Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-08-27

N pace In WHICH TO earn lei OlCa1- 4 ANtA~-
think that considerable and Christian gen
tleman saved a 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 chat long procession of women who
march on with no hope for this world or
the next, battered and bruised and scofted
ut, and flung off 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 thing! 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 woman
Until some one shall give a better deiini-
ton, | will tell you what woman IS. d.
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 REINFORCE
him with a 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 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
geographers tell US that the depths Of the
sea correspond with the heights Of the
mountains | have 10 tell you that a good
womanhood is not higher up than bad
w~omanhood is deep down. The grander
the palace the more awful the confHgra'
ton that destroys it. The grander the
steamer Oregon the more terrible her go
ing down just off the coast.
Now ! should not wonder II you trem-
bled a little with a sense Of responsibility
when | say that there Is hardly a person In
this house but may have an opportunity
TO save a woman. IL may in your case be
done by good advice, or by financial help,
or BY trying to bring 70 bear some one Of a
thousand Christian influences. II, for in
stance, You find a woman in financial dis
tress and 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 a boarding house, where all the
guests, according as they pay small board,
or propose, without paying any board al
all, TO decamp, are critical Of everything
aud hard to please, busy yourselves in try
ing to get her more patrons, aud tell her OF
divine sympathy
Yea, II 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 aud for time as II there were no eter-
nifty. 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 re-
solved to join the church, and she went
home and said, Father, / am going 10
join the church, and | want you TO come"
"Oh, no." be said, II never go TO church.
"Well, " said the daughter. 'if were going
10 be married would you not go 70 see me
marriedf" And he said, "Oh, yes"
well, " said she, this is of more impor-
lance 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 MbLldut Dul cdNtu a iltu- lntTt may DE
in this audience, gathered from all parts OF
the world, there may be a man whose be-
havior toward w~omanhood has been per.
hdious. Repentl Stand up, thou master
piece Of sin and death, that / NAV charge
youl As far as possible make PREPARATION
DO not boast that you nave her in your
power and that she cannot help herself.
When that fine collar and cravat, and that
elegant suit OF clothes comes of and your
uncovered soul stand before God. you will
be better Of If you save that woman.
yoU MAY SAVE A CHILD.
There is another exploit you can do, and
that is to save a child. A child does not
seem to amount to much. It is nearly a
year old before il can walk at all. For the
first year and a half it cannot speak a word.
For the first ten years il would starve If it
had to earn its own food. For the first
fifteen years its opinion on any subject is
absolutely yalueless. And then there are
so many Of them. My, what lots OF chill
drenl And some people have contempt 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 a child is quite
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, aud the brief paragraph of its life is
ended. Suppose that life could be restored
by purchase, how much would that be-
reaved mother give' She would take all
the jewels from her fingers and neck and
bureau and put them down. And if told
that was not enough she would take
her house and make over the deed for it,
and il that were not enough she would call
in all her investments and put down all
her mortgages and bonds, and II told that
were not enough she would say: II have !
made over all my property, and if l can
have that child back | will now pledge that
! will toll with my own hands and carry
with my own shoulders in any kind Of I
hard work and live in a cellar and die in a
garnet. Only give me back that lost dar- I
\
! am glad that there are those who know :
something Of a value of a child. Its posi- 7,
are tremendous. What will those i