Milford chronicle., 1901-08-23

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.-In this dis
course DIR. Talmage extols home as a
field Of usefulness. and especially encour-
ages wives and mothers; text, Genesis
i, q, ''Alale and female created he
them"
In other words, God, who can make no
mistake made man and woman for
specific work and to move in particular
sphercs-man to be regnant in his realm,
woman to be dominant in hers. The
boundary line between Italy and SwitZer-
land, between England and 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 COM
pare them than you can oxygen and
| hydrogen, water and grass, trees and
stars. All this talk about the superiority
of one sex to the other is an everlasting
waste Of ink and speech. A jeweler may
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, sentiment against senti-
ment, thought against thought, soul
| against soul, a mans word against a wO-
mans word?
You come out with your stereOtyped re-
mark that man is superior to woman in
intellect. and then ! open on my desk the
swarthy. iron typed, thunderboltcd writ
ings Of Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth
Browning and George Eliot. You come
on with your stereotyped remark about
| woman's superiority to man in the item
Of affection, but | ask you where was
there more capacity to love than in John
| the disciple, and Robert McCheyne, the
| Scotchman, and John Summerheld, the
/ Methodist, and Henry Martyr, the mis-
| siOnary? The heart of those men was
so large that after you had rolled into it
the hemisphCres 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.
deny to woman the throne affcctiOnal.
No human phraseology will ever define
the spheres while there is an intuition by
which we know when a man is in his
realm and when a woman is in her realm
and when either of them is out of it. No
bungling legislature ought to attempt tC
make q definition or to say, "This is the
line, and that is the line"
| My theory is that If woman wants tt
vote she ought to vote and that if mar
wants to embroider and keep house he
ought to be allowed to embroder anC
keep house. There are masculine women
and there are effcminate men. My the
DRY is that you have no right to interfere
with any ones doing anything that il
righteous. Albany and Washington nigh
as we'll decree by legislation how high
brown thrasher should fly or how deep ,
trout should plunge as to try TO seek on
The height or the depth of woman's duty
The question of capacity will settle final
Y the whole question, the whole subject
When woman is prepared to preach
she will preach, and neither conference
nor presbytery can hinder her. When
woman is prepared to move in highes
commercial spheres, she will have grea
influence on the exchange, and no board
!. Of trade can hinder her. want woma
to understand that heart and brain ca
overflow any barrier that politicians ma
set up and that nothing can keep he
back or keep her down but the questio
Of capacity.