Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30
N0hAN'B Responsibility
ron THE CONDITION OF THE Ell
listing MORALS DIS
C0URsED UPON
BY THE REV. DR.. J. I. S00Y

BY THE REV. DR.. J. I. SOOY
Last Night at Fourth Street M. e.
Church-An Excellent Sermon in
which DR.. Sooy Stated His Opinion
In Regard to the Woman's Suf-
frage Question.
| Last evening at the Fourth Street
NJ E. church the Rev. DR.. Sooy de-
livered an excellent sermon on
Woman as an Element in Morals .
The subject was treated in a mastery
way. The speaker referred especially
to the responsibility of woman for the
| spread of Gods word among all peo-
Piles of the earth. He took as his text
Psalm 68, 1.-THE Lord gave the
word: Great was the company of
those that published it,"
! In beginning the speaker said that
the passage taken as the text was i'm
| perfectly translated. In the original
manuscripts the word company" is
feminine, and therefore the new ver-
sion gives truer and far better idea
of the meaning, reading Great was the
company of women that published it,
| In the early days when God, through
| the medium of the Israelites, was over
throwing his enemies, the part of the
women was no small one, not without
It's responsibility. They gave the
alarm to the strong men of the nation.
/ They also carried the word of victory
affair." On them also lay the RESPONSE
bility of teaching the children, the
ways of truth.
The influences at work in the world
to-day to build up the state of morals
are many. Nature in her workings
| is alike. She loves to accomplish her
work by means of many forces rather
than by any one force. In like man
ner the causes to-day work along the
same lines. One of the questions is
what is woman's responsibility for
the morals of the world?
God sent woman into the world as a
lovable creature. The same provi-
dence that sent her into the world to
be admired and loved, made her also
the chief high priestess of goodness,
and apart from the violence she sus-
/ tanned in the dark ages before the COM
ing Of Christ, she has surpassed man
in the worship of God.
The speaker took as an apt illus
tration of an unwomanly woman, Har-
riet Martinez, the famous philosophist.
! In her works she entered in nothing
but the bare ideas of her God given
gifts. Her works contain no womanly
sympathy. Her world is colorless.
That type of masculine woman is not
in one sense Gods woman.
On the other hand the womanly wo-
man is the personification of love.
| She is the plain woman, who is adj
mired for sympathetic qualities. The
very product of love. This is the type
| that exercises the most influence in
| the worlds morals. While men are
| endeavoring to study out the merits of
| any question, this is the woman that
| does not hesitate in making up her
mind, for she gets all her inspiration
from God. What are her commissions?
Christianity has gone around the
world and now we are face to face
with the situation in the Orient. The
| leading ministers of the Methodist
| doctrine have said, that there are two
| hundred and fifty millions of heather
women who are dependent upon their
sisters of civilization for their knowl-
edge of the true faith. Shall the
women be given the authority of bap-
tism, preaching, and accepting of souls
| in Christs name? The speaker said
he was broad enough in intellect to be
| sincerely in favor of granting those
rights.
The speaker said he also believed
that woman has a place in the respon-
! sibility of citizenship. She should
/
were gone when an American girl could
| not secure solid education. He be-
lieved that every American woman
ought to vote and secure every benefit
advocated by woman suffrage. She
has been set aside by nature to raise
UP the youth of the nation and TO
teach the young men how to vote, but
cannot exercise that privilege for her.
self.
She should at least be allowed to
exercise that right in municipal cleo
tons. Woman has everything TO do
with a municipal election. Shall a
| gambling den and grog shop operate
| in district where numberless women
have boys to raise? Has she no right
/ to say who shall have charge OF the
schools in which her children are
| taught? Give her the right to vote in
municipal and school elections and she
|