The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-19

dence. She started out with a hopeful
look That think must have won for her a
place in which to earn her bread. rather
think that considerate and Christian gen
tleman saved a woman. New York and
Brooklyn ground up last year about thirty
thous0nd 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 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 thingl Nothing but the thread
of that sewing girls needle held her, and
! the thread broke
| CONTRAST.
! have heard men tell in public discourse
what man is; but what is a woman?
| Until some one shall give a better defini-
/ ton, l Will tell you what woman is. Di-
/ 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
| 1t, or who In some great crisis of life when
all else failed him, had a wife to re-enforce
him with a faith in God that nothing 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 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 to tell you that a good
womanhood is not higher up than bad
womanhood is deep down. The grander
the palace the more awful the conflagra-
tion that destroys it. The grander the
steamer Oregon the more terrible her go
I ing down just off the coast
I Now should not wonder if you trem-
bled little with sense of responsibility
when say that there is hardly IL 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 Christian influences If, for in
stance, you find woman in financial dis
tress and breaking down in health and
spirits trying to support her children now
that her husbands dead or an invalid do
ing that very important and honorable
workout which is little appreciated
keeping 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 try
ing to get her more patrons, and tell-her of
divine sympathy.
Yea, if you see u 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 and for time as if there were no eter-
nifty. 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 a man of
immense wealth, and the daughter re-
solved to join the church, and she went
home and said, Father, 1 am going to
join the church, and I want you to Gomez
''Oh, no." he said, 'I never go to church
We'll" said the daughter, ..'if were going
to be married would you not go to see me
married." And he said. "Oh, yes"
''Well,'' said she, "this is of more impor-
tance than that" IN,
So he went and has gone ever since and
loves tosgo. LIDO not know but that faith
full Sabbath school teacher not only saved
a woman, but saved u man. There may be
in this audience, gathered from all parts of
the world, there may be man whose be-
havior toward womanhood has been per-
fdious. Repentl Stand up, thou master
piece of sin and death, that 1 may charge
you'll AS far as possible make reparation
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 wiz
be better off. if you save that woman.
YOU MAY SAVE A CHILD.
There is another exploit you can do, and
that is to save child. A child does not
seem to amount to much. 1t is nearly a
year old before it can walk at all. For the
first year and a 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 chill
dren! 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 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 paragraph of it's 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
oureau and put them down. And if told
chat that was not enough she would take
her house and make over the deed for it,
and II that were not enough she would call
IN all her investments 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 1 can
have that child back viii now pledge that |
/ will toll with my own hands and carry
with my own shoulders in any kind of
lard work and live in cellar and die in a |
garret. Only give nne back that lost dar-
lingr'