The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-23

Hearers In the Treatment of soFruit.
fui and Inspiring Theme-a Rum
ming Synopsis of His Remarks.
AT the commencement exercises of
Elizabeth College, Charlotte, Hon.
TheO. +. Kluttz, of Salisbury, de-
livered the literary address before
the societies. His theme was .Some
Great Women" and from the Oh
serrer's report we take the following:
Mr.. Kluttz's address, sermon
lecture-was as instructive as it was
beautiful. 1t was replete with his
torical citations illustrative of '.Some
Great Women;'' full of advice SO
delicately and cleverly intorwoven
with the thread of the discourse as
to be really palatable; chaste and
beautiful In it's diction; lofty in it's
tone and sentiment, and delivered
with simplicity of style that was
delightful.
The speaker was necessarily linn
tied by the seemly proprieties of the
occasion, and embarrassed only by
the great number of great women
whose names abound in history.
woman is essentially and gen
erically great said Mr.. Kluttz
''She is not only man, for male and
female created He them,' but with
her finer sensibilities, her higher
spiritual nature, she is more and
greater and better-the complement,
the cOnsummation of man.
"ln the creation, when light had
gone forth, the land separated from
the waters, the heavens from the
earth, when the flowers and fruits of
Eden had budded and bloomed over
the recent waste of chaos; when suns,
is space; man created in the image
OF his Maker-all nature waited for
the coming Of the mistress, the
queen, mother of the world.
when Jehovah, had fashioned
her, fair and beautiful, His creative
hand was stayed, because He could
create nothing fairer, nothing better,
nothing greater. Woman had come
and creation was complete forever
Four thousand years later, the great
Light Bearer, on His mission of suffer
ing. glorified woman by becoming
her son, that through her love and
ministrations He might become in
deed our high priest who might be
touched with a feeling of our in
firmities; and so, woman became,
not only the mother of man, but the
mother of God!
''Oh, daughters OF Eve, sisters OF
Mary, rejoice in your womanhood
nor ever dishonor it by mimickine
the manners, the fashions, the follies
OF man.
I'm all history woman has demon.
strated that she is no whit inferior
to man.
First emerging from the mists OF
antiquity is the half tabled Sem
iramis the mighty, queen, the
architect and builder of Babylon the
Great. which she made the most
superb city in the world. AS q
warrior she led forth, conquering and
to conquer, an army of three mil
lions of men. She razed mountains
filled up valleys, and by great ac
queducts made blooming gardens OF
barren deserts and unfruitful plains
DYING she received immortal honors
Yet with all her greatness, hel
character was stained with liceptious
ness, and like Catharine of Russia
she cannot be held up as an example
of what is best and noblest to woman.
Zenobia, the queen of the East, wa:
equally great as ruler, as warrior
and infinitely greater as a woman-a
mighty witness to woman's capacity,
and an answer for all time to those
who preach her inferiority. Tytler
the historian, says that most of the
revolutions of the Roman States
owed their origin to women. The
abolition Of the royal dignity; the de
livery from the tyranny of the De
cemvirate and the restoration o
consular governments; the change b,
which plebicans became eligible to
the highest otfices-all these Rome
owed to the influence of woman.
"Of those who, through faith sub.
dued kingdoms, out of weakness wer'
made strong, waXed valiant in tigh'
and turned to flight the armies o
aliens, no name stands out NOR,
brightly in history than that of tht
French peasant girl of the fifteenth
century, Joan of Arc. Her story Il
| unique and unparalleled, and sh'
has been well called the most illustri
Gus heroine of history. Called t.
God to deliver her people and crow
her king, nobly did She fulfill he
destiny. Without education, with
out military training, relying upoI
divine guidance. she put to sham
the greatest captains of the age. an
made conquering army of the long
beaten and dispirited hosts Of France
Pure as the lilies of her own valley
she passed unsoathed through all TIL
dangers and SnareS of court AM
camp and field, and left a name in
mortal in the records of glory an
| virtue. She was, as kossuth says
the only person, male or female
since the writing of human histor
began, who ever had supreme com
mand of the military forces of a gres
nation at the age of II. More tina
two thousand books have been wri
ten about her. Glorious, martyret
but now Canonised Purcelle, let tn
life he an inspiration to woman, a
answer to her detractors throughot
all time. The time would fail to te
of Isabella Of Castillo. of Madam q
Stael, or Maria Theresa. of the Ion
line of the heroiness of scripture an
our own wars. OF her, howeve