Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-09
WOMAN'S MISSION.
MOTHER, HOME AND HEAvEN-THE
MOST SACRED WORDS SPOKEN.
Au Eloquent and Touching Sermon by
Rev. j. f. Won Herrlch at st.
PauPs Church.


PauFs Church yesterday, taking his text
from st. Mark xiv, s; "She hath done
what she could" 81 do not feel myself
among those who profess themselves COM
petent to decide the question of woman's
sphere and mission" said the speaker.
"But there are few practical things plain
to all of US. The glory of man l believe
to be honor and manliness, and the glory
of woman love and womanliness. The
sweetest, most sacred words in our Ian
guage are mother, home and heaven. No
boy rises to manhood but carries with him
forever the power and influence of his
mother and sisters, and every thoughtful
writer upon political economy dwells upon
the family and home life as the fountain
head of ali that is noble and great in the
nation. And so, too, society will be to its
full extent just what you women make it.
We regard all talk about the superiority of
one sex over the other; or the respective
spheres of man and woman, as wasted lung
power The blessed Father has made that
evident in her physical organization and in
the sensibilities of her soul and nature.
Every one has a right to do as they please,
but we instinctively feel that something is
wrong when we see man knitting edging
for pillow-shams or a woman trying to
manage political caucus.
Woman may not vote, but does she not
influence the voters? Napoleon the First
was compelled to Danish Nine. De Stael
from France. Napoleon sat on his throne.
She sat in her parlor. He welded q
sceptre. She welded pen and tongue.
He could enforce his commands by the
supremacy of his power and send out his
edicts from one end of Europe to another.
But she could gather her friends about her
and infuse her spirit into theirs. Napoleon
was compelled to Danish such q power
from his kingdom. What matters it if
women are kept from the muddy whirl-
pool of politics and legislation, so long as
they mold and develop the men who
shape and control the destiny of nations
Does she not control those subtle and I'M
seen cords which lead and guide society?
What matters it if, to a great degree,
women are debarred from the labor and
high privileges of the pulpit when they
have the no less important work of imbu-
ing with holy aims those who bear the
burdens and plead for the Master? Is the
world any more indebted to that eloquent
ulNlu6 WIN Suits SOuJS anu lOuuQS
or to the great and noble statesman, than
to that sanity influence which made
him what he is and whose life CLOVIS in his
words and actions? Oh, blessed the homes
where the vestal priestess, loving mother,
imbues with noble principles and lofty
aims the young souls who are to go out
into the world to bear theburdens and fight
lifes hard and often wearisome battles
She may pass away in the glorious autumn
of life and see about her golden harvest
of ripened fruits. She may leave vacant
place in loving hearts. Yet her memory
and her influence will remain behind, ss
sweet and fragrant as the breathings Of
loves hottest censor! How many noble
sunburnt boy was carried from the bloody
field of battle inside of whose jacket was
found the comfort and solace of many q
dark and weary hour-the last loving letter
and that dear picture, upon which was
written by her own hand those tender
words, Your loving mother. ii
do you wonder that when that Inflated
steamer went down and all on board per.
ished in the angry waters, save the gooC
and noble cabin-boy, his first words on be-
ing restored to consciousness were oh, i
is mother-it is mother; she has been pray
ing for me? History may weave her gar
lands about the brows of statesmen aDC
warriors, but who has crowned the heads
of those quiet and lowly women whose
history is written on the records of heaven
but traced in tears and uttered in signs or
earth. History teens with the heroic
deeds of noble womanhood. Who is i
that has stood firm amid the blesE
winds of adversely when strong men have
weakened and faltered? Who is it tina
has worn away under the heavy pressure
of sorrows and misfortune, patient ano
silent, as she trusted in the Lord and qui
city murmured, Thy will, not mine, bt
done? Who was last at the cross and frs
at the sepulchre? She has shown her her
oism and devotion in the palace and thu
hovel, on the field of battle and at thu
stake of the martyr.
I'm the Roman arena, whose soil /!
dyed with the blood of many martyr
kneels weak and pale-faced woman-sh,
can save her life by throwing grain OF in
cense at the shrine of an idol, but with up
turned eyes and brow haloed by he
sanity spirit she says, I believe on tn
Lord Jesus Christ, and as the hungry liol
sinks his paw in her quivering flesh sh
cries. Lord, into thy hands / commit m.
spiritr No royal purple could throw sucl
a glory on her life as this-heroic IN sou
and firm in faith, she prefers death to false
hood. and believes that the door of deaf
is but the portal TO better life beyond thi!
She has shown her heroism among tn
sick and the dying as when Florenc
Nightingale scatters the flowers of gooo
ness and hope through the wards
Scutari, or in our own land when the ye
low fever was stalking with noiseless trea
and poisoned breath, the sisters of S
Mary and the White Cross took Their i've
in their hands and went as ministerin
angels to carry joy and hope to Gods poe
and lowly ones
"'Tell me what the women OF natlo
are said a great statesman, and ! vi
fell Won what the nation is Well migl
De Tocoueville, when he returned HON
from his visit to this country and was aske
IN what cause he ascribed to the pre-em
nence of America-well might he reply
ITO the superiority of its women y Oh, ii
power and influence of noble womanhoo
the very thought is elevating We ca
kindly forgive that ardent youth WIN
while listening to an eminent orator al
course on the glory of womanhood, rose I
and shouted, Three cheers for the women
But this is the heroic side of woman
life let us look, too, at the other size. l.
me throw some pictures on the screen an
let us see if you recognize them as real I
only fancy sketches. First, there are
many who are not willing to be quiet, ul
ostentatious workers; they are willing to
something that will be recognized and a
tract attention, or something that will me
with the approval of society but unless
is likely to become social event, the
wonld rather not touch it, forgettir
the example of their Lord ar
Master, who toiled and labored wit
out one symptom of social reco
ignition. Such life is sordid and selfish
willing to do thing if there is persons
pleasure in it, or if it will pander to III
lowest of all impulses, personal VANITY
They forget that the religion we profess
the religion of the meek and lowly Jesl
and not a matter of personal vanit
and a SOCIAL recognition. l wond'
If such deluded Christians, WI
Iook upon the religion of Christ as socl
matter, would recognize their Lord If
came TO his lower sanctuary. What if
came to-day in his Galilean garb, wou
sny sweet and loving Mary spring fro
her new CRYING, My Lord and my ma
ts-p! Or if the mighty: John the Bapti
came 70 some of our temples, would n
some gather their silk robes into the &C
ner of their pews at the sig
Of his uncouth garments! Oh; how
rauoyed in the minds of many, has reli
ion of Christ become from the primiti
sort he gave to mankind. Then there a
SO many selfish lives in society ABOUT US