Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-06-20
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: ssMartyrs of the Needle"

Whether this "eye fthe needle" be the
small gate at 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 in sewing q garment
do not say. In either case it would be a
tight thing for camel to go through the eye
ola needle. But there are whole caravans OF
fatigues and hardships going through thd
eye OF the sewing Uonar's needle.
Very long ago the needle was busy. II
was considered honorable for women 10 toll
IN olien time. Alexander the Great stood in
his palace showing garments made by his
own mother. The finest tapestries at Blyeux
were made by the Queen Of William the Con-
queror. Augustus, the Emperor, would
mot wear any garments except those that
were fashioned by some member ct his royal
family. So let the tOiler everywhere be re-
sPectel.
Tho greatest blessing that could have hap
peneI to our first Uarents was being turned
ont o' Eden after they had done wrong.
Adam anl Eve, in their perfect state. might
h-y' got along without work or only such
slight employment as a perfect garden, with
no f-ecls in il, demanded. But as soon as
thev had sinned the best thing for them was
10 ha turned out where they would have to
work. We know what whitening thing 1t
y for man to have nothing to do. Good old
Ashhel Green, at fourscOre years, when asked
why he kept on working. said, 81 do 50 10
keep out Of mischief" We see that mari
who has a large amount of money to start
with has no chance. or the thousand pros
porous and honorable men that you know,
g99 had to work vigorously at the beginning.
But I am now TO tell you that industry is
Just rs important for a woman's safety and
happiness. The most unhappy women in
our communities to-day are those who have
no engagements to call them up in the MORN
ing who, once having risen and breakfasted,
lounge through the dull forenoon in slippers
- I g-E, II
reading the last novel, and who, having
dragged through wretched forenoon and
taken their afternoon sleep. and having
spent an hour and half at their toilet, PICK
up their carlcase and 20 out to make calls,
and who pass their evenings waiting for
somebody to come in and break up the mo-
notony. Arabella Stuart never was impris-
Onai in so dark dungeon "a that.
There Is no happiness in an idle woman
It may be with hand, It may he with brain,
Il may be with foot, but work she must OF
be wretchCl forever. The little girls Of ouI
families must be started with that idea. The
curse Of our American society IS that ouI
young women ara taught that tho first. sec
onH, third, fourth, Nth, sixth, seventh,
tenth, hitieth, thOusandth thing in their life
IS TO get somebody to take care of them. In.
stead OF that the first lesson should be how,
under God, they may take care Of themselves.
The simple fact IS that u majority ofthem dc
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 inhumanity, cruelty and outrage
OF that father and mother who pass theiI
daughters into wOmanhOOd, having giver
them no facility for earning their livelihood
Nine. de Stael said, at Is not these writings
that l am proud Of, but the fact that have
facility in ten occupations. in any ono o.
which / could make livelihood" "
You say you have n 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 in leaving COM
potency behind you, the trickery of execu.
tors may swamp It in a night, or some elders
or deacOns of our churches may get up q
fictitious company and in luce your orphan5
to put their money into it, and II il be lost
prove to them that ii was cternally decreed
that that was the way they were to lose il,
and that it went in the most orthodox anj
heavenly style.
Oh, the damnable schemes that pro!essa1
Christians will engage in-Until God'pEts His
fingers into the collar Of the hypocrlte's robe
and rips it clear down the bottom! You
have no right because you are well off, to
conclude that your children are going TO be
rs well of. man died, leaving a large
fortune. His son fell dead in q Philadelphia
grOgsh0p. His old comrades came IT. and
said as they bent over his corpse, ''What Is
the matter with you, BogSsey?' Th9
surgeon standing over him said : "Hush up J
He's deaip "Ah, he is dead p they said.
"Come, boys, let Us 20 and take drink IN
memory OF poor Boggseyr ~
Have you nothing better than money 10
leave your children2 II you have not, but
send your daughters into tho world with
empty brain and unskiuel hand, you ard
guilty of assassination, homicide regiclde,
fnfnr-snIla flhpra fniIir - in 01I
cities for 50 and 81 per week who were thd
daughters Of merchant princes. These suf,
ierug 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 EnAd descendant Of the sl2
gaiters in Tdich her mother walked, and
that .-Jorn and faded calico had an
Uestry Of magnificent brocade that
swept Broadway clean without any eX-
peuse to the street commissioners.
Though you live in IN elegant residence and
fare sumptuOu5ly every day, let your dauCh-
ters feel it is 4 disgrace TO them not to know
how to work. l denOunce the idea, preva-
lent in society, that, though our young ws-
men may cmbroider slippers and crochet
and make mats for lamps TO stand on with
out disgrace the idea OF doing anything for
livelihood is dishonorable. 1t is a shame
Tor a young woman, belonging to a largo
family. TO be inefficient when the father tolls
his life away for her support. 1t is a shame
for a daughter to be idle while her mother
tolls at the washtub 1t is as honorable to
sweep house, make beds or trim hats as It is
to twist watch chain.
As far as l can understand, the line of re-
spectability lies between that which Is useful
and that which Is useless. If women do that
which is Of no value, their work is honOrI.
BILE. If they do practical work, It is dishon-
orablc. That our young women may escape
the censure OF doing dishOnorable work
Ehn11 - ffrT11a rico Won ma knit ftiV for
the back of an armchair, but by no means
make the money wherewlth to buy the chair.
You may, with delicate brush, beautifY q
mantel ornament, but die rather than earn
enough TO buy marble mantel. You may
learn artistic music until you can squal
Italian. but never sing "Ortonville" or "Olt
HunySyeSS do nothing practical IL you
WouIJslfS5e eyes Of rehnel society preserve
your Tksrestabilty. l scout these finica
notions l tell you no woman, any NOR.
than man, has right 10 occupy place II
this world unless she pays n rent for il.
In the course of lifetime you consum,
whole harvcsts and droves ofcattIe, and ever!
day you live breathe forty hogshea1s OF geo,
pUro air. You must by some kind OF useful
ness pay for all this. Our race was the las,
thing crcatei-the birds and fishes on tn,
fourth day, the cattle and lizards on the flftl
day and man on the sixth day. II Geol
Ogists are right the earth was a million o
years in tho possession OF the insects. beast
unl birds before our race came upon 1t. II
one sense we were innovators. The cattle
the lizards and the hawks had pre-anptIou
right. The question is not what we are L
do with the lizards and summer insects, hUI
what the lizards and summer insects are .
do with US.
II We want place in this world, W mus
earn 1t. The partridge makes its own ,s
before It occupies II. The lark by its morn
Ing song earns its breakfast before it eats It
The Bible gives an intimation that the first
duty OF an ldler is to starvs when II saws If
he twill not work neither shall he eat +"
ldleness. rains the health. ani-verY soon
nature says ''This man has refused TO pay
his rent. Out with him -
Society is TO be reconstructed on the sub.
lect Of wOman's toll. 4 vast majority Of those
who would have woman in lustrious shut heI
up TO q few kinds OF work Ny judgment in
this matter Is that a woman has right tc
do anything she can do we'll. - There should
be no department OF merchandise, mechan.
Ism, art or science barred against her. L
Miss HOsmen has genius for sculpturs civ,