The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-15
TALMAGE ON QUEENS.
HE PUTS TAE CORONET ON THE HEAD
OF THE SCHOOL TEACHER.

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OF THE SCHOOL TEACHER.
| A Glowing Tribute to Woman's Work III
the school and in the Church--fhe In
justice Of the Law--an Appeal for y ustice.
"Among the queens whom 1 honor
are the female day-school teachers OF
this land" said Rev. DR.. Talmage Sun-
day morning in the course OF his fifth
sermon to the women OF ''merica. 81
put upon their brow the coronet. They
are the sisters and the daughters of our
towns and cities, selected out Of vast
number of applicants because of their
especial fitness and moral endowments
There are in none of your homes women
more worthy. These persons, some OF
them come out from affluent homes,
choosing teaching as useful profession;
others go to teaching to tighten the load
of their parents. But 1 tell you the
history OF the majority Of the female
teachers in the public schools when l
say: Father is dead After the estate
was settled, the family that were COM
Portable before were thrown on their OWL
resources"
The Tabernacle was crowded and many
could not gain entrance. The subject OF
tbe sermon was ssThe Veil of Modesty."
cit is hard for men to earn living In
this day." continued the preacher, ''but
it is harder for wonen-their health not
so rugged, their arms not 50 strong, their
opportunities fewer. These persons,
after tremblingly going through the
ordeal of an examination as 10 their
qualifications to teach, half bewildered
step over the sill of the public school to
do two things-instruct the young and
earn their own bread. Her work is
wearing to the last degree. The man
agement of forty or fifty fdgety and in
tractable children, the suppression OF
their vices and the development of their
ezcellencies, the management ofrewards
and punishments, the sending OF SO
many bars OF soap and fnetooth combs
on benignant ministry, the breaking OF
so many wild colts for the harness OF
life, sends her home at night weak,
neuralgic, unstrung, SO that OF all the
weary people in your cities for i've
nights of the week there are none more
weary than the public school teachers.
Now, for Gods sake, give them fair
chance. Throw no obstacles IN the way.
| If they come out ahead in the race cheer
them. Ii you want to smite any, smlte
the male teachers; they can take up the
cudgels for themselves. But keep your
hands off of defenseless women. Father
may be dead, but there are enough
brothers left to demand and see that they
get Justice.
"Within stones throw of this build
ing there died years ago one of the
principals of our public schools. She
had been twenty-five years at that post.
She had LETT the touch of refinement on
multitude of the young. She had, out
of her slender purse, given literally
thousands of dollars for the destitute
who came under her observation as
school teacher. a deceased sisters
children were thrown upon her hands,
and she took care Of them. She was
kind mother to them, while she mother
ed g whole school. Worn out with
nursing in the sick and dying room OF
one of the household, she herself came
to die. She closed the school book and
at the SAME time the volume OF her
Christian fidelity; and, when sic went
through the gates they cried, sThese are
they who came out Of great tribulatlon,
and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood Of the Lamb.
"Oh, the opportunity which every
woman has OF being queen! Ihe
longer live tho more l admire good
vomanhood. And have come 10 form
nv opinion of the character Of q man by
his appreciation or .non-appreciatlon OF
woman. II q man has depressed idea
of womanly character be IS bad man,
and there is 10 exception to the rule.
The writings of Goethe can never have
any such attractions for me as Shake
speare, because nearly all the womanly
characters of the. great German have
some kind of turpitude. There is sell
dom womanly character IN al! his
yoluminous writings that would be
worthy of residence in respectable coal
cellar, yet pictured and dramatized and
emblszoned till ell the literary world is
compelled to see. MOI no! Give me
William Shakespeare's idea OF woman,
and T see it in Desdemona, and Cordelia,
and Rosalind, and Imogen, and Helena,
and Hermione, and Viola, and Isabella,
and Sylvia, and Perdita-all OF them
with enough faults to prove them human,
but enough kindly characteristics to give
us the authors. idea of womanhood-hls
Lady Macbeth only dark background
TO bring out the supreme loyellness OF
his other female characters.
ooh, women of America, rise to your
opportunity! Be no slave to pride or
worldliness or sin. Why ever crawl In
the dust when you can mount throne?
Be queens unto God forever.
nWhen T see a woman going about
her daily duty, with cheerful dignity
presiding at the table; with kind and
gentle, but firm, discipline presiding IN
the nursery, going out into the world
without any blast Of trumpet, following
in the footsteps of Him who went about
doing good, l say: This is Fashtl with
q veil on But when l see a woman OF
unblushing boldness, loud-voiced, with
a tongue of infinite Glitter clatter, with
arrogant look, passing through the
streets with q masculine swing, gayly
I srrayed in perfect hurricane Of mllh-
nery, 1 cry out: 'Vashti has lost her