The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-08-28

was this morning u -
you did for me three ou
helped me out Of an awful 8 my
commercial history. I leazn{ kdoil,
prosperity has come and Tho lot haa
gone out Of my wlfe's cheel Ina the
roses that were there when bourted
her In her fathers houV hayo &loomed
again and my business (opdid, and
I thought ought to let you know that
you saved mani"
In short time after, ~ "a mar
chant, who had been q godO ~ Y shaky
In his limbs and who had pd| b 6lls, =
called to leave the world, and s
morning after he had read the twenty
third Psalm about ''The Lord Is my
Shepherd. he cl9sss his eyes on this
world, and an angel, who had been for
many years appointed to watch the old
mans dwelling, cries upward the pews
that the patrlarch's spirit Is about as.
cending. And the twelve az ills who
keep the twelve gates, Of fhe1 unite
in crying down to this baching
spirit Of the old man, ''Coll lin, and
welcome, for 1t has been told all over
these celestial lands that you saved a
man."
IN THE LIFE OF A WOMAN.
There sometimes come exigencies in
the life of a woman. One morning a
few years ago saw in the newspaper
that there was young woman in New
York, whose pocketbook containing
thirth-seven dollars and thirty-three
cents had been stolen, and she had
been left without penny at the begin
ming OF winter, in a strange city, and
no work. And although she was a
stranger, l did not allow the o'clock
mail to leave the lamp post on our cor
ner without carrying the thirty-seven
dollars and thirty-three cents. and the
case was proved genuine.
Now, / have read all. Shakespeare's
tragedies, and all Victor Huap's TRACE
dies, and all Alexander SnA lbs TRACE
dies, but ! never read a tragedy more
thrilling than that case, and similar
cases by the hundreds and thousands
in all our large cities-young women
without money and without home and
without work in the great maelstroms
of metropolitan life. When such a
case comes under your observation,
how do you treat it9 ''Get ont Of my
way; we have no room in our estab-
lishment for any more hands. l don't
believe in women anyway. They are
lazy, idle. worthless set. John, please
show this person out of the door.
3 Or do you compliment her personal
appearance, and say things to her
which II any man said to your sister or
daughter you would kill him on the
spot2 That is one way, and it is tried
every day in the large cities, and many
Of those who advertise for female hands
in factories, and for governesses in fam
lilies, have proved themselves unfit to
be in any place outside Of hell. But
there is another way, and saw It one
day in the MethQdist A6nh4os06cnsiu !
New York, where a young woman APP
piled for work and the gentleman in
tone and manner said in substance:
my daughter, we employ women here,
but do not know Of any vacant place
In our department. You had better in
quire at such and such place, and
hope you will be successful in getting
something to do. Here is my name and
tell them l sent you"
The embarrassed and Inundated
woman seemed to give way to Christian
She started out with a
hopeful look that, think, must have
won for her place in which to earn
her bread. rather think that consid-
crate and Christian gentleman saved a
New York and Brooklyn
ground up last year about thirty thou
sand 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 preci.
pice, not one but might have been
saved for home and God and heaven.
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
ler, and the thread broke.
WOMAN A GIFT FROM GOD.
/ have heard men tell in public dis
course what a man is; but what is a
Until some one shall give a
better definition I will tell you what
is. Direct from God, sacred |
md delicate gift, with affections SO
great that no measuring line short of
hat of the infinite God can tell their
pound. Fashioned to refine and soothe,
md lift and irradiate home and society
md the world. Of such value that no
me can appreciate it, unless his mother
ived long enough to let him under
tand it, or who in some great crisis
# life, when all else failed him, had
wife to reinforce him with a faith in
Tod that nothing could disturb.
Speak out, We cradles, and tell of the
eet that rocked Won and tho anv;ous