El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-20
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
A Sermon To Young Women.

Last night at the Presbyterian
church the pastor Rev. Il. w. Moore
preached to young women from the
text, THAT your daughters may be
as cornerstones, polished after the
similitude of q palace" Ps. 14413.
Part of the discourse ia given:
It is an undertaking of some delicacy
for Christian minister to preach q
sermon to young women, because OF
the prevalence of kind of false gal
lantry which demands that when men
speak of women they should use the
language of extravagant and fulsome
alteration, or be condemned as lacking
in chivalry. II one is expected to speak
nothing but compliments, then woe to
the world. No true minister, who
talks to young women, will ever brings
into his pulpit the half sincere com
pliments of the drawingroom. Let me
talk tonight without that sickly senti-
mentalism and fiattery which makes so
many of our young women believe that
their only duty in life is to be admir-
ed.
never approach such q subject with
out thinking of the noble women who
have lived their lives, and have passed
on to their reward. Up out of their
graves tonight see their holy hands
beseeching young women to,nve Tor
better things In far away Africa, in
the dark forest where the serpents hiss
and the lions roar, Mrs. Livingston
sleeps. In the Sandwich Islands holy
Mrs. Goan is waiting for the archan-
gels trumpet. In Burmah, far over
the seas, Mrs. Judson rests, watched
over by angels, of the wbitest wings.
out "Pass me not for holy woman
sleeps here" On battlefelds. in hos
pital wards, on mission felds-every-
where where hearts are sad she
has gone on errands of love.
Young women, wake up. Do not
such lives thrill you? Do not he
ashamed of your sex. Never say. 81
sphere is holier than any mans. 1t
was sainted Charlotte Elliot who wrote,
"Just as I am without one plea"
"Nearer my God to thee" leaped from
the soul Of Sara Adams, and "One
sweetly solemn tho't comes to me Ger
and DER" flowed from the girlhood
heart of Phoebe Cary. Madame de
Stael was apower in her generation
Joan of Arc led the armies of France
to victory. Rosa Bonheur, the famous
painter, sold some of her paintings for
80, 0OO Ashamed of your sex? 1 talk
to those who honor their womanhoOd.
Young women I beseech you, have
some purpose in life. There is nothing
more nauseating than to see young
woman 6ltGlng aOOuG aQmlr1nR herself,
living only for her own pleasure, hop
ing all the time some man will be
goose enough to marry her. Many a
poor father works hard and many q |
poor mother wears her fingers thin
sewing, that some idle daughter may
trick herself out in fnery and CAD
about at parties, balls and theatres. |
She thinks this is being lady. bow |
to the young woman who will go to |
work herself rather than live that life. |
Beware of the bandbox girl. She is |
not worth her weight in putty.
Young women, you owe it to be neat. |
clean and tidy in dress. There is posi-
lively no excuse for girl being un-
tidy. Refinement and untidiness will ]
not mix. No girl should appear on the (
street with her dress two inches higher
in front than behind, or her skirt
showing an inch below her dress.
There is no enchantment about an I'M
tidy girl. Whenever girl says, 81
do not care what people think of me"
she has lost her charm.
Cultivate good manners but don't put
on too many. Mannerisms are bad
manners. Good manners are passports
to palaces. They will take you where
8 pretty face cannot. vet manners are