The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-08

daughter you would kill him on the spot2
That is one way, and 1t is tried every day
in these large cities, and many of those
who advertise for female hands in factories
and for governeIses in families have prov
cd themselves unfit TO be in any place out
side OF hell.
But there Is another way, and saw il
the other day in the Methodist Book Con-
Germ in New York, whore young woman
applied for work and the gentleman in tone
and manner said in substance: "Mv
daughter, we employ women here, hut /
do not know OF any vacant place in our de-
parlmont, You had better inquire at
such and such place, and | hope YOU
will be successful in getting something TO
do The embarrassed and Inundated
woman seemed 10 give way 10 Christian
confidence. She started out with hope
ful look that | think must have won for
her q place in which 10 earn her bread.
rather think that considerable and Chris
tlan gentleman saved woman. New
York and Brooklyn ground up last year
about thirty thousand young women, aud
would like to grind up about ~ many this
year Out of all that long procession Of
women who march ON with no hope for
this world or the next, battered and
bruised and scotlcd ut ard flung oil tho
prccipicc, 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 sew
ing-girls needle held her, and the thread
broke. have heard men tell in public
discourse what q man Ia, but what Is u
woman Until some one shall give bet
ter definition, | will tell you what u
woman Ia; Direct from God, u sacred aud
delicate gift with affections so great that
no measuring line short OF that Of the in
finite God can tell their bound Fash.
toned 10 refine and sootho and lift
and irradiate home and society and
the world. OF such value that
no one can appreciate Il unless
his mother lived long enough 10
let him understand IL, or who in
some great crisis Of life when all else
failed him, had wife 10 reinforce him
with faith in God that nothing could dis.
turb. Speak out, yc cradles, and tell Of
the feet that rocked you aud the anxious
faces that lowered over youl Speak out,
W nurseries Of all Chrstcndom, and We
homes, whether dcsolatc or still in full
bloom with the faces Of wife, mother, aud
daughter, and help me To define what
woman In. Ii q man during nll his life ac-
complish nothing else except 10 win the
love and confidence aud help and COM
panionship OF good woman, lac IN gar
landed victor aud ought 10 have the hands
of all people between hero and the grave
stretched out to him Ia congraiulation.
hut ~ gcographcs tell rs that the
depths Of the sea correspond with the
heights Of the mountains, ! have Ia tell
you that good womanhoOl IL not higher
up than bad womanhood IL deep down.
The grandcr the palace, the morc awful
the coniagration that DESTROYS H. Tho
grnndcr the steamer Oregon, the more ter
ride her going down just of the coast
Now should not wonder II You trcmhlcd
little with sense OF responsibility when
! say that there IN hardly u person Ia this
house hut may have an opportunity tu
save u woman. II may IN your ease bu
done 10y good advice, or 10y financial hclp,
| ~ 10y trNiag IA bring 10 bcu aonc ono 81
| the thousand Christian Influences. Ior
| would not have 10 20 far. II. Tor instance
! YOU know among your acquaintance d
young woman who IL apt toappcar ON the
streets about the hour when gentlemen re-
turn from business and you find her ~.
spending Ia the smile oi entire strangers
hogs that liit their lat, ~ Ia her aul
plainly tell her that nearly all The destroyed
Womanhuoi IT the world BEGAN the down.
ward path with that very kind ol behavior
or II, for instance, YOU find woman in
financial distress and breaking down Ia
health aud spirits trying 90 support her
children, now that her husband b dead or
an invalid. doing that very important aud
honorable. but which Is little appreciated.
keeping q boarding house, where Rll the
guests, according as they pay small board,
or propose. without paving any board ut
all. 10 dCcnmp, arc critical IT everything
aud hard Ia please, busy yuur,clycs la Try
ing Ia got her mouc patrons aud tell her ol
divine sympathy. Yea, II YOU see We.
man favored 81 fortune and with ull kindly
surroundings finding IN tho hollow Halter
les Ut the world her chief rprnlrmcni, liy.
ing Tor herself aud ior time ~ II there Wcrr
no eternity, strive 10 bring hes into TIA
kingdom IT God, ns lid the other day
sabbath school teacher. who was ihu
means OF the conversion II the daughter OF
man ul immense wealth, aud the
daughter resolved tp Join the church, and
she vent homo md uid Father. | 1m
going Ia Join the church aud | want you
tp come ooh, no. be- said, 81 never
90 to church" "Wcll," said thr
daughter. III ! were going io be- married.
Wuull YOU not go Ia see me- mlrfivdY
And be- said. "Oh, yes" "Wrll," 1il
she. "thia o. 81 nUV importance than
that" 81 he went aud hng gone ever
since. and loves Ia ~. 10 not know hut
that faithful sabbath school teacher not
only saved woman but saved @ mru.
There may bc In this audience, gathered
from nII parts Oi the world, the most cpF-
mupollan assembly In nll the earth, there
may ho 70 man whose behavior toward
womanhupi has been portidiouA Re-.
upnN Stand az, thou masterpiece ui
H.n and death. that may charge yuul A.
ur ns possible make reputation. 10 not
hUnsi that yuu have hcf in your power and
that Hhu cannot help herself Whom that
tine COLLAR aud Cr,yat aud that elegant
suit ui clothes comes Of aud your uucuy.
cred H0ul stands Ia judgment and before
God, you will be better oil d you save that
woman.
There s another exploit that yon con
| DO, md that is 10 save child A child
docs u1, frDm a. amount to much II is
nearly year old before it can walk HI aI'.
| For The Grt year and n hall Ii CaInot
speak % word. For the lint ten y,Iu %
would Htryr II Ii had tD earn Us own food.
lUf thr lint fifteen wears iig opinion un
auy subject h. absolutely ylluolcsG Aud
| then there are 80 many oi them. Ny
| what lots ut children They 1r good i0I
nothing Lgi o. wear out The carpets aud
| break things and keep YOU awake night,
/ CRYING Well. your estimate ut child 3.
/ quite different from that mothers c,Ii.
naio who lost her child this summer.