Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-12


year sbou, 10000 youog women, ano
would like to grind up ABOUT IS mary
this year. On. of all that long proces
sion Of women who march On with 10
hope for this world or the uext, battered
snd bruised and scofsd 81 ana fan eff
the precipice, rot one bu. might have
Blu. good men and good women aIe not
IN this. kind OF business. Alas for3
THAT POOR THINGi
nothing bu. the thread Of thss sewing
girls needle held her, and the thread
broke. l have heard men tell in public
discourse Whist man is, out what is 8
womaL? Until some one shall give
better definition will tell you what
woman Is: Direct from GOD, sacred
snd delicate gift. with Affections 50 CREST
that 70 measuring line short Of that OF
the Infinite God can tell their bound.
Fashioned to rehae and soothe aud lit
ard irrsdiste home and society and the
world. OF such value that no one Can
sppre -iste 1t, unless his mother lived
long enough to let him understand II, or
VINO in some great crisis CT life when all
else failed him, had wife to reiufoIce
him with faith in G9d that nothing
could disturb. Speak out, ye cradles,
aHd tell OF the fee. thst rocked you ana
the 81 Iious faces that lowered over you!
Speak cut, ye nurseries CT sill Cotisten-
dom, and We homes, whether des0lole or
still in fall bloom with tie faces Ct vile,
mother, and daughter, and help me TO de-
fac whst woman is. II g msl during al
his life accomplish nothing else pit 70
win the love aud conf & nee sad help
and c0mpsaionship CT good woman,
he is g garlsnded victor ana
ought 10 have the hands OF sll people BE-
tween hers snt the grave stretched out 10
him il corgIa:u.c:iol.
But SO geogrspher1 tsN US thai the
depths CT tae sea correspond vita the
haigths OF the mountains, have to tell
you that good WomhnhoCd Is not higher
up thSn baG WomsnLood is deep down
TIE grsnder the palsce, tee more eTfl!
the con f sgrstion that destroys II. The
gFender the steamer Oregon, the more
terrible her goirg down jus! OF tie
coast. Nov l should MT wonder il
YOU TREMBLED LITTLE
with sense of responsibility when l SAY
inst ihare is hsrdiy person in tais house
but may have sn opportunity TO cave {
woman. L: msy in your case be done BY
good advice, or by fnsucisl help, or BY
trying 10 bring to bear come enc of .
thousand Christian irfilerces. Yer
would;not have to 20 far. II, fer in
| stance, you know among your atQ1s L
tsnces q young woman who is apt ~ sp
| pear on the streets about the hour whei
gentlemen return from business sud yo'
| fad ner responding to the smile OF entire
strangers, hogs that lit. their hist, 20 &
her and plainly tell her tina! nearly all Il
destroyed womsnhood CT the world begsl
the downward path with that very kind C
J behavior.
! Or IL, for instance, you fld 2 woman i
| fnaucial distress snd breaking down II
hea tn and spirits trying to support be
children, now that her husband is dea
or is en invalid, doing that very tmpoI
tsnt and honorable work but which is lit
tie appreciated, keeping boarding
house, where all the guests, according e.
they psy small board, OF propose, with
out paying any board st al, to decsmp
are critical Of everything AID hard t
l please, busy yourselves in trying to &c
her. more patrons and tell her Q
divine ssmpathy. Yes, II ycu se
4. woman fsSored OF fortune and with >.
kindly surrou1Ninss finding y II: mn n how
batteries OF the ToNid he- chief REF gale.
msnt, living 70. hersss, and for time as ii
there were no eterrity. strive to bring
he. into the kingdom OF God, IS did tht
other day q Ssboath-scaool teacher who
was the means OF the conversion of TIE
daughter Of
MAN OF IMMENSE WEALTH,
snd the daughter resolved to jpn the
church. and she went home and said
"Father, sm goisg to join the church
and want you to come" "Ol no." be
said, ~ never go to church." "WeI, y
said the daughter, "if l were going to De
married, would you not 60 to gee me
merfied?" And be said: "O1, yes
"Well," ssid she, "this is Of more inss
port8rce than that" So he went, Ena
hes gone ever since, and loves TO go. /
do not know but that faithful Sabbath
| school tescher not only saved 6 woman
| but saved man. There may De II this
audience gathered from all psrts OF the
world, the most Cosmopolitan assembly
in ell the earth. there nay be a msi
whose behavior toward womanhood has
been perii'ous. Rapenti Ssnd up
thou masterpiece OF sin and death, that |
msy charge you! As far ss possible,
mske Iepsra.ion. Do not boast thst you
have her In your power sld that she can-
Rot help herself. When thsS fire cellar
and crsvst and that elegant suit OF clothes
comes CT snd your uncovered sou
stsnds in judgment and before God you
will be better Of II you save ths'
woman.
There Is another exploit inst you car
do, ard thst is 10 save q child. child
does not seem to amount to much. l. ii
nearly yesr old before It cen walk at all
For the first yesr and half 1t cam OF
spesk word. For the first ter years II
would stsrve IL 1t hsd to earn It's OWL
food. For the first fifteen years Its
opinion on any su jet is absolutely
vslueless. And thea there ere sc
many OF them. My. what lots of chill
oren! And some people have contempt
for children. They are good for nothiI g
but to wear cut the carpets and break
Well, your estimate CT child Is quite
different from that mothers estimate
who lost her child this summer. They
took 1t to the salt air Of the SEA shore aud
to the tonic air Ct the mountains. but nc
1elp Came, anu the orleI psrfSrepn OF
ITS LIFE Is ENDED.
Suppose that life could be restored b.
purchase, how much would that be
reaved mother give2 She would take al
the awels from her fagers ard neck and
bureau and put them down. And il told
that that was not enough, she would take
her house and make over the deed for IT,
and il thst were not enough she would
call In ell her INV stments and put dowr
al her mortgages and BONDS; snd II :olt