Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-01-09
WOMEN OF AMERICA.
WAO'NUSI SIRTGGLE SlNGLB-HANURD IN
IlPES ARDVOUS CONFLICT
DR.. laImages Discourse Last SuHdsy-Womal
Her Mission and Her Work-The Necessity Of
Of 4 Training for Self SuPPor-Flelds
v! WOmals Labor.
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>psciai telegram 10 he Register
BROoELYN, January s.-The Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage, D. D., preached at the
Tabernacle this morning the first Of series
Of sermons 10 the women Of America, with
practical hints for men. The subject Of
this discourse was, The Women Who
Fight the Battle OF Life Alone, and the
text was from Proverbs xiv. i Every
Sc woman buildeth her house DR..
Ialmagc said:
Woman, a mere adj unct to man, an ap-
peudiA to the masculine volume, an ap-
! ndage. q sort OF afterthCught, something
thrown in to make things eyen-that Is
It's heresy enteTtaintd and implied by
some men. This is evident to them: Wo-
mans insigniicance as compared TO man
Is evident TO them, because Adam was
first created and then Eve. They
don't read the whole story or
they would lind thai the pprpoise
and the beal and the hawk were created
before Adam, 80 that this Augment drawn
from priority OF created might prove that
the sheep aud the dog were greater than
man. No. Woman vas an independent
creation and was intended, if she chose,
TO live alone, to walk alone. act alone,
think alone, and fight her battles alone.
The Bible says it is not good Tor mau 10
be alone but never says it IS not good Tor
woman to be alone, and the simple fact Is
that many women who are haTuessed for
life in the marriage relation would be
thousand fold better OF if thcy "ere alone.
God makes 10 mistake, and the 1act that
there is such large majority ui wo;ncn n
this land proves that ha nlendvd thal
mulGtudes of them should 90 alorc.
Who are these men who year after year
hang around hotels and engine houses ami
theatre do0is and come in a#d ont TO both
er busy clerks and merchants and mechan-
ics, doing nothing even when other IL pteu-
" to DO They are men supported by
their wives and mothers. Ii the statistics
of any of our cities could be taken on this
subject you would lind that Il vast multi
tude of women not only support them
selves but masculines. 4 grclt legion OF
men amount to netting, and woman by
marriage mauaCed to one of these nonen-
titles needs coincidence. 4 wUmaD atGnd-
ing outside the marriage relation Is several
hundred thousand times better C!l thar a
woman badly married. Many bride IN
stead of 4 wreath Of orange blossoms might
more properly wear a bunch Of nGtJleS and
night shade, and instead OF the Wedding
March a more appropriate tune would b.
the Dead March in Saul, aui instead "f
"a banquet of confectionery AM ices there
might be more appropriately spread
table covered with apples oi Sod"mI,
which are outside lair and inside ashes.
MANY An ATTRACTIVE wUMNS
of good SOUND sense in other things hi-
.nat .cel ny Of these men to reicIm hlm.
what va, the reguliz Like v hen Il dove
noticing = allure was rapa@l1us and cruc!
set about to reform II 1ad SAID,
Il have Il mild disposition. and | like
peace, md was brought up 10 the quiet Of
q doye-cOtc, and / will bring the vulture e.
tie. ,.,ruc hiking hy marrying him So one
day ui.er the vulture had declared he
would give up his ctrniv0rous habits and
c-ise longing fnr blood Of hrck and herd,
at IN altar .! rcck covered with moss anu
lichen the twain were married. \ bald-
headed eagle officiating the yulture say
iug. "With all my dominion 0I earth and
sky | thee endow, and promise 30 love
and cherish till death death 10 u part.
Hut one day the dove in her
ilight saw the ulturc busy at a
carcass and cried, stop that did yea not
promise me that You would quit your ca
niverous and filthy habits ii ! mTIied
yOu?" Yes. ~ said the yul,urc, but If
YOU dou't like my way you can leave, '
and with one angry stroke OF beak and an.
other fierce clutch Of claw the vulture lei!
the dove eyeless and wingle.s and lite'es7
And q lock OF robins flying past cried TO
each other aud said See there that comes
from a doves marrying Il Vulture to re-
form him.
MANY a woman who has Rad the baud
of Young inebrilte offered but declined
it, or who WAS asked 20 chain her life to a
man selfish or OF bad temper and refused
the shackles will bless God throughout!
all eternity that she escaped that earthly
PandemOnium.
Besides all this, III cur country about
one million men were sacrificed in our
civil war, and that derrctd a million
women to celbaCY. Besides this, sine" the
var,
SEVERAL ARMIES Or MEN