Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-08-19

course DR.. Talmage eXtols home as q
field of usefulness and especially en-
cOuTages wives and mothers; text, Cen
esis i. %, male and female created he
them"
In other words. God, who can make
no mistake. made man and woman for
a specific work and to move in partic-
ular spheres. man to be regnant in his
realm. woman to he dominant in hers.
The boundary line between Italy and
Switzerland, between England and
Scotland. is not more thoroughly mark
ed than this distinction between the
empire masculine and the empire fem
mime 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
talk about the superiority of one sex
TO the other sex is an everlasting waste
Of ink and speech. a jeweler may
have q 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 affec-
ton. sentiment against sentiment,
thought against thought, soul against
soul. = mans word against a wOman's
word:
You come out with the stereotyped
remark that man is superior to woman
in intellect. and then 1 open on my
desk The swarthy. iron typed, thunder
bo}tcd writings OF Harriet Martineau
and Elizabeth Browning and George
Eliot. You come on with your stereo-
typed remark about wOman's superior
ity to man in the item of affection, but
l ask YOU where was there more ca
Dacity to love than in John. the disci-
pie and Robert McCheyne. the Scotch
man. and John Summerfeld. the Meth
odist. ana Henry Martyr. the mission
airy? The heart Of those men was so
large that after you had rolled into it
the temisDherPs there was room still
left to marshal the hosts of heaven and
set up the throne of the eternal Jeho-
yah I deny to man the throne intcllec-
tual. ! Geny TO woman the throne af-
fectiou2l No human phraseOlo@y viii
ever define the spheres, while there is
an intuition by which we know when
a man IS III lis realm and when wO-
man is il her realm and when either Of
them is eat OF it. No bUngling Ie9isla- +.
fUge ought to attempt to make 4 defin-
ton or % sly. This is the line and
that is the line"
sEor:au's Sphere.
Ny theory is that if woman wants to 7.
vote she ought 10 vote and that If q .
man wants 10 embroider and keep .
house he ought 10 be allowed to en- .
broidor and keep house. There are .
masculine women and there are effemi-
nate men. Sly theory is that you have F.
no right to Interfere with any ones do
ing anything that is righteous. Albany
and Washington might as we'll decree
By, legislation how high brown
thrasLer should fly or how deep a trout
should plunge as to try to seek out the
height Of the depth of WOman's duty.
The question of capacity Will settle
finally the whole question, the whole
subject. When woman is prepared TO
preach she viii preach, and neither
conference nor presbytery can hinder
her When woman is prepared to
move in highest commercial spheres,
she Will have great influence on the
exchange, and no boards of trade can
hinder her / want woman to under
stand that heart and brain can over
flow any barrier that politicians may
set up and that nothing can keep her
back or keep her down but the ques-
tion of capacity.
l Know there are women of most IN
desirable nature who wander up and
down the country, having no homes Of
their own or forsaking their own
homes. talking about their rights, and
we know very well that they them
selves are fit neither to vote nor fit to
keep house. Their mission seems to be
TO nUniliate the two sexes at the
thought o. what any one Of us might
become 10 one would want to live IN
der the laws that such women would
enact or to have cast upon society the
children that such women would raise
But ! VIII show you that the best
rights that woman can own she al
ready has IN her possession, that her
position in this country at this time is
not one Of cOmmiseratiOn, but one Of
cOngratu!ati0n; that the grandeur and
power Of her realm have never yet
been appreciated. that she sits today on
4 throne 50 high that all the thrones Of
earth piled on top of each other would
not make for her a footstool. Here is
the platform on which she stands.
Wy w ~ II DS1ON II are TIE UdIlOt DOA
and the congressional assemblage and
the legislative hall
The Mothers influence.
Woman always has voted and always
will vote. Our great-grandfathers
thought they were by their votes put
ting Washington into the presidential
chair. No. His mother by the princi-
pies she taught him and by the habits
she inculcated, made him president. 1t
was a Christian mothers hand drop