Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-12
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
TALK ABOUT WOMAN'S USE
FULNESS.
There Are Dangerous Aiurements or
Traps That Must Ever BE Avoided
-"she Shall lie Called Woman
Gen. IL: 23.


God, who CAN make 10 mistake,
made man and woman for speclhc
work and to move in particular
spheres-man to be regnant in his
realm: woman to be dominant in hers.
The boundary line between Italy ana
Switzerland. between England ana
Scotland. is not more thoroughly
marked than this distinction between
the empire masculine and the empire
feminine. SO entirely dissimilar are
the fields to which God called them,
that you can no more compare them
than You can oxygen and hydrogen
water and grass, trees and stars. All
this ,alk about the superiority OF one
sex to the other is an everlasting
waste Of ink and speech. A jeweler
NAV have a scale so delicate that he
can weigh the dust of diamonds; but
where are the scales so delicate that
you can weigh in them affection
against affection. sentiment against
sentiment. thought against thought,
soul against soul, mans world
against a womans world? You come
out with your stereotyped remark that
a man is superior to woman in intel
lect: and then | open on my desk the
swarthy, irontyped thunder-boited
writings of Harriet Martineau and
Elizabeth Browning and George Eliot.
You come on with your stereotyped re-
mark about womanS superiority 10
man in the item of affection; but l ask
YOU where was there more capacity TO
love than III John the disciple-and
Matthew Simpson the bishop and Hen
ry Martyr, the missionary? The heart
of those men was so large, that after
you had rolled it into two hemiSpheres.
there was room still left to marshal
the hosts of heaven. and set up the
throne of the eternal Jehovah. | deny
TO man the throne intellectual. L deny
to woman the throne affectlonal. NO
human pnraseology will ever decline
the spheres: while there is an 1ntul-
ton by which We know when man
is in his realm, and when a woman is
in her realm, and when either OF
them is out of it. No bunglinS legis-
lature ought to attempt to make def
milton. or TO say: This is the line and
that is the line" My theory is, that
il woman wants to vote she ought tC
vote, and that if q man wants to en-
broider and keep house, he ought &c
be allowed to embroider and KEEP
house. There are masculine women
and there are effeminate men. My
theory is that you have no right to in
terfere with any ones doing anything
that is righteous. Albany and Wash
ingtOn might as we'll decree by legiS
lation how a brown-threSher ShOulC
fly, or how deep a trout should plunge
as to try to seek out the height ant
depth of woman's duty. The question
of capricity will settle finally the whole
question, the whole subject. When ;
woman is prepared to preach, she viii
preach and neither conference no
presbytery can hinedr her. When
woman is prepared to move in high
est commercial spheres, she Will hav
gerat influence ON exchange, and NJ
boards of trade can hinder her. | wan
woman to understand that heart an
brain can overly any barrier tina
politicians may set up. and that moth
ing can keep her back or keep he
down but the question OF incapacity.
My chief anxiety is, not that woman
have other rights accorded her; bu
that she, by the grace of God, rise u
TO the appreciation of the gloriOu
rights she already possesses. First, sh
nas the right to make home happy
That realm no one has ever dispute
with her. Men may come home a
neon or at night, and then tarry com
paratively little while; but she all da
long governs it, beauties it, sancti
fes it. 1t is within her power to max
it the most attractive place on eartl
1t is the only calm harbor in tn
world You know as well as do. thu
this outside world and the busines
world are a long scene of jOstle an
contention. The man who has q dOlla
struggles to keep it; the man who HI
it not struggles to get 1t. Prices III
Prices down. Losses. Gains. Misrepr'
sensations. Underselling. Buyers d.
preciating; statesmen exaggeratin
Tenants seeking less rent; Landlord
demanding more Struggles about O
flee. Men who are in trying to ket
in; men out trying to get in. Slip
Tumbles. Defalcations Panics. G.
tastrophes. Oh, woman! thank Gi
you have home and that you may
queen in it. Better be there than we;
a VictOria'S cOronet. Better be the
than carry the purse of Il princes
Your abode may be humble, but VI
can, by your faith in God, and yo
cheerfuness of demeanor, gid it wi
splendOrs such as an uphOlsterel
hand never yet kindled. There a
abodes in every city-humblc, ty
stories: four plain. unpapered room
undesirable neighborhood; and y
there is a man who would die on {
threshold rather than surrendt
Why? 1t is home. Whenever he thin
of it he sees angels of God hoveri
about it. The ladders of heaven a
let down TO that house. over t
child's rough crib there are the char
ings of angels that broke over Bet
lehern. 1t is home. These childr
may come up after awhile, and tn
may win high position. and they IN
have an affluent residence; but tn
will not until their dying day fors
that humble roof, under which tn
father rested. and their mother sal
and their sisters played. Oh, if y
would gather up all tender memoir
oil tho lights and shades Of the hpa