The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-05-04
A TRIBUTE TO WOMAN.
Mans Helpmate, Repose, JOY, Refiner and
Very Existence as Well.

Mans Helpmate, Repose, Joy, Refiner and
Very Existence as Well.
Rev. DR.. George R. Vandewater, in the
course of an address ON Woman" to the
Columbia college students, said:
1.-The adjustment of knights armor by
his lady's hand was something more than
the fashion of the day. Involved in the
custom is q deep principle. A man Is less
than well equipped unless woman's hand
has laced his equipment Say what you
will of bravery, courage, manly iDdepend-
ence, tell you man is only half man
until he loves true, good woman. There's
time for everything and doing the right
thing at the wrong time often defeats the
object sought.
ut would be foolhardy, may be fatal,
for young men In college to be more con-
cerned about falling In love and getting
married than pursuing faithfully their.
studies and preparing well for the sterner
duties of life, but there Is no denying
there is one in the world who feels for a
man who is sad keener pang than he
feels for himself, there is one to whom re-
Elected joy is better than that which comes
direct, there Is one who rejoices in another's
honor more than any which is ones own,
there is one who loses all sense of self in
devotion to another, there Is one whose
weakness gives strength to the strong,
whose tenderness makes others bold, whose
soft voice and trembling heart makes ruder
natures reverent. Need I tell you, son of
your mother, her name Is womanf
"She is mans helpmate indeed when
she is herself. Not his repose only, but his
Joy. Not his assistance alone, but exist
ence also. Oh, what shame that for any
cause whatever men should forget them
selves and the respect they owe to women,
and by their powers reduce her to a level
lower than have described, level every
good woman may reach, level designed
for her by her Makeri
when woman sins, she sins through
love. Her very bloom becomes her de-
stroyer. Seeking sinfully to please, she
still sinks to please.
Her weakness is her love Of service. The
errors of women spring almost always
from their faith and their confidence in
man. Love Is of mans life thing apart.
TITS woman's whole existence.
"Young gentlemen, be men, admirers
of women Be true to your mothers, sloyal
to your sisters, faithful to your sweet
hearts and manly in your conduct toward
and treatment of any that bears the name
of woman. Even to the erring woman be
VenQer Ion q ueSplSe ner tteSerVe your
hate for the villain who ruined her and
the villains who have since abused her.
Speak not slightingly of those feminine
dispositions that may appear to you weak,
but would make you stronger did you but
possess them. Let others say what they
will, act as they will, you stand out like
men and be tender and courteous and loyal
and pure in all your relations with women.
taNOthiDp nayt IN the love Of God which
ought to be the law of your life, is more
important to the true development of your
character and more conducive to your per-
manent success than your right estimate
and devoted love Of a pure, good woman.
Most of their faults women owe to men.
For most of our virtues we men are in
dehted TO women -