The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-01-20
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and moth say il they saw I was doing
such unfashionable work. Throw the
whole responsibility upon the pastor OF
the Brooklyn Tabernacle, who is con-
stantly hearing of young women in all
these cities who, unqualified by their pre-
vious luxurious surroundings for the
awful struggle Of life into which they
have been suddenly hurled, seemed to
have nothing left them but choice be-
tween starvation and damnation. There
they so along the street at seven
O'Clock in the wintIy mornings
thr ough the slush and storm to tho
place where they shall earn only half
enough for subsistence, the daughters
of once prosperous merch ants, lawyers,
clergymen, artists, bankers and capital
lists who brought up their children under
the Internal delusion that 10 was not
high toned for women 20 learn profit
able calling. Young women, take this
affair in your own hands and let there be-
an insurrection in all prosperous families
of Brooklyn and New York and Christen-
dom on the part of the daughters OF this
day, demanding knowledge in oecupa-
tions 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
woman in all the glory of her young life
stricken by disease, and in n week lifeless
in home of which she had been the
pride. AS her hands we're folded over the
still heart and her eyes closed for tho
last slumber, aud she was taken out amid
the lamen tations of kindred and
friends, thought that was n sadness inn
measurable. But have seen something
compared with which that scene was
bright and songful. IL was a young
woman who had been all her days amid
| wealthy surroundings, by the visit Of death
| nd haD Dlr,-fsv, fo he hDfsonHnfH N4wr
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 ship.
wrecked craft that was left alone and for
saken on the sea few weeks ago,
with the idea of bringing 10 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, alame in wnat confagration,
sinking into what abyss2 o, God, help
o, Christ, rescue!
Ny sisters, give not your time TO learn
ing fancy work which the world may dis.
pense with when hard times come, but
connect your skill with the indispensO.
bles of life The world will always want
something TO wear and something TO eat,
anu buSlb9T anu AuBt IOI lue DnuYg anu
knowledge for the mind, and rel igion for
the soul. And all these things will con
tinue TO be the necessaries. and n you
fasten your energies upon occupations
and professions thus related, the world
will be unable to do without you. Re-
member that in proportion as you are
| skfllful in any thing your rivalries be.
come less. For unskilled toll, women by
the million. But you may rise TO whefO
there are only a thousands; and still
higher till there are only
hundred; and still higher until
there are only ten; and still
higher in some particular departments
till there is only unit aud that yourself.
For awhile you may keep wages and
place through the kindly symp0thies Of
an employer, but you will eventually got
no more compensation than you can
make yourself worth
Now, men Of America, be fair aud give
the women a chancel Are you afraid
that they will do some OF your work. and
hence harm your prosperitiesf Remem.
ber that there ere scores of thousands OF
men doing women's work. Do not be
afraidl God knows the end from the be.
| ginning, and He knows how many people
this world can feed and shelter, and when
it gets too full He will end the world, and,
il need be, start another. God will halt
the inventive faculty, which, by produc.
| ten or twenty or one hundred
men and women, viii leave that
number of people without work. hope
that there will not bo invented another
sewing machine, or reaping machine, OF
corn thresher, or any 0thor new machine
for the next five hundred years We want
no more wooden hands and iron hands,
and steel hands, and electric hands sub
| stituted for men and women who would
otherwise do the work and get tho pay
and earn the livelihood.
But God Will arrange all, and all we hava
to do is TO do our best and trust Him for
| the rest. Let me cheer all women fight
ing the battle of life alone with the fact
that thousands Of women have IN thai
way won the day. Mary Lyon, founder
! Of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.
| fought the battle alone; Adelaide New
ton, the tract distributor, alone; Fideiia
| Fisk, the cOnsecrated missionary, alone:
| Dorothea Dix, the angel OF the insane
asylums, alone; Caroline Horschoi, the
| indispensable reinforcement Of her
| brother alone; Maria TGkrzewska, the
| heroine Of the Berlin hospital, alone;
| Helen Chalmers, patron OF sewing. schools
for the poor OF Edinburgh, alone. Aud
thousands and tens OF thousands Of women
| Of whose bravery and self sacrifice
and glory Of character the world
has made no record, but whose
deeds are IN the Heavenly archives OF
martyrs, who fought the battle alone and,
though unrecognized for the short thirty
or fifty or eighty years Of their earthly
! existence, shall, through the quintilliou
ages Of the higher world, be pointed out
with the RdmirinR cry. "These are they
| who came out Of great tribulatiOn and
had their robes washed and made white
in the blood Of the Lamb"
Let me also say for tho encouragement
| Of all women fighting the battle Of life
I enraFva d.
! There is one word written over the faces
OF many them, aud that word ~ despair.
Ny sister, you need appeal 70 thRt Christ
| who comforted the sisters Of Bethany in
| their domestic trouble, and who 10
his last hours forgot all the pangs
| OF his own hands and feet and heart az
be looked into the face Of maternal
anguish, and called a friends attention
10 1T, in substance saying: "JOhn, / can
not take care Of her any longer DO for
her as ] would have done II had lived.
Behold thy motherW n, under tho pres.
| sure Of unrewnrded and unapprociated
| work, your hair is whitening and the
/ wrinkles come, rejoice that you are near,
/ ing the hour OF escape from your very
last fatigue, and may your departure bs
| az pleasant as that Of Isabella GrahHEE,
who closed her life with a smile and ths
| word "Peace." The daughter a regiment
| IN any army is all surrounded by bayonets
Of defense, and in the battle, whoever falls,
she Is kept safe. And you are tho daugh
ter OF the regiment commanded by the
| Lord Of Hosts After all, you arc not
fighting the battle OF life alone. All
! Heaven is on your side. You viii ba wias
to appropriate 20 yourself the words of
the sacred rhythm:
one who has known storms 10 sail
nave on boarGs
Above the roaring of the gale.