Milford chronicle., 1895-06-21

He FavOrs Woman Suffrage, but Says Hi
Chief Anxiety Is Not For This. but That
Woman Shall Appreciate the Glorious
Rights She Already Possesses.
ST. LOUIS, june 16.-In his sermon fm
today Rev. DR.. Talmage, who has reached
this city on his western tour, discusses q
subject Of universal interest-viz, "WOm
ans Opportunity text being " She
shall be called woman, Genesis Ii, %.
God, who can mako no mistake, made
man and woman for IA specific work and
to move In particular SPORTSMAN to be
regnant in his realm; woman to be dom
inant in hers The boundary line between
Italy and Switzerland, between England
and Scotland Is not more thoroughly
marked than this distinction between the
empire masculine and the empire femi-
nine. So entirely dissimilar are tho fields
to which God called them that you can no
more compare them than you can oxygen
and hydrogen, water and grass, trees and
stars All this talk about the superiority
of one sex to the other sex is an eYeTlast-
ing waste Of ink and speech. A jeweler
may have scale so delicate that he can
weigh the dust Of diamonds, but where
are tho scales so delicate that you can
weigh in them affection against affection,
sentiment against sentiment thought
against thought, soul against soul, q
mans world against a wOman's worldf
. You como out with your stereotyped re-
mark that man is superior to woman in
intellect, and then 1 open on my desk
the swarthy, iron typed, thunderbolted
writings of Harriet Martineau and Eliza
beth Browning and George Eliot. You
come on with your stereotyped remark
about woman's superiority to man in tho
item of affection, but 1 asked you where
was there more capacity to love than in
John, the disciple, and Matthew Simp-
son, the bishop, and Henry Martyr, the
missionary
The heart Of those men was so largo
that after you had rolled into 1t two hem
isDheres there was room still left to mar
shall the hosts Of heaven and set up the
throne Of the eternal Jehovah. ! deny to
man the thrOne intellectual. l deny to
woman the throne affectiOnaL No human
phraseOlogy will ever define the spheres,
while there is an intuition by which we
know when man is in his realm, and
when a woman is In her realm, and when
either of them is out Of 1t. No bungling
legislature ought to attempt to make
definition OF to say "This is the line and
that is the line" My theory is that II a
woman wants to vote she ought to vote,
and that If a man wants to embrOider and
keep house he ought to be allowed to en-
broider and keep house. There are mascu-
line women, and there are effeminate
men. My theory is that you have no right
to interfere with any ones doing anything
that is righteous Albany and Washing
ton might as well decree by legislation
how high a brown thrasher should fly or
how deep trout should plunge as to try
to seek out the height and depth Of wom-
ans duty. Tho question of capacity will
settle finally the whole question, the whole
subject When a woman is prepared 70
preach, she will preach, and neither con
ference nor presbytery can hinder hef.
When a woman is prepared 10 Ihovo-Ih
highest commercial spheres, she will have
great influence on the exchange, end no
boards Of trade can hinder her. want
woman to understand that heart and
brain can overly any barrier that politi-
,lans may set up and that nothing can
Keep her back or keep her down but the
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