The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-03-21
WOMEN WHO WORK.
Or Talnage Speaks Encouraging
Words to Them.
slMplEFAlTH AND TRUST
In God a.sord Comfort for / nose
Who Are Oppressed ano
Struggling for live
iihood.

This discourse Of DR.. Talmage IS an
sppeal for mel y in behalf Of Oppressed
womeuhood, and cffers encouragement
to those struggling for livelihood;
text, Ecclesiastes, iv, !, Behold the
tears Of such as were oppressed, sno
they had 30 comforter.
Very long ago the needle was busy
1t was considered honorable Tor women
to toll in olden times. Alexander 'HS
Great stood in Misplace showing gar
nents made by his own mother lne
finest tapestries at Baycux were mace
By the queen Of William the Corqneror.
Augustus the emperor would not wear
any garments except those that were
fashioned By some member OF his royai
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 womans toll and put
an end to the despotism Of the needle.
But no; while the sewing machine mas
been a great blessing to well to- 90
families in many cases, it has added to
the stab Of the reedle the crush OF the
wheel, and multitudes Of women, not
witbstanding the reinforcement OF the
sewing machine. can only make, work
hard as they will, between 81 and IS
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 nc weeds IN 1t
demanded, but as soon SIS they had
sinned the best thing for them was to
be turned out where they would have
to work. We know what q Witherlng
thing it is for mau to have nothing to
do. Of the l, 900 prosperous aud hon
orsble men that you know 999 had to
work vigorously at the beginning. But
I am now to tell you that industry Is
Just as important for woman's safety
and happiness. The most unhappy
women in our communities today are
those who have no engagement TO call
them up in the morning. who once hav,
ing risen and breakfassed lounge
through the dull forenoon in slipper.
down at the heel and with disheveleo
hair, reading the last novel, and who,
having dragged throug b wretched fore
noon and taken their afternoon sleep
and having passed an hour and half
at their toilet. pick ~ their cardcase
and 90 out to make calls, and who pass
their evenings waiting for somebody to
come in and break up the monotony.
Arabelle Stuart never was imprisoned
in so darks dungeon as that.
1Thereis no. happiness IN aa idle woman.
Itnay be with hand or brain bat work
she must or be wretched forever. The lit
tie girls Of our families must be started
with that idea. The curse of Amerl-
can society is that our young women
are taught that the first, second, third,
fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth,
Stieth, 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
majority of them do have to take care
Of themselves and that, too after hav-
ing through the false notions, Of
their parents wasted the years in which
they ought to have learned how sue
cessfully to maintain themselves. We
now and here declare the iDhumanity,
cruelty and outrage of that father and
mother who pass their daughters into
womsnhood having 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 i have facility in ten occups-
,ions in any one of which ! could make
q livelihood You say you have a
fortune to leave them. 0 mau and
woman! Have you not learned that,
like vultures, Ike hawks kc eagles
riches have wings aud H. ava,
Though you should be successful II
leaving a competency behind you, the
trickery Of executors may swamp it Ia
night, or some officials in our
churches may get upa mining company
and induce your orphans to put their
money into hole in Colorado aud if
by the most skillful machinery the
sunken money cannot. be brought up
again prove to them that it was eter-
nally decreed that that was the way
they were to lose it and that it went
in the most orthodox and heavenly
style. Oh, the ia unable schemes that
professed Christians will engage in
until God puts his 6ogers into the col
lar Of the hypocrite's rope and strsips it
clear down to the bottom! You have
no right because you are we'll of to con-
clude that your children are goiug to
be we'll of. A man died leaving
large fortune. His son fell dead in
Philadelphia grogshop His old COM
rades same in and said as they bent
over his corpse, What is the matter
with you, Boggsey?" The surgeon
standing over him said: ''Hush, ye!
He is desdT' 'Oh, he is 6ead!' they
said. Come, boys, let US 60 and take
drink in memory of poor Boggsey"
Have you nothing better than money
to leave your children? If yeu have
not, but send your daughters into the
world with empty brain and unskllled
hand, you are guilty Of assassination,
homicide, insanticide.
There are women toiling in cur cities
for 81 or So week who were the
daughters Of merchant princes. These
suffering ones now would be glad to
have the crumbs that once fell from
their father table. That wornout broken
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