News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-08-27

| hopeful look that, think must have
won for her place in which to earn
| her bread rather think that consid-
crate and Christian gentleman saved
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 off 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.
WOMAN A GIFT FROM GOD.
l have heard men tell in public dis
| course what a man is; but what is a
woman? Until some one shall give a
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 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 a
wife to reinforce him with 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, We nurseries of all Christendom,
and We 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-
pliers tells us that the depths of the sea
| correspond with the heights of the
mountains | have to tell you that
good womanhood is not higher up than
bad womanhood is deep down. The
grander the palace the more awful the
conHagration that destroys it, The
grander the steamer Oregon the more
terrible her going down just off the
coast.
Now | should not wonder if you
trenbled a little with a sense of re
sponsibility 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 COED
advice, or by financial help, or by try
ing TO bring to bear some one of
thousand Christian influences. If, for
instance, you find 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 lit
tie appreciated-keeping a boarding
house, where all the guests, according
as they pay small board, or propose,
without paying any board at ell, 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 a woman favored OF
fortune and with all kindly surround,
ings, finding in the hollow batteries OF
the world her chief regalement living
for herself and 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
.
of the daughter of man of immense
wealth, and the daughter resolved tC
join the church, and she went home
and said, Father, | am going to join
the church and l want you to come"
ooh, no." he said, 81 never go to
church" We'll" said the daughter,
IF i were going to be married, would
you not go to see me married." And
he said, "Oh, yes" WELL" she said,
this is of more Importance than that. .
So he went and has gone ever since,
and lovoo to sc. l do not know but
that faithful 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 behavior to
ward womanhood has been perfidious
Repentl Stand up, thou masterpiece
of sin and death, that | may charge
you'll As far as possible make repara-
ton. 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 bet
ter off if you save that woman.
SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN"
There is another exploit you can do,
and that is to save a 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 a half it
cannot speak a word. For the first ten
years it would starve if it had to earn
its own food. For the first fifteen
years its opinion on any subject is alb
solutely v,,iueless And then there are
SO many of them. My what lots of
children! And some people have con-
tempt for children. They are good for
nothing but to wear out the carpets
and break things and keep you awake
nights crying
Well, your estimate of child is quite
different from that mothers estimate
who lost her child this summer. They
took it to the salt air of the seashore
and to the tonic air of the mountains,
but no help came, and the brief para
graph Of its life is ended. Suppose that
life could be restored by purchase, how
much would that bereaved mother
give2 She would take all the Jewels
from her fingers and neck and bureau
and put them down.
And if told that that was not enough.
she would take her house and make |
over the deed for it, and if that were
not enough she would call in all her in
vestments and put down all her
mortgages and bonds, and if told that
were not enough she would say: 81
have made over all my property, and
If can have that child back will
now pledge that | will toll with my own
hands and carry with my own Shout
ders in any kind of hard work, and live
in cellar and die in a garnet. Only
give me back that lost darlingr