Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-06-22
THEQUEEN OF WOMEN
REV. DR.. TAlMAGE DISCUSSES A CUES
Tloa or UNIVERSAL INTEREST.

Tloa or UNIVERSAL INTEREST.
TIE Fasors Woman Suffrage. but Says His
Chisf Anxiety Is N1t For This. but That
Woman shall Appreciate the Glorious
Rights She Already Possesses.
ST i.0Uis. juno ID In his sermon for
toafs Rev. DR. Iaimlfc. who has reached
ihi, city on his weStvrn tour. discusses n
subject ~ universal iltcrrsi-yiz, "Mom-
Gn's Opportunity his text being she
shall - called Woman. Genesis H. %.
God. who can rlakc no mistake. made
man and woman f.r n specific work and
81 inakc In particular sphercs-man to be
rc-nuul ia his rtaim: woman 20 be dom
inani ia hers The boundary line between
italy and Switzerland between England
ard Scotland. IS not more thoroughly
marked than this distinction between the
empire masculine and the empire femi-
nine - cu.i-rly disSimllar arc the fields
81 which God called them that YOU can no
uu-c compare them than you can oxygen
and hydrogen, water and grass, trees and
STAR. An ii.is talk about the superiority
IN ouc sex Ia tie other sex Is an cverlast-
ius waste ~ ink and speech \ jcwe!er
inny have q scale delicate that he can
weigh The dust Of diamonds, but where
ara the scales 80 delicate that you can
weigh In them affection against affection,
sentiment against sentiment thought
a.riii.st Thought soul against soul, a
mans world against a woinnn's worldf
You come ont with your stcrcotyped re-
mari. that maa is superior to woman In
intellect. ard then ! open ON my desk
ihv swar;hy. iron tyrcd, thuudcrhoiicd
writings of Harriet Mariinoau and Eliza
bath Browning and George Eliot You
come on with your stercatypcd remark
aanut wnmam's superiority o. man in the
item ~ affection. but asked you wicrc
WAS there more capacity to love than in
John. the disciple and Matthew Simp.
son. the bishop. and Henry Martyr. the
missionary
The heart ~ those men was 81 large
thai after Won had rolled into IL two hem.
isphc..s Their, was room still left TO mar.
shall the hosts 81 heaven and set up the
throne Of the eternal Jehovah / deny to
man the throne intellectual | deny to
woman the throne aiIcciional No human
phrascology will ever define the spheres,
while there is an intuition by which we
know when "a man Is In his realm, and
when n woman Is In her rcalm, and when
either 81 them Is ont Of it. No bungling
legislature ought To attempt TO make n
definition or 10 say, This is the line and
that Is the line Ny theory Is that IL a
woman wants to vote she ought TO vote,
and that IL man wants TO cmbroidcr and
keep house he ought 10 be allowed TO en-
broider and keep house. There are mascu-
line women, and there are cffeminate
men. My theory Is that you have no right
90 interfere with any ones doing anything
that Is righteous. Albany and Washing.
ton might n well decree by legislation
how high brown ihrasher should fly or
how deep trout should plunge rs TO try
70 seek out the height and depth Of wom-
ans duiy. The question Of capacity Will
scttlc finally the whole question, the whole
subject. When a woman Is prepared &c
preach. she VIII preach, and neither con
ference nor prcshy;cry can hinder her.
Whom n woman Is prepared 20 move in
highest commercial spheres, she will have
great influence on the exchange, and no
boards of trade can hinder her. | want
woman TO understand that heart and
brain can overly any barrier that politi-
clans may set mp and that nothing can
keep her back or keep her down but the
question Of incapaciiy.
Universal Suffrage.
was in New Zealand last year Just after
The opportunity Of suffrage had been con-
ferrrd upon women The plan worked
well There had mover been such good or
der at the polls, and righteousness tri-
unphed Men have not made such won
dcrsnl moral success Of the ballot box that
they need fear women will corrupt IT, In
all oar cities man has SO nearly made the
ballot box a failure, suppose we let wOm-
an try But there arc some women, j
know. OF most undesirable nature, who
wander up and down the country-having
no homes of their own or forsaking their
own honcs-;alking about their rights,
and we know very well that they themselves
are iit neither To vote nor TO keep house.
Their mission seems merely 10 hunilinte
the two sexes at the thought of what any
one Of us might become No one would
want to live under the laws that such
women would enact or to have cast upon
society the children that such women
would raise. But l shall show you that
the best rights that woman can own she
already has IN her possession; that her
position In ;his country nj this time is not
one Of coinnliseration. but one Of congrat
ulation: that the grandeur and power OF
her realm have never yet been appreciated;
that she sits today on a throne so high
that all the thrones of earth piled on top
OF each Other would not make for hes a
footstool Hero is the platform on which
she stands Away down below 1t are the
ballot box, and the congressional assem-
blnge, and the legislative hall Woman
always has voted and always will vote
Our great -grlndiathcrs thought they were
b. their votes putting Washington into
the presidential chair No. His mother,
By the principles she taught him and by
the habits she inculcatcd, made him prcsi
dent IL was Christian mothers hand
dropping the ballot when Lord Bacon
wrote, and Newton philosophical, and Al
fred the Great governed, and Jonathan
Edwards ihumdcn'd OF Judgment To come
How many men there have been In high
political station who would have been In
sufficient to stand the test To which their
moral principle WIS put had il not beer
for wifcs voice that encouraged them TO
do right and wifo's prayer that sounded
louder than the clamor Of craftsmanship
The right Of suffrage as we men exercise
IL, seems to be feeble thing You. I;
Christian man, come up TO the ballot box,
and you drop your vote Right after you
comes a libcriine or snt-ihc oifscouring
u the stnect-and he drops his vote and
Ills vote cuuntcracts yours. But II in the
quiet 81 home lie a daughter by her Chris
tian dcmcanur. "a wife by her industry, a
mother hy her faiihfulncSs, casts vote in
the right direction then nothing can resist
IL, and the influence 81 that vote will throb
through the cterniiics
Woman and Home.
Ny chief anxiety, then Is not that WON
an have other rights accorded her but
that she, by the grace of God. rise up to
the appreciation Of the glorious rights she
already possesses First. she has the right
70 make ho.lc happy That realm no one
has ever disputed with her Men may
come home ri nuun or "a; night ami then
taT-y a coiHiiarai lively lifilr while hui ~,
all day long guFcsr~ if bcauf G,.S .i.sc
titles 4 II j, .siihia icT ro,' 'r 10 ui:,lsr
Il the i.u-i H;trleii plirc ni' earth IL
Is the only calm hGrbor in this world. You
know as we'll a. | do that this outside
world and the business world are long
scene II issfle and contention The man
who has dollar siru g4,ics 20 keep It, The
man who mas il not struggles to get IT,
Prices mp. Prices down. losses. Gains.
Misge9rcseniatinns. Undcrsclling Bry-
ers dcpreciHfing; slicsncn cxaggcraiing.
Tenants sa,iiug less rent: landlords de-
handing moro. Siru- las about office
Mon whourr go trying 20 keep in; men ont
trying fo wi in. slips. Tumbles. De
faleaiiou- l'anic,. Caia>trophcs. Oh,
f-aFu1r ffirrf- f,.rl t.tsff fta.-. "a homo and