Connecticut western news., 1901-08-22
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 WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-In this dis course Dr. Talmage extols home as field of usefulness and especially en- courages wives and mothers; text Gen. esis 1, 27, "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 be 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 mine. 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 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 against affec- ton, sentiment against sentiment, thought against thought, soul against soul, a mans word against woman's word?
 You come out with the stereotyped remark that man is superior to woman in intellect, and then I open on my desk the swarthy, iron typed, thunder bolted 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 ask you where was there more ca pacity to love than in John, the disci- pie, and Robert McCheyne, the Scotch man, and John Summerfield, the Meth odist, and Henry Martyr, the mission ary? The heart of those men was so large that after you had rolled into it the hemispheres 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 intellsc- tual. deny 10 woman the throne sf- fectional. No human phraseology VII ever define the spheres, while there Is an intuition by which we know whln a man is in his realm and when a wp- man Is in her realm and when either ,}f them Is out of 1t. No bungling legisll- ture ought to attempt to make defi1i- ton or to say, "This Is the line aId that is the line"
 Woman's Sphere.
 My theory ic fbat if xuoroop tuonfS ,tc vote she ought to vote and that if man wants to embroider and keep house he ought to be allowed to enl- broider and keep house. There are masculine women and there are effemi- nate men. My theory is that you have no right to interfere with any one's do- ing anything that Is righteous. Albany and Washington might as we'll decree by legislation how high a brown thrasher should fly or how deep trout should plunge as to try to seek out the height or the depth of woman's duty. The question of capacity will settle finally the whole question, the whole subject. When a woman is prepared to preach, she will preach, and neitlpsa conference nor presbytery can hinsfcn her. When woman Is prepared tH move in highest commercial spherea she will have great influence on tke exchange, and no boards of trade caH hinder her. I want woman to undAf stand that heart and brain can ovsR flow any barrier that politicians rnag set up and that nothing can keep liss back or keep her down but the qnilb tion of capacity.
 l know there are women of most ulR- desirable nature who wander up 8is2 down the country, having no homes sf their own or forsaking their OVn homes, talking about their rights, and we know very we'll that they tkeAs- selves are fit neither to vote nor 1t te keep house. Their mission seems te bs to humiliate the two sexes at tiAs thought of what any one of us might become. No one would want to live un- der the laws that such women wpuA enact or to have cast upon society ths children that such women would raiss. But I will show you that the bcot rights that woman can own she al- ready has in her possession, that her position in this country at this time b not one of commiseration, but one of congratulation; that the grandeur and power of her realm have never yet been appreciated, that she sits today on throne so high that all the thrones of earth piled on top of each other would not make for her a footstool Here Ia the platform on which she stands. Away down below 1t are the ballot box 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. It was a Christian mothers hand drop ping the ballot when Lord Bacon wrote, and Newton philosophical, and Alfred the Great governed, and Jonathan Ed wards thundered of judgment to como. How many men there have been ia high political station who would have been insufficient to stand the test to which their moral principle was put had 1t not been for wife's voice that encouraged them to do right and a wife's prayer that sounded louder than the clamor of partisanship! Why, my friends, the right of suffrage as we men exercise it seems to be a feeble thing. You, Christian man, come up to the ballot box, and you drop your vote. Right after you comes libertine or sot, the offscouring of the street and he drops his vote, and his vote counteracts yours. But If In the quiet of home life daughter by her Chris tian demeanor, a wife by her industry a mother by her faithfulness, casts a vote in the right direction then nothing can resist it, and the influence of that vote will throb through the eternities.
 Woman's Great Right.