Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24

ohob bACAo was q gOuIlB WOudu III NOW
York, whose pocketbook containing
thirty-seven dollars and thirty-three
cents had been stolen, and she had been
left without a penny at the beginning
OF winter, in a strange city, and no
work. And although she was a
stranger, did not allow the o'clock
mail to leave the lamp-post on the
corner, without carrying the thirty
seven dollars and thirty-three cents;
and the case was proved genuine. Now
I have read all Shakspere's tragedies,
and all Victor Hugo's tragedies, and all
Alexander Smiths tragedies, but l
never read a tragedy more thrilling than
that case, and similar cases by the hun
dreds and thousands in all our large
cities; young women without money
and without home and without work In
the great maelstroms OF met
ropolitan life. When such
a case comes under your observation,
how do you treat 1t? ''Get out OF my
way, we have no room in our establish
ment for any more hands. l don't be-
lieve in women anyway, they are a lazy,
idle, worthless set. John, please show
this person out of the door" Or do you
compliment her personal appearance
and say things to her 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 ad-
vertise for female hands in factories and
for governesseS in families, have proved
themselves unfit to be in any place out
side of hell. But there is another way,
and saw it 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 l do not know of any
vacant place in our department.
You had better inquire at such and
such place, and 1 hope you will
be successful in getting something
to do. Here Is my name and tell them
sent you" The embarrassed and hu-
inflated woman seemed to give way to
Christian confidence. She started out
with hopeful look that I think must
have won for her a place in which to
earn her bread. l rather think that
considerate and Christian gentlemen
saved woman. New York and Brook
lyn ground up last year about 80, 900
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 |
I'D -, hot
kind of business. Alas for that poor |
thing 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 man is; but what is
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 irradate home and society
and the world. OF such value that no
one can appreciate it, unless his mother
had long enough to let him understand
it, or who in some great crisis of life,
reinforce him with a faith in God that
nothing could disturb. Speak out, We
cradles, and tell of the feet that rocked
you and the anxious faces that lowered
over you! Speak out, ye nurseries of
all ChristendOm, and ye homes, whether
desoIate or still In full RlQQRg. With the
l l. VI VIZ 70 define what woman is.
ne'p IL" oo geographers tell US
DuV Sontbs of the sea correspond
tnaI tno heights of the mountains, l
VIII to to tell you that good womanhood
is not higher up than bad womanhood
is deep down. The grander the palace,
the more awful the confagration that
destroys 1t. The grander the steamer
Oregon, the more terrible her gong
down lust off the coast. Now, | should
not wonder if you trembled little with
a sense Of responsibility when say
that there is hardly person in this
house but may have an opportunity to
save a woman. 1t may in your case be
d one by good advice, or by financial
help, or by trying to bear some help, or
by trying to bring to bear some one OF
thousand Christian influences. II, for
instance, you find a woman in financial
distress and breaking down in health |
and spirits trying to support her chill
dren, now that her husband is dead or |
an invalid, doing that very important !
and honorable workout which is little |
Notwithstanding clearinghouse,
where all the guests, according as they
pay small board, or purpose, without
paying any board at all, to decamp, are
critical Of everything and hard to please,
busy yourselves in trying to get her
more patrons, and tell her OF divine
sympathy. Yea, II you see woman IA
vored OF fortune and with all kindly
surroundings, finding In the hollow fat
teries of the world her chief regalement,
living for herself and for time as II
there were no eternity, strive to bring
her into the kingdom of God, as did the
other day Sabbath school teacher, who
was the means of the conversion OF the
| daughter of man OF immense wealth,
and the daughter resolved to join the
| church, aud she went home and said:
Father, I am going TO join the church
and | want You to come" sob, no,
he said, Il never go to church" "Well,"
said the daughter, ''if were going to
be married, would you not go to see me
married?" And he said: "Oh, yes"
"Wen," said he, this is OF more import
ance than that" So he went and has
gone ever since, and loves to go. do
not know but that faithful Sabbath
school teacher not only saved woman,
but saved a man. There may be in this
audience, gathered from all parts OF the
world, there may be a man whose be-
havior toward womanhood has been per-
fidious. Repent! Stand up, thou mas
terpiece of sin and death, that l may