The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-01-19

employer worth 10 per cent. more, or 70
per cent. more, than the other sex. She
will not get 1t by asking for it, but by earn
ing it, and 1t shall be hers by lawful con-
quest.
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 thousands of men
doing womens work. Do not be afraid!
God knows the end from the beginning
and tie knows how many people this world
can feed and shelter, and when It gets too
full He will end the world and, If need bei I
start another, God will halt the inventive
faculty, which, by producing a machine
that will do the work of ten or twenty or
hundred men and women, will leave that
number of people without work. [ hope
that there will not be invented another
sewing machine, or reaping machine, or
corn thresher, 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 poy and earn the
livelihood.
But God will 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 thousands of women have in that
way won the day. Mary Lyon, founder of
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, fought
the battle alone; Adelaide Newton, the
tract distributor, alone; Fidelia Fisk, the
consecrated missionary, alone; Dorothea
Dix, the angel of the insane ssylums,
alone; Caroline Herschel, the indispensa-
Bile reinforcement of her brother, alone;
Ta1yW H. L.. - he DAw
lin Hospital, alone; Helen Chalmers,
patron Of sewing schools for the poor Of
Edinburgh, alone. And thousands and
tens of Thousands of women Of whose
bravery and self-sacriice and glory Of
character the world has made no record,
but whose deeds are in the heavenly
achiVeB 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 quin-
tillion 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 made 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 Despair.
My sister, you need appeal to that Christ
who comforted the sisters of Bethany in
their domestic trouble, and who, in His
last hours forgot all the pengs of His own
hands and feet and heart as he looked into
the face of maternal anguish and called q
friends attention to it, in substance say
ing: John, cannot take care Of her any
longer. Do for her as would have done
If had lived. Behold thy motherp II
under the pressure Of unrewarded and
unappreciated work your hair is
whitening 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 a smile and the word "peace." The
daughter of regiment in 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 appropriate to yourself the
words of sacred rhythm:
One who has known in storms to sail
have on board;
Above the roaring or the gale
I hear my Lord.