The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23
The WOman'S Afternoon
and Evening.
Whal She Might Do to Pass
the Time PrOfitably.
Concluding Address in Rev. Wallace
Nutting's Second Series.


second series of popular Sunday evening
siiscourses at the Union Congregational
y church last evening with an address on
(. sWoman's Leisure Afternoon and Even
ing, /" and next Sunday Mr.. .Nutting will
have something new OF interest, to be an
bounced later.
4 The texts for the address Of last evening
were from Cor. x:31. "whatsoever you
( do, do all the glory OF God" and Mark
4 xv:s0, Al, "Tnere were also women be-
7 holding from afar who, when He was in
Galilee, followed Him and ministered
pnto Him, and many other women which
came up with Him unto Jerusalem" The
4 address follows:
There is q general agreement that men
8 must work, but II Is by no means unani-
mously settled what women should do.
man 9 whole character in all that IL
4 STANDS for o: energetic righteousness. OF
x justice and mercy, is properly devoted to
+ the State and to society.
But many persons who readily agree to
this differ as to woman's duties. Some
would say that sne should take her place
4 in obtaining q living and giving living
TO the world, along with every member
OF our race, and that her sex excuses her
activities TO certain occupations and to
voting at school elections. Still Others
say that home and home only is her place
and there he should serve her generation
diligently. But some may be found who
say women ought to be cared for by men
and that IL all men were righteous and
busy women need not work at ali. A
man has said: ''There Is no necessity for
my wife to do anything. can hire peo-
pie to take care OF her and myself. wish
10 see her free from cares OF all kinds,
enjoying life, keeping young and Eden
like" Some young husbands particu-
larry think they honor their wives by
such q doctrine.
Ii becomes the Christian religion there
fore to throw some light If possible, on
: the qucstion OF a woman's relation to the
economies OF the world. Here we con.
1ine ourselves strictly to
THE QUESTION OF LEISURE,
related not service, to entering into discus
sion of political relations or the "new
woman" problem. The women's after
noon and evening leisure-does she pos
soss 1t, ought she to have IL, how shall
she obtain IT, what shall she do with IL?
A. the Lord constituted the world there
MAS to be time for women to bring up
children. II is fair to presume, without
further discussion, that under ordinary
conditions there n time enough for this
the world. In case therefore the woman
has not been called upon for this blessed
service II is further fair TO presume that
In the divine economy she will have
leisure for something else. Children oc-
cupy much time IL would be interesting
90 reckon the hours some good mothers
give to children. j knew one mother OF
three who had never been absent from
them since they were born She aban-
doned church. society, shopping and
every connection with the world outside
until she could take those three children
with her. The husband was good man.
She never lett them alone with him She
had no outside cir, and living in a good
climate she escaped consumption.
We have heard OF mothers happily we
do not know them-whose children are
made very clean and brought to them
to be kissed In the morning and again at
the chiidren's bed time. These two regn-
lation kisses are plnced on the children's
forehead, because II has been discovered
that bacteria are caught in kisses.
Now these two instances are, we hope,
the
EXTREMES BETWEEN SLAVERY AND
sELTIsHNEss
in regard to duties; as the life of a rich
TURKS wife 10 the opposite OF French
shop woman's, who supports her hus-
band, blacks his shoes, tucks him up at
night and gives him his breakfast before
he rises. But II there are no children or
children that allow outside life. what
shall the woman do? What ia the prsc-
tice OF sense and Christianity?
All the woman's life should glorify
God. That is, IL should be such az every
hour that people will glory in it, and
feel its appropriateness and its beauty.
And ali important essential 10 this end ia
that every woman shall religiously seek
some leisure, for good motive. There
fore she ought To simplify life. Ii is easily
possible, even for we'll disposed woman,
to expend..the live-long day In mere moth
ings. But leisure is for the enrichment
and enhancement TO life. Let US inventory
a possible day.
A morning hour in correspondence
which may convey no possible moral
stimulus. Under the excuse of fulfilling
cne's oebt TO society we write many let
ters that contain no character. Later I'm
the day there arises the question "where-
withal ssball we be clothed?'' Here is
room for remarks as inflated as certain
portions OF the gown, and structures as
severe as other portions, but the sub
ject IL too sad for sarcasm. II is now