The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-11-25
PULPIT ANo PLATFORM.
EcoND PARISH CHURcH-THE SECOND


SECOND PARISH CHURcH.-THE SECOND
W. C. t. U. MEETING.
The second Of the series of monthly tenn
perance meetings, which the w. @. t. U. Of
Portland, has arranged to hold during the
present season was held last evening at the
Second Parish church. Mrs. l.. M. N. Stew
ems, president of the local union, read the
forty-sixth Psalm, after which Prof. Tucker
of Andover, offered prayer. The speaker Of
the evening, Mrs. Susan s. Fessenden Of
Massachusetts,, was then introduced. and de-
livered an interesting address, dealing with
the evils Of the liquor traffic and the inutility
of high license. which the speaker declared
was iDexpedient in itself and wrong In its
action In that 1t places the stamp Of Chris
tian government upon sin. 1t also, by de-
creasing the number Of small saloons con-
centrates the capital invested In the busi-
ess sinto liquor palaces with silver orna-
ments and cut glass bottles. Would you, she
asked, IL you wished to keep a poisonous pill
from your children coat II with sugar and
place 1t in gold box? The only way to
make intemperance hateful to our children
Is to make 1t vile, to turn its worst side out,
and to show them all its hldeousness, and
this is done in prohibition states by driving
the saloons into dark cellars and back kitch-
ems. Mrs. Fessenden Is very rapid, pleas
ing speaker, and her words were closely fol-
lowed by the audience.
CHESTNUT STREET CHURCH.
A large congregation listened yesterday af-
ternoon to Rev. DIR. Whitaker's second ser
mon to young women. The subject was:
"The Righteous Woman" and the text
Proverbs XXI, 29-"Many daughters have
done vrtuously, but thou exeelest ALL" The
text is the testimony of experience and COM
mendation. One of the best writers Of the
past generation, a man with world vide rep
utation for great learning and candor, after
thoroughly weighing the qualifications Of
the righteous woman given by King Solo
mon In the context, said that those charac-
teristics were fully exemplited In the life of
Susanna, the mother OF John and Charles
Wesley. They are then humanity attainable
and as such are worthy Of careful considera-
tlon.
man given by King solomon is her virtue,
which Is above the price of all rubies. Viz
tue, the strength and beauty OF the soul Is
tbs highest gift Of heaven.
The second qualification Is that she De
| trustworthy. A woman Is trustworthy when
| she Is pure, true, inc0rrupttble, faithful, wise
| and good in her life That a woman may be
| Trustworthy. solomon teaches that 1t would
| be as disastrous for her to be Ignorant OF
| good housekeeping as 1t would be Tor a supe-
S1ior merchant 10 be ignorant Of accounts, or
| for the master OF a vessel to be ignorant OF
/ navigation. -. -,
| edged of business affairs. Time was when
women lived aud toiled under ungenerous
repression and amid grievous disabilities.
| Today the best universities of the land
| throw wide open their halls Of learning and
| bid her welcome, and every field Of honest
| labor is waiting ready for her coming. A
| righteous woman should be charitable, and
| the parable Of the widow depositing her two
| mites In the Lords treasury was cited as au
example. Also she never tattles. She Is
not interested specially In the affairs Of her
| neighbors, except so far as she may be help
| full to them, OF advance their welfare. The
last qualification is that she be a pious
woman.