The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-02

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place outside Of hell. But there is an
other way, and | saw 1t one day IN the
Methodist Book Concern in New York,
where young woman applied Tor 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
a place, and 1 hope you will be success F..
ful in getting something to do. Here is
my name, and tell them sent you.
The embarrassed and Inundated wo-
man seemed to give way to Christian
confidence. She started out with hope
tul look that I think must have won for
her place in which to earn her bread.
rather think that couslderate and
Christian gentleman saved woman.
New York aud 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 for this world or the next, battered
and bruised and scotfed at, and flung of
the precipice. not one but might have
been saved for home and God and heav-
en-. But good men and good women are
not in that kind of business. Alas for
that poor thing! Nothing but the thread
of that sewing girls 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, sacred and
delicate oitt, with affections so great
that no measuring line short Of that OF
the infinite God can tell their bound.
Fashioned to refine and soothe aad lift
and irradiate hone 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 life, when
all else failed him, had a 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 hovered over you! Speak
out, ye nurseries of all Christendom,
and We homes. whether desolate or still
in full bloom with the faces Of wife,
mother aid daughter, and help me to
define what woman is. But as geograph-
ers tell US that the depths ofthe sea cor
respond with the heights of the noun
tains have to tell you that a good wo-
manhood is not higher up than bad wo-
manhood is deep down. The grander
the palace the more awful the contagra-
ton that destroys It. The grander the
steamer Oregon the more terrible her
gong down just of, the coast.
Now l should not wonder if you trem.
bled little with a sense of responsible
ity when I say that there is hardly a
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 a thousand Chris
tian influences. II, for instance, you
find woman in financial distress and
breaking down in health aud SPIRITS try
ing to support her children, now that
her husband is dead or an invalid, doing
that very important and honorable work
but which is little appreciated-keep-
inc a 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 trying to get her more pa
irons, and tell her Of divine sympathy.
Yea, if 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 and for time as if 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,
and she went home and said, Father,
l am going to join the church, and l
want you to come" "Oh, no." he SAID,
81 never 60 to church." WELL" said
the daughter, If 1 were going to be
married would you not 60 to see me
married." And he said, "Oh, yes"
SWELL" said she, "thls is Of more inn
portance than that"
So he went and has gone ever slnce,
aRd loves to 60. I do not know but that
faithful Sabbath school teacher not only
saved a woman, but saved man. There
may be in this audience, gathered from
all parts of the world, there may be a
man whose behavior toward ~omanhood
has been peridious. Repent! Stand
up. thou masterpiece Of SIN and death,
that may charge you! AS far as pos
sible make reparation. DO cot boast
that you have her in your power and that
shs cannot help herself. When that
fine collar and cravat, and that elegant
suit of clothes comes off and your nm
covered soul stands before God, you
will be better Of if you save that wo-
man.
YOU MAY SAVE CHILD.
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 yearly 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 it had to earn its
own food. For the first fifteen years Its
opinion on any subject is absolutely
valueless. And then there are so many
OF them. My, what lots Of children!
And some people have contempt for
children. They are good for nothing
but 10 wear out the carpets and break
things and keep you awake nights cry
ing.
Well, your estimate Of a child is quite
different from that mothers estimate
wao lost her child this summer. They
took it to the salt air OF the seashore and
10 the tonic air of the mountains, but no
he p came, and the brief paragraph Of
| i+o l;Eo 10 en6e6 SunOose that life could