Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-12
M. c. r. ". NOTES.

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GHHAsVS at the Tabernacle Janu-
NAzAA "A uary s, the first of series
&MN of sermons to the women |
of America, with practic- |
al hints to men. The subject of this |
discourse was "The Women Who |
Fight the Battles of Life Alone,' and
the text was from Prov erbs AL. "Ev-
!, cry wise woman buildeth her house."
DIR. Talmage said:
Woman mere adjunct to man, an |
appendix to the masculine volume. an
appendage sort of afterthought,so some
thing thrown in to make things even
that is the heresy entertained and inn
piled by some men. This is evident to
them: Woman's insignificance as conn
pared to man is evident to them, be-
cause Adam was first created and then
Eve. They don't read the whole story
or they would find that the porpoise
and the bear and the hawk were Great
ed before Adam, SO that this argument
drawn from priority of creation might
prove that the sheep and the dog were
greater than man. No! Woman was
an independent creation, aud was in
tended il she chose, to live alone, to
walk alone. act alone, think alone, and
fight her own battles alone. The bible
says it Is not good for man to be alone,
but never says it is not good for woman
to be alone, and the simple fact is that
many women who are harnessed for
life in the marriage relation would be
thousand-fold better off if they were
alone. God makes no mistake, and the
fact that there is such large majority
of women in this land proves that He
intended that multitudes of them
should go alone. If the sta
tistics of any of our cities could be talk
en- on this subject you would find that
a vast multitude of women not only
support themselves, but masculines.
A great legion of men amount to moth
ing, and woman by marriage man
acled to one of these nonentities needs
coincidence. A woman standing out
side the marriage relation is several
hundred thousand times better off than
woman badly married. Many bride,
iustead of a wreath of orange blossoms,
might more properly wear bunch of
nettles and nightshade, and instead of
the wedding march more appropriate
tune would be the death march in Saul,
and instead of banquet of confection-
cry and ices there might be more APP
propriatly spread table covered with
apples of Sodom, which are outside fair
and inside ashes, Many q
woman who has had the hand of q
young inebriate offered, but declined
it. or who was asked to chain her life
to man selfish or of bad temper and
refused the shackles. will bless God
throughout all eternity that she escap-
ed that earthly pandemonium.
Besides all this, in our country about
1,OO0, 600 men were sacrificed in our
civil war, and that decreed 900, 900
women to celibacy. Besides that.since
the war several armies of men, as large
as the Federal and Confederate armies
put together have fallen under malt
liquors and distilled spirits so full pois-
oued ingredients that the work was
done more rapidly, and the victims fell
while yet young. And if $4,000 men
are destroyed every year by strong
drink before marriage, that makes in
the twenty-three years since the war
1,150, 900 men slain, and DEGREES 1,l5O,-
900 women to celibacy. Take then the
fact that so many women are unhappy
i'm their marriage, and the fact that the
slaughter of 2, 150, 900 men by war and
rum combined, decides that at least
that number of women shall be I'M
affianced for life, my text comes in
with cheer and a potency and appro-
priateness that never saw in it before
when it says, "Every wise woman
buildeth her house," that is, let wom'
an be her own architect, lay her own
plans, be her own supervisor, achieve
her own destiny. God has
not given you hard lot as compared
with your sisters. When young wom
en- shall make up their minds at the
start that masculine companionship i:
not necessity in order to happiness
and that there is a strong probability
that they will have to fight the battle
alone, they will be getting the timber
ready for their own fortune, and thei
saw and ak and plane sbarpened for it
construction, since "Every wise woman
buildeth her house." My al
vice to all girls and all girls and all un
married women, whether in affiuen
homes or in homes where most string
ent economies are grinding, is to lear'
to do some kind of work that the worl'
must have while the world stands
Let me also say for the en-
couragement of all women fighting tn
battle of life alone, that their confiic
Will soon end. 4 The daughte
of a regiment in any army is all SUI
rounded by bayonets of defence. and
in the battle, whoever falls, she is KEEP
safe. And you are the daughter of tn
regiment commanded by the Lord G
Hosts. After ALL you are not fighting
in the battle of life alone. All Heavel
is on your side.
A New York daily some time az
that aorap,a,, ;of h., I, 3,