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WASHINGTON. Aug. lS.-In this dis.
course DR.. Talmage cxtols home as n
field of usefulness and especially en-
courages wives and mothers; text. Gen
esis |. q, male and female created be
them.'
In other words, God. who can make
no mistake. made man and woman for
Il specific work and to move In partic-
ular spheres. man 10 be regnant In his
realm. woman to Ice dominant In hers.
The boundary line between Italy and
switzerland. between England and
Scotland. is net more thoroughly mark
Ell than This distinction between the
empire masculine and the empire fem
mime. So entirely d;ssimilar are the
fields 10 which God called them that
Jou 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. y jcweler may
have scala 50 delicate that he can
weigh tie dust of diamonds. but where
Grc the scales 50 delicate that you can
weigh in thcr' affection against affec-
tion. sentiment against sentiment,
thought against thought. soul against
soul. mans word against n woman's
word?
You come out With tho stcreotyped
remark tha; man IS superior TO woman
I'm intellect, and then open on my
desk tde swarthy. iron typed. thunder
ho,ted writings OF Harriet Martineau
and Elizabeth Browning and George
Eliot. You come on with your stereo.
typed remark about woman's superior.
ity 10 man in the item &C affection. but
ask you where was there more ca
pacity to love than in John. the disci-
pie. aud Robert McCheyue. the Scotch
man. and John Smnmcrneld. the Meth
odist, and Henry Martyr. the mission
airy? The heart o, those men was so
large that after you had rolled into IL
the hcmiSpbcrcS there was room still
left TO marshal the hosts Of heaven and
set up tlsc throne of the eternal Jeho-
yah. deny to man the throne intellcc.
tual. deny 10 woman the throne az.
fcctional No human phraseology will
ever dciine the spheres. while there Is
an Intuition by which we know when
man Is In his realm and when wo-
man is In her realm and when either OF
them Is out of IL. No bungling legisia-
ture ought to attempt to make defini-
ton or to say, This Is the line and
that is the line"
woman's Sphere.
My theory Is that IL woman wants to
vote she ought 10 vote and that IL a
man wants TO cmbroider and keen
house he ought TO be allowed to en-
broider and keep house. There are
masculine women and there are erfeml-
nate men. My theory Is that you have
no right TO Interfere with any ones do
ing anything that is righteous Albany
and Washington might as well decree
by legislation how high brown
thrashcr should fly or how deep trout
should plunge ms 10 try 10 seek ont the
height or the depth or voman's duty.
The question OF capacity Will settle
finally the whole question. the whole
subject. When woman is prepared TO
preach. She Will preach. and neither
conference nor prcsbytery can hinder
her. When a woman is prppared 10
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
now any barrier that politicians may
set up ana that nothing can keep her
hack or keep her down but the ques-
ton or capacity.
Know there are women of most nm
desirable nature who wander nm and
down the country, having no homes of
thcr own or forsakinG their own
homes. talking about their rights. and
we know very well that they them
selves are III neither 20 vote nor fit 10
Keep house Their mission seems to be
10 numlliate the two sexes nt the
thought OF what any one OF us might
become. No one would want TO live nm
der the laws that s@ch women would
enact or 20 have east upon society the
children that such women would raise.
hut 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 or administration, hut one OF
congratulatlon; that the grandeur and
- 80 aNtist llstNt never VET
been appreciated. that she sits TODAY on
throne so nigh that all the thrones OF
earth piled on top OF each other would
not make for her rootstool. Here is
the PLATFORM on which she stands.
Away down below il are the ballot box
and the congressional assemhlage and
the leglSlaiivt> hail
The Mothers Influence.
Woman always has voted and always
VIII vote Our grcat-Grandfathers
thought they were by their votes put
ing Washington into the presidential
chair No. His mother. by the pr!ncI.
pies she Taught him and by the hab,ts
she incnlcated. made him president II
was Christian mothers hand drop.
ping tho ballot when Lord Bacon wrote.
nnd Newton philosophical. and Alfred
the Great governed, and Jonathan Ed
wards Numbered of judgment 10 come
How many men there have been in
t'Sh political station who would have
hc"n insufficient TO stand the test 10
which their moral principle was nut
Ead u nor h@cn for n wife's voice that
'hronrHgc' them TO do right and a
wifc's prayer that sounded louder than
The c!amo: q! craftsmanship! Why, my
friends. tas right OF suffrage as we
mea exercise Il seems to be feeble
h'ag. You. a Christian man, come I'D
10 tic BALLOT box. and you drop your
vote. I.gh, after you comes iibertine
or scr. the offscouring OF the street.
s*d he drops his vote, and his vote
cocn'c:aeis yours. But if In the quiet
or hoiEr life daughter by her Chris
t'an ''cmo:'or. wife by her industry,
mother ny her faithfulness, casts a
vote IN the right direction then nothing
can resist it. and the influence of that
vote VIII throh through the eterni;ies.
Wommn's Great Right.
NY chief anxiety, then. Is not that
woman have other rights accorded her.
bat than she by the grace Of God rise
up to the appreciation or the glorious
rights she already DosSesSps I sbaV