The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-01-21


and shelter and fuel for the BODY, ana
knowledge for the mind, and reIlglon
for the soul. And all these things VIII
continue to be the necessar1es, ana II
YOU fasten your energies upon occupa-
tions and professions thus relateu ING
world will lie unable to do without YOU
Remember that in proportion as you are
skillful in anything your Tlvalrles De-
come less. For unskilled toll there are
women by the millions. But you may
rise to where there are only thousands,
and still higher till there are only
hundred and still higher till there are
only ten, and still higher, in some par
ticular department, till there is only
unit, and that yourself For awhlIe you
may keep wages and place through
the kindly sympathy OF an employer
but you will eventually get no more
COMPENSATION than you can make your
self worth.
Let me say to all women who have
already entered upon the battles OF lie
that the time is coming when women
shall not only get as much salary and
wages as men get, but for certain styles
of employment women will have higher
salary and more wages, for the reason
that for some styles of work they have
more adaptation. But this justice will
come to woman not through any sentl-
ment of gallantry, not because woman
is physically weaker than man, and
therefore ought to have more consider
alton shown her, but because through
her finer natural taste, and more grace
of manner, and quicker perception, and
more delicate touch, and more educated
adroitness, she will in certain calllngs
be to her employer worth ~ per cent
more or 20 per cent more than the oth'
er sex. She will not get it by asking Tor
it, but by earning it, and 1t shall be
hers by lawful conquest.
Now, men of America, be falr ana
give the women chance. Are you
afraid that they will do some OF your
work, and hence harm your properties!
Remember that there are scores OF
thousands Of men doing women s work.
Do not be afraid God knows the end
from the beginning, and he knows how
many people this world can feed and
shelter, and when it gets too full he Will
end the world and if need be start an
other. God will halt the inventive fac
ulty which, by producing machine
that will do the work OF 10 or 20 OF
100 men and women, will leave that
number of people without work. hope
that there will not be invented another
sewing machine, or reaping machine,
or corn thrasher or any other new ma
chine for the next 500 years. We want
no more wooden hands, and iron hands
and steel hands, and electric hands sub
stituted for men and women, who woulC
otherwise do the work and get the pay
and earn the livelihood.
Trust In God.
But God will arrange all, and all VIZ
| have to do is to do our best and trus
him for the rest. Let me. cheer all wo
men fighting the battle of life alone
with the fact of thousands of womel
who have won the day. Mary Lyon
| founder of Mount Holyoke Female sem
mary, fought the battle alone; Adelaide
| Newton, the tract distributor, alone
Fidelia Fisk, the consecrated mission
ary, alone; Dorothea Dix, the angel O.
the insane asylums, alone; Caroline
Herschel, the indispensable re-entorce
ment of her brother, alone; Marii
Takrzewska, the heroine Of the Berlin
hospital, alone; Helen Chalmers, pa
oF ho Cchnn1G for thn
of Edinburgh, alone, and thousand
and tens of thousands of women, O.
whose bravery and self sacrifice anC
glory of character the world has madt
no record, but whose deeds are in thu
heavenly archives of martyrs who tough
the battle alone, and, though unrecog
nized for the short 80 or 30 or so year
of their earthly existence, shall through
the uuintillion ages of the higher wOrlC
be pointed out with the admiring cry
"These are they who came out of grea
tribulation and had their robes WASHED
and made white i'll the blood Of thu
Lamb.
Let me also say for the encourage
ment of all women fighting the battle
of life alone that their conflict will sool
end. There is one word written over tn,
faces of many of them, and that wul.
is despair. - My sister, you need ap
peal to Christ, who comforted the sister
of Bethany in their domestic trouble
and who in his last hours forgot all th'
pangs of his own hands and feet ant
heart as he looked into the face of ma
ternal anguish and called friends at
tention to it, in substance saying
"John, / cannot take care of her "a
longer. Do for her as | would ha''
done if had lived. Behold thy moth
er i" If under the pressure of unreward
ed and unappreciated work your hair i
whitening and the wrinkles come, }
joice that you are nearing the hour o
escape from your very last fatigue ant
may your departure be as pleasant a
that of Isabella Graham, who closed he
life with a smile and the word peace. ,
The daughter of regiment in am
army is all surrounded by bayonets O.
defense, and in the battle, whoever falls
she is kept safe. And you are the daugh
ter of the regiment commanded by thu
Lord of Hosts. After all, you are no
fighting the battle of life alone. AL
heaven is ON your side. You will b.