The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-01-13

prosperous families OF Brooklyn ana Few
York and Christendom on the part OF the
daughters OF this day, demanding knowledge
in occupations and styles Of business by which
they may be their own defense and their own
support If all fatherly and husbandy and
brOtherly hands forever fail them. have
seen two sad sights-the one woman In all
the glory OF her Young life stricken by dis
ease, and in & week lifeless in home of
which she had been the pride. As her hands
were folded over the still heart and her eyes
closed for the last slUmber and she was taken
out amid the lamentations Of kindred and
friends thought that was a sadness imuieas-
trable. But haze seen something com pared
with which that scene was bright aud song
full Il was young woman who had been all
her DAYS amid Wealth. surroundings by the
visit Of death aud bankruptcy TO the house
hold turned out on cold world without one
lesson about how to get food or shelter, aud
into the awful whirlpool of city life, where
strong ships have gone down, and for twenty
years not one word has been heard from her.
Vessels last week went out on the Atlantic
ocean looking for "A shipwTeck craft that was
left alone and fOrsaken on the sea few weeks
ago with the idea of bringing ID into port. But
who shall ever bring again into the harbor Of
ceace and hope and heaven that lost wOmanly
immortal, driven in what tempest, atlame in
what connagratiOn, sinking into what abyssi
Q, God, help! q, Christ rescue
SKILL SURE or REWARD.
Nv sisters give not your time TO learning
fancy work which the world may dispense
with when hard times come, but connect your
skill with the indispensables of life. The
world will always want something TO wear
and something TO eat and shelter and fuel for
the body and knowledge for the mind and re-
ligiOn for the soul. And all these things will
continue to be the necessaries and if you
fasten your energies upon occupations and
professions thus related the world will be I'M
able to do without you. Remember that in
proportion as you are skilifuu in anything
your rlvalreS become less. For unskilled toll,
women by the million. But you may rise to
where there are only q thousand, and still
higher till there are only ten, and still higher
In some particular department till there is
only a unit and that yourself. For a while
YOU may keep wages and place through the
kindly sympathies of an employer, but YOU
will eventually get no more compensation
than you can make yourself worth.
GIVING WOMEN A CHANCE.
Now, men of America, be fair and give the
women a chance! Are you afraid that they
will do some of YOUR work and hence harm
YOUR properties! Remember that there are
scores of thousands of men doing WOmen's
work Do not be afraid! God knows the end
from the beginning and He knows how many
people this world can feed and shelter,
and when it gets too full He will end the
world and if need be start another God
ducing machine that will do the work Of ten
or twenty or hundred men and women, will
leave that number OF people without work.
hope that there will not be invented another
sewing machine or reaping machine or corn
thrasher or any other new machine for the
next 500 years. We want no more wooden
hands and iron hands and steel hands and
electric hands substituted for men and women
who would otherwise do the work aud Get the
paw and earn the livelihood. But God will ar
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best and trust Him for the rest. Let me cheer
all women fighting the battle of life alone
with the fact that thousands OF women have
In that way won the day. Mary Lyon, founder
of Mount HOlyoke female seminary, fought
the battle alone; Adelaide Newton, the tract
distributor, alone; Fidelia Fisk, the conse-
Grated missionary, alone; DOrOthea Dix, the
angel Of the insane asylums, alone; Carolina
Herschel the Indispensable reinforcement of
her brother, alone; Maria TallrZeWSka, the
heroine Of the Berlin hospital, alone; Helen
Chalmers, patron of sewing-schOOls for the
poor of Edinburgh, alone. And thousands
and tens of thousands of women Of whose
bravery and self-sacritice and glory of char
acter the world has made no record, but whose
deeds are in the heavenly archives of martyrs
who fought the battle alone and, though I'M
recognized for the short thirty or fifty or
eighty years of their earthly existence, shall
through the quintilliOn ages of the higher
world be pointed out with the admWing cry:
"These are they who came out of great tribu-
lation and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood of the Lamb.'
SURE HELP IN THE LORD.
Let me also say for the encouragement of all
women fighting the battle Of life alone, that
their conflict will soon end. There is one
word written oyer the faces of many of them
and that word is despair. My sister, you need
appeal to that Christ who cOmfOrted the sis
tiers of Bethany in their domestic trouble,
and who in his last hours forgot all the pangs
of his own hands and feet and heart as lie
looked into the face of maternal anguish and
called a friends attention to it, i'm substance
saving, John, / can not take care OF her any
longer Do for her as [ would have done if |
had lived Behold thy mOther!" II under the
pressure of unrewarded aud unapprecated
work your hair is whitening and the wrinkles
come rejoice that you are nearing the hour
of escape from yOIr very last fatigue, and may
your departure be as pleasant as that of ISa-
bella Graham, who closed her life with a
smile and the word peace "
The daughter of regiment in any army is
surrounded by bayonets Of defense, and in
the battle whoever fails she is kept safe And
manded by the Lord of Hosts. After all YOU
are not fighting the battle of lite alone All
heaven is on YOUR side. You will be wise to
appropriate to yourself the words of sacred
rhythm:
One who has known in storms to sail
| have on board;
Above the roaring of the gale
hear my Lord
He holds me; when the pillows smte
/ shall not fall.
If short. tits sharp; if long, tits light;