The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-03-17
THE WORKING WOMAN
DR.. Talmage Speaks Words of En-
couragement to Her.
Faith and Trust in God Afford Com
fort for Those Who Are OPP
pressed and Struggling
for q Livelihood.
TCopyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.1
= Washington,

copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.l.
Washington,
This discourse of DR. Talmage is an
appeal for mercy in behalf of oppressed
~womanhood, and offers encouragement
to those struggling for a livelihood;
text. Ecclesiastes w., 1: behold the
tears of such as were oppressed, and
they had no comforter"
Very long ago the needle was busy.
1t was considered honorable for wom-
en- to toll in olden times. Alexander
the Great stood in his place showing
garments made by his mother.
The finest tapestries at Bayeux were
made by the queen of William the Con-
queror. Augustus, the emperor, would
not wear any garments except those
that were fashioned by ONE 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 invention
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, it has added to
the stab of the needle the crush of the
wheel, and multitudes of women, not
w~ithstanding the reinforcement of the
sewing machine, can only make, work
hard as they will, between two and
three dollars a week.
The greatest blessing hat could have
happened to our first parents was be-
ing 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 en-
ployment as a perfect garden with no
weeds in it 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 man to have
nothing to do. OF the 1000 prosperous
and honorable men that you know 800
had to work vigorously at the begin
ming. But I ON now to tell you that
industry is just as important for a
woman's safety and happiness. The
most unhappy women in our communi-
ties to-day are those who have no en-
gagements to call them up in the
morning, who once having 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
through a wretched forenoon and
taken their afternoon sleep and having
passed an hour and a half at their tot
let, pick up their cardcase and go out
to make calls, and who pass their even
ings waiting for somebody to come il
and break up the monotony. Arabell;
Stuart never was imprisoned in 81
dark a dungeon as that.
There is no happiness in an idle WON
!. an. 1t may be with hand, it may b,
with brain, it may be with foot, bu'
work she must or be wretched forever
! The little girls of our families must b
y started with that idea. The curse o
Z american society is that our youns
: women are taught that the first, sec
ond, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh
tenth, fitch. thousandth thing il
d their life is to get somebody to tax
O care of them. Instead of that the frs
ii :ssson should be how under God the
e may take care of themselves. The sin
pie fact is hat a majority of them 4
have to take care of themselves an
that, too, after having through tn
a false notions of their parents waste
q The years in which they ought to hay
earned how successfully to maintai
N themselves. We now and here decla1
the inhumanity, cruelty and outrae
- of that father and mother who pas
: their daughters into womanhood ha
ing given them no facility for earnir
u their livelihood.
Nine. de Stael said: SIT is not the
writings that / am proad>of, but Il
=" fact that l have facility in ten Gee
=. pations in any one of which 1 cou
10 make a livelihood" You say you ha'
a fortune to leave them. o man al
L. woman! Have you not learned tha
IL like vultures. like hawks, like eagle
is riches have wings and fly ava.
of Though you should be successful
leaving a competency behind you, t
,s- trickery of executors may swamp it
s.. Il night, or some officials in O
J.. churches may get up a mining col
N. pany and induce your orphans to p
ID their money into a hole in Colora
and if by the most skillful machine
the eunkcn money cannot be broug
up again prove to them that
rE was eternally decreed that that W
re- the way they were to lose it and tb
lid it went in the most orthodox and he,
Tor only style. Oh, the damnable schen
al that protested Christians will enga
ar in until God puts His fingers into t
collar of the hypocrite's robe and stri
pi- il clear down to the bottom! You ha
f a no right because you are well off
for conclude that your children are goi
us, to be we'll off. A man died leaving
ur- large fortune. His son fell dead il
nb- Philadelphia grogshop. His old co