The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-09

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| weather has put many in the doldrums, an
! have been thinking of you a good deal o
late, for just after J. started in busines
once got into the same scrape. Now,
there is anything caa do to help 20,
out Iwill gladly do it Better just pu
those goods out Of sight for the present
and next season We will plan something
about them. will help you to some good
that you can sell for me on commission, an
will 60 down to one of the wholesale house
and tell them that know you and will bacl
you up, and if you want few dollars t
bridge over the present can let you hav
them. Be as economical as Won ca,L keen
Bt1n upper lip, and remember that you have
two friends. God and myself. Good morn
ing"
The old merchant goes away and tn
young man goes behind his desk, and tht
tears roll down his cheeks. 1t Is tho frs
time he has cried. Disaster made him mad
at everything, and mad at man and mad at
God. But this kindness melts him, aud the
tears seem to relieve his brain and his
spirits rise from ten below zero to eighty
in the shade and he comes out of the
crisis.
About three years after, this young mer
chant goes into the old merchants store and
says: well, my ol friend, was this
morning thinking over what you did for me
three years ago. You helped me out Of ar
awful crisis in my commercial history.
learned wisdom, prosperity has come, and
the pallor has gone out of my wife's cheeks,
and the roses that were there when 1courted
ter in her fathers house have bloomed again,
and my business is splendid, and L thought l
ought to let you know that you saved man.
In short time after, the old merchant,
who had been a good while shaky in his
limbs and who had poor spells, is called to
leave the world, and one morning after he
had read the twenty-third Psalm about
"The Lord is my shepherd" he closes his
eyes on this world, and an angel who had
been for many years appointed to watch
the old mans dwelling, cries upward the
news that the patriarchs spirit is about as
cending, and the twelve angels who keep the
twsive gates Of heaven, unite in crying down
to this approaching spirit Of the old man.
Come in and welcome, for 1t has been told
all over these celestial lands that you saved
q man."
There sometimes come exigencies In the
life of woman. One morning a few years
ago saw in the newspaper that there was a
Young woman in New York whose pocket.
book, containing thirty-seven dollars AMI
thirty-three cents had been stolen, and she
had been left without penny at the begin
ming of winter in a strange city, and no
did not allow the o'clock mail to leave the
lamppost on our corner without carrying
the thirty-sevsn dollars and thirty-three
cents and the case was proved genuine.
Now, l have read all Shakespeares TRACE,
dies, and all Victor Hugo's tragedies, and
ali Alexander Smiths tragedies, but
never read tragedy more thrilling than
that case, and similar cases by the hun
Gre,s and thousands in all our large cities.
Young women without money and with.
ont home AMI without work in the great
r,aelstroms of metropolitan life. WheS
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 o.
the door,"
Or do YOU compliment her personal ap'
nearapcs and say things to her which it any
man said to your sister or daughter you
would kill him on the spot? That is one
wav, and it is tried every day in tho large
cities and many Of those who advertise
for female hands in factories and fol
rovernesses in families have prove1 them
Selves unfit to be in any place outside o
he'll. But there is another way. and l saw
it ono day in the Methodist Book Concern
in New York, where a young woman ap
p!ied for work, and the gentleman In ton
aud manner said in substance: MY dauyh
FER. we employ women here, but l 90 no
know OF any vacant place in our depart
ment. You had better inquire at such anc
such place, and hope you will be success
full in getting something to do. Here Is ny
1Sk.o r eanf
The embarrassed and humiliated woman
seemed to give way to Christian confidence
She started out with a hopaful look that
think must have won for her place IL
which to earn her bread. rathe
think that considerate and Christian gen
tleman savei O woman. New York ant
BROOKLYN ground up last year about thirt.
thousand Young women and would like II
rrind up about as many this year. Out o
all that long procession Of women WHIT
march on with no hope for this world or th'
next, battered and bruised and scofed at,
and flung OFF the precipice, not one 6u
might have been savel for homo anu Go;
and heaven. But good men an1 good WON
on ara not in that kind of business. Ala
for that poor thing! Nothing but the threa'
of that sewing girls needle held her, AM
the thread broke.
have heard men tell in public dlscours
what man is. but what is woman? Unti
some one shall give better definition, VII
tell YOU what woman is. Direct from God
q sacred snd delicate gift, with affections 8
great that no measuring line snort OF ina
of the infinite God can tell their bound
Fashioned to refine and soothe and lift an
irradiate home and society aad Jhs worl
Of such value that no one can appreciate II
unless his mother lived long enough to lie
him understand it, or who IN soma grea
crisis of life, when all else failel him, had
wife to re-enforcs him with falth IN uo
that nothing coulrl disturb.
Speak out, ye cradles, and tell OF the Zee
that rocked you and the anxious faces tina
lowered over you Speak out, ye nurserit
Of all Christendou, and ye homes whethe
desolate or still in full bloom with the face
of wife, mother and daughter, and help m
to define what woman is. But as geograpt
ers tell us that the depths Of the sea CORE
spond with the heights Of the mountains
have to tell you that good womanhooi
not higher up than bad womanhood is dee
down. The grander the palace the NOR
awful the confagration that destroys it
The grander the steamer Oregon the NOR
terrible her going down just OFF the coast.
Now I should not wonder ii you trem
bled little with sense OF responsibility.
when I say that there is hardly person il
this house but may have an opportunit,
to save a woman. 1t may in your case b
done by good advice, or by financial help
or by trying to bring to bear some one OF
thousand Christian influences. If, for il
stance, you find woman in financial dis
tress and breaking down in health an
spirits trying to support her children, nos
that her husband is dead or an invalid, ,doin
that very important and honorable work
but which is little appreciate1-.SeePing
boarding house, where all the guests, accord
ing as thsy pay small board, or propose
without paying any board at all, to decan2
are critical of everything AMI hard to please
busy yourself in trying to get her NOR
patrons, and tell her Of divine sympathy.
Yea, if you seq q woman favored Of fol-
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