Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-08

ance AID say things to her which il sny
man said to your sister or daughter you
would kill him on the spot? That is one
wsy, and /. is tried every day in these
large cities, and many CT those who sd~
vertise for female hands II factories and
for governesses In families have proved
Themselves una. to be II ,iny place out
eide Of hell.
But there is smother way, and 1 saw II
the other day IN the Methodist Book Con-
Germ il New YORK, where young womsn
applied for WORK aud the gentleman in
tone and manner said in substance: "My
daughter, We employ. womsn here, but
do lot know of any vacant place in cur
department You had better inquire st
such and such place, and l hope you
will be successful IN getting something to
do" The embarrassed ard Inundated
woman seemed to give way to
Chsistisn confidence. She started cut with
q hopeful lock that l think must have
won for her q place in which to earn her
bread. l rs'her think that considerste
and Christian gentleman saved woman.
Nsw York ana Brooklyn ground up last
year about 30. 600 young women, and
would like 10 grind up shout as many
this year. Out CT all tina. long process
sion CT women who march on with 70
hope for This world or the nexs, battered
and bruised and scofed st snd fluns of
the precipice, not one bus might have
been saved for home end God and heaven.
But good men and good women sre not
In that kind OF business. Alas for.
THAT POOR THINGi
moth 7o hnS tho thread of that
girls needle held her, ana the thread
dieccuTse what q man is, but what is S
wom.L? Until some one shall give g
better defaltlon l will tell you what 3
woman is: Direct from God, sacred
and delicste gift with affections SO great
thst no measuring line short Of that Of
tie Infinite Goa can tell their bound.
Fashioned &c refine and soothe and lift
and irrAdlate home and society and the
world. OF such value that no one can
sppre slate it, unless his mother lived
lUGg enough to let him understand II, or
VINO in g. me great crisis Of life when all
else failed him, mad wife 10 reinforce
him with faith IN God that nothing
could disturb. Speak o1t, ye cradles,
and tell of the feet that rocked you and
the 81 Ous faces that lowered over you'll
Speak ont, ye nurseries CT al ChrIsteL-
dom, aud ye homeE, whether desoiste or
still in full nl0on with the faces of wife,
mother, ard daughter, and he!p ms to de-
fac what Woman is. II 8 man during all
his life accomplish nothing else eXcep. to
wiz the lore sad confidence and nelp
and comQanionship Of good woman,
he Is garlanded victor and
ought 10 have the hinds Of all people be-
tween hers and the grave stretched out 10
HIM in congfa .uiatioa.
But as geograpker5 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 womenLooi Is deep down.
The grsuder the palace, the more sWfal
the con Migration thst destroys 1t. The
grander the stesmer Oregon, the more
terrible her going down jus. of the
coast. Nov l should not wonder il
YOU TRsMBLED LITTLE
with sense Of responsibility when say
bat msy have an opportunity to save s
woman. Il MY in your case be done by
good advice, or by financial help, or by
trying to bring to bear some one of q
thousand Christian Influences. You
wouldlnot hove to 20 far. If, for in
stance, you know among your ecquain.
tRnces young woman who is SPIT TO ap-
pear On the streets about the hour when
gentlemen return from business and you
find ner responding to the smile Of entire
strangers, hogs that lift their hat, go to
her and plainly tell her that nearly ell the
destroyed womanhood Of the world began
the downward path with that very kind Of
behavior.
Or il, for instance, you fad 8 woman in
financial distress and breaking down in
heath and spirits trying to supper. her
children, now that her husband is desd
or Is sn invalid, doiag that very impor-
tant and honorable work but which is liz
tie appreciated, keeping a boarding.
house, where sll the guests, according IS
they pay small board, or propose, with
sny bosrd at ell, to decamp,
sre critical Of everything end hard to
please, busy yourselves in trying to get
her more patrons and tell her OF
divine sympathy. : Yea, II you zee
a woman favored OF fortune and with ali
kindly surroundings finding in the hollow
& atteries OF the world her chief regsle-
meat, living for herself sud for time IS If
there were no etarl;ty. strive to bring
her into the kingdom Q; God, as did the
other da7 6 SAbOath-sc2ool teacher VINO
Was he means CT the conversion OF the
daughter Of
MN OF IMMENSE WEALTH,
and the daughter resolved to 1la the
church, and see vent home anu said:
"F:ther, SIN going to join the church
and want you to Gomez SOB, no." ne
said, "I never go TO CHURCH." "Weu,"
said the daughter, "if 1 were going to De
would you rot go to gee me
And he ssid: "Ot, yes"
"Well," said she, "this is CT more i'm
nortsrce than that" So he went, and
10 not know bui that faithful Sabbath
school teacher Tot only saved woman
out saved q men. Thsre may be in this
audience gathered from all parts OF the
world, the most cosmopolitan assembly
n, I'll the earth, there may be a msn
whose behavior towsrd womauhood has
been psrfld!ous. Repent! Stand up,
.nou MASTERPIECES Of sin and death, that l |
nay charge you! As far IS possible, |
make reparstion. Do not boast that you
have hefjn your power snd that she cans
cot help bersel!.. When .tat. fine collar
md crsvst and that eleg.ntsnlt OF clothes
,emes eff and ycur uncovered soul
,tsnhs in judgment and before God you
Will be better eff il you save that
Tomsp.
There is another exploit that you c2n
Leland that is TO save q child. A child
ioes not seem TO amount to much. It Is
ies:lY yesr old before 1t can walk st all.