The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-09-03

the life OF woman. One morning a
few years 40 l saw in the newsp ,per
That there was a young woman in New
I ork whose pocketbOok, containing
thlrty.sevcn dollars and thirtv-threc
cents had been stolen, and she had be en-
left without penny at the beginning of
winter in a strange city, and no work.
And although she was a stranger, [ did
not allow the Q O'Clock mail to leave the
lamppost on our corner without Carry
ing the thirty-seveu dollars and thirty
three cents, and the case was proved
genuine.
Now, have read all Shakespeare's
TRACE dies, and all Victor IIugo's trage-
dies, and all Alexander Smiths TRACE
dies, 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 with
out money and without home and with
ont work in the great maels roms OF
metropolitan life. When such a case
comes under your observation, how do
you treat ity "Get out OF my way. We
have no room in our establishment for
amy more hauds. | don't believe in wo-
men anyway. They are lazy, idle,
worthless sat. John, please show this
person out OF the door,"
Or DO you compliment her personal
appearance and say things To her which
II any man said to your sister or dauyh-
ter 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 advertise for female hands In facto-
rles and Tor govcrncsses in ia mile s have
proved themselves unfit to be in any
place outside OF hell. But there ia an
other 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 I do not know
OF any vacant place in our department.
You had botter inquire at SUCH and such
a place, and hope you will be success =
ful INJECTING something to do. Here is
my name, and tell them l sent YOU"
The embarrassed aud Inundated wo-
man seemed to give way 70 Christian
confidence. She started out with ah0pe-
lul look that think must have won ior
her a place in which to earn her bread.
rather think that consderate and
Christian gentleman saved woman.
New York and Brooklyn ground up last
year about thirty thousand young women
and would like to grind up about as many
this year. Out Of all that long process
sion OF women who march on with no
hope tor this world or the next, battered
and bruised and scotled at, and flung OIL
the precipice, not one but might have
been saved for home and God and heav.
en-. But good men and good women are
not III that kind of business. Alas fo1
that poor thing! Nothing but the thread
OF that sewing glrl's needle held her
| and the thread broke.
A CONTRAST.
| have heard men tell in public dis.
| course what a man Is; but what is a wo
man? Until some one shall give bet.
Ter definition, will tell you what wo.
man is. Direct from God, a sacred and
delicate gilt, with affections so great
that no measuring line short of that OF
the Infinite Gou can tell their bound.
Fashioned to refine and sooths and lift
and irradiate home and society and the
world. OF such value that no one can
appreciate it, unless his mother lived
long enough to let him understand it, or
who IN some great crisis of hte. when
all else ial;ed him, had wife to re-en-
force him with faith in God that moth
ing could disturb.
Speak out, ye cradles, and tell of the
feet that rocked you and the anxious
faces that lowered over you! Speak
out, ye nurseries Of all Christendnm,
and ye homes, whether desolate or still
in full bloom with the faces of wife,
mother n Id daughter, and help me to
define what woman is. But as geograph-
ers tell us that the depths of the sea cor
respond with the heights Of the noun
tains 1 have to tell you that good wo-
manhood is not higher up than bad wo-
manhood is deep down. The grander
the palace the more awful the cOnllagra-
ton that destroys. It, The grander the
steamer Oregon the more terrible her
gong down just off the coast
Now | should not wouder if you trem-
bled little with sense Of responsible
ity when l say that there is hardly a
person i'll this house but may have an
opportunity to save q woman. 1t NAV
in your case be done by good advice, or
bf financial help, or by trying to bring
to bear some one of a thousand Chris
tlan influences. If, for Instance, you
find woman in financial distress and
breaking down in health and spirits try
ing to support her children, how that
her II lsband is dead or an invalid, doing
that very important and honorable work
but which is little appreciated-keep-
my boarding house, where all the
guests, according as they pay small
board, or propose. without paying any
board at all, to dccamp, are crltcal of
everything and hard to please, busy
yourselves in trying to get her more pa.
irons, and tell her of divine sympathy.
Yea, II you see woman favored of
fortune and with all kindly surroundings
finding in the hollow batteries of the
world her chief regalement, living for
herself md for time as if there were no
eternity, strive to bring her INTO the
kingdom OF God, as did the other day a
Sabbath school teacher. who was the
means OF the conversion OF the daughter
of a man Of immense wealth, and the
daughter resolved to join the church.
and she went home and said, "Father,
| am going TO- jOin the church oD6 7