Milford chronicle., 1888-01-13

b mornings through the slush and storm to tn,
e place where they shall earn only half enough
/ for subsistence, the daughters Of oncs
t prosperous merchants, lawyers, clergymen
? artists, bankers and capitalists who brought
e up their children under the internal delusioT
that it was not high toned for women to learn
r profitable calling Young women take
r this affair in your own hand and let there be
t an insurrection in all prosperous families OF
: Brooklyn and New York and Christendom
g on the part Of the daughters Of this day, de
r manding knowledge in occupations and styles
Of business by which they may be their own
} defense and their own support if all fatherly
and husbandly and brotherly hands forever
fail them
have seen two sad sights-the one a wo-
man in all the glory of her young life stricken
by disease, and in week lifeless in home OF
2 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, l thought that was a sadness inn
measurable. But have seen something COM
pared with which that scene was bright and
songful It was a young woman who had
been all her days amid wealthy surroundings
by the visit of death and bankruptcy to the
household turned out on a cold world without
one lesson about how to get food or shelter,
and 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 shipwrecked
craft that was left alone and forsaken on the
sea a few weeks ago, with the idea of bring
ing it into port But who shall ever bring
again into the harbor of peace and hope and
heaven that lost womanly immortal, driven
in what tempest, aflame in what coniiagra-
tion, sinking into what abyssl o God, help,
o Christ, rescued
My 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 religion for the soul And all
those things will continue to be the neces-
sarias, and if you fasten your energies upon
occupations and professions thus related the
world win be unable to do without YOU.
Remember that in proportion as you are
sldllful in anything your Tivalries become
less. For unskilled toll, women by the mil
lion. But you may rise to where there are
only a thousand and still higher till there
are only a hundred; end still higher till
there are only ten; and still higher in some
particular department. till there is only a
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 more compensation than
you can make yourself worth.
Let me say to all women who have already
entered upon the battle of life that the time
is coming when woman shall not only get as
much salary and wages as men get, but for
certain styles Of employment women will /.
have higher salary and more wages for the 1
reason that for some styles of work they have |
more adaptation. But this justice will come .
to woman, not through any sentiment of gall /
lantry, not because woman is physically .
weaker than man and therefore ought to .
have more consideration shown her, but be-
cause through her finer natural taste and
more grace of manner and quicker percep-
ton and more delicate touch and more edu-
Gated adrOitness she will, in certain callings,
be to her employer worth 10 per cent. more
or 20 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 a chancel Are you afraid that they
will do some of your work and hence harm
your prosperities2 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 will
halt the inventive faculty which, by pro
ducing a machine that will do the work of
ten or twenty ora hundred men and women,
will leave that number Of people RithOut
work. hope that there will not be invented
another sewing machine or reaping machine
or corn thTesher 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 and get the pay and earn the livelihood.
But God viii arrange ALL and all we have
to do is to 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 Newton, the tract distrib-
ntor, alone; Fidelia Fisk, the consecrated
alone; Dorothea Dix, the angel
Of the insane asylumS, alone; Caroline Her
brother, alone; Maria Talzrzewska, the heroine a
Of the Berlin hospital, alone; Helen Chal- '
ners, patron of sewing schools for the poor Of
alone. And thousands and tens
IF thousands of women of whose bravery and
elf sacrifice and glory Of character the world b
has made no record, but whose deeds are in
he heavenly archives of martyrs who fought a
he battle alone, and, though unrecognized g
or the short thirty or fifty or eighty years q
II their earthly existence, shall, through the L
luintillion ages of the higher world, be o
pointed out with the admiring cry: "These a
IRE they who came out of great tribulation e
md had their robes washed and made whits !,
" the blood of the Lamb 4
Let me also say for the encouragement Of ~
II women fighting tine battle of life alone, .,
hat their conflict viii soon end There is =
ne word written over the faces Of many Of e,
hem, and that word is Despair My sister, ,y
ou need appeal to that Christ who COM !,
orted the sisters of Bethany in their do q.
nestle trouble, and who in his last hours for
ot all the pangs Of his own hands and feet II
nd heart as he looked into the face of mater W
al anguish and called a friends attention to 70
{, in substance, saying: "John, cannot a,
axe care Of her any longer. Do for her as 1 a,
1ould have done if l had lived. Behold -
by motherf' If under the pressure Of -
and unappreciated work your 81
air is whitening and the wrinkles come, -
ajoice that you are nearing the hour Of es- q
ape from your very last fatigue, and may
our departure be as pleasant as that Of
5abella Graham, who closed her life with a
nile and the word peace" The daughter =
a regiment in any army is all surrounded ~ ~
y bayonets of defense, and in the battle, y
hoover falls, she is kept safe. And you are - =
le daughter Of the regiment commanded by - -
le Lord of Hosts. After all you are not r
ghting the battle of life alone All heaven ~ ~
ON your side You will be wise to appro- ~ y.
rate to yourself the words Of sacred ~ ~
iythm sh
One who has known Ia storms to sail AZ
have on board pr
Above the roaring Of the gale up