Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-06-21

not only to ask, but to demand more
/ wages, and TO demand them success
fully Unskilled and incompetent labor
must take what is given; skilled and
competent labor will eventually make
its own standard. Admitting that the
law of supply and demand regulates
these things, | contend that the de-
mand for skilled labor is very great,
and the supply very small.
Start with the idea that work is hon
orable, and that you can do some one
thing better than any one else. Resolve
that, God helping, you will take care OF
yourself. If you are, after a while,
called into another relation you will all
the better be qualified for it by youI
spirit of self-reliance; or if you are
called to stay as you are, you can be
happy and self-supporting.
Poets are fond of talking about man
as an oak, and woman the vine that
climbs it; but have seen many a tree
fall that not only went down Itself, but
took all the vines with it, | can tell
you of something stronger than an oak
for an ivy TO climb on, and that is the
throne of the great Jehovah. Single
or atfianeed. that woman is strong who
leans on God and does her best. The
needle may break; the factory-band
may slip; the wages may fail; but over
every good woman's head there are
spread the two great, gentle, stupen
dous wings of the Almighty.
Many of you viii go single-handed
through life, and you will have e
choose between two characters Young
woman, | am sure you viii turn back
upon the useless, giggling, painted
nonenity which society ANONYMOUSLY
acknowledges to be woman, and ask
God 10 make you an humble, active
earnest Christian.
What viii become of this goddess
disciple of fashion, What an insult tc
her SEX Her manners are an outrage
upon decency. She is more thoughtful
of the attitude she strikes upon the
carpet than how she will look in the
Judgment; more worried about hei
freckles than her sins; more interested
in her bonnet strings than in her re.
demption. Her apparel is the poorest
part of a Christian woman. however
magnificently dressed, and no one has
so much right to dress well as Chris. |
tian. Not 50 with the goddess disciple %
fashion Take her robes, and you take |
everything. Death will come down or |
her some day, and rub the blister off her /
eyelids. and the rouge off her cheeks 4
and with two rough, bony hands seat 4
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and ribbons and lace and brooches anc
buckles and sashes and frisettes anc
golden clasps.
The dying actress whose life had beer
vicious said: "The scene closes. Draw
the curtain Generally the tragedy
comes first. and the farce afterward
but in her life it was first the farce o.
useless life, then the tragedy of
wretched eternity.
Compare the life and death Of sucl
an one with that Of some Christian aunt
that was once a blessing to your house
hold. | do not know that she was ever
offered hand in marriage She lived
single, that untrammeled she might be
everybody's blessing. Whenever the
sick was to be visited or the poor TO be
provided with bread. she went with
blessing. She could pray, or sing
Rock of Ages" for any sick paupei
who asked her. As she got older, thers
were days when she was little sharp
but for the most part Auntie was
sunbeam-iust the one for Christmas
eve. She knew better than any one
else how to fix things. Her every
prayer, as God heard it, was full OF
everybody who had trouble The
brightest things in all the house
dropped from her fingers She ha
peculiar notions, but the grandesi
notion she ever had was to make yor
happy. She dressed well-Auntie Away
dressed well; but her highest adorn
ment was that of meek and quiet
spirit, which, in the sight of God, is OF .
great price. When she died, you al :
gathered lovingly about her: and as yor
carried her out to rest, the Sunday
school class almost covered the coffir
with japonicas; and the poor people
stood at the end of the alley, with theii
aprons to their eyes, sobbing bitterly,
and the man of the world said, with
solomon, Her price was above rubies;
md Jesus. as unto the maiden in Judea