Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-06-13
NEEDLE MARTYRS
You Must Work If You Desire 10
Be Happy.
Although Rev. DIR. Talmagc i Ills Trim
Around the World. His Vast Audi
.nce j. Not Called Upon to Miss
His Gifted Sermons.

Around the World. His Vast Audi
.ncr j. Not Called Upon to Miss
His Gifted Sermons.
/ Rev. II. De Witt Talmas Z, who is now
on his round the world journey, mas
| chosen as. the subject for sunday Mar
/ tyrs of the Needle" tie text being
| Matt. xix. II: 1t is easier for n camel
To 90 through the eye OF noodle"
Whether this eye of the needle" be
| the small gate ut the side of the big
| gate at the entrance of the wall OF the
ancient city, as is generally interpreted.
or the eye of "a needle such as is now
handled i'm sewing a garment. do not
say. In either case it would be a tight
thing for camel to go through the
eye of II needle. But there are whole
caravans of fatigues and hardships 90
ing through the eye OF the sewing
vOman'S needle.
Very long ago the needle was busy.
II was considered honorable for women
20 toll in oldcn time. Alexander the
Great stood in his own palace showing
garments made by his own mother.
The finest tapestries at Bayeux were
made by the queen of William the Con-
querer. Augustus, the emperor, would
not wear any garments except those
that were fashioned by some member
of his royal family. SO let the toiler
everywhere be respected!
The greatest blessing that could have
happened TO our first parents was be
ing turned out of Eden after they h d
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 il.
demanded. But. as soon as they
had sinncd, the best thing for them was
to be turned out where they would have
work. We know what "A whitening
thing IL is for "A man to have nothing
TO do. Good old Ashbcl 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 honorable men that
you know nine hundred and ninety
nine had to work vigorously at the be-
ginning.
But am now to tell YOU that indus
try is just as important for woman's
safety and happiness. The most un-
happy women in our communities to-
day are those who have no engage
mentS to call them up in the morning:
who, once having risen and breakfast
ed, lounge through the dull forenoon
in slippers down at the heel and with
disheveled hair, reading the last novel.
and who, having dragged through n
wretched forenoon and taken their af-
tprnnnn l,
hour and half at their toilet. pick up
their card case and go out and make
calls, and who pass their evenings
waiting for somebody to come in and
break up the monotony. Arabella
Stuart never was imprisoned in so
dark dungeon as that.
There is no happiness in on idle
woman. Itmay be with hand, it NAV
be with brain. it may be with foot; but
work she must, or be wretched for
ever. The little girls of cur families
must be started with that idea. The
curse of our American society is that
our young women are taught that the
first. second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth.
seventh, tenth, fftieth, thousandth
thing in their life is to get
somebody to take care of them.
Instead of that the first lesson should
be. how, under God. they may take
care 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 notions
of their parents, wasted the years in
which they ought to have learned how
successfully to- maintain themselves.
We now and here declare the inhuman-
ity. cruelty, and outrage of that father
and mother who pass their daughters
into wOmanhood having given them no
facility for earning their livelihood
Mime. De Stael said: 1T is not these
writings that / am proud of, but the
fact that / have facility in ten occupa-
tions, in any one of which | could make !
livelihood"
You say you have a fortune to leave
them. man and woman. have Won
not learned that, like vultures. like |
hawks, like eagles, riches have wings /
and fly away? Though Won should be |
successful in leaving competency be- /
hind you, the triclery of executors |
may swamp IL in a night; or some ell |
decS or deacons of our churches may
get up fictitious company, and induce |
your orphans TO put their money into /
IT. and if it be lost, prove to them that |
1t was eternally decreed that that was |
the way the were to lose IL, and that /
it went in the most orthodox and Heav- |
emily style O, the damnable schemes /
that profcssed Christians will engage !
in-until God puts his fingers into the .
collar Of the hypocrite's robe and rips .
1T clear down to the bottom.
You have no right. because YOU are /
well off. 10 conclude that your children /
are going to be well Off A man died. .
leaving a large fortune. Ills son fell dead /
in Philadelphia grog-shop His old I
comrades came in and said. a they .
bent over his corpse: What is the .
matter with you, Bogg,cy?" The sur
gcon standing over him said flush .
up. he is dead" "Ah. me is dead" they
said. Come. boys. let MS 20 and take
a drink i'm memory Of poor Boggsey.'
Have you nothing better than money
to leave your children? II You have
not. but send your daughters into the
world with empty brain and un,lillcd
hand vou arc guilty OF assassination.
homicide. regieide, infanticide. There
arc women toiling in our cities for
three or four dollars per week. who
were the daughters of merchant
princes. Thee suffering ones now
would he gl1d 10 have the crumbs that