The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-24
STRENGTH IN union.
Mrs. Davis's Interesting
Talk to the Kings Daugh-
tiers and Sons at Dr..
Heirs Church.

From the appearance of the First Pres
byterian Church last evening, every
Kings Daughter and Son in Hudson
| County was present. The occasion was
the meeting of the various circles OF the
church and was attended by many
| visitors.
The programme opened with an organ
voluntary by DR.. S. Austen Pearce, fol-
lowed by Hymn No. 1915 by Ehe congre-
CATION. The Rev. D. j. Ellison being ao-
sent, the Rev. C. Brett offered prayer.
Dir. Herr, pastor of the church, in a rev,
we'll chosen words then welcomed tne
guests. Among lother things, he saia;--
"Those who are prone to rldicule tne
idea of woman entering business. nave a
lesson to learn. In New York City tnere
Is not one instance in ten years or a Wom-
an cashier, who was unfeithful to her
trust, and III those offices to which wom-
EN- have been admitted. the moral tone
has been revolutioulzed. In the church,
as In business, woman has founo ner
work. aud. in an increditably short time,
has become a power.
This meeting here this evening is not
one for mutual congratulaGiop, but one
from which we all desire to derive u
blessing and a result. There are two
ways in which | am satisfied the circles OF
this church may become more powerful.
One way is to excite all the women In
the church, who are not Kings Dangh-
tiers, TO become members: the other is TO
organize into larger bodies. l feel that
the order can do more good ii they can
be drawn together In a closer and higher
organization than the single circles"
The Rev. c. Brett then read Psalm No.
As. aft r which Mrs. c.. f. Patterson sang
the Fear Not Ye, o Israel" by Dudley
Buck.
MRS. DAVIS ON WOMEN.
DR.. Herr then introduced MRS. l. z.
Davis. Mrs. Davis is a rather portly
womaD, with a winning manner and an
excellent delivery. She said:-
"Dr. Herr was right when he said this
was a wonderful era. IL is an
era in which the women of the
world are beginning to awaken,
the hearts of women all over
the world are beginning to understand
what the little cross we bear signifies.
Woman's place is at home and should be,
but home is not The space milne by
four walls. but the entire world. The
woman who shuts up the saloon on the
corner is working as much for home as IL
she were baking doughnnts for the boy
who would go there if it were not closed.
DIR. Herr aud every man III this con-
gregation will agree with me That
the greatest moral forces and Influences
are Ia the hearts of woman 1t WAS with
a knowledge of this power and d sense of
their duty that that little band of women
met on Washington street seven years
ago and organized a circle OF the Kings
Daughters. And now, all over this great
land of ours, are circles of Kings Daugh-
tiers. They were against union and re-
garded union as h means from winch
only led tape resulted. This Is not SO.
ta"Nature has taught US that In all things
there must he organization to insure life.
We should become a unit. Every grain
of sand OH the sea shore is beautiful.
every member of the Kings Daughters.
every circle working in its own little
world is beautiful, but we do not 6ulld q
temple from the grains of sand. When :u
has been pressed and has felt the fire of
the interior of the earth, it becomes
granite and we build our temple of
granite. So it should be with
our order. When we have
felt the pressure OF sin and the fire Of
love, we are ready to be built into a
structure. If ali the circles who meet
here tonight would only come together
four times a year and tell their experience,
it would help them wonderfully. Those
who have goue ahead, could tell their
experience and help those who coine
AFTER"
GOOD SEED sowN.
In concluding, Mrs. Davis related some
of the work which she had seen done
lately. She said:-tThere is in the City
of Washington, North Carolina,
u circle OF twenty girls who
have erected a shelter on the sea shore
for The homeless waits OF the city. sum
mer before last they provided shelter ror
twenty-five children.
.sAnother circle which Is doing good is
that of the commercial travellers. They
have a circle of Kings Sons. numbering
nearly two hundred, and have become Il
power for good instead of for harm, as SO
many of that class are"
Mrs. Davis then described q scene
which she witnessed in New York Cicy.
She said that she accompanied ,he Health
Board on one of their trips recently, where
the entrances were opened by main force
and they were received with scowling
faces on all sides. Zone scene," said the
SPEAKER, IT think / shall always remem-
Der. The police had forced an entrance
into a thieves haunt aud the scene which
We saw when the door opened was fear
full. On a uench, built into the wall, lay
a young girl who had scarcely reached
her eighteenth year., so overcoms with
liquor Lnat she did not move when we en-
tered. At a bar at one end stood d young
boy and girl, the boy not eighteen and the
girl about sixIeeu. lie was saying
thing to her ia a low tone anu Was mold
ing a liquor buttle to her lips. There
are many other sights which l have seen
and could tell you, but l have not the
time. INT depravity of the youth OF New
York is something which is startling. III
one year there have been ten thousand
misdemeanors among children VINO have
not reached their eighteenth year. |
have seen in one tenement house l5T
children. In a tenement house near the
Brooklyn bridge, scarcely five minutes
walk, we found twenty children in
twenty-eigh5 who had never seen Central
Park aud fifteen who had never seen the
Brooklyn Bridge"
REPORTS.
Mrs. Davis then called for the reports
Of the various circles OF The churches.
Among the leaders who spoke was Mrs.
Story of the Bergen Reformed Church.
This circle is devoted to the Home for
Aged Women. they visit the Home
very often, and when any one ia the
Home is ill they visit and wait upon
them.
The service closed with the hymn No.
SOL aud u Benedaction by the hes. Y.
Brett
A meeting of the circles Of the B.rgen
Reformed Church was held alter the ssr-
vice.