Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-06-20

ST. LOUIS, June 16.-In his sermon fol
today Rev. Dr. Talmage, who has reached
this city on his western tour, discusses
subject Of universal interest--viz, "Wom-
ans Opportunity"-his text being, "She
shall be called woman" Genesis II, %.
God, who can make no mistake, made
man and woman for a specific work and
to move in particular spheres-man 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 the 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 everlast-
ing waste of ink and speech. A jewelei
may have a scale so delicate that he can
weigh the dust of diamonds, but where
are the scales SO delicate that 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 re-
mark that man Is superior to woman in
intellect, and then / 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 the
item of affection, but l asked you where
was there more capacity to love than i'll
John, the disciple, and Matthew Simp,
son, the bishop, and Henry Martyr, the
missionary
The heart of those men was so large
that after you had rolled into it two hem
ispheres there was room still left to mar
shal the hosts of heaven and set up the
throne Of the eternal Jehovah. l deny tc
man the throne intellectual deny tc
woman the throne affectionaL No human
phraseology will ever define the spheres
while there is an intuition by which We
know when a man Is in his realm, ant
when woman is In her realm, and wher
either of them is out of it. No bunglins
legislature ought to attempt to make
definition or to say, "This is the line ant
bndb Is bil6 lLIc my OAACohJ 40 oiie'" -
woman wants to vote she ought to vote
and that if man wants to embroider ant
keep house he ought to be allowed to EN-
broider and keep house. There are mascu
line women, and there are effeminat
men. My theory is that you have no righ
to interfere with any ones doing anything
that is righteous. Albany and Washing
ton might as well decree by Legislation
how high brown thrasher should fly o
how deep trout should plunge as to tr
to seek out the height and depth of won
ans duty. The question of capacity vii
settle finally the whole question, the Who'll
subject. When woman is prepared t
preach, she will preach, and neither COZ
ference nor presbytery can hinder hel
When q woman is prepared to move !
highest commercial spheres, she will bay
great influence on tth.9a exchange, and n
boards Of trade can hinder her. Iwar
woman to understand that heart an
brain can overly any barrier that polit
clans may set UP, and that nothing ca
Keep flef back or keep her down but tt
ouestion of Incapncity