Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-08-28

IN the life of "a woman. One morning
a few years ago | saw in the newspa-
per that there was "A young woman in
New York, whose poe etbook contain
ing thirty-seven dollars and thirty
three cents had been stolen and she had
been left without "a penny at the be-
ginning of winter, in strange
city, and no work. And although
she was stranger, | did not allow the
o o'clock mail TO leave the lamp-post on
our corner without carrying the thirty
seven dollars and thirty-three cents;
and the case was proved genuine. Now
j have adj all shakespeare tragedies
and all Victor Hugo's tragedies, and all
Alexander Smith $ Tragedies, but never
read tragedy more thrilling than that
case, and similar cases by the hundreds
and thousands in all our large cities;
young women without money and
without home and without work in the
great maelstroms of metropolitan life.
When su1h case comes under your
observation how do you treat il? "Get
out of my way; we have no room In our
establishment 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
sonal appearance, and say things TO her
which if any man said to your sister or
daughter You would kill him on the
spot? I hat 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 themselves unfit
TO be in any place outside OF hell. But
there is another way, and / saw ii 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 inquire at such and sIch IA
place, and | hope you will be
successful in getting something
10 do Here is my name and tell them
j sent YOU" The embarrassed and hu.
inflated woman seemed TO give way to
Christian confidence. She started out
with a hopeful look that / think must
have won for her place in which TO
earn her bread; | rather think that
cOnsiderate and Christian gentleman
saved a woman, New Nork 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 scoifed at, and flung or
the prccipice 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.
How shall we get ready for one or
all of these three exploits? We shall
make a dead failure if in our own
strength we try TO save n 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 ms 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 AMI
wreck in the ofling, and the cry was:
"Man the ifeboat' But Harry, the
usual eader of the sailors crew, was
not to be found, and thew 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: Gle
could not help himself at all, and we
could not get him into the boat" "Man
the lifeboat." shouted Harry, "and we
will go for that one" NO." said his
aged mother, standing by, you must
not 60. | lost your father in n
storm like this, and your brother
VIII went off six years ago, and |
have not heard n word from VIII since
he left. and don't know where he is,
poor VIII, and | cannot let you also
go, for | am old ard dependent on
you" Ills reply was: "Mother,
must go and save that one man, and If
/ am lost God will take care of you in
Your old days"
The lifeboat put out, and after an
awful struggle with the sea, they
picked the poor fellow out of the rig
Eing Just in time 10 save his life, and
started for the shore. And as they
came within speaking distance. Harry
cried out: I'VE saved him, and tell
mo her it was brother Will"