The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-09-09
;he hundreds and thousands

tho hundreds and thousands in
all our large cities; young women
without money and without home and
without work in the great maelstroms
of metropolitan life. When such case
comes under your observation, how do
you treat It? Get out of my way, we
have no room in our establishment for
any more hands. don't believe in
women anyway, they are lazy, idle,
worthless set John, please show this
person out of the door" Or do you
compliment her personal appearance,
and say to her things which if any man
said to your sister or daughter you
would kill him on the spot? That is
one way, and it is tried every day in the
large cities, and many of those who adj
vertise for female hands In factories,
and for governesses in families have
proved themselves unfit to be in
any place outside of hell. But
there is another way, and saw 1t one
day in the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, where young woman APP
piled for work, and the gentleman in
tone and manner said in substances:
my daughter, we employ women here,
bnt do not know of any vacant place in
our department. You had better in
quire at such and such a place, and l
hope you will be successful in getting
something to do Here is my name,
and tell them / sent you" The en-
barrassed and Inundated woman
seemed to give way to Christian con-
fidence. She started out with a hopeful
look that think must have won for her
place in which to earn her bread.
rather think that considerable and Chris
tian gentleman saved woman.
New York and Brooklyn ground up
last year about 10000 young women,
and would like to grind up as many this
year. Out of all that long procession
of women who march on with no hope
for this world or the next, battered and
bruised and scoffed at, and flung off the
precipice, not one but what might have
been saved for home and God and
Heaven. But good men and good WON.
en- are not in that kind of business.
Alas for that poor thing! Nothing but
the thread of that sewing girls needle
held her, and the thread broke.
have heard men tell in public dis
course what q man is. But what il
woman? Until some one shall give q
better definition, 1 will tell you what
woman is Direct from God-a sacred
and delicate gift with affections sc
great that no measuring line short Of
that of the infinite God can tell then
bound. Fashioned to refine and soothe
and lift and irradiate homo and society
and the world. OF such value that nc
one can appreciate it, unless his mother
lived long enough to let him understand
it, or who in some great crisis of life
when all else failed him, had a wife Il
reinforce him with faith in God thai
nothing could disturb. Speak out, ye
cradles, and tell Of the feet that rocked
you and the anxious faces that hover
over you! Speak out, We nurseries O.
all Christendom, and We homes, whether
desolate or still in full bloom with the
faces of wife, mother and daughter, ant
help me to define what woman is But
as geographers tell us that the depths
of the sea correspond with the heights
of the mountains, have to tell yor
that o good womanhood is not higher
up than bad womanhood is deep down
The grander the place, the more awfu
the confagration that destroys it. The
grander the steamer Oregon. the NOR;
terrible her going down just off the coast
Now should not wonder if you trem
bled little with sense of response
bility when say that there is hardly
person in this house but may have al
opportunity to save woman. 1t may
in your case be done by good advice, O.
by financial help, or by trying to bring
to bear some one of thousand Chris
tan influences If, for instance, 70,
find a woman in financial distress ant
breaking down in health and spirit
4 trying to support her children, nov
that her husband is dead or an invalid
doing that very important and honor
able workout which is little appre
ciated-keeping boarding house
z. where all the guests, according as they
pay small board, or propose, without pay
ing any board at all, to decamp, ar,
critical of every thing and hard t.
please, busy yourself in trying to &c
her more patrons, and tell her of di
vine sympathy. Yea, if you see WON
an favored of fortune and with all kind
ly surroundings, finding in the hollow
batteries of the world her chief regale
ment, living Cor herself and for time a
if there were no eternity strive to bring
her into the kingdom of God, as did The
other day aSabbath-school teacher, whit
was the means Of the conversion of {
daughter of man of immense wealth
and the daughter resolved to join tn,
church, and she went home ant
said: Father, / am going to join tn,
church and want you to come" "Oh
no." he said, 81 never 60 to church
SWELL" said the daughter, ''if l wer,
going to be married. would you not e
to see me married?" And he said
ooh, yes" "Well," said she, this il
Of more Importance than that" So h,
went, and has gone ever since, ant
loves to go. l do not know but tina
faithful Sabbath-school teacher not onl,
saved a woman, but saved man. Their,
may be in this audience, gathere,
from all parts of the world, there ma!
be man whose behavior toward WON
anhood has been perfidious. Repent
Stand up, thou masterpiece of sin an,
death, that l may charge you! As ia
as possible make reparation. Do no
boast that you have her In your powe