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THE INFLUENCE OF WOMAN
STRONG SERMON BYREV. MR.. ROB-
INS0N IN WEST HAVEN.

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to by Large Congregation influence
Not Always for the Good-lt is Not One
sided the Preacher Said.
! The Rev. w. III. Robinson of New
York preached very interesting SER
mon in Christ church, West Haven, yes
terday morning on the subject THE In
fluence of Woman" Mr.. Robinson is
filing the place of Rev. Mr.. Gammack,
who is on his vacation, and will preach
in the church at both services next Sun
day. His text yesterday morning was
taken from Genesis $50, When the Wo-
man saw that the tree was good for
food and that it was pleasant to the
eyes and a tree to be desired to make
one wise, she took of the fruit thereof
and did eat and gave also unto her
husband with her and he did eat" Rev.
Mr.. Robinson spoke In substance as fol-
lows
OF the influence of woman In general
there can be no doubt. All human his
tory and observation are witnesses to
the truth of this assertion. Woman has
been called the weaker vessel, but this
statement is open to criticism, Yet of
this assertion there can be no doubt
that Is, of the two sexes she Is the
stronger in influence. In this respect
she Is a veritable Amazon in power.
Generally speaking, she by her person.
ality does not influence a whole COM
munity or nation In like manner as the
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forest or losses the sea. But her intlu-
ence Is more quiet, more like the effect
Of the yeast In the process of leavening
the whole lump by affecting the parti-
cles or parts Of the mass Woman's
influence is concentrated more on the
individual parts of the human race than
on the mass, as a whole But it is by
effecting the parts that she finally in
f1uences the whole. The sister influ-
ences her brother, the mother the son
and the wife the husband And this
same process going on throughout
community, and the various commune
ties of the state, and the various states
of the world, woman's influence even
tually pervades all, and mankind falls
at her feet conquered
entirely one-sided; it may be good or
bad, elevating or debasing, virtuous or
sinful. And the nature of her influence
depends entirely on her disposition If
she is good and lovely and true, true to
the higher instincts of her nature, her
influence will be good But If she has
a beautiful face and a sparkling genius
and a winning grace, and these march
hand In hand with a disposition to walk
in forbidden paths, then her influence
can be only bad. When she loses any
Of the nobler womanly instincts and
''stoops to conquer" regardless of con-
sequences, the results of her conduct are
only written on the criminal page, and
her trophies are the skeletons of char
acter scattered along the road to perdi- /
ion and moral and spiritual ruin. Be .
Ter influence good or bad, be her social !
high or low she twists, as 1t I
we're, the opposite sex, as Eve did !
dam, round her thumb and either
noulds with her fingers of influence
and durable vessels of charac-
er or forms beings with qualities ,
which. like the form and color of the
bubble, is easily crushed In the hand of !
vii surroundings. The heart is her
,mpire and she sits a queen on the
hrone of her influence and says to men,
Ter courtiers, do this or do that, and
hey do 1t. And like wicked Jezebel,
he can be the powerful ally of Satan
md his empire. or she can be Queen
esther in character and influence and
Use her power for the cause Of God and
he strengthening and spreading of His
mpire among the nations.
The home Is the center of her infu-
nee and there she rocks with her foot
he cradle Of the nation. In her lap
ave slept the beings who have become
ANTS and those who have become dew
S incarnate. In fact, woman's infu-
nee for good is Of the kind that angels
hight envy.