The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-28

case comes under your observation,
how do you treat III "Get out of my
way; we have no room in our estab.
lishment for any more hands, | don't
believe in women anyway, They are a
lazy, idle, worthless set, John, please
show this person out Of the door,
Or do you compliment her personal
appearance, and say things to her
which If any man said to your sister or
daughter you would kill him on the
spot2 That is one way, and il is tried
every day in the large cities, and many
of those who advertise for female hands
in factories, and for governesses in fam.
lies, have proved themselves unfit to
be in any place outside of hell But
there is another way, and saw it one
day In the Methodist Book Concern In
New York, where 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
confidence. She started out with q
hopeful look that, | think, must have
won for her place in which to earn
her bread. i rather think that consid-
crate and Christian gentleman saved a
woman. New York and Broaklyn
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
her, and the thread broke.
WOMAN A GIFT FROM GOD.
have heard men tell in public dis
course what a man is; but what is o
woman? Until some one shall give a
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 world. OF such value that no
one can appreciate it, unless his mother
lived long enough to let him under
stand it, or who in some great crisis
of life, when all else failed him, had a
wife to REINFORCE 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 lowered over you'll Speak
out, We 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 geogra-
piers tells us that the depths of the sea
correspond with the heights of the
mountains l 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
contlagration that destroys it. The
grander the steamer Oregon the more
terrible her going down just off the
coast.
Now / should not wonder if you
trembled little with sense of re-
sponsibility 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 try
Ing to bring to bear some one of a
thousand Christian influences If, for
instance, you find woman in financial
distress and breaking down in health
and spirits trying to support her chill
dren, now that her husband is dead or
an invalid, doing that very important
and honorable workout which is lit
tie appreciated keeping a boarding
house, where all the guests, according
rs they pay small board, or propose,
without paying any board at all, to de-
camp, 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 woman favored of
fortune and with all kindly surround
ings, finding in the hollow batteries of
the world her chief regalement, living
for herself and for time as if there
were no eternity, strive to bring her
into the kingdom of God, as did the
other day a Sabbath school teacher,
who was the means of the conversion
wealth, and the daughter resolved to
join the church, and she went home
and said, Father, am going to join
the church and | want you to come"
ooh, no." he said, II 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" she said,
this is of more importance than that. p"
So he went and has gone ever since
and loves to go. do not know but
that faithful Sabbath school teacher
not only saved a woman, but saved a
man. There may be in this audience
gathered from all parts of the world
there may be q man whose behavior to-
ward womanhood has been perfidious
Repent! Stand up, thou masterpiece
of sin and death, that | may charge
youl As far as possible make repara-
ton. Do not boast that you have her
in your power, and thar 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 bet