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unit and tfrat yourselr. For a while you
may keep wages and a place throug b the
kindly smypath:es of an employer but YOU
| will eventually no. get more compensation
than you can make yourself worth.
Let me say to all women who have already
entered upon the battle of l'fe that the time
| is nearing when woman shall not only get rs
| much salary and wages as men get, but for
| certain styles of employment women will
| have higher salary and more wages for the
| reason that for some styles of work they have
| more adaptation. But tbs Justice will come
to woman, not through any sentiment of gal
lantry, not because woman is physically
weaker than man and t!mrerpre ought to
| have more consideration shown her, but be-
| cause through her finer natural taste and
| more grace Of manner and quicker percep-
| tion and more delicate touch and more edu-
Gated adroitness, she will, in certain callings,
| be to her employer worth 10 per cent moro
| or 90 per cent. more than the other Sex. She
| will not get it by asking for it, but by earn
| ing it, and it shall be- hers by lawful con-
quest.
Now, men Of America, be fair and give the
women chance! Are you afraid that they
will do some OF your work and hence harm
your prosperites! 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 lie knows how
many people this world can feed and shelter,
and when it gets too full he will end the
world and il need be start another. God will
halt the inventive faculty which, by pro.
ducin2 q machine that will do the work Of
ten or twenty or hund red mon and women,
will leave that number Of people without
! work 7 hone that there will not he invented
another sewing mag -e or reaping 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 and get the pay and earn the liveli-
hood.
But God will arrange oil, and all we have
to do isto do our best and trust Him for the
rest. Let me cheer all women fighting the
battle OF life alone, with the fact that thou
sands Of women have in that way won the
day. Mary Lyon, founder of Mount Holy
oake female seminary, fought the battle
alone; Adelaide Nowton. the tract distrib
utor, alone. fidelia Fisk, the consecrated
of the lunatic a-Slums, alone: Caroline Her
schel, the indis Jensable reinforcement Of her
brother alone; Maria Takrzewska, the heroine
Of the Berlin hospital, alone: Helen Chal.
mers. patron of sewing schools for the poor OF
Edinburgh, alone. And thousands and tens
of thousands Of women whose bravery and
sclf-sacrifce and glory Of character the world
has made no record, but whose deeds are in
the heavenly archives Of martyrs who fought
the battle alone, and, though unrecognized
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 admiring cry: "These
are they who came out Of great tribulaton
and had their robes washed and made white
by the blood of the Lamb"
Let me also say for the encouragement Of
all women fighting the battle of lite alone,
:, that their conflict will sooa end. There is
one word written over the faces Of many Of
them. and that word is Despair. My sister,
you need appeal to that Christ who COM
forted the sisters of Bethany In their do
mestic trouble, and who in his last hours for
! got all the pangs Of his own hands and feet
and heart as he looked into the face OF mater
it, in substance, saying: John, cannot
take care of her any longer. Do for her as I
would have done if 1 had lived. Behold
thy mother.n If under the pressure Of
unrewarded and unappreciated work your
hair is whitening and the wrinkles come,
rejoice that you are nearing the hour Of es-
cape from your very last fatigue, and may
your departure be as pleasant as that Of
Isabella Graham, who closed her life with a
smile and the word "peace." The daughter
of a regiment in any army is all surrounded
by bayonets of defense. and in the battle,
whoever falls, she is kept safe. And you are
the daughter of the regiment commanded by
the Lord of Hosts After all, you are not
fighting the battle Of life alone. All heaven
is on your side. Tou will hr wise to npnro-
pirate 70 yourself tho 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 blllows smits
shall not fall.
II short, It's sharp; IL long, It's light;
He tempers all.