The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-08-08

No one has higher opinion Of woman
than this writer and no one appreciates
more highly than he the noble part she
bears in the general salvation of our
world. The sphere Of her refining and
soul-lifting work could not be filled by
men or angels, and this is because her
sphere of action and peculiar influence is
wholly different in many important as
poets from theirs. This statement car
rics along with it the implied conclusion
that she is wholly incapable of filing
either in politics, in social life or in rcli-
gion, the sphere occupied by men. 1t is
not worth while to institute a comparison
to show which is the superior. 1t re-
QuircS both halves of circle to make a
whole, and it would be as sensible in ge-
Ometry 10 ask one half of a circle to sup
ply the other half, as to expect either
men or women to assume each the sphere
OF the other, or to swap places in the
social fabric. Generally it may be said, ,
and but few will doubt it, that women
are better than men, and therefore for
them to assume the sphere of men is to
step down to il lower plane, in which
case her influence in the upper is gone, in
large measure. When the angel Of peace
bade the world farewell at the partaking
of the forbidden fruit, the impress of his
parting kiss was the family HOUSE Here
is WOmans throne, and she reigns with
out a rival. OF course sin is in the world
and has in many ways marred that house.
and this is only saying that her home is
not perfect paradise yet And if his
tory, science and philosophy teach any
thing worth knowing, it is, that if her
home is ever to be brought up to its best
ideal, it can only be done by her courage
Ousy meeting and discharging the God
given functions and duties peculiar to
her sex, and not by despising her en-
throncment and abdicating the irresista-
bic power for good welded by a wife,
mother, sister, sweetheart and friend.
The English-speaking people present
no more beautiful aspect of human prog
ress to the ages, past or coming, than the
supremacy Of woman in social, moral and
religious life. Let her reign. With every
right, possible TO the perpetuity of the
social fabric, guaranteed to her-carry-
ing in her hand the talismanic rod that
eVokes peace and happiness from the
chaos Of strife and sin, and with power
to make her home type of heaven to
the weary, and compelling men to bow
to the sweeter, more virtuous, more an
gellc power of her presence, let her reign
long reign, an everlasting, a heavenly
reign, to the mothers Of the Washingtons,
Lees, Wesleys, Gartields, Judsons, Ed
wardSeS, Hawkes., the modern Gracchii
In politics, Hannibals in war, and Chrys-
ostones in sacred oratory. Who can bind
the sweet influences of such Pleads as
these-WOmen, the sweep Of whose life
requires the cycles of the eternities
But, alas = shall we tell it? When Sa-
tan strikes fresh blow at the interests
of God and man he always strikes first at
woman. SO he struck at Eve. What
ludl, 10 preserve
"Home and Native Land" from the sin
of whiskey, a move is to be made that
can only have the effect of DESTROYING
THAT VERY HOME AND NATIvELAND. 1t
is as if one, to get clear Of certain annoy
anCes, should set fire TO his house and
burn it down .-scuttle and sink the ship
because some on board are sea-sick
The world can never be made into para
disc by civil law, which implies force and
bloodshed. Jesus said, II came not TO
destroy mems lives, but to save life"
The only sword he came TO bring was
simply the sword of the spirit of the per-
suasiveness of truth, and NEVER to in
woke the sword of Caesar. OF this sword
he declared, HE that taketh it shall per
ish by it." But still worse, when that
~Sword is set agoing by the votes of wo-
hen! Are we to have re-enacted upon
he gospel-freighted shores of America
he bloody scenes of the Sans-Callotes in