Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-11-08

| irradiate home and society anu INC W.
OF such value that no one can appreciate ~
unless his mother lived long enough 10 10
| him understand it, or who IN some srea
crisis of life, when all else failed MN, hau
wife to reinforce him with falth IN ooo
| that nothing could disturb. SPEAK ou' "
| cradles. and tell of the feet that rocked yot
and the anxious faces that lowered over you
Speak out, We nurseries OF all Chrlslelu0iil
and We homes, whether desolate or sun u
full bloom with the faces of wife, mother
and daughter, and help me to define wha'
woman is. If a man during all his life ac
oomplish nothing else except to win the love
and confidence and help and companionshlI
of a good woman, he is garlanded victor,
and ought to have the hands of all people
between here and the grave stretched out &c
him in congratulation.
But as geographers tell us that the depths
of the sea correspond with the heights OF
the mountains, / have to tell you that good
womanhood is not higher up than bad
womanhood is deep down. The grander the
palace, the more awful the confiagration
that destroys it. The grander the steamer
Oregon, the more terrible her going down
lust off the coast Now | should not wonder
if you trembled little with a sense OF re
spOnsibiliiy when ! say that there is hardly
person in this house but may have an OPP
portunity to save woman. II may IN your
case be done by good advice, or by financial
help, or by trying TO bring to bear some one
of a thousand Christian influences You
would not have TO go far If, for instance,
you know among your acquaintance
young woman who is apt TO appear ON the
streets about the hour when gentlemen re-
turn from business and you find her re-
spending to the smile of entire strangers,
hogs that lift their hats, go to her and
plainly tell herthat nearly all the destroyed
womanhood of the world began the down
ward path with that very kind of behavior.
Or If, for instance, you lind a woman in
financial distress and breaking down in
health and spirits, trying TO support her
children, now that her husband is dead or
an invalid, doing that very important and
honorable work. but which is little appre-
ciated, keeping a boarding house, where all
the guests, according as they pay small
board, or propose, without paying any board
at all, to decamp are critical OF everything
and hard TO please, bu Y yourselves in try
ing to get her more patrons and tell her OF
divine sympathy, Yea If you see a woman
favored of fortune AMI with all kindly
surroundings finding in the hollow Halter
les of the world her chief regalement,
living for herself and for time as il
there were no eternity. strive TO
bring her into the kingdom Of God, as did
the other day Sabbath school teacher who
was the means of the conversion Of
daughter Of a man of immense wealth, and
the daughter resolved to join the church,
and she went bone AMI said Father, am
going TO join the church, and | want you to
come" o, no. he said, II never go TO
church, Well said the daughter. IF
were going to be married, would you not
go TO see me marriedF And he said 20
yes well, said she, this is Of more
importance than that" SO he went and
has gone ever since and loves to go. | do
not know but that faithful Sabbath school !
teacher not only saved a woman but saved a |
man. There may be in this audience gath |
cred FROM all parts Of the world, the most
assembly in all the earth, |
there may be a man whose behavior toward |
womanhood has been perfidious Repent
Stand up, thou masterpiece of sin and death, |
that may charge you As far as possible, |
make reparation. Do not boast that you |
have her in your power aud that she can not /
help herself. When that fine collar and /
cravat aud that elegant suit of clothes comes 1
on and your uncovered soul stands in judg- 4
meut before God, YOU viii be better of if /
YOU save that woman.
There is another exploit that you can do, 4
and that is to save child A child does 1
not seem to amount 20 much. II is nearly
a year old before it can walk at all. For the /
first year and half it can not speak a
word. For the first ten years il would
starveifit had to earn its own food For the
first fifteen years its opinion on any subject
Is absolutely valueless. And then there are
so many Of them. Myl what lots Of chill
iren! Aud some people have contempt for
children. They are good for nothing but TO \
wear out the carpets and break things and
Keep you awake nights crying Wen, your
Of a child is lite different
from that mothers estimate who lost
ler child this summer They took it to the
salt air of the seashOre and 10 the tonic air
If the mountains, but no help came, and the
lrief paragraph Of its life is ended. Suppose
hat life could be restored by purchase, how
much would that bereaved mother givel
She would take all the jewels from her
ingers and neck and bureau and put them
Town. And if told that was not enough.
The would take her house and make over
he deed for it, and if that were not enough
The would call in all her investments and
tut down all her mortgages and bonds; and
( told that were not enough she would say:
j have made over all my property and If
can have that child back | will now pledge
hat | will toll with my own hands and
larry with my own shoulders in any kind
# hard work, and live in cellar and die in
| garnet. Only give me back that lost darl-
ng. am glad that there are those who
Inow something of the value of a child. Its
are tremendous. What will
hose hands yet dol Where will those feet
iet walks Toward what destiny win that
lever dying soul betal1e itselfl Shall those
Ups be the throne of blasphemy or bendic-
ioni Come, all We surveyors of the earth
md bring link and chain and measure if YOU
an its possible possessions. Come, all We
stronomers of the earth, with your tele-
copes and tell us if you can see grange of
is eternal flight Come, all We chronicle
lists, and calculate the decades on decades,
he centuries on centuries the cycles on
ycles, the eternities on eternities of its life
ime. o, to save a childl Am not right in
utting that among the great exploitsl Yea.
beats the other two, for if you save the
hid YOU save the man or Won save the |