The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-08-26

In all our large cities; young wo-
men without money and without
home and without work in the great
maelstroms Of metropolitan life. When
such a case comes under your obsWvar
ton, how do you tr at ~" sect 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 per
sonal appearance, and say things to her
which II any man said to your sister or
daughter you would kill him on the
spot? That is one way, aud II is tried
every day in the large cities, and many
of those who advertise for female hands
In factories, and for governesscs In
families, have proved themselves unfit
to be In any place outside Of hell
But there is another way, and saw II
one day in the Methodist Book Concern
In New York, where young woman
applied for work and the gentleman In
tone and manner said in substance:
"My daughter. we employ women here,
but ] do not know Of any vacant place
In our department you had better in
quire at such and such place, and |
hope you will be successful in getting
something TO do. Here is my name and
tell them sent you" The embarrassed
and humiliated woman seemed TO give
way to Christian confidence. She
started out with hopeful look
that l think must have won for
her place in which to earn
her bread. rather think that consid-
crate and Christian gentleman saved
woman. New York and Brooklyn
ground up last year about thirty thou
sand young women, and would like TO
grind up about 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 preci.
pice, not one but might have been saved
for home and God and Heaven. But
good men and women are not in that
kind of business Alas for that poor
thingl nothing but the thread Of that
sewing-girl's needle held her, and the
thread broke.
have heard men tell in public dis
course what a man is, but what Is q
woman? Until some one shall give
better definition, will tell you what
woman is. Direct from God, sacred
and delicate gift. with affections SO
great that no measuring line short Of
that Of the infinite God can tell their
bound. Fashioned to refine and soothe
and lift and irradiate home and society
and the world. OF such value that no
one can appreciate Il, unless his mother
lived long enough TO let him understand
II, or who in some great crisis Of life,
when all else failed him, had wife to
reinforce him with faith in God that
nothing could disturb Speak out, We
cradles, and tell Of the feet that rocked
you and the anxious faces that hoyered
over you Speak out, ye nurseries Of
all Christendom. and We homes, whether
desolate or still in full bloom with the
faces Of wife, mother, and daughter,
and help me TO define what woman IA
But as gcographers 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 womans
hood is deep down. The grander
the palace the more awful the con-
fagration that destroys it. The
grander the steamer Oregon; the more
terrible her going down Just of the
coast Now | should not wonder II you
trembled little with sense ofrespon-
sibility when say that there is hardly
a person In this house but may have an
opportunity TO save woman. II may
In your case be done by good advice, or
by financial help, or by trying TO bring
TO bear some one OF Thousand Chris
tian influences II, for instance, you
find woman In financial distress and
breaking down IN health and spirits
trying to support her children. now
that her husband Is dead or an in
valid, doing that very important and
honorable workout which is little
appreciated-keeping boarding house,
where all the guests according as they
pay small board, or propose, without
paying any board at ALL TO decamp, are
critical of everything and hard toplease,
busy yourselves In trying to get her
more patrons, and tell her of divine
sympathy. Yea, II you see a woman
favored of fortune and with all kindly
surroundings, finding in the hollow
batteries of the world her chief
regalement, living for herself and
time as II there were no eternity,
strive TO bring her into the kingdom
Of God, as did the other day Sab
bath school teacher who was the
means of the conversion of the daugh-
ter Of man Of immense wealth, and
the daughter resolved 70 join the
church, and she went home and said:
Father, I am going TO Join the church,
and ! want you 10 come" 20, no" he
said, II never go 10 church, .'Well,"
said the daughter If ! were going 10
be married, would you not go 10 see me
married2r And he said: 20, yes"
We'll" said she, this is Of moro i'm
portance than that" So he went and
has gone ever since, and loves TO 60.
/ do not know but that faithful Sab
bath-school teacher not only saved wo-
man, but saved man. There may be in
this audience, gathered from all parts
Of the world, there may be man whose
behavior towards womanhood has been
per6dious Repent Stand up, thou
masterpiece Of sin and death. that
NAV charge youl As far as possible.