Connecticut western news., 1891-08-27

WelCOluc, TOT II uaS Ueen COlu all over these celestial lands that you saved a man."
 IN THE LIFE OF A WOMAN.
 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 pocketbook containing thirth-seven dollars and thirty-th cents had been stolen, and she had been left without penny at the begin ming 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 our cor ner without carrying the thirty-seven dollars and thirty-three cents, and the case was proved genuine tt... .
 Now, have read all Shakespeare's tragedies, and all Victor Hugos trage dtes, and all Alexander Smiths trage dies, but l never read d tragedy more thrilling than that calse,. and simiisr 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 a case comes under your observation, how do you treat it2 "Get out of my way; we have no room in our estab- lish1nent for any more hands I don't believe 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 spot2 That is one way, and it is tried every day in the large cities, and many of those who advertise for female hands in factories, and for governesses in fam. flies, have proved themselves unfit to be in any place outside of hell. But there is another way, and saw it one day in the Methodist Book Concern in New York; where young woman ap. piled for work and the gentleman in tone and manner said in substance: My daughter, we employ women here, but 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 in getting something to do. Here is my name and tell them 1 sent you" ,s.
 The embarrassed and humiliated woman seemed to give way to Christian confidence. She started out with a hopeful look that, I think, must have won for her a place in which to earn her bread. rather think that consid. crate and Christian gentleman saved a woman. New York and Brooklyn ground up last year about thirty thou. sand 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 of the preci. pice, not one but might have been saved for home and God and heaven. But good men and good women 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.
 f. WOMAN GIFT FROM 'GOD
 have heard men tell in public dis course what man is; but what is a 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 %1o% of I,n s,,R <,n bound. Fashioned to refine and soothe, 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 under stand it, or who in some great crisis of life, when all else failed him, had wife to re-enforce him with faith in God that nothing could disturb. E..
 Speak out, ye cradles, and tell of the feet that rocked you and the anxious faces that hovered over you! 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 geogra phers tells us that the depths of the sea correspond with the heights of the mountains l 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 confagration that destroys it. The grander the steamer Oregon the more terrible her going down just of the coast g E~fg
 Now should not wonder ii you trembled a little with a sense of re. sponsibility when l say that there is hardly person in this house but may have an opportunity to save a woman. It may ir your case be done by good advice, or by financial help, or bytry- ing to bring to bear some one of . thousand Christian influences. If, for instance, you find a woman in financial distress and breaking down in health and spirits trying to support her chil dren, now that her husband is dead or an invalid, doing that very important and honorable work but which is lit tie appreciated keeping a boarding house, where all the guests, according as they pay small board, or propose, without paying any board at all, to de- camp, are critical of everything and hard to please, busy yourselves in try ing to get. her more patrons and tell her of divine sympathy.
 Yea, if you see woman favored of fortune and with all kindly surround ings, finding in the hollow fatteries of the world her chief regalelnent, living for herself and for time as if there were no eternity. strive to bring her into the kingdom oI God. as did tl.e other day d Sabbath school teacher