The Red Cloud chief., 1894-06-15
EYE OF NEEDLE
aev. DR.. TALMAoE SPEAKS FOR WoM-
EN- WHO TOLL.

The Blessing and the Blight Of work-Bo y
and Soul Upon the Rack Men and wom-
en- Oppressors-woman's Highest Adorn-
ment.
BROOKLYN, June 3.-Rev. T. De Witt
Talmage, who is now on his round the
world journey, has chosen as the subject
for today Martyrs of tho Needle, tho
text being Matthew xix, "a, 1T is
easier for q camel to 60 through the eye
Of q needle"
Whether this "eye Of the needle" be
the small gate ut tho side Of the big
gate at the entrance Of the wall Of the
ancient city, as is generally interpreted,
or the eye Of q needle such o. Is now
handled in sewing o garment I do not
say. In either case it would be o tight
thing for q camel to go through the eye
o needle. But there are whole cara
vans Of fatigues and hardships going
through the eye Of the sewing woman's
needle.
Very long ago the needle was busy.
1t was considered honorable for women
to toll in olden time. Alexander the
Great stood in his palace showing gar.
ments made by his own mother. The
finest tapestries ut Bayeux were made
by the queen Of William the Conqueror.
Augustus, the emperor, would not yea
any garments except those that were
fashioned by some member Of his royal
So let the toiler everywhere DO
respected
The greatest blessing that could have
happened to our first parents was be.
ing turned out Of Eden after they had
done wrong. Adam and Eve, in their
perfect state. might have got along
without work OF only such slight en-
ployment as u perfect garden, with no
weeds in 1t, demanded. But IA soon as
they had sinned tho best thing for them
was to be turned out where they would
have to work. We know what q wither.
ing thing it Is for a man to have moth
ingto do. Good old Ashbel Green, ut
fourscore years, when asked why he
kept on working, said. II do 80 to keep
out Of mischief" We SEQ that a man
who has q large amount Of money to
start with has no chance. OF the thou.
sand prosperous and honorable men that
you know, 900 had to work vigorously
ut the beginning.
The Idle Woman.
But I am now to tell you that indus
try is Just as important for q woman's
safety and happiness. The most unhap-
py women in our communities today are
those who have no engagements to call
them up in the morning; who, once
having risen and breakfasted, lounge
through the dull forenoon in slippers
down ut the heel and with disheveled
hair, reading tho last novel, and who,
having dragged through Q wretched
forenoon and taken their afternoon
sleep, and having spent an hour and q
half ut their toilet, pick up their cardcast
and go out to make calls, and who past
their evenings waiting for somebody K
come in and break up the monotony
Arabella Stuart never was imprisoned II
SO dark q dungeon as that
There IL no happiness in an idle WON
an. It may be with hand, It may b
with brain, il may be with foot, bu'
work she must or be wretched forever
The little girls Of our families must b
| started with that idea. The curse O
our American society is that u yount
| women are taught that the first, second
third, fourth, fifth. sixth, seventh
tenth, fiftieth, thousandth thing in theil
life is to get somebody to take care O
them. Instead Of that the first lessor
should be how, under God, they ma.
take care of themselves. The simple
fact is that q majority Of them do hav'
to take care Of themselves, and that
too, after having, through the false no
tions Of their parents, wasted the year
in which they ought to have learne'
how successfully to maintain them
selves. We now and here declare tn
inhumanity, cruelty and outrage Of tina
father and mother who pass their daugh
ters into womanhood, having give
them no facility for earning their liveli
hood. Nine. de Stael said, 1T is nc
these writings that I I'm proud Of, bu
the fact that I have facility in 10 occu
pations, in any one Of which I coul
make o livelihood"
A Word 10 Parents.
You say you have q fortune to leav
them. o man and woman, have 20
not learned that, like vultures, lik
hawks, like eagles, riches have wing
and fly away? Though you should /
successful in leaving q competency bt
hind you, tho trickery Of executors ma
swamp it in a night, or some elders {
deacons Of our churches may get up
|, fictitious company and induce your o.
phans to put their money into it, al
IL it be lost prove to them that it WI
etcrnally decrecd that that was the wa
! they were to lose it, and that it wei
. in the most orthodox and heavenly styl'
] Oh, the damnable schemes that pr
fessed Christians will engage in-unt
God puts his fingers into the collar
. the hypocrite's robe and rips 1t clei
down to the bottom! You have no RICH
because you are well off, to conclut
that your children are going to be
we'll off. A man died, leaving a lari
fo,tune His son fell dead i'm a Phil