Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-09-03

think that considerable and Christian gen
tleman saved a woman New York and
Brooklyn ground up last year about thirty
thousand young women and would like 10
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 iung of the precipice, not one but
might have been saved for home and God
and heaven. But good men and good wom-
en- are not in that kind of business Alas
for that poor thingl Nothing but the thread
of that sewing girls needle held her, and
the thread broke.
A CONTRAST
/ have heard men tell in public discourse
what a man is; but what is a womani
Until some one shall give a better defini-
tion, | will tell you what woman is Di
rect from God, a 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 So
ciety 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 life, when
all else failed him, had a wife to re-enforce
him with faith in God that nothing could
disturb.
Speak out, ye cradles, and tell of the feet
that rocked you and the anxious faces that
hovered over youl Speak out, ye nurseries
of all Christendom, and ye homes, whether
desolate or still in full bloom with the
faces of wife, mother and daughter, and
help me to define what woman is. But as
nh foil fhut he 6antbG Of tho
sea correspond with the heights of the
mountains | have to tell you that a good
womanhood is not higher up than bad
womanhood is deep down. The grander
the palace the more awful the confagra
tion that destroys it. The grander the
steamer Oregon the more terrible her go
| ing down just off the coast
Now should not wonder if you trem-
bled little with a sense of responsibility
when | say that there is hardly person in
this house but may have an opportunity
| TO save woman 1t may in your case be
done by good advice, or by financial help,
or by trying to bring to bear some one of
thousand Christian influences. If, for in
stance, you find woman in financial dis
tress sud breaking down in health and
spirits trying to support her children, now
that her husband is dead or an invalid, do
ing 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 to please, busy yourselves in try
ing to get hermore patrons, and tell her of
divine sympathy.
Yea, if you see a woman favored of for
tune and with all kindly surroundings
finding in the hollow batteries of the
world her chief regalement, living for her
self and for time as if there were no eter-
nifty. 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 a man Of
immense wealth, and the daughter re-
solved to join the church, and she went
home and said, Father, l am going to
join the church, and / want you to come"
"Oh, no." he said, II 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."
"Well," said she, this is of more impor-
tance than that"
So he went and has gone ever since, and
loves to go. | do not know but that faith
full Sabbath school teacher not only saved
a woman, but saved a man. There may be
in this audience, gathered from all parts Of
the world, there may be man whose be-
havior toward womanhood has been per
f1dious. Repentl Stand up, thou master
piece of sin and death, that | may charge
you'll AS far as possible make reparation
Do not boast that you have her in your
power and that she cannot help herself
When that fine collar and cravat, and that
elegant suit of clothes comes off and your
uncovered soul stands before God, you will
be better off if you save that woman.
YOU MAY SAVE CHILD.
There is another exploit you can do, and
that is to save child. A child does not
seem to amount to much. 1t is nearly
year old before it can walk at all. For the
first year and half it cannot speak word
For the first ten years it would starve if il
had to earn it's own food. For the first
fifteen years it's opinion on any subject il
absolutely valueless. And then there arr
so many of them. My, what lots of chill
dren And some people have contempt fo
children. They are good for nothing bu
to wear out the carpets and break thing
and keep you awake nights crying.
WE'LL your estimate of child is quit
different from that mothers estimate who
lost her child this summer. They took i
to the salt air of the seashore and to TIN
tonic air of the mountains, but no hell
came, and the brief paragraph of its life il
, ended. Suppose that life could be restorec
by purchase, how much would that be
reaved mother give? She would take al
the jewels from her fingers and neck ant
bureau and put them down. And if tolt
that that was not enough she would TAX
| her house and make over the deed for it
J | and if that were not enough she would cal
: in all her investments and put down al
her mortgages and bonds, and if told tina
, were not enough she would say: II hav
made over all my property, and if l cal
have that child back will now pledge tina
| Twill toll with my own hands and carr
with my own shoulders in any kind o
hard work and live in a cellar and die in
garrett. Only give me back that lost dal
ingp
/ am glad that there are those who knov
something of value of a child. Its poss
/ bilities are tremendous What will thos
hands yet dor Where will those feet ye
walkf Toward what destiny will tina
never dying soul betake itself? Sha
l those lips be the throne Of blasphemy Q
/, benedictionf Come, chronologists, an
: calculate the decades on decades, the Ger
turies on centuries, of its lifetime Oh, t
: save child Am I not right in putin
f that among the great exploits?