The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-03

artists, las are clergymen, 1888
are journalists, 2,725 are authors
and literary persons, 2oS are law
yers and 80 are chemists. A wo-
man manager of a California in
surance company, it is said, receives
a salary of $4,000 a year. The
most of the successful book agents
belong to the same sex. There are
skilled women doctors. In fact as
the intelligence of the world broad
ems and prejudice disappears the
field for woman's successful employ
ment is enlarged, and her posi-
bilities become limitless. It is with
reluctance we pass over many bright
names and brilliant deeds of wo-
men, which come within the period
of which we are treating. But we
must limit the period and abridge
the field of observation. This re-
view, however, considering the &C.
casion which calls us together,
would be incomplete if the name
of the "Mother of Methodism"
were left out.
DR.. Adam Clarke said of her
MRS. Wesley had read much and
thought much, thus her mind was
cultured. Greek, Latin, French
and both logic and metaphysics had
formed part of her studies. She
had a strong and vigorous mind,
and undaunted courage" l have
been acquainted with many pious
females. I have read of the lives
of others, but such a woman take
her all in ali, I have not heard of,
1 have not read Of, nor with her
equal have I been acquainted.'
TO write her biography would be
to write the wise and fruitful be-
ginnings of the Church founded by
her son, John Wesley. He owed
more to her wise and inspiring
counsel than to any other human
influence!
The consecrated Christian Wo-
man in the home has proved a
matchless power to save and con-
serve the salvation of human kind.
A pastorate will never fully appr.-
ciate what they are to the wife and
Mother of the Manse, until the
Judgment shall reveal it. Nor will
they fully understand until the Sc
crets of all hearts shall be made
known, how much the failures.
which they so bitterly charged
against their pastor, were more
due to her, who should have been
his help-meet, than to him alone.
Woman's power in the Church
is ia evidence. Fully two thirds of
the members of the church are
women. AS the pastor looks from
the pulpit to the pews he sees more
bonnets than bare heads. In these
latter times she is first in the ser
vice of song, in which divine
truth, praise, prayer and interces-
sion are set to music-music that
moves the heart to devotion, con-
viction and conversion. While in
calculable good has been accom-
plished by the service of song, the
organ loft controlled by unruly and
I undevotional spirits has caused
much evil. But let us magnify the
good and avert the evil.
In the prayer meeting, she, for
the most part, is the sponsor for
the Church. Let her heart grow
cold, and her lips silent in the Sc
cret place of the sanctuary, and the
cry of the Psalmist will come
again: "Yea the sparrow hath
found an house, and the swallow a
nest for herself, where she may lay
her young, even thine affairs, O
Lord of hosts, my King and my
Cod"
In the Sunday School she is
largely the god-mother for the host
of children who frequent there
from Christian and unchristian
homes. Unnumbered thousands
have heard from her lips for the
first time of God, their Creator, of
Jesus, their Redeemer, of the Holy
Spirit, their Sancti6er, and Of
Heaven, the peaceful abode of the
blest. Here she takes them through
the kindergarten of this theological
seminary to deeper and higher COZ
ceptions and convictions of truth,
until they are prepared for the full
ness of the life in Christ Jesus.
Woman's place in the secular
school was once barred, and then
contested. The appellation, school
marm' was odious. But here too
she has worked her way up to hon
orable recognition. All now admit
that she has special qualifications,
when fully equipped, for this no.
bic service. If true to herself and
her high calling, she is destined to
labor as an educator side by side
with her brother in the highest de-
partments of intellectual and moral
culture.