The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21

work for the time when the toilers and strug-
glers shall ind their toll rainbowed with hope
the hope OF acquiring homes of their own.
Inere IS an Old proverb, Make man the
owner OF bare rock and he will soon make of
II garden; send him q garden and he will
soon make of it a desert"
The great problem of the worlds history is
open before MS. 1t is briefly this: The struggle
OF the Kingdom of heaven against all thai is
arapelng the race downward 1t aims to
ana beneficent. The kingdom OF God is not
impossible even here in what has been
characterized as wicked San Francisco" We
are not so wicked here.
NO, indeed you're not" iaughingly
lnterposed Miss Anthony.
That's right" replied Mrs. Cooper.
You tell that East" And the house
came down with laughter.
1t does not call for saints, but simply for sem
sloIe, earnest, honest men and women, who
prove their love TO God by their love and
service TO their fellowmen. Early saints died
for their Lord; new saintliness must live to
help and to bless those for whom he died.
There needs to be more of real fellowship
between the top and the bottom of society.
Instead OF chiding, cheer. Show the timid and
discouraged that character is freedom; that
purity is liberty; that to have few wants is to
be rich, and that to be master of ones self is to
be conqueror of all things. Let them feel that
moral riches tell, in the long run, every time.
There must be q deeper religious sense, by
Uncommon religion is, for the most part, a
failure on this common earth. What the
true home needs is. religious climate
or atmosphere, full of health giving
ozone and stimulating sunshine. The truth
and beauty of the higher lie should he an OBJ
jectiye reality.
home life and in public life. We have too low
standard. 1t is time for men and women to
have higher conception of character and to
indoctrlnate children with this lofty concep-
ton and give them true idea as to what noble
living really is-not merely as to what any,
thing is worth in the market place, but as 10
what is essentially right and true and just and
of good report. Let virtue honesty and right
eousness be so ingrained into the young that
they shall carry these qualities as weapons
both of offenSe and defense.
Good Judgment comes, very largely, from
sound moral qualities, and good judgment is
TO business what good steering is to naviga-
ton. 1t keeps the ship in safe channels. Good
judgment is indispensable in the efforts made
TO right the wrongs of society. The conserva-
tive as well the radical element is needed.
A fine writer has said: an every commu-
nifty there are enough of those restless by con-
stitution and reformatory by vision TO prevent
society from sinking into stupid lethargy
reverent of the past, content with
the present and needing great
stimulant and the pressure of great wrong, to
provoke them into attitudes OF resistance or
the eountenance OF revolutionary schemes.
Thus permanent basis is provided for
the strong and solid growth of civilization.
no fiery souls, with burning democratic in
stincts and hopes, impatient for the future,
should appear. society would be like long
train OF cars without an engine. And if, for
once, all the individuals Of race should
grow up scornful of past wisdom and
rabid for advance = social Jehus = what
A general rush on all sides, for no particular
object, except the good time coming, making
society like a long train of engines, each with
the steam up, each crowding the one ahead
but with train attached. paSSenpPrS
freight, everybody an engine IT or ireman, and
bound for no place in particular, only for prog
fine thing for the world that the conservative
and the radical tendencies are so well bal
anced!
But, whether conservative or radical, every
life should be replenished and lifted up
into its divine stature. by the breath Of
God: There is spirit in man, and
the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them
understanding. Every heart and every home
has its own secret history and its own con-
scious need. If this congress shall do some
thing toward meeting the hungry of the heart
and the aspiration of the soul for that which
is highest and best, and thus through the in
dividual lift up the home, it will have accom-
plished its divinest intent.
In the faith ana love of Him who is prepar-
ing for all his children the home not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens, let us enter
with JOY upon the work of the congress.
Mrs. Cooper's address was enlivened
throughout by epigrammatic sallies dur
ing the Interruptions caused by applause,
and when she concluded she was given
perfect ovation.
Rev. Eliza Tupper Wilkes of Oakland
was next introduced to the assem- blage.
She began her remarks with the story of
an old Welsh church, which, from a weak
foundation on one side had tilted over
slightly. Workmen came, however, tore
down the ivy which had helped drag the
church one-sided, put in new foundations,
and there it was standing solid to-day.
THE home,' she continued, "the most
sacred edifice of humanity, is threatened
to-day by the one-sided foundations under
it, but with strong, true, courageous hands
they come to the rescue. They have shat
tered a good many old traditiosn-they
have torn down the old ivies and they
have brought us to see clearly what was
needed. We are beginning now to give
them due credit for it."
She spoke of conversation with a
Hindoo preacher, who was in attendance
at the former women's congress, and of
his comparison of the American and Ind
ian woman, comparison, strange to say,
fattering to both.
He pleaded for the harem." she said,
''as have heard American men plead for
the home. Underneath all this sentiment
there is the same foundation. The new
home must be on different foundations.
There can never be a foundation with one
of its sides absent-there can never be
home in a nation which is only repre-
sented in one-sided way in its councils.
81 do not wonder that you shake your
heads over the new woman. She's COM
ing, and she's coming TO stay; and she's
bringing with her new power and a new
voice, and she's going to make room for
the home that has never been before.
Along with her is coming her caricature.
The swaggery woman is coming, too, and
l don't know but that she is as good as the
simpering woman. There will be all sorts
of chance misfits in the transition, but you
have given the coming woman chance to
learn the faith; you have opened the door,
and when she got outside and into the
world she has taken advantage of the
occasion to educate herself as to her
rights"
At this point the president announced
recess until 2 80 o'clock.