The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-08-10
TALMAGE's SERMON.
woman's Opportunity In the Home
Not in the Ballot-Box.

Woman's Opportunity In the Home,
Not in the Ballot-Box. T.
Ius,rn,f,cance of the Suffrage as Compared
with the work of Training Chill
dren for God-Some Plain
Words to Women.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage gave out
the following sermon for pubilcatien
this week, he being on trip TO Tie
west. 1t is on ''Woman's Emporium
ty." and is given without text:
God who can make no mistake, MADE
man and woman for specific work
and to move in particular spheres
man to be regnant in his realm, wom-
an to be dominant in hers. The boun-
darv line between Italy and Switzer-
land. between England and Scotland,
is not more thoroughly marked than
this distinction between the empire
masculine and the empire feminine.
So entirely dissimilar are the fields 10
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 everlasting waste OF ink ana
snecch. A jeweler may have scale SO
| delicate that he can weigh the dust
of diamonds; but where are the
scales so delicate you can
weigh in them affection against
affection. sentiment against sentiment,
thought against thought. soul against
soul, a mans world against woman's
world? You come out with your
stereotyped remark that man is SUI
ner;or to woman in intellect; and then
omen on my desk the swarthy. IRON
timed. thunder-b olted writings. OF
Harriet Martineau, and Elizabeth
Browning, and George Eliot You
come on with your stereotyped remark
about woman's superiority to man IN
the item of affection; but l ask you
where was there more capacity to love
than in John the disciple-and Matthew
Simpson the Bishop, and Henry Mar
; tyn the missionary? The heart o
, those men was SO large that after yo'
had rolled into 1.-two hemispheres Their
: was still loom left to marshal tn
hosts of Heaven, and set up tn
throne of the eternal Jehovah.
deny to man the throne intellectual
I denv to woman the thron
affectional. No human phraseolog
: will ever define the spheres; Will
there is an intuition by which W
know when man is in his realm, an
when a woman is in her realm, an
= when either of them is out OF 1t.
: bungling legislature ought to q
tempt to make definition, or to sa.
: This is the line or that is the line
- NV theory is, that if woman wan
. to vote, she ought to vote. and that
= a man wants to embroider and kee
u house, he ought to be allowed to er
/ broider and keep house. There Al
20 masculine women and there are effeH
20 mite men. NY theory is that you ha'
~ no right to interfere with any one
doing anything that is righteou
q Albany and Washington might as We
ns decree by legislation how h'gn
" brown thrasher should fly, or nc
~ deem a trout should plunge. as to 7
= to seek out the height and depth
IL woman's duty. The question OF
is pacitv will settle finally the who
ed question. the whole subject Wher
nj woman is prepared to preach, she
o. preach, and neither conference n
en- presbytery can hinder her. Wher
ne woman is prepared to move in high'
al commercial spheres she will ma
w. great influence on the exchange q
or no boards of trade can hinder her.
want woman to understand that he'
& and brain can overly any barrier tt
VS. politicians may set up, and that no
an ING can keep her back or keep
ant down but the question of incapacity
gh Twas in New Zealand last year j
ing after the opportunity OF suffrage I
the been conferred upon women.
the ulan worked well. There had ne
pm been such good order at the polls,
ar; Righteousness triumphed. Men b
RITZ not made such a wonderful moral 6
the cess of the ballot-box that they n
Ugh fear women will corrupt 1t. In
18th our cities man has so nearly made
lily. ballot box failure, suppose we
Q to women try. But there are some W
en-. 1 know, of most undesirable
ture. who wander up and down
country-having no homes OF Il
az. az own, OF forsaking their own bonn
; s talking about their rights, and
49, know very we'll that they tn
~: .a selves are fit neither to vote no
keep house. Their mission Sc
-. .ast merely to humiliate the two sexe
Ia the thought of what any one o
P l;ss might become. No one would war
AZ live under the laws that such wo
- would enact. or to have
-, upon society the children
such women would raise. But {
ss show you that the best rights
- = woman can own, she already ma
a.. her possession; that her positio
s this country AZ this time is not OF
commiseration. but one of congl
lation; that the grandeur and p
of her realm have never yet oeel
sne preciated; that she sits to-day
throne SO high that all the thrcr
you earth piled on top OF each
eedy would not make tor her .
RISK stool. Here is the platform
which she stands Away down .
pow It are the ballot-box and the con
10 70 sional assemblage and the legisl
hall. Woman always has voted
saia always will vote. Our great-g
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