The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-22
AN IMPRESSIVE LESSON.
DR.. Talmage Discourses on the
Topic Work for Women.
Girls should DO Taught to lie seif-support'
Ing, ss Iioys Are What Women Can
Do-Comfort for the Work.
Ing Woman.

In the following sermon Rev. I. De-
Witt Talmage offers encouragement t.
women who have to earn their own
living. 1t Is based on the text:
Every wise woman bulldeth her house,
Proverbs XIV. I.
Woman, a mere adjunct to man, an
appendix to the masculine volume, an
appendage, sort of nftcr-thought,
something thrown into make things
even-that is the heresy entertained
and implied by some men. This is evil
dent to them, because Adam was first
created, and then Eve. They don't
read the whole story, or they would
find that the porpoise and the bear
and the hawk were created before
Adam, so that this argument, drawn
from priority of creation, might prove
that the sheep and the dog were
greater than man. No. Woman was
an independent creation, and was in
tended, il she chose, to live alone, To
work alone, net alone, think alone,
and fight her battles alone. The Bible
says il is not good for man to be alone,
but never says il is not good for woman
t. be alone; and the simple fact is that
many women who are harnessed for
life in the marriage relation would be
thousandfold better off if they were
alone. '......
Who are these men who, year after
year, hang around hotels and engine
houses and thcater doors, and come in
andtepn to bother busy clerks and
merchants and mechanics, doing moth
ing, whore there is plenty To do? They
are men supported by their wives and
nothcrs. Ii tie Statistics of any of
our cities cou!d<hg taken on the sub
jcct, you would find that II vast multi
tude of women not only support them
selves, but masculincs. A great legion
Of men amount to nothing, and II WON
I'm by marriage, manaelcd To one of
these nonentttics, needs coincidence.
A woman standing outside the mar.
riagc relation is several hundred
thousand times better off than u wom-
an badly married. Many bride, in
stcad of II wreath OF orange blossoms,
might more properly wear II bunch of
nctLlcS and nigh tshade, and, instead OF
the Wedding March, II more appro-
in Saul. and. instead of banquet of
confectionery and ices, there might be
more appropriately spread table
covered with apples of Sodom.
Many an attractive woman, of good
sound sense in other things, has mar
ricd one Of these men to reform him.
What was the result? Like when
dove, noticing that vulture was ra-
pacious and cruel, set about to reform
it, and said: II have a mild DISPOSE
ton, and l like peace, and was brought
mp in the quiet of II dove-cote, and 1
will bring the vulture To the same Xix.
ing by marrying him." SO, one day.
after the vuIture declared he would
give up his carnivorous habits and
cease longing for blood of flock and
herd, at in altar OF rock covered with
moss and lichen, the twain were mar
rird, IL ba,d-headed eagle officiating,
the SiIlture saying: with alb my
dominion of earth and sky, thee en-
dow, nnd promis to love and cherish
ill death do US part" But one day
The dove, in her fright, saw the vu-
turc busy ut II carcass, and cried:
"Stop that! did you not promise me
that you would quit your carnivorous
and filthy habits If married you?"
"Ies," said the vulturc, "but if you
don't like my way, you can leave, and
with one angry stroke Of the beal and
another fierce clutch of the claw, the
vuIture left the dove cycIcss aud wing
less and Iifclcss. And IA fl lck OF robins
flying past, cried to each other and
said: See there! that comes from n
dove marrying n vulture to reform
him"
Many a woman who has had the hand
Of II young inebriatc offered, but de-
clined it, or who was asked to chain
her life To Il man selfish, or of bad tenn
per, and rcfsed the shacliles, will bless
God throughout all eternity that she
escaped that earthly pandemonium.
Besides ali this, IN our country about
1000, 900 men were sacrificed in our
civil war, and that decreed 1000, 900
women To cclibacy. Besides that, since
the war;, several armies of men as
large as the federal and confederate
armies put together, have fallen under
malt liquors and distilled spirits, SO
fun Of poisoned ingredients that the
work was done more rapidly, and the
victims died while yet young. And If
40, COO men are destroyed every year by
strong drink before marriage, that
makes in the SO years since the war
1869 900 men slain, and DEGREES 1850
00O women to celibacy. Take then,
the fact that 30 many women are uil-,
happy in their marriage, and the fact
that the slaughter of 1900 900 men,
by warand rum combined, decides that
at least that number of women shall be
unbalanced for life, my text comes in
with cheer and a potency and appro-
priutencss that you may never have
seen in it before when it says: Every
wise woman buildeth her house, that
is, let woman be her own architect, lay
ont her own plans, be her own super
visor, achieve her own destiny.
In addressing those women who
have To- fight the battle alone, con-
graduate you on your happy escape.
Rejoice forever that you will not have
To navigate the faults of the other sex,
when you have faults enough OF your
own. Think Of the bereavements you
avoid, of the risks OF assimilated tenn
per which you will not have to run, of