The Penn's Grove record., 1894-06-08
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIviNE'S SUM-
DAY SERMON.
Subject: 'sMartyrs of the Needle"

entrance of the wall of the ancient city, as Ia
generally interpreted, 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 a
tight thing for a camel to go through the eye
ola needle. But there are whole caravans Of
fatigues and hardships going through the
eye OF the sewing Eomar's needle.
Very long ago the needle was busy. II
was considered honorable for women to toll
in olden time. Alexander the Great stood in
his palace showing garments made by his
own mother. The finest tapestries at Bayeux
were made by the Queen Of William the Con-
| queror. 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 re-
spected.
The greatest blessing that could nave hap
pened to our first PARENTS was being turned
| out OF Eden after they had hone wrong.
Adam and Eve, in their perfect state, might
have got along without work or only such
| slight employment as n perfect garden, with
no weeds in it, demanded. But as soon as
Ithey had sinned the best thing for them was
to DO turned out where they would have to
work. We know what a whitening thing it
is for a imam to have nothing to dc. Good old
Ashbel Green, at fourscore years, when asked
why he kept on working. said, 81 do SO to
| keep out of mischief" We see that a mar
who has n large amount of money to start
| with has no chance. OF the thousand pros
porous and honorable men that you know,
500 had to work vigorously at the beginning.
But l am now to tell you that industry is
Just as 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 W In the morn
ing who, once having risen and breakfasted,
lounge through the dull forenoon In slippers
down at tho heel and with disleveled hair,
l unoIip, Nba I,eE nNt,al anI rhN hayin-
dragged through q wretched forenoon and
taken their afternoon sleep, n having
spent an hour and q half at their toilet, pick
up their cardcase and go 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-
onei in so dark a dungeon as that.
There is no happiness in an idle oma
It may be with hand, II may be with brain,
1t may be with foot, but work she must or
be wretched forever. The little girls of out
families nus be started with that idea. The
curse Of our American society Is that our
young women are taught that the first, sec,
ond, third, fourth, fifth, SIXTH. seventh,
tenth, 1ftieth, ~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 a 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, sit is not these writing;
that 1 am proud Of, but the fact that / have
facility in ten occupations. in any one OF
| wbinh 7 could make n liVAlth0O1.h
You say you have a fortune to leave them.
o mar 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 a COM
potency behind you, the trickery OF execu.
tors may swamp It in a night, or some elders
or deadons of our churches may get up q
fictitious company and induce your orphans
to put their money into it, and II 1t be lost
prove to them that it was eternally decreed
that that was the way they were to lose it,
and that 1t went in the most orthodox and
heavenly style.
Oh, the damnable schemes that professed
Christians will engage in-until God,puts His
fingers into the collar Of the hypocrlte's rob9
and rips 1t clear down the bottomi You
have no right, because you are well of, to
conclude that your children are going to be
as well off. A man died, leaving a large
fortune. His son fell dead in a Philadelphia
grogshop. His old comrades came in and
said as they bent over his corpse. ''what Il
surgeon standing over him said 'Hush Ut
He's dealF' "Ah, he is dead u they said.
"Cone, boys, let US go and take q drink in
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 unskilled hand, you ara
l 80, fltu nf oaaaacino aion hnpnfpihn raniofda 7
infanticide. There are women toiling in our
cities for So and "a per week who were the
daughters of merchant princes. These SUI
fering ones now would be glad to have the
crumbs that once fell from their fathers
table. That wornout, broken shoe that she
CATERS in which her mother walked, and.
that torn and faded calico had an
oestry of magnificent brocade that
swept Broadway clean without any ex1
pense to the street commissioners.
Though you live in an elegant residence and
fare sumptuously every day, let your daugh-
ters feel 1t is a disgrace to them not to know
how to work. / denouDce the idea, preva-
lent In society, that, though our young We
men may embroider slippers and crochet
and make mats for lamps to stand on with
out disgrace, the Idea of doing anything for
n livelihood Is dishonorable. 1t Is a shame
for q young woman, belonging to a large
family. to be inefficient when the father tolls
his life away for her support. II 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 II is
TO twist a watch chain.
As far as 1 can understand, the line Of re-
spectabilitY lies between that which Is useful
and that which is useless. II women dothat
which is Of no value, their work Is honora,
BILE. II they do practical work, 1t Is dishon-
orable. That our young women may escape
the eensure of doing dishonorable work l
shall ~particularize. You may knit a tidy for
the back OF an armchair, but by no means
make the money wherewlth to buy the chair.
You may, with delicate brush, beautify a
mantel ornament, but die rather than earn
enough TO buy a marble mantel. You may
learn artistic music until you can squall
Italian, but never sing "ortonvllle" or cold
Hundred" Do nothing practical IL you
would in the eyes of elne society preserve
your responsibility. 1 scout these fnlcal
notions. Itell you no woman, any more
than mar, has a right to occupy a place In
this world unless she pays q rent for 1t.
In the course of q lifetime you consume
whole harvests and droves o~fcattle, and every
day you live breathe forty hogsheads of good
pure air. You must by some kind OF useful
ness pay for all this. Our race was the last
thing created-the birds and fishes on the
fourth day, the cattle and liar Is on the nth
I uHY anu tndh Oh hhO 9iAAA "hSs - o'N+
ogists are right, the earth was a million oil
wears in the possession Of the insects, beasts
and birds before our race came upon 1t. In
one sense we were innovators. The cattle,
the lizards and the hawks had presumption
right. The question is not what We are to
do with the lizards and summer insects, but
what the lizards and summer insects are to
do with us.
If we want a place in this world, we must
earn it. The partridge makes its own nest
before 1t occupies 1t. The lara by Its morn
ing song earns Its breakfast before it eats it,
The Bible gives an intimatiou that the frsi
duty of an ldler Is to starye when 1t says Il
he twill not work nsither shall he eat. "
! Idleness ruins the health, and very soon
nature says t'This man has refused to pay
his rent. Out with him ~
| ! Society is to be reconstructed on the sub.
, ieet OF woman's toll. A vast majority Of those
who would have woman industrious shut hei
up to a few kinds OF work. My judgment In
this matter is that a woman has a right te
: DO anything she can do well. - There should