Connecticut western news., 1894-06-07
THE EYE OF 4 NEEDLE
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The Blessing and tho Blight of worls-Bedy and Soul Upon the Rack-Men and wom- en oppre,sors-yyoran's Highest Adsrn- mcnt.
 BROOKLYN, June 3.--Eev. T. Do Witt ralmago, who is now oa his round the world journey, has choslnas the subject for today Martyrs 6f t&o ltuedlc, " the text being Matthew N.x, 2l, Ut Is easier for a camel to 50 through tho eye of needle.
 Whether this "eyo of the needle" be the small gate at t,.e sioo cf tho big gate at the entrance Cf tine wall of tho ancient city. is is ge,seraily interpreted, or the eye of needle such as Is now handled i'll sewing garment do not say. In either case it woi i'd be n tight thing for n camel to 70 through the eye of needle. But there arc whole cara vans of fatigues and harGahips going through the eye of the sewing y7omm's needle.
 Very long ago the needle was busy. It was considered honorable for women to toil ill olden time. Alexander the Great stood in his palace showing gar merts made by his cwn mother. The finest tapestries at Eayeux wece made by the queen of William the Conoueror. Augustus tha emperor, would not wear any garments except tlose that were fashioned by some acGher of his royal family. So let the toiler everywhere be respec,ed
 The greatest blessing that could have happeEcd to our first parents was be- ing turned out of Eden after they had done wrong. Adala and Eve, in their perfect state, might havo got along without work or only such shSlIt eul- ployment as perfect gsrden, with no weeds in it, demanded. But as soon as they had sirned the best thing for them was to be turned out where they would have to work We know what wither- ing thing it is for man to have noth- ingto do Good old Ashbel Green, at fourscore years, when asked why he kept on working, said, "I do so to keep out of mischief !" We gee that man who has large amount of money to start with has no chance. Of the thou sand prosperous and honorable men that 
 att the beginning.
 The Idic Woman.
 But am now to tell you that indus try is just as important for n woman's safety and happiness, The most unhap- py women in OUT communities today are those who have no engagements to call them up in the morning; who, once having risen and brealfasted, lounge through the dull forenoon in slippers down at the heel md with disheveled hair. reading tho last novel, and who, having dragged through wretched forenoon ard taken their afternoon sleep, and havin., spent aa hour and half at their toilet, pick up their cardcase and 20 out to make calls, and who pass their evenings waiting for somebody tc como in and break up the monotony. Arabella Stuart never was imprisoned iD so dark dungeon as that
 There Is no happiness ill an idle wom- an. It may be with hand, it may Le with brain, 1t may be with foot, but work she must or be wretched forever The little girls of OCT families must be started with that idea. The curse of our American society is that our young women arc taught that the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, flftieth, thousandth thing in their life is to get somebody to take care of thom. Instead of that the first lesson should Do how, under God, they may taLe caro of themselves. The simple fact is that majority of them do have to take care of themselves, and that, too, after having, through the false no tions of their parents, wasted the years in which they ought to have learned how successfully to maintain them. selves. We now and here declare the inhumanity, cruelty and outrage of that father and mother who pass their daagh- ters into wonanhood having given them TO facility for earning their liveli. hood Mime de Stael said Ut is not these writings that am proud of, but tho fact that have facility in 10 occu- pa;ioas, in any one of which I could make livelihood.
 A Word to Parents.
 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 ia leaving competency be hind you, tho trickery of executors may swamp it in a night, or some elders or deacons of our churches may get up fictitious company and induce your or phans to put their money into it, and if it be lost prove to then that 1t was eternally decreed that that was the way hav n t,1 fl,nt f xsaptf in the most orthodox and heavenly style.
 Oh, the 6Imnable schemes that pro- fessed Christians will engage in--until Go,i puts his fingers into the collar Of the hypocrite's robe and rips it clear down to the bottoml You have no right, because you are well off, to conclude that your children are going to be as we'll off. A man died, leaving large fortune. His son fell dead i'll Phila- deiphia grogshop. His old comrades came ill aud said as they bent over his corpse, What is the matter with you, Boggsey?' The surgeon standing over him said: Hush upl He's deadr' '.Ah, he is dead'' they said. Come, boys, let us go and take drink in memory of poor Boggseyr'
 
 to leave your children? If you have not, but send your daughters into the world with empty brain and unskilled hand, you are guilty of assassination, homi eide, regicide, infanticide. There ara women toiling in our cities for $3 and $4 per week who were the daughters oi merchant princes These suffering ones now would be glad to have the crumbs that once fell from their fathers table. That wornout, broken shoe that she wears Is the lineal descendant of the $12 gaiters in which her mother walked, and that torn and faded calico had an- cestry of magnificent brocade that swept Broadway clean without any ex- pense to the street commissioners. Though you live in an elegant residence %~r~ ouorv dav lot