The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-06-15

n&Ns A. JIG VIII AdAhA1NrGg VINO - On
his round-the-world journey selects the
following discourse on Martyrs of the
Needle" for his reading congregation
this week 10 is based on the text:
Il IS easier FOR a camel 70 20 through the eye
OF q necdlc--Matthew xix. "a
Whether this EYE Of the needle be
the small gate at the side of the big
gate at the entrance of the wall
OF the ancient city. as is generally
interpreted or the eye of needle such
as y now handled in sewing garment,
do not say. In either case il would
be a tight thing for a camel to 60
through the eye Of needle. But there
are whole caravans of fatigues and
hardships going through the eye of the
sewing woman's needle.
Very long ago the needle was busy.
IL was considered honorable for women
70 toll in olden time. Alexander the
Great stood in his palace showing gar
ments made by his own mother. The
finest tapestries at Bayeux were made
by the queen of William the Conqueror.
Augustus, the emperor, would not wear
any garments except those that were
fashioned by some member of his royal
family. So let the toler everywhere
be respected
The greatest blessing that could
have happened to our first parents was
being turned ont of Eden after they
had done wrong. Adam and Eve, in
their perfect state, might have got
along without work, or only such slight
employment as perfect garden, with
no weeds in it, demanded. But, as
soon as they had sinned, the best thing
for them was to be turned out where
they would have to work. We know
what a whitening thing it is for a
man TO have nothing TO do. Good old
Ashbel Green, at four-score years, when
asked why he kept on working, said:
Il do so to keep out Of mischief" We
see that a man who has large amount
of money to start with has no chance.
Of the thousand prosperous and honor
able men that you know, nine hundred
and ninety-nine had to work vigorous
" at the beginning.
But I am now to tell you that indus
try is just as important for a woman's
safety and happiness. The most IN
happy women in our communities tor
day are those who have no engage
ments to call them up in the morning;
who, once having risen and break
tasted, lounge through the dull fore
noon in slippers down at the heel and
with disheveled hair, reading the last
novel; and who, having dragged
through a wretched forenoon and
taken their afternoon sleep. and hav-
ing spent an-hour and half at their
toilet, pick up their card case and GO
out TO make calls: and who pass their
evenings waiting for somebody to come
in and break up the mOnotony. Ara
bella Stuart never was imprisoned in
SO dark dungeon as that.
There is no happiness in an idle wom-
an 1t may be with hand, it may be
with brain, 1t may be with foot; but
work she must, or be wretched forever.
The little girls of our families must be
started with that idea. The curse OF
our American society is that our young
women are taught that the first. sec
ond, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
tenth, fifteenth, fiftieth, thousandth
thing in their life is to get somebody
20 take care of them Instead of that;
the first lesson should be, how, un-
der God, they may be able to take
care of themselves. The simple fact
IS that a majority of them do
have TO take care of them
selves and that, too, after hav-
ing, through the false notions of their
parents, wasted the years in which
they ought to have learned how sue
cessfully to maintain themselves. We
now and here declare the inhumanity,
cruelty and outrage of that father and
mother, who pass their daughters into
womanhood, having given them no
facility for earning their livelihood.
Nine, De Stael said: 1T is not these
writings I am proud of, but of the fact
that have facility in ten occupations,
in any one of which I could make a
livelihood.
You say you have fortune to leave
them. o man and woman. have you
not learned that, like vultures, like
hawks, like eagles, riches have wings
and fly away? Though you should be
successful in leaving a competency be-
hind you, the trickery of executors may
swamp it in a night; or some elders OF
deacon of our churches may get up a
fictitious company and induce your or.
phans to put their money into it, and
| if it be lost, prove to them that it was
/ eternally decreed that that was the
way they were to lose it, and that il
went in the most orthodox and
heavenly style o, the damnable
schemes that professed Christians will
engage in-until God puts His fingers
into the collar Of the hypocrite's robe
and rips it clear down to the bottom
You have no right, because you are
well off, to conclude that your children
are going to be well off. A man died
leaving a large fortune. His son fell
dead in a Philadelphia grogshop. His
old comrades came in and said. as they
bent over his corpse: what is the
matter with you, BOggsey?". The sur
geon, standing over him, said: Hush
ND! he is deadi'-''Ah, he is deadr
they said. Come, boys, let us go and
take drink IL memory Of poor Bogg
sey!7
Have You nothing better than money
to leave your children If you have
not. but send your daughters into the
world with empty brain and unslilled
hand. you are guilty of assassination
homicide, regicide, infantieide. There
are women toiling in our cities for three
dollars and four dollars per week, who
were daughters of merchant princes
These suffering ones now would be
glad 10 have the crumbs that once fell
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