Democratic messenger., 1888-10-13
GREAT THINGS TOD0'
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tragedy more thrilling than that case. and
similar cases by the hundreds and thous.
ands In all our large cities-young women
without money. and without home, and
without work In these great maelstroms
of metropolitan life. When such case
comes under your observation. how dc
you treat it' "Gct out Of my way: we
have no room in our establishment for
any more hands. don't believe IN wo.
men, anyway; they are lazy, idle, worth.
less set. John please show this person
out of the door," Or do sou compliment
her personal appearance. and say things
to her which II any man said to your sis.
ter or daughter you would kill him on the
spot' That Is one way, and II Is tried
every day in these large cities. and many
Of those who advertise for female hands
in factories and for govcrnesscs 10 iami-
lies have proved themselves unf, 10 he
any place outside of hell
But there is another way, and saw il
the other day In the Methodist Book Con
ccrn in New York, where a young woman
applied tor work. and the gentleman in
tone and manner said In substance: My
daughter, We employ women here, but !
do not know oi any vacant place in our
department You had better inquire at
such and such place. and hope you will
he successful in getting something 10 do.
The embarrassed and humiliatcd woman
seemed to give way TO Christian conf
dence. She started out with hopeful
look that think must have won for her
place In which to earn her bread.
rather think that consideratc and Christ
ian gentleman saved woman. New York
and Brooklyn ground up last year about
$4,000 young women, and would like to
grind up about rs many this year. Out Of
oil that long procession Of women. who
march ON with no hope for this world or
the next, battered and bruised and scoffed
ut and flung of the precipiece. not one but
might have been saved for home and God
and Heaven. But good men and good
women are not In that kind Of business.
Alas for that poor thing nothing but the
thread Of that sewing girls needle held
her, and the thread broke. I have heard
men tell in public discourse what q man
Is, but what Is a woman: Until someone
shall give better definition. I will tell
you what woman Is. Direct from God.
sacred and delicate gin, with affections
so great that no measuring line short of
that ofthe infinite God can tell their
bound. Fashioned to refine and soOthe
and hft and irradiate home and society
and the world. or such value that no one
can appreciate II. unless his mother lived
long enough to lc, him understand Il, or
who in some great crisis of life when all
else failed him had wife TO reinforce him
with q faith in God that nothing could
disturb. Speak out, ye cradles, and tell Of
the feet that rocked you and the anxious
faces that hovered over you, Speak on,
yc nurseries Of all Christendom, and yc
homes, whether desola,e or sti!l in full
bloom with the faces OF wife, mother and
daughter, and help me TO define what wo.
man Is. II a man during all his life accom-
plish nothing else except to win the love
and confidence and help aud companion
ship of good woman, he is garlanded
victor and ought TO have the hands Of all
people between here and the grave
stretched ou, to him in congmiulation.
THE FATE ~ fLIHTs.
But as gcographers tell us that the
depths Of the sea correspond with the
heights of the mountains, have 10 tell
you that good womanhood Is no, higher
up than had womanhood i. deep down.
The gran,lcr the place the more awful
the conilagraiion that destroys il. The
grander the steamer Oregon. the more
terrible her going down just oil the coast
Now should not wonder IL you ;rembled
little with sense of responsibility
when say that there is hardly person
in this house hut may have an oppOr;uni.
" 10 save woman. II may in your case
bc done by good advice, or by financial
help. o: by trying 10 bring 10 bear some
one Of thousand Christian Influences
You would not have to go far. II, for in.
stance, you know among your acquain-
tanccs young woman who is apt 10 ap.
pear on the streets about the hour when
gentleman return from business, and you
lind her responding to the smile of entire
strangcrs-hogs that lift their hat-go to
her and plainly tell her that nearly all
the destroyed womanhood Of the world
began the downward path with that very
kind of behavior.
Or IL. for instance, you find a woman In
financial distress and breaking down In
health and spirits trying to support her
children, now that her husband is dead or
an invalid. doing that very important and
honorable work. but which is little apprc-
ciated, keeping boarding-hOusc. where
all the guests, according as they pay small
board. or propose, without paying any
board at all, to decamp. are critical Of
everything and hard to please, busy your
selves In trying to get her more patrons
and tell her ofdivine sympathy. Yea, if
you see woman favored Of fortune and
with all kindly surroundings finding
in the hollow batteries Of the world her
chief regalement. living for herself and
for time as II there were no eternity.
strive TO bring her into the Kingdom Of
God. as did the other day Sabbath'school
teacher who was the means Of the conyer-
sion of the daughter of man Of immense
wealth, and the daughter resolved To join
the church, and she went home and said;
Father. am going to join the church
and want you TO come" 4" "Oh nc" he
said, "ncyer 20 TO church.. i.
"Well. said the daughter, II were
going 10 be married would you not 20 tO