The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-10-25

Good morningr The Old merchant goes
| away anu the young man goes behind his
| iesk and the tears roll down his cheeks 1t
Is the first time he has cried. Disaster made
| nm mad at everything, AMI mad at man
ana mad at God. But this kindness mets
him, and the tears seem to relieve his brain,
and his spirits rise from ten below zero TO
| eighty in the shade, and he comes
out OF the crisis And about three years
AFTER TINS young merchant goes into the old
merchants store and says; swell, my old
Irlend, J was this morning thinking over
what you did for me three years ago. You
helped me out of an awful crisis in my COM
mereial history. learned wisdom and pros
perity has come, and the palor has
gone out OF my wife's cheeks, and
the roses that were there when |
courted her In her fatherls house have
doomed again, and my business is splendid,
and thought ought to let you know that
you saved n mani" In q short time after,
shasy in his limbs and had poor spells
Is ca'lel TO leave tho world, and one
morning after he had read the twenty
third Psalm about 1.-THE Lord is my
shepherd" he closes his eyes ON this
world, and an angel who had been
mans dwelling, cries upward thu news that
the patriarch's spirit is about ascending.
And the twelve angels who keep the twelve
gates OF heaven unite in crying down to this
approaching spirit of the old man: "Come in
at any OF the twelve gates you choose!
Come in and welcome, for it has been told all
over these Celestial neighborhoods that you
saved man."
There sometimes come exigencies in the
life OF a woman. One morning about two
years ago saw in the newspaper that there
was young woman in New York whose
pocketbook containing thirty seven dollars
anu tnlrty-tnree cents nau Deen
tolen and she hal been left with.
out farthing at tho beginning of
winter in strange city, and no work.
And although she was stranger, l did
not allow the nine o'clock mail to leave the
lampost on our corner without carrying the
thirty-seven dol ars anil thirty three cents;
and the case was proved genuine. Now l
have. ,ad all Shakespeara's tragedies, and all
Victor Hugo's tragedies, and all Alex
ander Smiths tragedies but | never read
a tragedy more thrilling than that case,
and similar cases by the hundreds and
thousands in all our large cities; young wo-
men without money and without home and
without work in these great maestroms of
metropolitan life. When such a case comes
under your observation, how do YOU treat it.
Get out of my way, we have no room in our
establishment for any more hands. / don't be-
leve IN women anyway, they are lazy, idle.
worthless set John, please show this person out
OF the door" Or do You compliment her per-
sonal appearance and say tn ngs to her which
II 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 for
female hands in factories and for governesses
in families have proved themselves unfit to
be in any place outside Of hell.
But there is another way. and / saw 1t the
other day in the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, where young woman applied
for work, and the gentleman in tone and
manner said in substance: MY daughter we
employ women here. but | do not know of
any vacant place in our department
You had better inquire at such and
such a place, and | hope you will DO
successful in getting something to do" The
embarrassed and Inundated woman seemed
to give way to Christian confidence. She
started out with hopeful look that | think
must have won for her a place in which to
earn her bread. l rather think that consid-
crate and Christ an gentlemen saved a
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 all
that long procession of women who march
on with no hope for this world or the next,
battered, bruised, scoifed at and flung c:F
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 poor thing!
nothing but the thread Of that evening girls
needle held her, and the thread broke. l have
heard men tel in public discourse what
man is, but what is woman. Until some
one shall give better definition l vii! 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 socthe 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 a faith in God that nothing could dis
turb. Speak out, We cradles, and tell of the
feet that rocked you and the anxious faces
that lowered over you'll Speak out, We
nurseries of all Christendom, and we homes,
whether desoiate or still in full bloom with
the faces of wife, mother and daughter, and
help me to define what woman is IL a man
during all his life accomplish nothing else
except to win the love and confidence and
help and companioRShip of good woman,
he is 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 geosraphers tell us that the depths
OF the sea correspond with the heights of the
mountains, | 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
it. The grander the steamer Oregon, the
more terrible her going down Just Off the
coast. Now ] should not wonder if you
trembled little with sense of responsible.
lty when say that there is hardly person
IN TINS house but may have an opportunity
to savea woman. 1t may, in your casa, be
by trying to bring to bear some one of
a thousand Christian influences. You
would not have to go far. If,
for instance, you know among your
acquaintance 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
and plainly tell her that nearly all the de-
stroyed womanhood of the world began the
downward path with that very kind of be-
havior
Or if, for instance you find woman in
financial distress and breaking down in
health and spirits trying to support her chill
dren, now 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
critical Of everything and hard to. please
busy yourselves in trying to get her more
patrons and tell her OF divine sympathy.
Yea, # you are a woman favored Of fortune
and all kindly surroundings. finding in the
hollow batteries of the world her chief re-
galement, living for herself and Tor time ar
II there were no eternity, strive to
bring her into the kingdom OF God, as did
the othe day a Sabbath-school teacher who
was the means of the conversion 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. ooh, no." he said, II never 60 to
We'll" said the daughter, ''if l were to be
married, would You not 60 to see me mar
riedP And he said: "Oh. yes" 'Well,n
said she, this is of more Importance than
that" So he went and has gone ever since,
and loves to go. | do not know but that
faithful Sabbath.school teacher not only
saved woman but saved man. There may
be in this audience gathering from all parts
Of the world, the most Cosmopolitan assembly
in all the earth, there may be man whose
behavior toward womanhood has been
perfidious. Repent Stand up, thou mas
LerDeca of sin and Iaath hot I cha