The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-06-13
SONG OF THE SHIRT.
R.v, DR.. TaImege's Eloquent Sermon n
Uomsn's Work.


BROOKLYN, Juoe Rev, T. De
Witt Talmage, who Is now on his rouuo
the world Journey, has chosen as the sub
iect for today Martyrs Ct the Needle"
the text being Matthew XIX, "a, "it IS
easier fer a camel 10 60 through the eye
of a needle"
Whether this "eye Of the needle" be
the small gate 81 the side Of the big en-
trarcs of the wall ofthe ancient city, as
is generally interpy> ted, or the eye Of a
needle such as is now handled IN sewing
a garment I do not say. In either case
it would be tight thing for caloel to
20 through the eye Of q needle. But
there are whole caravans Of fatisues and
hardships going through the eye CT the
sewing Woman's needle.
Very long ago the needle was busy.
It was considered honorable for women
to toll in olden lime. 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 Corqueror.
Augustus. the emperor, would no! wear
any garment 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
being turned out Of Eden after
they had done wrong. Adam
and Eve, in their perfect state,
might have got along withC0t work, or
only such slight employment as perfect
garden, with no weeds in it, demanded.
But as soon as they had Skinned the best
thing for them was to be turned cut
where they would have to wotk We
know what whitening thing it is for q
man to have nothing to do. Good old
Ashoal Green, at fourscore years, wben
asked why he kept on working, said, II
do 80 to keep out OF mischief" we see
that man who has largs amount Of
money to start with has no chance. Of
the thousand prosperous and honorable
men that you know, 999 had to Wolk
vigorously at The biginning.
But am now tell you that industry
is Just as important for Woman's safe
ty and happiness. The most unhappy
women in cur communities today are
those who have no engagements to call
them up in the morning, who, once haV.
ing risen and breakfastsd, lounge through
the dull forenoon IN slippers down at the
heel and with disheyeled hair, reading
the last novel, aid who, having dragged
through wretched forenoon and taken
their afternoon sleep, and having spent
an hour and half at their toilet, pick
up their cardcase and go out to make
calls, and who pass their evenings wait.
ing for somebody to come in and break
up the monotony. Arabella Stuart new
er was impris oned n so dark dungeon
as that.
There Is no happiness in an idle Yo-
man. It may be with hand, it may be with
brain, it may be with foot, but work she
must or be Wretcbed forever. The little
girls Of our families must be started with
that idea. The curse CT out American
society is that cur young women are
taught that the first, second, third, fourth
fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, fftietb,
thousandth thing in their lite IS 10 get
somebody to take care of them. Instead
of that, the first lesson should 90 how
under God, they may take care Of them,
selves. The simple fact is that ma
jority of them do have to take care OF
themselves, and that, too, after having,
through the false notions Of their par
ents, wasted the years in which they
ought to have learned how successfully
to maintain themselves. We now and
here declare the inhumanity, cruelty and
outrage Of that father and mother who
pass their daughters into TomaphC0d,
having given them no facility for earning
their livelihood. Mme. de Stael said,
''Is is not these writings that I an proud
Of, but the fact that I have faculty in 10
occupations, in any one Of which I could
max livelihood"
You say you have fortune to leave
them. Oman and woman, have You not
leaned that, ike vultures, ike hawks,
like eagles, riches have wings and
fly away? Though you should be suc.
cessful in leaving competency behind
you, the trickery Of executors may
swamp it in night, or some elders or
deacons of our churches may get Mp
fictitious company and induce your Or
phans to pat their money into it and if it
be lost prove to them thatit was eternal
~ decreed that that was the way they
were to lose it, and that it went II the
most orthodox and heavenly style.
Oh bn Ioronoh1o no
fessed Christians will engags iu-until
God puts bis fingers into the collar of the
hypocrite's robe and rips it clear down
to the bottom! You have no right, be
cause you ale well of, to conclude that
your children are going 10 be as well of.
A man died. leaving large fortune.
His son fell dead in a Philadelphia grog.
shop. His old comrades came in and
said as they bent over his corpse, "What
is the matter with you, Boggsey?" The
surgeon, standing over him, said, Hush
up; he is dead!n ''Ah, be is dead!" they
said. 'Come, boys, let Us 60 and take
drink in memory Of poor Boggseyw
Have you nothing better than money
to leave your children? II you have not
DuL SSUU gOGL OaGSAE@LS AAtO TUG "OL4U
with empty brain aud unskilled hand,
you are guilty of assassination, homicide
regicide, infanticide. There are women
toiling in our cities for So and ST per
week who were the daughters Of mer-
chant princes. These suffering ones now
would be glad to have the crumbs that
once tell from their farthers' table. That
wornout, broken shoe that she wears is
the lineal descendant of the $l2 CATERS
in which her mother walked, and that
torn and faded calico had ancestry of
magnificent brocade that swept Broad
way clean without any expense to The
street commissioners. Though you live
in an elegant residence and fare suruptu.
ously every day, let YOUR daughters feel
it is disgrace to them not to know bow
to WORK. l denounce the idea prevalent
ID society that, though cur young Wo-
men may embroider slippers and crochet
and make mats for lamps to stand on
without disgrace, the Idea OF doing any
thing for a livelihood is dishonorable. 1t
is a shame for a you0g woman belong