Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-08-27
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| 10 DC IN any place OUTSIDE OF nell. Dut
there is another way, and saw it one
day in the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, where n young woman APP
piled for work and the gentleman in
tone and manner said in substances:
| my daughter, we employ women
here, but do not know Of any vacant
place in our department. You had
| better inquire at such, and such q
place, and ] hope you will be
successful in getting something
to do. Here is my name and tell them
| sent you." The embarrassed and hui
inflated woman seemed to give way to
| Christian confidence. She started out
| with hopeful look that / think must
have won for her n place in which to
| earn her bread; / rather think that
considerable and Christian gentleman
| saved woman. New York and Brook
lyn ground up last year about thirty
thousand young women and would like
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 precipice 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 bust
ness. Alas, for that poor thing! moth
ing but the thread of that sewing
girls needle neld her, and the. thread
broke.
have heard men tell IN public dis
course 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 gilt, 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 appre-
ciate it, unless his mother lived long
enough 10 let him undei S ard it, or
who in some great crisis of life, when
all else failed him, had wife to rein
force him with faith in God that
nothing could disturb. Speak ovt, We
cradles, and tell of the feet that
rocked you and the anxious faces that
lowered over you! Speak out, We
nurseries of all Christendom, and We
homes, whether desolate or still in full
bloom with the faces of wife, mother,
and daughter, and help me to define
what woman is. There may be in this
audience, gathered from all parts of
the world, there may be man whose
conduct toward womanhood has been
perfdious. Repent! Stand up, thou
masterpiece of sin and death, that I
may charge you! 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 I'M
covered soul stands before God, you
will be better off if you save that
woman.
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 year old before it can walk
at all. For the first year and half it
cannot speak a word For the first ten
years it would starye ii it had to earn
it's own food. For the first fifteen
years Its opinion on any subject is abb
solutely yalueless. And then there
are so many of them. My, what lots
of children! 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 n 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 ended. Suppose that life could
be restored by purchase, how much
would that bereaved mother give?
She would take all the jewels
from her fingers and neck
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 mortgages and bonds,
and if told that they 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 a cellar and die
in Il garnet"
But what ere you going to do with
those children who are worse Off than IL
their father and mother had died the
| day they were born? There are tens OF
| thousands of such. Their parentage
was against them. Their name is
! against them. The structure of their
skulls against them. Their nerves and
muscles contaminated by the inebriety
or dIssoluteness of their parents they
are practically at their birth lad out
on plank In the middle of the Allan
tic ocean, in an equinoctial gale, and
told to make for shore.
| How shall we get ready for one or
all of these three exploits? 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 equipment. The
people that do know their God shall be
strong and do exploits" We must
know him through Jesus Christ in our
own salvation and then we shall
have his help in the salvation of
others And while you are saving stran-
gers you may save some of your own
kin. You think your brothers and sis
ters and children and grandchildren
all safe, but they are not dead, and no
one is safe till he is dead. On the En-
glish coast there was a wild storm and
n wreck in the offing, and the cry was:
| MAN INC llIcDOdU. IuI JdTTV, the
usual leader of the sailors crew, was
not to be found, and thev went with
out him, and brought back all
the shipwrecked people but on .
BY this time, Harry, the leader of the
crew, appeared and said: "Why did you
leave that one?" The answer was: "He
could not help himself at all, and we
could not get him into the boat" "Man
the lifeboat!" shouted Harry, land we
will go for that one" "No," said his
aged mother, standing by, you must
not go. | lost your father in a
storm like this, and your brother
VIII went off six years ago, and
have not heard a word from win since
he left. and don't know where he is,
poor Will, and cannot let you also
go, for ! am old and dependent on
You" His reply was: "Mother,
must go and save that one man, and II
! am lost God will take care of you in
your old DAYS"
The lifeboat put out, an after an
awful struggle with the sea they