a afterthought. some
thing thrown in To make thing- even
that is the heresy entertained and implied
by some men This is evident 70 them .
Woman's insignihcance as COMPARED to
man Is evident To them, because Adam
va. first created and then Eve. They
don't read the whole story or they would
md that the pOrpoise and the bear and
the hawk were created before Adam 80
that this argument drawn from priority
OF creation might prove that the sheep
and the dog were greater than man. No,
Woman WAS an independent creation. and
was intended, If she chose TO live alone
70 walk alone, act alone, think alone
and fight her own battle alone The
Bible says it i. not good for man 70 be
alone, but never says it Is not good for
NlUD.E
fact i that many women who are
harnessed for life in the marriage rela-
ton would be a thoussnd-fold better off
il they were alone God makes no mis-.
take and the fact that there i such a
large majority of women Ia this land
proves that He intended that the multi
tudes Of them should 90 alone
II the statistics Of any Of our cities
could be taken on this subject you would
ind that vast multitude Of women not
only supported themselves, but the mascu-
lines, A great legion Of men amount to
nothing, and woman by marriage man
acled To one Of these nonetities needs
coincidence. A woman standing outside
the marriage relation is several hundred
thousand times better of than a woman
badly married. Many a bride, instead Of
a wreath Of orange blossoms, might more
properly wear bunch Of nettles and
n ightshade. and instead of the Wedding
March 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 cover with apples Of Sodom, which
are out side fair and inside ashes
Many woman who has had the hand
of a young inebriaJed offered. but de-
clined il. or who was asked % chain her
life 10 a man selfish or of bad temper and
refused the shackles, will bless God
throughout all eternity that she escaped
that earthly paedemonium.
Besides all this in our country about
1000 90 men We're sacrificed in our civil
war, and that decreed loo 90 women
10 celibacy. Besides that since the war
several armies of men as large as the
Federal and Confederate armies put TO-
gether have fallen under malt liquors and
distilled spirits 80 full Of poisoned in
gradients that the work was done more
rapidly, and the victims fell while vet
young. And if $1,000 men are DESTROYED
every year by strong drink before mar
rage, that makes in the twenty-three
year, since the war 1850 90 men slain.
and DEGREES /, LOO 900 women to celibacy.
Take then the fact that SO many women
are unhappy in their marriage. and the
fact that the slaughter of 2.l5ooDO men
by war and rum combined, decides that
al least that number of women shall be
unbalanced for life, my text comes in
with cheer and a potency and appro-
priateness that l never saw in it before
when it says. Every wise women build
eth her house, that is. let woman be her
own architect, lay her own plans, De her
own supervisor. achieve her own destiny.
God has not given you a hard
lot compared with your sisters. When
young women shall make up their minds
at the start that masculine companionship
Is not necessity in order to happiness,
and that there Is a strong probability
that they vii. have TO light the battle
alone, they WILDE getting the timber ready
for their own fortune and their saw and
AK ami plane >harpened for il con>truc-
ton, since Every wise woman buildeth
her house My advice to all
girls and all unmarried woman. whether
in at,luent homes or in homes where most
stringent economies are grinding i to
learn u do some Kind of work that the
world must have while the world stands !
Let ME also say for the encour-
agement Of ali women lighting the battle :
Of life alone that their conflict Will soon
end. The daughter of regi- |
ment in any army is all surrounded by |
oayonets of defense, and in the battle. |
whoever falls, she is kept safe. And |
you are the daughter of the regiment
by the Lord of Hosts After
all, you are not lighting in the battle Of
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