Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-03-11
A GOOD SERMON.

Oue ul Uue GuiHkluS women Oh bQe
stage is Emma V. Sheridan THAI was,
Mrs. Somebody-or-other of Boston,
that is She is a woman that goes
through the world with her eyes
open and her heart, always waiting
to receive impressions Of the right
and beautiful things that make our
world tolerable. These extracts from
one of her sermons" are worth some
pains to preserve:
A couple Of years On the stage and
we find ourselves grown very gentle
to the children we chance to meet
The schoolgirls in the cars appeal
somehow to US, and we catch our
selves hoping that they may have no
need to face the glare there is in the
world which chases all the sweet
shadows out of such eyes.
We reach out our hand to touch
the tumbled head of some child that
passes us in the street, or let it rest
moment under round, smooth
baby chin, to lift its grave eyes to US,
and somehow it all means something
to US more than it used to.
We used to have a half contempt
for peach bloom" but we have not
now.
We know, and we are glad to be
sure Of it, that the pretty softness
may be rubbed off from as sound and
sweet a fruit as ever took velvet
shades in the light, but we say to
ourselves that the velvet bloom is
lovely, and that had we our will, 1t
would please us better to take an ex-
ira hard knock or so rather than see
such bloom touched needlessly.
Such consideration, however, for
those who must live their own lives
in the crush and pressure of WORK and
worry is worse than senseless.
Yet someone tells me I am to
blame for having spoken to workers
in my own field OF the bitches that I
know lie there.
''They might never have seen
them-why put the ioea in their
heads?"
Bah! We are to go wandering
around and learn there is ditch by
SGcppluk luUO III!
1t is such beautiful thing to see
a girl marching serenely among pit
falls, her eyes upon the stars, that
it's pity to direct her attention to
her feet!
Besides woman cannot slip with
out dragging other people down.
Therefore, if she joins the on
pressing throng, for the sake of those
about her and behind her, as we'll as
for her own sake, she must learn
where and how to put down her feet.
If all this means that we must
learn much that is hard to learn,
much that takes heart, and hope. and
faith out Of us-it can't be helped.
If a girls life Law in my hands I
should, if l could, let it grow sweetly
and gently among flowers and birds
and country life.
She should read pure books and her
own dreams should form her life.
I should teach her that woman
hood was sacred and that it set SOL
emn seal of royalty upon her soul.
I should teach her that in man.
hood lay strength and truth and |
Gods own nobility.
I should pray that the first lips |
that ever touched the budding life |
should wake the rose to all its|beauty,
and that life might bring her nothing
more, no question, no doubt, no
thought but that all lives were like
hers.
I should take him out with large
sized club. I should tell him he had
wife who had grown into womanhood,
as ideal womanhood should. and that,
if the charm of the Heaven-spell upon
her was ever broken, l should murder
him in cold blood.
Then should go home and waltz
for the time when a girls heart
should be broken, nor cease to expect
the coming of the evil hour till she
should die and for this life be safe.
II l could not let her grow up so
according to the gentle law of her
own nature, at least / would send
her out 10 the fight with idea enough
Of weapons and warfare not to shoot
a pistol out of the butt end and so
into her own heart, and not to fancy
bomb-shells beautiful and harmless
things to be handled for pleasure,
worn around ones neck for safety, or
thrown at people for amusement or
for their good, as fancy some Of
those who have rated me for plain
speaking would think best.-Free
Press.
Nineteenth Century Youth.