News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-18

/ u lIdScOy IlOTe lDTllllng imam that cast
| and similar cases by the hundreds an
| thousands in all our large cities: Young VIC
/ men without money and without home an
! without work in these great maelstroms O
metropolitan life. When such a case come
under your observation, how do YOU treat it
let out OF my way, we have no room in on
establishment for any more hands. l don't be
heVe In women anyway, they are lazy, idle
worthless set. John, please show this person on
of the door" Or do you compliment her per
sonal appearance and say things to her which
if any man said to your sister or daughter
you would kill him on the spot? That is one
way, and it is tried every day in these large
cities and many of those who advertise fol-
female hands in factories and for governesse:
in families have proved themselves unfit tC
be in any place outside of hell.
But there is another way. and | saw it the
other day in the Methodist Book Concern il
New York, where a young woman applied
for work, and the gentleman in tone anC
manner said in substance: ''BIy daughter w,
employ women here, but l do not know o.
any vacant place in our department
You had better INQUIRE at such anC
such a place, and L hope you will bt
successful in getting something to do" Tn
embarrassed and Inundated woman seemed
to give way to Christian confidence. Sht
started out with hopeful look that | thinE
must have won for her place in which tC
earn her bread. | rather think that consid-
crate and Christian gentlemen saved q
woman. New York and Brooklyn ground
up last year about thirty thousand
young women, and would like to GRIND
up about as many this year. Out of al
that long procession of women who march
on with no hope for this world or the next
battered, bruised, scOifed at and flung of
the precipice, 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 Door thing
a nf hot riy-trc
needle held her, and the thread broke. / have
heard men tel in public discourse what a
man l., but what is a woman: Until some
one shall give a better definition / will tell
you what woman is. Direct from God, a
sacred and delicate gift with affections SO
great that no measuring line short of that of
the infinite God can tell their bound. Fash
toned to refine and soothe and lift and
irradiate home and society and the
world. OF such value that no
one can appreciate it. unless his mother
lived long enough to let him understand it,
or who in some great crisis of life when all
else failed him, had a wife to reinforce him
with faith in God that nothing could dis
tuTb Speak out, We cradles, and tell of the
feet that rocked You and the anxious faces
that lowered over you'll Speak out, ye
nurseries of all ChrstendOm, and we homes,
whether deSoate or still in full bloom with
the faces of wife, mother and daughter, and
help me to define what woman is. If man
during all his life accomplish nothing else
except to win the love and confidence and
help and companionship of a good woman,
be is a garlanded victor and ought to have
the hands of all the people between here and
the grave stretched out to him in CON
graduation.
But as geographers tell us that the depths
of the sea correspond with the heights of the
mountains, l have to tell you that good
womanhood Is not higher up than bad woman
hood is deep down. The grander the palace,
the more awful the confagration that destroys
IL The grander the steamer Oregon, the
more terrible her going down Just off the
coast. Now ! should not wonder if you
trembled a little with sense of responsible
ity when | say that there is hardly person
III this house but may have an opportunity
to save woman. 1t may, in your case, be
done by good advice, or by financial help, or
by trying to bring TO bear some one of
3 thousand Christian influences. You
would not have to go far. If,
for instance, you know among your
acquaintance a young woman who is
apt to appear on the streets about the hour
when gentlemen return from business and
you find her responding to the smile of entire
strangers, hogs that lift their hat, go to her
and plainly tell her that nearly all the de-
'troyed womanhood of the world began the
downward path with that very kind OF be-
IA vior.
