Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-08-29

who had been good while shaky in his
limbs and who had poor spells, is called to
leave the world, and one morning after he
had read the twenty-third Psalm about
1.-THE Lord is my shepherd he closes his
eyes on this world, and an angel who had
been for many years appointed TO watch
the old mans dwelling, cries upward the
news that the patriarch's spirit is about as
cending, and the twelve angels who keep the
twelve gates of heaven, unite in crying down
to this approaching spirit of the old man,
Come in and welcome, for it has been told
all over these celestial lands that you saved
a man.
There sometimes come exisencies In the
life of woman One morning few years
ago saw in the ne wspapsr that there was a
young woman in New York whose pocket.
book, containing thirty-seven dollars and
thirty-three cents, had been stolen, and she
had been left without penny at the begin
ming OF winter in strange city, and no
work. And although she was a stranger,
did not allow the O'Clock mail to leave the
lamp2ost on our corner without carrying
the thirty-sevea dollars AMI thirty three
cents and the case was proved genuine.
Now, have read all Shakespeare's TRACE
dies. and all Victor Hugo's tragedies, and
all Alexander Smiths tragedies, but l
never read a tragedy more thrilling than
that case, and similar cases by the nun
:
Young women without money and with
out home and without work in the great
maelstroms of metropolitan life When
such case comes under your observation,
how do you treat it2 Get out of my way
We have no room in our establishment foc
any more hands. / don't believe ia women
anyway. They are lazy, idle worthless
set John, please show this person out of
the door"
Or do you compliment her personal ap-
pearancs and say things to her which it any
man said to your sister or daughter you
would kill him on the spot? 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 families have proved them
selves unfit to be in any place outsi lie of
hell. But there is another way. and l saw
it one day in the Methodist Book Concern
in New York, where a young woman ap-
piled for work, and the gentleman in tone
and manner said in substances; my daugh-
ter, we employ women here, but | do not
know ofauy vacant place in our depart
ment You had better inquire at such AMI
such place, and | hope you will be success
full in getting something to do. Here is my
name, and tell them [ sent you"
The embarrassed and Inundated woman
seemed to give way to Christian confidence.
She started out with a hopeful loo& that
think must have won for her place in
which to earn her bread | rather
think that considerate and Christian gem
tleman saved a woman. New York and
Brooklyn ground up last year about thirty
thousand 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 AMI bruised AMI scoffei at,
and flung off the precipice, not one but
might have been savel for homs and Col
and heaven. But good men AMI god wom-
Ell 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.
have heard men tel in public discourse
what man is, but what is a woman Until
some one shall give better definition, | will
tell you what woman is. Direct 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 society and the worl1.
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
wife to re-enforce him with a faith in God
that nothing could disturb
Speak out, We cradles, and tell of the feet
Iilll TOchbu you anu lllc dbAiOhS luNto bifAt
lowered over you! Speak out, We nurseries
of all Christendom, and We homes, whether
desoate or still in full bloom with the faces
of wife, mother and daughter, and help me
to define what woman is But as geograph-
ers tell us that the depths of the sea CORE
spond with the heights of the mountains
have to tell you that a good womanhoo1 is
not higher up than bad wonanhoo1 is deep
down. The grander the palace the more
awful the conhagration that destroys it.
The grander the steamer Oregon the more
terrible her going down just off the coast
Now I should not wonder if you trem-
bled a little with a sense of responsibility
when | say that there is hardly person in
this house but may have an opportunity
to save a 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 husband is deal or an invalid, doing
that very important and honorable work
but which is little ppreciatei-Seepins a
boarding house, where all thu guests, accord
ing as they pay small board. or propose
without paying any board at all, to decamp,
are critical of everything and hard to please,
busy yourself in trying to get her mora
patrons and tell her of divine sympathy.
- ,ith III Iii, s,,iiro
in tbe hoIIo,y 40 tterias If tha ,,iJ 6ar cbiaP
requirement, living for herself AMI for time as
II there were no eternity, strive to bring her
into the kingdom of God, asdid the other day
Sabbath-School teacher who was the means
OF the conversion of the daughter of man of
Immense wealth, AMI the daughter re-
and said. '"Father nm coin ; To ioin tho
church. and 7 want Won In cnnnen con
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