Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-03-16
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SPEAKS ENCOURAGING WORDS
TO WOMEN.
Text. Ecc!esiastes iv, L. Behold the
Tears OF Such as Were Oppressed. and
yhey Had no Couf--ier---Eaith aud
T-us. :n God.


Very long ago the needle was busy.
II was considered honorable for
women TO toll In olden times. Alex
ander the Great stood in his place
showing garments made by his own
mother. The finest tapestries at Bay
eux We're made by the queen Of Will
liam the Conqueror. Augustus the
emperor would not wear any garment
except those that were fashioned by
come 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
SentiOn would alleviate wOman's toll
and put an end to the despotism OF
the needle. But no; while the sewing
machine has been great blessing to
well to do families In many cases. it
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 S. 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
IL their perfect state might have got
along without work or only such slight
employment as perfect garden with
no weeds in il derne nded, 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 1000 pros
porous and honorable men tina; You
know 900 had TO work vigorously at
the beginning. But l am now TO tell
vcu that industry is just as important
for a woman's safety and happiness.
The most unhappy women in our COM
JnEnities today are those who have no
engagements to call them up in the
morning. who once have risen and
brea kfasted lounge through the dull
forenoon in slippers down at the heel
and with disheyeled hair. reading the
last novel, and who, having dragged a
wTetched forenoon and taken their
afternoon sleep and having passed an
hour and half at their toilet, pick up
their cardcase and so out to make
calls. and who pass their evenings
waiting for somebody to come In and
breaF up the monotony. Arabella
Stuart never was imprisoned in 60
dark dungeon as that.
No Happiness In Idlcncss
There Is no happiness In an idle
woman. 1t may be with hand, it may
Is with brain. it may be with foot, but
work she must or be wretched forever
he little girls OF our families must be
started with that idea. The curse of
american society is that our young
women are taught that the first, see
oud, third. fourth. fifth. sixth, seventh,
tenth, ffteelth, thOdSanGth thing in
their life is to gel somebody 20 take
care OF them. Instead of that the first
lessen should be how under God they
may take care OF themselves. The
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 10 maintain
themselves. We now and here declare
the inhGmanity. cruelty aud outrage
OF that father and mother who pass
their daughters into womanhood hav-
Ing given them no facility for earning
their livelihood.
IU.e. de Stael said, 1t is not these
writings that I am proud OF. but the
fact that l have facility in ten occupa-
lions in any one OF which | could
make a livelihood You say you
have fortune TO leave them 0 man
and wOIGani Have you not learned
that, like vuitures. like hawks, like
eagles. riches have wings and fly
away? Though you should be success
full in leaving a competency behind
YOU, the trickery of executors NAV
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 if by the most skillful ma
chinery the sunken money can be
brought up again prove to them that
II was eternally decreed that that was
the way they were 10 lose Il and that
It went in the most orthodox and
heavenly style. Oh. the darnnable
schemes that professed Christians will
engage in until God puts his fingers
into the collar OF the hypocrite's robe
and strips il clear down to the bottom,
You have no right because you are
well off 20 conclude that your children
are going 20 be well off. a man died
leaving a large fortune. His son fell
dead i'll Philadelphia grogshop. His
old comrades came in and said as thew
bent over his corpse. What is the
matter with YOU. Boggsey?' The sur
geon standing over him said: Hush.
We, He is dead!" ''Oh. he is dead,'
they said. Come, boys, let us go and
take a drink in memory of poor Bogg-
sey!" Have you nothing better than
money to leave your children? IL you
have not but send your daughters into
the world with empty brain and un-
skilled hand, you are guilty of assas-
sination, homicide, infanticide.
There are women toiling In our
cities for 81 or 81 a week who were
the daughters of merchant princes.
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