Or if, for instance you finI a woman in
financial distress ami breaking down in
ltdlll anu SDITllS lTF W upDOIO ucI Cuil-
lreu, pow that her husband is dead or an in
valid, doing that very important and honor
able work, but which is little appreciated,
keeping a boarding house, where all the
guests, according as they pay small
board, or propose, without paying
any board at al. to decamp, are
Fri teal Of everything and hard to please
busy yourselves in trying to get her more
patrons and tell her of divine sympathy.
y ca, if you are woman favored of fortune
and all kindly surroundings, finding in the
hollow batteries of the world her chief re-
galement, living fer herself and for time as
Il there were 10 eternity, strive to
bring her into the kingdom of God, as did
she othe day a SaUoath-school teacher who
was the means of the conversion of the
laughter of man of immense wealth, and
The daughter resolved to Join the church,
and she went home and said: Father, L
am going to join the church and l want you
to come" sob, no." he said, Il never go to
:hurch."
"Well," said the daughter, IF were to be
'ied!" And he said: ooh, yes" well"
aid she, "this is of more Importance than
hat So he went and has gone ever since,
and loves to go. l do not know bat that
faithful sabbath school teacher not only
'aved a woman but saved man. There may
De in this audience gathering from all parts
II the world, the most cosmopolitan assembly
n all the earth, there may be man whose
toward womanhood has been
1erfidious- Repent Stand up, thou mas
eTpiece of sin and death, that l may charge
you! As far as possible, make reparation.
Do not boast that you have her in your pow
IT and that she cannot help herself. When
hat 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,
md that * to a child a child does
'eem to amount to much. it is nearly year
Did before it can walk at all. For the first
year and half it cannot speak a word. For
The first ten years it would Starve if it had to
,arn its own food. For the first fifteen
7ears its opinion on any subject is abso-
utely valueless. And then there are so
many of them Myl what lots of childrenl
And some people have contempt for chill
Iren. They are good for nothing but to
wear out the carpets and break things and
,eep you awake nights crying. Well your
Stimate of a child is quite different
rom that mothers estimate who lost
Ter child this summer. They took it to
he salt air of the seashore and to
he tonic arr OF tue mountains, but
10 help came, and the brief paragraph of its
ife is ended. Suppose that life could be re-
tored by purchase, how much would that
,ereaved mother give! She would take all
he Jewels from her fingers and neck and
bureau and put them down. And if told that
Ildb WAS HOJ tlOliSbs BIC "Outh btlfAc iCl
house and make over the deed for IL, and il
hat were not enough she would call in all
Ter investments and put down all her mort
ages and bonds; and if told that were not
,nough, she would say: 81 have made over
Ill my property, and if | can have that child
back will now pledge that | will toll with
ny own hands and carry with my own Shout
ters in any KIM of hard work, and live
n cellar and die in a garnet. Only give
me- back that lost darling" / am glad that
here are those who know something of the
value of a child. Its possibilities are
What will those hands vet do.
Where will those feet Jet Walt? Toward
what destiny viii that never-dyinp soul he
take itself! Shall those lips be the throne OF
blasphemy or benehctiOn. Come all We
surveyors OF the earth, and bring link and
chain and measure if you cln its possible
possessions. Come, all ye astronomers of the
earth, with your telescopes, and tell us if Won
can see the range of its eternal fight Come
all ye chrOnologiSts, and calculate the de.
cadeS on decades, the centuries on centuries.
the cycles on cycles, the eternities on eier-
mites of its lifetime. Oh, to save n
child Am not right in putting that among
the great exploits. Yes, it beats the other
two, for if you save the child you save the
man or you save the woman. Get the first
twenty years OF that boy or girl all right and
guess you have gOt-manhOOd or womanhood
all right, and their entire earthly and eternal
career all right. But what are you going to
10 with those children who are worse off
han if their father mother had died the
lay they were borns There are tens of
thousands of such Their parentage was
gainst them. Their name is against them
The structure of their skulls against them
Their nerves and muscles contaminated by
he irebrlety or dissO' uteness of their parents
hey are 1praCtIcaly at their birth laid
,ut on plank in the middle of the Atlantic
Ocean in an ecu noctial gale and told to make
or shore. The fir gre ting they get from
he world IS to be called brat or a ragamuifin
II a wharf-rat. What to do with them IS
he question often asked. I here is ano her