The herald., 1896-11-02
LESSONS FROM IREPU[P|1
Rev. Mr.. Thomson Talks
of Woman in Politics
ELOQUENT PLEA FOR EQUAL Suffrage
Common Justice Demands that
She Be Recognized
DR.. RICE ON TEMPERANCE
The Liquor Traffic Is the Greatest Curse
Of the Country
Rev. Mr.. Days Sermon at the First Congre.
gational Church
Rev. George e. Dye Discusses Good Cit
izenship at the East Side Baptist
Church-The Need For
DR., RICE ON TEMPERANCE
The Liquor Traffic Is the Greatest Curse
Of the Country
Rev. Mr.. Days Sermon at the First congre.
xationaI Church
Rev. George e. Dye Discusses Good Cit
izenship at the East Side Baptist
Church-The Need For
Municipal Reform

LII part OF MS sermon yesterday morn
ing at Trinity church, the pastor, Rev.
]. S. Thomson, said that he had been
frequently asked to give his opinion
about the law which makes men sheep
and women goats in the political world.
He consented to repeat what he had
often said upon this matter. God made
man and woman equal in every respect
at the beginning. Mans life is a hemis-
phere and woman's life is hemisphere,
| and together man and woman make
| the complete sphere Of human exist
ence. Woman is just as intelligent, con-
scientious, affectionate and spiritual as
man. If, then, God has made them
| equal, so that woman is not inferior to
man, why should man make and en-
| force a law that declares her to be his
inferior? Why should man insult the
will of the Creator by prohibiting her
from the exercise of her just rights.
privileges and freedom in any depart
ment of earthly existence? Since God
has made them, not twain, but one, and
since God has nowhere said that there
is one arena Of human thought and ac-
tivities where woman is not as good
as man, why, in the name of God, is
she excluded from asserting herself in
the political department?
Woman Is necessary to the home.
| She is the mistress, queen, light and
joy of home. Without her, there is no
home. A houseful of men is not home.
| We can trust her to superintend the
most sacred things of life in the home.
| Women are necessary in the schools.
| They are trusted to educate our boys
tn he
work of life. The most precious gifts
| of God to US are our children, and yet
we entrust these children. with their
immortal souls, to the women who
teach in our schools. We feel sure tha.
! these devoted teachers are good enough
| to be trusted with our sons and daugh-
| ters.
1t is a patent fact to all men that
women are devoted supporters OF our
churches. Even in those churches which
| declare that the touch of woman's
hand on the altar is a pollution. women
are the chief actors Their presence,
their advice, their efforts and their in
| spiration maintain our churches. They
are good enough to work for our
churches. In sickness. in distress, in
death, when the dark shadows fall upon
the eyes of the dying, whose presence
is so sacred. so tender, SO comforting,
as woman's presence? She smooths
the pillow of the dying, she devotes her
energies to consolation, and she stands
and Weeps at the door of death. We
know her divine worth in the sorrows
OF life. She is good enough for us then.
Heaven holds as many women as
men; and heaven would be a dreary
place If more of the fine female qualities
were there to grace the celestial life.
They are good enough to enter heaven
If she is good enough for the home,
the school. the church. the sick room.
and heaven,why is she not good enough
for politics? Is the political world so
pure and white that her presence would
pollute it? Have men done so well in
politics that they need no help?
Women are surely the equals of men
IN intellectual matters; for London uni
versity, the examinations of which are
the most difficult, and the Harvard an
mex, show that women are fully equal
to men in the higher studies. A foreign
er that knows neither our laws, laugu-
age nor history, foreigner that can
write his name-and monkey or a horse
could be taught to do that's regarded
by our laws as superior to any woman
in our land. Is this justice, consistency
or common sense?
We allow insane socialists, anar-
chists, criminals and murderers that
have bought out a masculine jury to
vote. Anarchists are governors judges
and directors of some schools vet a Wo-
man on whom God has written His di-
vine approval, whose head wears the
crown of life, is not as fit as cut -throats
and the off-scourings Of the earth to be
trusted in political matters Some peo-
pie say that women would contaminante
our pure politics, and some say she
would improve politics. What she
would do in politics we do not know,
but one thing is certain, that the only
way to find out what her influence in
politics would be is to give her fair
trial Then we would not need to guess.
because we would know what a woman
is in politics. No set of men, no nations
have any right to keep from woman her
nights. privileges and liberties, as O.
child OF God. in any field of thought or
labor AS matter of simple justice,
there should be no law preventing a wo-
man from exercising her faculties in
whatever way she prefers.