Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-15
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SPEAKS ENCOURAGING WORDS
TO WOMEN.
xt, Eeclesiastss iv, 1. "Beboid the
Tears OF Such as Were Oppressed, and
They Had no Comforter"--FaIth and
Trust In God.


women to toll in olden times Alex
snder the Great stood in his place
showing garments made by his own
mother. The finest tapestries at Bay
eux were made by the queen of Will
liam the Conqueror. Augustus the
emperor would not wear any garment
except those that were fashioned by
some member of his royal family. So
let the toiler everywhere be respected!
The needle has slain more than the
sword. When the sewing machine
was invented, some thought that in
Vention would alleviate woman's toll
and put an end to the despotism of
the needle. But no; while the sewing
machine has been a great blessing to
well to do families in many cases, II
has added to the stab of the needle
the crush of the wheel. and multitudes
of women, Notwithstanding the re-en-
forcement of the sewing machine, can
only make, WORK hard as they will, be-
tween 81 and SO a week.
The greatest blessing that could
have happened to our first parents
was being turned out of Eden after
they had done wrong. Adam and Eve
In their perfect state might have got
along without work or only such slight
employment as perfect garden with
no weeds in IL demanded, but as soon
as they had sinned the best thing for
them was to be turned out where they
would have to work. We know what
a whitening thing it is for a man to
have nothing to do. OF the 900 pros
porous and honorable men that you
know 999 had to work vigorously at
the beginning. But l am now to tell
you that industry is just as important
for a woman's safety and happiness.
The most unhappy women in our com
munities today are those who have no
engagements to call them up in the
morning, who once have risen and
breakfasted lounge through the dull
forenoon In slippers down at the heel
and with disheveled hair, reading the
last novel, and who, having dragged a
wretched forenoon and taken their
afternoon sleep and having passed an
hour and half at their toilet, pick up
their cardcase and go out TO make
BALLS, and who pass their evenings
waiting for somebody to come in and
breaF up the monotony. Arabella
Etuart never was imprisoned in SO
lark dungeon as that
No Happiness, In IdIeness
There is no happiness in an Idle
xoman. 1t may be with hand, it may
DC with brain, it may be with foot, but
work she must or be wretched forever.
fhe little girls of our families must be
jtarted with that idea. The curse of
American society is that our young
komen are taught that the first, sec
md, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
tenth, fifteenth, thousandth thing in
their life is to get somebody to take
care OF them. Instead of that the first
lesson should be how under God they
may take care Of themselves. The
Simple fact is that a majority of them
do have to take care OF themselves and
that. too, after having through the
false notions of their parents wasted
the years in which they ought to have
learned how successfully TO maintain
themselves. We now and here declare
the inhumanity, cruelty and outrage
of that father and mother who pass
their daughters into womanhood hav-
ing given them no facility for earning
their livelihood.
Nine. de Stael said, 1T is not these
writings that ! am proud of, but the
fact that have facility in ten occupa-
lions in any one of which l could
make a livelihood" You say you
have fortune to leave them. o man
and woman! Have you not learned
that, like vultures. like hawks, like
eagles, riches have wings and fly
away? Though you should be success
full in leaving competency behind
you, the trickery of executors may
swamp it in a night, or some officials
in our churches may get up a mining
company and induce your orphans to
put their money into a hole in Colo
RADIO and II by the most skiilful ma
chinery the sunken money can be
brought up again prove to them that
1t was eternally decreed that that was
the way they were to lose IL and that
1t went in the most orthodox and
heavenly style. Oh, the damnabIe
schemes that professed Christians will
engage in until God puts his fingers
into the collar Of the hypocrite's robe
and strips it clear down to the bottom,
You have no right because you are
well off to conclude that your children
are going to be well Off man died
leaving a large fortune. His son fell
dead in Philadelphia grogshop. His
old comrades came in and said as they
bent over his corpse, What is the
matter with you, Boggsey?" The sur
geon standing over him said: Hush
ye! He is dead!" "oh, he is dead!"
they said. Come, boys. let US go and
take drink in memory of poor Bogg-
\ sey!" Have you nothing better than
money to leave your children? II you
have not, but send your daughters into
the world with empty brain and I'M
skilled hand, you are guilty Of assas-
sination, homicide. infanticide.
There are women toiling in our
cities for 81 or SO a week who were
the daughters OF merchant princes.
These suffering ones would now be
glad to have the crumbs that once fell
from their fathers table. That worn
out, broken shoe that she wears is the
lineal descendant of the sl2 gaiter in
which her mother walked, and that
torn and faded calico had ancestry Of
magnificent brocade that swept Penn