Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-06-09
THE EYE OF A NEEDLE
REV. DR.. TALMAeE SPEAKS FOR WON
EN- WHO Toll.


REV. DR.. TAlMAGE SPEAKS FOR WON
EN- WHO Toll.
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ana soul Upon 'i'e NacS-ns anu won"
en- oprressors-"oisan highest Adofn-
ment.
4,,oe por n n, via
,n
iainso' Mno ~" % T.
worid journey mas chosen az 'hosupJec
ior TODAY Martyrs OF the Needlc' the
text being Matthew xix, "a, ut is
easier for a camel to so through the eye
of a needle"
Whether this ''eye of the needle be
tho small cato at tho side of the big
gate at the entrance Of tho wall of the
ancient city, as is generally interpreted,
on the eye Of a needle such as is now
handled III sewing a garment | do not
say. In either case it would BIO q tight
thing for a camel to go through h eye
Of a needle. But there are whole cara
vans of fatigues and hardshlps 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 III oldcn time. Alexander the
Great stood in his palace showing gar
ments made by his own mother. The
finest tapestries at Bayeux were made
& Inv fNn nlGCn OF Wllilsln the
Augustus ,ne emperor wuuio nov wear
any garments eAcepS .noso tiae were
iasilloheu " soIro hleIiper VI Hi' ioyai
iaihiis. % ie' nv 'oiiei e'Sis "H0o 10
fespec0eu'
Inc sIeatesO dressing 'ias ooui' iaso
happened TO our Isse parents was 10,
ing lufheu ou' oi iAue4i aI.ei they nay
aohe Wrohs. Auali anu I've Ia t.eii
perfect state' mlshV h@Fe go' "iois
~ltnoue WORK Oh ohiy suen sAiSns ela-
ploynlent as perAocI Baruuh' win no
weeds IL II demanded. bue as Q % as
they had slhhea tne pese talns lor thch,
was 10 De turned ouV Wncre taey Mouio
nave TO work: we KNOW" n a"leher-
ing thlhS Ii is lor !. ilan 70 nase NUN.
ihgto CO. 0ooa oio Ashpcl Dreoi' "'
iourscore years "heh MaEoo why ne
kept on WORMS, salq, 40 so 70 Keep
cut o hlSchiel. "o see .hae naal
VINO mas large alhouno oa money 10
start Win pas no cnahce. " .no tnou-
sand prosperous ana honorable men una
you Know IVY had TO Work vigorously
al the BEGINNING.
The Idle Woman.
But / am now to tell You that indus
try is just as important for a woman's
safety and happiness. The most unhap-
Ply women i'll u communities today are
those who have no engagements to call
them up i'll the morning; who, once
having risen and breakfasted, lounge
through the dull forenoon i'll slippers
down at the heel and with disheveled
hair, reading the last novel, and who,
having dragged through a wretched
forenoon and taken their afternoon
sleep, and having spent an hour and a
half at their toilet, pick uptheir cardcase
and go out to mako calls, and who pass
their evenings waiting for somebody to
come i'll and break up the n%onotony.
Arabella Stuart never was imprisoned in
SO dark q dungeon as that.
There is 10 happiness III an idle wom-
al. 1t may be with hand, it may bo
with brain, it may be with foot, but
work she must or be Wretched forever.
The little girls Of families must be
started with that idea. Tho curse of
American society is that u young
wolnen are taught that the first, second,
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
tenth, fiftieth, t~housandth thing IL 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 a majority Of them do have
to take care Of themselves, and that,
too, after having, through the false no.
tons 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 daugh-
tiers into ~womanhood, having given
them no facility for earning their liveli-
hood. Mime. de Stael said, 1t Is not
these writings that | am proud of, but
the fact that l have facility in 10 occu-
pations, i'll any ! of which / could
make a livelihood.
A Word to Parents.
You say you have a fortune to leave
them. o man and woman, have yon
not learned that, like vultures, like
hawks, like eagles, riches have wings
and fly away? Though you should be
successful III leaving a competency be-
hind you, the trickery Of executors may
swamp 1t III n night, or some elders or
deacons OF our churches may get up a
fictitious company and induce your or
phans to put their iloncy into it, and
If 1t be lost prove to them that it was
~eternally decreed that that was the way
they were to lose 1t, and that it went
Ill the most orthodox and heavenly style.
On, the darnablo schemes that pro-
fessed Christians VIII engage ln-untll