Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-25
Rev. Henson Tells What He
Knows About Them.
Women Like God Do Not Need
TO Reason.
A Whole Lot of Information About
the Dear Creatures.
Man One-Sided without a Woman-Paul
Would Have Written His Epistles
Differently If He Had Been
Married-Women Re1ig-
iOus by Intuition.

III. ~ llCAnohi Vi ShiCaSo, iCSIuiCu
last evening. in the First Methodist
church On Woman. The lower part of
the house was well filled when DR.. Can
tine came forward and introduced the
speaker in way which made people an
ticipate something funny. They got it,
too; but intermixed with the humor,
which, like that OF Burdette, was of a
clean and enjoyable kind, was SO much
real kindly wisdom that no one could
object to it as being of too light char
acter.
DIR. Henson began by expressing his
qualification at seeing such large audi
ence on such a warm night. He said he
felt much complimented at this express
sion OF interest in his lecture.
The question of woman and her place,
he said, was one that had to be as care
fully handled as dynamite. 1t was per-
picking politicians, and confounding &C.
clesiastics. Women are sometimes spo-
ken of as the weaker vessels. but always
by those who have not tested their
strength. Paul was not married man,
or some OF his epistles would have been
written differently. There is no ques-
tion as to the relative superiority OF the
sexes. We cannot say the rose is better
than the peach, or the flower more beau
tiful than the star. Each, in its appro-
pirate place is superior to the other. A
locomotive is the grandest creation of
mans hands, yet locomotive in the
mud and off the track is an ignominious
and helpless thing.
God created Adam, and woman, as a
creation, was part OF Adams life. Man
has ever since been one-sided, and with
out his other and larger half is failure.
Think of that, all We old bachelors. If
YOU want to change your condition you
can find DR.. Cantine's address on the
front of this church, and his fees for
marriage ceremonies are moderate.
Men know thing because they
reason it out. God knows thing with.
out reasoning it. Women are like the
Lord in this respect. If we men had
more respect for the intuition of our
wives, we would often escape, among
other miseries, her II told you so."
The intuition Of the woman and the
child is truer than the reason of man
hood. AS children we say:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
& How wonder what you are,
and after years of study and searching
the heavens with costly telescopes and
figuring among abstruse problems, the
astronomer can only say the same as
the child.
A woman's intuition makes her re-
ligious. The churches have more women
than men in them. Perhaps that is the
reason that there will be neither marry
ing nor giving in marriage in heaven.
There won't be men enough to 60 around.
Women should be educated as thor
oughly as are men. 1 have no sympathy
with an education which makes it neces-
sary for woman to marry to get sup
ported. Besides that, an educated
woman can do more for man if she is
educated herself. l have boy who was
never careful about his appearance or
ambitious about himself until he got a
girl. 1 don't know what became of that
girl-neither does the boy-but l say
HGod bless her." anyway. Men are
what the women make them. and some
OF the men look as if bungling job had
been done somewhere.
.ss Ordinarily, / think men should be at
the head of things, but there are
times when men and nations need a
Deborah, Joan of Arc or Grace
Darling.
n As to woman's voting. In house
cleaning nothing can do SO much execu-
ton as woman with broom, and 60
with the ballot, think she would clean
out much political corruption. She
would certainly be less cowardly
than male politicians in facing
moral questions, ,and as for the claim that
she has not discretion enough to vote,
Task: What is voting? 1t is choosing
a man, and if the women folks haven't
sense enough to choose man where do
you married men come in?
q. It is in the home, however, that
women will always reign supreme, and
when l think of her there can say, and
I think you will join me-"God save the
queen"