The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-09
WOMAN FOR THE TIMES
An Able Sermon by the Rev. ].
T.. Albrittou.
HER THRONE THE FAMILY
The Field OF Her Activity Is Rapidly In
creasing-Ths Only Limit Is That
OF the Individual Capa-
city.

Rev. ]. L. Albritton Of the Mountain
View M. E. church preached at the
Auditorium last evening on the sub
ject of "Woman's Sphere, or the Wo-
man for the Times
Who knoweth whether those art
come to the kingdom for such time
as this ?'-Esther 4, IA.
The story of Esther is one of the most
beautiful ever woven in the human
mind, and given to the people to read.
The adopted daughter of an obscure
Jew, member of a hated race, she
becomes the beloved wife of the great
est, monarch then in the world, and
the commander of the greatest army
ever gathered together.
Through the Vaccinations of a
scheming politician, the prime minis
ter of the kingdom, the Jews in all
the kingdom are doomed to complete
destruction. But this girl proves her.
self equal to the great emergency and
unravels the plot, illustrates the plans
of Haman and saves her people, holds
her place with the king and sees her
adversary hanged upon the gallows
he had prepared for her uncle, Nor
decai
The story is beautifully told and you
have read 1t, and been charmed by it's
pathos. and the strength of the char
acters interested. So we pass it by
and use the text tonight to illustrate
the theme we have chosen. In every
emergency God raises up some one to
meet it, and the one raised up meets
the opportunity, and is equal to the
responsibilities imposed upon him.
AS God called Moses and Samuel
and David to meet the demands of the
times in preparing Israel to be great
nation, so He called Alfred the Great.
William the Conqueror, Washington
and Lincoln, to meet special demands
imposed upon them. AS God inspired
BeZaleel to do cunning work He in
spires Edison to make the discoveries
for the benefit Of the present age.
Every age has men adapted to it.
The apostles We're for the organiza-
ton of the church. the fathers for it's
establishment, Luther for Its free
dom and Wesley for it's spirituality.
The revolutionary period had its CO.
terie of great statesmen and the time
Of the civil war had the same, while
many see in Dewey the man for the
present day.
While my illustrations so far have
been men, with equal propriety every
thing may apply to woman. She may
NOT be as conspicuous but she has
been no less important.
Samuers mother consecrated her son
from his birth to Gods service. Tim
othy's mother and grandmother taught
him the scriptures, Martha and Mary
made a home for Jesus. and Angus
tines mother followed her boy with
her prayers and advice till she won
him to Jesus, the Savior. One of the
most sacred spots in London is the
Bunhill Fields burying GROUND, where
sleeps the ashes of susanna Wesley, and
she, with Lady Huntington, had much
to do with the rise and success of
early Methodism.
Deborah of Bible and Juan of Arc
of modern times suggest to us what
women may do upon the field of bat
tie.
Mrs. Browning, Louise NJ. Alcott and
Harriet Beecher stowe show possible
tiles and achievements in the world
of letters.
During the Columbian exposition in
Chicago there was one building that
stood in many things superior to the
others, a very oasis in that wilderness
of WEAKNESS. That was the building
designed and built and managed eX-
clusively by the women of our country.
The field of woman's activity is con-
stantly enlarging. Woman is the
strongest social power in the world
the only limitation is that of individ-
ual capacity.
Notice woman as a wage Garner to-
day. The working girl has revolution
lied more than one trade, and she is
showing herself to be an important
factor in this working 10th century.
Her entrance into the marts of trade
meant lower wages till men could not
compete with her, but now, instead of
trying to drive her out of the place
she has won her wages are being just
ly raised on a par with men.
Is the working girl inferior to the
society girl? We do not know how or
where. Our most highly cultivated
and intelligent young ladies are work.
ing and raising themselves to an in
dividual independence that cannot but
secure the admiration of the sensible
thinking public. Years ago a girl en-
tered the great Lowell mills as a wage
Garner. She worked and at odd times
read and improved her mind. The
world has heard of Lucy Larcom and
has enjoyed her written works.
The eager throbbing commercial
world wanted to get more out of the
day, so it took up stenography, and
stenography took the typewriter, and
the typewriter took the girl. and what
a penciling and checking there is in
thousands and thousands of offices to-
day by the young lady Stenographer
and typewriter. Shall the young lady
who reclines upon her cushions, the So
ciety DOLL look down upon the indie
pendent girl who goes to work in an
office because she loves Independence?
Shall the stenographer look down upon
the girl who, for the same reason,
stands behind the counter and sells the
goods of the merchant? Or shall the
saleslady look down upon the girl who
for the same reason takes her needle
and with her machine turns out beau
tiful dresses? Or shall the dressmaker
look down upon the girl who for the
same reason goes into the culinary de-
partments of our houses and pre-
pares the food that we eat? I think
it should not be, and God will, l fear,
condemn many persons for putting the
term servant to one class of wage
earners, while they admit to their
set others who are no less servants
of the people.
Woman has taken her place in the