The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-12

million. But you may rise to where
there are only thousand: and still
higher until there are only a hundred;
and still higher till there are only ten;
and still higher in some particular de-
partment till there is only 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 no 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 afd
wages as men get, hut for certain styles
of employment women viii have higher
salary and more wages for the reason
that for some styles of work they have
more adaptation. But this justice will
come to woman not through any senti-
ment of gallantry, not because woman is
physically weaker than man and there
fore ought to have more consideration
shown her, but because through her finer
natural taste ID more grace of manner
and quicker perception and more delicate
touch and more educated 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 earning it,
and it shall be hers by lawful conquest.
Now. men Of America. be fair and
give the women a chance! Are you
afraid that they will do some of your
work and hence harm your properties?
Remember that there are scores of thou
sands 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 tie inventive faculty, which,
by producing machine that will
do the work of ten or twenty
or hundred men and women, will
leave 2|at number of people without
work. | hope that there viii not be in
vented another sewing machine, or reap
ing machine, or corn thrcsher, or any
other new machine for the next SEQ
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 live
ihood.
But God will arrange all, and all we
have to co 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 thousands of women
have in that way wen the day. Mary
Lyon, founder of Mount Holvoke female
seminary, fought the battle alone; Ade-
laide Newton, the tract distributor. alone:
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alone; DorO;hea Dix. the angel of
the insane aSylum3, alone; Caroline Her
schel. the Indispensable reinforcement
Of her brother, aionc; Maria Takrzewska.
the heroine of the Berlin hospital,
alone: Helen Chalmers. patron of sewing
schools for thepoor of Edinburgh, alone.
And thousands and tens of thousands of
women Of whose bravery and self sacri-
flee and glory of character the world has
made no record. but whose deeds arc in
the heavenly archives of martyrs who
fought the battle alone, and. though I'M
recognized for the short thirty or fifty or
eighty years Of their earthly existence,
shall through the quintillion ages Of the
higher world be pointed out with the
admiring cry, These are they who came
out of great tribulation and had their
robes washed and mado white in the
blood of the Lamb"
/ Let ME also say for the encouragement
/ Of all women fighting the battle of life
alone, that their conflict will soon end.
There is one word written over the faces
of many of them, and that word is De-
spair. My sister, YOU need appeal to that
Christ who cOmfOrtcd the Sisters of Beth
any in their domestic troubc. and who
in his last hours FORGOT all the panCs of
his own hands and feet and heart as he
looked into the face Of maternal anguish
and called friends attention to it, in
substance saying: John, l cannot take
care of her any longer. Do for her as |
would have done if had lived. Behold
thy mothcr!" If under the pressure of
unrewardcd and unapprcciatcd work your
hair is VIII .eninG and the wrinkles come,
rejoice that you are nearing the hour Of
escape from your very last fatigue, and
may your departure be as pleasant as
that Of Isabella Graham, who closed her
life with Il smile and the word peace"
The daughter of q regiment IL any army
is all surrounded by bayonets Of defense,
and, in the battle, whoever falls, she is
kept safe. And you are the daughter of
the regiment commanded by the Lord Of
Hosts. After all you are not fighting
the battle of life alone. All heaven is
on your side. You will be wise to ap-
propriate to yourself the words of sacred
rhythm:
One who has known in storms to sail
l have on board
Above the roaring of the gale
Ihear my Lord
He holds me; when the billows smte
shall not fall
If short, It's sharp; if long, it's light;
He tempers all.