The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-05
PROF. oRAGo TALKS
To the Epworth League of tho Chnpiihe
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The meeting OF the Epworth League
Of the Chapline NJ. Z. Church was held
lust night, instead Of Friday, Prof
Crago, who had been asked to lecture,
not being able to attend on Friday
The audience was composed almost en-
tirely Of Young ladies, there being only
ono young man present. The subject
was: tPreparlng for Life Work."
Most OF his life, the lecturer said,
had been spent in preparing
boys and girls for their after
life. The reason that so many make
failure OF the battle OF life was that SO
few boys and girls realize the import
ance OF their early training. How lew,
said he, are true men and women when
the test comes. The veriest dude looks,
sometimes, like q man. There are a
great many lawyers, politicians, physl:;
clans and Others who are considered
true men, but comparatively few are
men, in the true sense OF the word.
Many men Of to-day occupy low
standard
One of the first preparations for atrue
man is a,liberal education. How few
avail themselves OF the opportunities
7 afforded them by the public schools,
Not one in ten boys attending them
ever reach the grammar room. Many
people ask, why is an education neces'
sary to boy, who, during after life,
will be laborer, mechanic? Simply
to make a man of him. There are many
good men who have little or no educa-
ton, it is true; but how much better
men could they be, and how much more
good could they do, II they had received
an education. The right kind Of educa-'
ticn makes no man ashamed OF his call
ing, be it in the counting room, the pro-
fessionnl lnan's office, or in the work
ingman's laborious occupations.
Tho professor thought every young
man and woman should be student, Q
reader, and Keep abreast OF the Tunes
but cautioned his hearers to be careful
OF their reading, and not to indulge in
the perusal Of worthless, Sensational
novels, when such works as those oil
Dickens and other authors can be OBJ.
tanned SO easily. He said that many
whom tho world called great were not
really SO, and in illustration mentioned
the names Of Napoleon and Caesar. The
professor deprecated the woeful .disre-
gard Of parental authority by boys OF
fhe1present day. A rulo be advised
young menito follow, was to never do
what they would be ashamed to do in
the presence of their mothers, and he
advised all young women to shun that
young man who did not treat his mother
with due respect.
All that he said to the young men,
Professor Ctago applied, with equal
force, ito the. young women. Thank
God, ladies' said he, "that you live in
an age and in a country where woman
is appreciated. Still, even here, you do
not enjoy oil our rights, and our own
church does not treat you as you de-
serve. You can raise the money for the
church, do the work, but when it comes
to running the affairs OF the church,
your brothers can attend to all that
themselves. But / hope the time will
come, and believe it is not far distant,
when the great Methodist Episcopal
church will recognize in their entirety
the rights of women"
The lecturer proceeded to give his idea
of what true woman should be; one
who is not ashamed OF her work and
does, to the best of her ability, that
wllttAtBRG,'is called upon to do. He
thought the tendency among young
ladies to despise homework was all
wrong, and that this work was as hon.
orablc as standing behind counter,
working in factory or teaching in the
public schools. The professor thought
every yonpg woman should be able to
make good coffee and broil steak, and
wis even willing that instruction in
this art should be taught in the
public schools. The lecturer touched
on other things that a young woman
should do, and told them that they
exerted an immense influence on young
men, and that the moral standing of o
young man, was what they made it. He
cautioned, young men against selecting
for a lie partner, q girl who allows her
mother to do all the work, and told the
ladies that if every young woman in
Wheeling would resolve, and keep the
resolution, not to associate with any
young man who drinks, that soon no
respectable young man in the city
would indulge the taste for liquor.