Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-19

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and scotfed at and flung Off til
precipice. not one but might HAY
been saved for home and God an
Heaven. But good men and good womel
are not in that kind of business. Ala
for that poor thing. nothing but tn
thread of that sewing girls needle hell
her, and that thread broke. I have hear,
men tell in public discourse what maj
is, but what is woman? Until som
one shall give better definition I viii
tell you what u woman is. Direct from
God. a sacred and delicate gift with Of
fections so great that no measuring lin.
short of that of the infinite God can tel
their bound. Fashioned to refine ant
soothe and lift and irradiate home an(
society and the world. OF such value
mother lived long enough to let him rn-
derstand it, or who i'll some great crisis
of life when all else failed him, had /,
wife to re-enforce him with faitll in
God that nothing could disturb. Speak
out, We cradles, and tell of the feet that
rocked you and the anxious faces that
lowered over you! Speak out, We nurs-
cries of all Christendom, and We homes.
whether desolate or still in full bloom
with the faces of wife, mother, and
daughter. and help me to define what
woman is. IT man during all his life
accomplish nothing else except to win
the love and confidence and help aud
companionship of q good woman, he is
the garlanded victor and ought to have
the hands of all people between here
congratulation.
But as geographcrs tell us that the
depths of the sea correspond with the.
heights of the mountains, l have I'd tel.
you that good womanhood is not higher.
up than bad womanhood is deep down.
The grander the palace. the more awful
the contlagration that destroys it. ThcI
grander the steamer Oregon. the m6reI
terrible her going down Just off the coast.
Now | should not wonder if you tremblel
i; little with sense of responsibility
when [ say that there is hardly person
in this house but may have an epportu-
nifty to save woman. 1t may in your
case be done by good advice, or by tinan
cial help, or by trying to bring to bear
some of thousand Christian Influences
You would not have far to go. If, for in
stance, you know among your acquaint-
ances young woman who is apt to APP
pear on the streets about the hour when
you find her responding to the smile of
entire strangers, hogs that lift their
hats. 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 ii, for instance. You find q woman
in financial distress and breaking down
i'll health and spirits trying to support
her children, now that her husband is
dead or an invalid, doing that very i'm
portant and honorable work, but which
is little appreciated, keepinga board
ing-house, where all the guests, accord
ing as they pay small board. or propose,
without paying any board at all, to de-
camp, are critical of everything and hard
to please. busy yourself i'll trying to get
her more patrons and tell her of divine
sympathy. Yea, if you see woman IA
vored of fortune and with all kindly
surroundings finding in the hollow fiat
living for herself and for time as if
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 conversion of the
daughter of q man of immense wealth,
and the daughter resolved to join the
church, and she Went home and said:
Father, I am going to join the church
and want you to come" ooh, no." he
said, IL neve. go to church. well. :"
said the daughter, if were going to be
married would you not go to see me mar
ried?" And he said: "Oh, yes. well.
said she. this is of more importance than
that" SO he Went, and has gone ever
since, and loves to go. l do not know
but that faithful Sabbath scho oil teacher
not only saved a woman but saved man.
There may be i'll this audience gathered
F,,N all 4
cosmopolitan assembly in all the earth.
ward womanhood has been perfidious.
Repent! Stand up. thou masterpiece of
sin and death. that 1 may charge you.
AS far as possible, make reparation. DO
not boast that You have her in your
powerand that she cannot help herself.
When that fine collar and cravat and that
elegant suit of clothes comes off and
your uncovered soul stands in Judgment
and before God, you will be better off if
you save that woman.
There is another exploit that you can
do, and that is to save n child. A child
does not seem to amount to much. 1t is
nearly year old before it can walk at
all. For the first year and half it can
not speak word. For the first ten years
it would starve if it had to earn its own
AOou. u VI VIC AfsI llteeu years ltS Opln-
ions on any subject are absolutely
valueless. And then there are SO many
of them. My! what lots of children.
And some people have contempt for
children. They are good for nothing
but to Wear out the carpets, and break
things and keep you awake nights cry
ing. Well, your estimate of child is
quite different from that mothers esti-
mate who lost her child this summer.
They took ittothe salt air of the seashore
and to the tonic air of the mountains,
but no helr came, and the brief para
graph of its life is ended. Suppose that
life could be restored by purchase, how
much would that bereaved mother give?
She would take all the jewels from her
fingers and neck and bureau and put
them down. And if told that that. was
not enough, she would take her house
and make over the deed for it, and if that
were not enough would call in all her
investments and put down all her mort
cages and bonds; and if told that were
not enough she would say: II have
made erall my property, and if can
have that child back will now pledge
that will toll with my own hands and
carry with my own shoulders in any kind
of hard work, and live in a cellar and
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