The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-09-25

had read the twentv-thirt Psalm ABOUT
''The Lord is my Shepherd" he closes
his eyes on this world. and an angel
who had been for many years appoint
ed TO watch the old mans dwelling,
cries upward the news that the patri-
arch's spirit is about ascending. And
the twelve angels who keep the twelve
gates of Heaven unite in crying down
to this approaching spirit of the old
man: "Come in and welcome, for IL
has been told all over these celestial
lands that you saved a man.
There sometimes come exigencies in
the life of woman. One morning a
few years ago | saw in the newspaper
that there was n young woman in New
York whose pocketboolS containing
1913 had been stolen, and she had
been left without n penny at the begin
ming of winter, in strange city and no
work. And although she was strang-
err did not allow the Q o'clock mail to
leave the lamp-post on our corner with
out carrying the 1913; and the case
was proved genuine. Now have read
all Shakespeare tragedies and all Vic
tor Hugo's tragedies, and all Alexan-
der Smiths tragedies, but l never read
n tragedy more thrilling than
that case, and similar cases by
the 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 1T? "Get out of my way, we
have no room in our establishment for
any more hands. l 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 l saw it one
day in the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, where a young woman APP
piled for work, and the gentleman in
tone and manner said in substance:
"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 place. and
hope you will be successful i'll getting
something to do. Here is my name,
and tell them l sent you" The en-
barrassed and Inundated woman
seemed to give way TO Christian con-
fidence. She started out with hopeful
look that think must have won for her
a place in which TO earn her bread. |
rather think that considerate and Chris
tian gentleman saved a woman.
New York and Brooklyn ground up
last year about $4,000 young women,
and would like TO grind up as many this
year. Out of all that long procession
of women who march on with 40 hope
for this world or the next, battered and
bruised and scoffed at and flung off the
precpice, not one but what might have
been saved for homo and God and
Heaven. But good men and good wom-
en- are not in that kind of business.
Alas for that poor thing! Nothing hut
the thread of that sewing-girrs needle
held her, and the thread broke.
have heard men tell in public dis
course what man is. But what is
Until some one shall give a
better definition, | will tell you what
woman is. Direct from Coda 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 irradiatc home and eociety
and the world OF such value that no
one can appreciate it, unless his mother
lived long enough to let him understand |
1t, 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 hover
over you! Speak out, We nurseries of |
Ill Christendom, and We homes, whether
lesolate or still in full bloom with the
faces of wife. mother and daughter and
lelp me to define what woman is. But
rs geographers tell us that the depths
IF the sea correspond with the heights
If the mountains, have to tell you
hat good womanhood is not higher
Up than bad womanhood is deep down.
The grander the place, the more awful
he conhagration that destroys it. The
srander the steamer Oregon. the more
errible her going down just off the coast.
Vow should not wonder if you trem-
'led a little with a sense of response
'ility when say that there is hardly
person in this house brt may have an
to save woman. 1t may
n your case be done by good advice, or