Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-24

! nOVeren over your SPEAK out, ye nurseries
of all Christendom, and ye homes, whether
desolate or still in full bloom with thu
faces of wife, mother and daughter, ant
help ME to define what woman is But a.
geographers tell us that the depths of the
sea correspond with the heights of the
mountains have TO tell you that good
womanhood is not higher up than bat
womanhood Is deep down. The grandei
the palace the more awful the conaagra
tion that destroys 1t. The grander the
steamer Oregon the more terrible her go
ing down just off the coast.
Now / should not wonder if you trem
bled little with 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 8
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 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, aud tell her OF
divine sympathy.
| Yea, If you see 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 man of
immense wealth. and the daughter re-
solved to join the church, and she went
| home and said, Father, / am going to
| join the church, and l want you to come"
'Oh, no." he said, 81 never go to church. J."
"Well, - 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"
So he went and has gone ever since, and
loves to go. do not know but that faith
full Sabbath school teacher not only saved
a woman, but saved man. There may be
In this audience gathered from all parts of
the world, there may be a man whose be-
havior toward womanhood has been per
fidious. Repent Stand up, thou master.
piece Of sin and death, that l 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 will
be better off If you save that woman.
you MAY SAVE 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 il
had to earn it's 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.
drenl 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 its life is
by purchase, how much would that be-
reaved mother giveP She would take all
the jewels from her fingers and neck and
bureau and put them down. And if told
that that was not enough she would take
her house and make over the deed for it,
and if 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 can
have that child back will now pledge that
| will toll with my own hands and carry
with my own shoulders in any kind Of
hard work and live in cellar and die in a
garrett. Only give me back that lost dar
lngp
But what are you going to do with those
children who are worse off than If their
father and mother had died the day they
were bornp There are tens of thousands of
such. Their parentage was against them.
Their name is against them. The structure
of their skulls is against them. Their
nerves and muscles contaminated by the
inebriety or dissoluteness of their par
ents; they are practically at their birth laid
out on plank in the middle of the Allan
tic ocean, in an equinoctial gale, and told
to make for shore. What to do with them
is the question often asked.
There is another question quite as perth
nent and that is, What are they going to
do with usp They will, ten or eleven years
from now, have as many votes as the same
number of we'll born children, and they
will hand this land over to anarchy and
political damnation just as sure as we neg
bect them Suppose we each one OF us save
boy or save a girl You can do it. Will
your will
KNOW GOD AND BE STRONG.
How shall we get ready for one or all !
Of these three exploits2 We shall make
dead failure If in our own strength we try
TO save man or woman or child. But my
text suggests where we are to get equip |
ment. 1.-THE people that do know their
God shall be strong and do exploits" We |
must know him through Jesus Christ in
BUR own salvation, and then we shall have |
his help in the salvation of others. And |
while you are saving strangers you may
save some of your own kin. You think |
your brothers and sisters and children and |
grandchildren all safe, but they are not |
dead, and no one is safe till he is dead On |
the English coast there was a wild storm |
and a wreck in the offing, and the cry was,
"Man the lifeboatT" But Harry, the usual |
leader of the sailors crew, was not to be |
found, and they went without him, and |
brought back all the shipwrecked people |
but one
BY this time Harry, the leader of the
crew, appeared and said, "Why did you |
leave that oneY" The answer was, "He |
could not help himself at all, and we could |
not get him into the boat" "Man the life |
boatp shouted Harry, land we will go for