The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-09
WORDS TO WOMEN.
Rev. DR.. Talmage's Sunday Sermon.
Practical Advice to Women Who
Must Work or Starve.
Occupations to Which They Should
Address Themselves.
The Difference Between Skill in
Fancy and in Useful Work.
Women Who Have Accomplished Great
Thiugs-The Help that Men Should
Give-womcn Not Mere
Adjunct OF Man.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, Jan. S.-Thc Rev. +.
Dewitt Talmagc, ID, preached at tho
Tabernacle this morning the first Of
series OF sermons 10 the womenoi America,
with practical hints for men. The subject
OF this discourse was, "The Women Who
Fight the Battle OF Life Alone, and the
text was from Proverbs xiv, !: Every
wise woman buildeth her house" Or.
Talmagc said:
woman mere adjunct TO man, an
appendix 10 the masculine volume, an APP
pondagc, sort of ailcrthought, something
thrown in 10 mako things even that Is
the hcresy entertained aud implied by
some men. This is evident TO them:
Woman's hsignifcancc as compared 10
man is evident 10 them, because Adam
WIS first created and then Eve. They don't
read the whole story OF they would find
that the porpoisc aud the bear and thu
hawk were created before Adam, 80 that
this argument drawn from priority Of crca-
ton might prove that the sheep and tho
dog wcrc greater than man. No. Woman
was an independent, creation and was IN
tended, II she chose, 10 live alone, 10 walk
alone, think alone, and fight her battles
alone. Tho Bible says Il is not good for
man TO DO alone, but never says II is not
good for woman 10 be alone, and the sim
pie fact Is that many women who are har-
messed for life in the marriage relation
would he thouand-iold better of II they
were alone. God makes no mistakes, and
the fact that there Is such u large majority
OF women in the land proves that he in
tended that multitudcs OF them should 90
alone.
"Who arc these men who year aiterycar
hang around hotels and cngine-houscs and
theatre doors aud come in and out Ia
bother busy clerks and merchants and
mechanics doing nothing oven when there
Il plenty 10 do7 They arr men supported
hy their wives and mothers. II the staiis-
ties Of any OF our cities could bo taken ON
this subject YOU would find that u vast
multitude OF women not only support
themselves, hut mascuineH. A great legion
Of men amount h. nothing, and woman
10y marriage manaclcd Ia one ~ thoss
noncntllicH needs coincidence woman
standing outside the marriage relation II
several hundred thousand times better or
than n woman badly married Many a
bride, instead ~ a wreath IT orange bios
SONS, might morc properly wear a bunch
of nctilc, aud nightshadc, and instead q
the wedding marrh q moV appropriate
tune would be- the dead march IN Saul,
aud instead III the banquet VI conicclun-
airy and ices there might be- mop appro-
prinlcly spread table covered with APP
pies oi S0dom, which are outside fair and
inside ashes.
"Many an attractive woman ofgool sound
sense IN other things has married Que of
those men to reform him. What was the
rsull2 Like when dove, noticing that
yultup WIS ripagious aud cruel scl about
10 wiorm II. aud said. ! have mild Ills.
position, aud like peace, aud was brought
up In the quiet Of n doyc-cotc, and ! will
bring the yulturc a. the same liking by
marrying him ~ one day after the vul-
turc had declared he would give up his
cnrniyorous habits aud cease longing for
blood OF flock aud herd. at an altar VI
rock, covered with m0ss aud lichen, the
twain wcp married, bald-hcadcd eagle
officiating, the yulturc saying With all
my dominion ~ earth nnd sky ! thee en-
dow, and pr1mi4c Ia love and cherish till
death do us part Hut one day the dove
Nv her flight Enw the yultnrc busy at u
carcass aud cried stop that lid you
not promise me that you would quit your
rntni,cmus aud Rlihy habits Il ! married
your Yes said thc viliurr, 'hu, II YOU
don't like my way, YOU can leave aud
with one angry stroke Of bcak aud mother
fierce clutch ui claw. the yuliuru LEFT tho
dove ryrlrss and winglc~ and liclcss.
Aud iluck Of robins living past cried 10
each other aud sud, SEQ thcrol that
comes from doves marrying Nulturc ~
ruiufm him.
MANY q woman who has had the hand
of young incbriaic offered, but declined
II. or who Was asked 60 chain her life 10 .
man selfish or Of had temper, and refused
the shacklcs, will bless God throughout al
eternity that she escaped that earthly pam
dcnonium.
"Bcsidon MI this. In our country about
100000 men Wcc sacrificed IN our civil
war and that dccrcod 100000 women Ia
coliblcy. licsidcs that, since the war so,.
oml armies of men as large ~ the Federal
and Confederate armies put together have
fallen under malt liquors and distilled
Spirits, ~ full II poisoned ingredients that
tlc work WIS done morn rapdly, aud mo
victims icll whilcyct young. Andii D'OOO
| men are DESTROYED every year by strong
drink before marriage, that makes In the
tNruty.ihrrc ycars sinco the war ], llO,VOO
men slain, and DEGREES /, 10000 women 10
ollibicy. Take then the iact that no many
women arr unhappy In their marriage,
and the fact that the slaughter OF ?, lbO,uvO
men by war aud rum combined, decides
lhnt nj least that number Of women shall
be- unbalanced for life, my text comes m
with % cheer aud potency aud appppn-
atcnr., that | never saw la u before when
, Il syN Every wise woman buildcth her
house that u. let woman bc her own an
cli,col, lay out her own plans, bc her own
supervisor achieve her own destiny.
" In addressing these women who VIII
have tu hght the battle Of life alone con-
. graduate you on your happy escape. Re
. iOicc lurcycr that YOU will not have TO na,i-
cate the faults Of the other sex, when You
have iaulis enough Of your own: Think
ol the lcwayrments you avoid OF the risk
T. Of unasiimilatcd temper which YOU VIII
not have To run, OF the ears YOU VII
never have IN carry, andoi the Opportunity
, of outside usefulness from which marital
, lie would have partially dcbam'd You, and
that YOU are frye 10 90 and como ~ on.
Who has the responsibilities OF household