The Greenville times., 1895-06-22
TALNAGE's SERMON.
TTomau's Opportunity in the Home,
No. IN the Ballet-5ox.
1nsi<usaeanoe sf rhs Suffrage - Compared
Eith The WerE Of Trastptak ehii-
dren for GOd-soBe Plain
Words 70 Womsn-

thfs week, he being on = trip 10 the
west Il IS on s'W0man's Opportuni-
AZ and IS given without text;
God who can make no mistake. made
rI.zn and woman for specific work
ard 90 move in particular spheres
Ezsun 70 be regnant in his realm. woun-
an to be dominant in hers The bOun-
Diary lice betxeen Italy and Switzer-
Land. between England and Scotland.
j. net more thoroughly marked than
this distinction between the empire
rnaScuIine and the empire feminine.
50 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 everlasting waste OF ink and
sspeeeh. A jeweler may have scale so
d..lieate that he can weigh the dust
81 diamonds; but where are the
scales so delicate you can
weigh in them affection against
affection. sentiment against sentiment,
thought against thought. soul against
soai, mans world against woman's
wurld? You come out with your
stereotyped remark that man is SUI
urrior to woman in intellect; and then
open on my desk the swarthy. iron
fyped, thunder-bolted writings of
Harriet Martineau. and Elizabeth
Brovning, and George Eliot. You
e,luae on with your stereotyped remark
about woman's superiority to man in
the item Of affection; but | ask you
where was there more capacity to love
xhan in John the disciple Matthew
simpson the Bishop. and Henry Mar
fyn the missionary? The heart Of
-.hnse men was so large that after you
s1ad rolled into 1.-two hemispheres there
xas still room left TO marshal the
hosts OF Heaven. and set mp the
1jirane Of the eternal Jehovah.
deny TO man the throne intellectual
7 deny to woman the throne
aaectional No human phraseology
will ever define the spheres; while
shere is an intuition by which we
know when a man is in his realm, and
when a woman Is in her realm, and
xSheu either of them is out OF it. No
bungiing legislature ought to at
.empt to make definition, or to say:
This is the line or that is the line. -
Ny theory is, that II woman wants
~ vote, she ought to vote. and that II
a man wants to embroider and keep
house, he ought to be allowed to EN-
troider and keep house. There are
masculine women and there are effcmi-
nite men. My theory Is that you have
uo right 10 interfere with any ones
doing anything that is righteous.
Albany and Washington might as well
decree by legislation how high a
d crown thrasher should fly. or how
~ ep trout should plunge. as to try
toscek out the height and depth Of
UomaI's duty. The question of ca
naeity will settle finally the whole
question, the whole subject. When a
uoman is prepared to preach, she will
yneach, and neither conference nor
prcsbytery can hinder her. When a
rSnman is prepared TO 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
politicians may set up. and that moth
ing can keep her back or keep her
down but the question of incapacity.
Aas in New Zealand last year just
after the opportunity OF suffrage had
been conferred upon women. The
plan worked we'll There had never
been snch good order at the polls. and
righteousness triumphed. Men have
not made such a wonderful moral sue
cess OF the ballot-box that they neet
sexr women will corrupt 1t. In al
s,nr cities man has SO nearly made thu
bailot-box failure. suppose we lie
women try. But there are some won
~u, 1 know, OF most undesirable ma
ture, who wander up and down tn
country-having no homes of thei
swn. or forsaking their own bones
talking about their rights. and w
s<now very well that they them
ss.lves are fit neither to vote nor :
keep house. Their mission seem
merely TO humiliste the two sexes a
,.he thought Of what any one Of u
might become. No one would want I
rIse under the laws that such wome
would enact, or TO have cas-
upon society the children ths
such women would raise. But sha
show you that the best rights ths
wuman can own, she already has
her possession; that her position
this country at this time is not one I
romniiseration, but one of eongratl
lation: that the grandeur and pow
of her realm have never yet been a
preciated; that she sits to-day on
throne so high that all the thrones
earth piled on top of each 9th
would not make Tor her foe
stool. Here Is the platform (
which she stands Away down belo
ii are the ballot-box and the congre
sional asscmblage and the lcgislati
hall. Woman always has voted al
always will vote. Our great.gran
fathers thought they were by the
votes putting Washington into {
presidential chair. No. His moth,
hy the principles she taught him. al
bv the habits she inculcated. ma
him president IL was a Christi
mothers hand dropping the ball
when Lord Bacon wrote, and Newt
philosophical, and Alfred the Gre
governed. and Jonathan Edwsr
fhundered of Judgment to come. III
many men there have been in hi