Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-01-08

Miss GreenWCOd' entlre sermon aS
delivered 10 $500 people during
the National w. c. T.U convention
In Portland Maine but as space
most definitely forbids will give
the closing paragraphs.
The 10th Century and Woman.
1t Is appropriate that We close
this sermon upon Twentieth Cen
fury Truth, by asking, Where does
woman stand at the beginning of
the great century? What changes
of mind have taken place regardir g
her, and are they growth?
To answer this query we must
glance hurriedly at woman In the
past and trace her evolution.
Woman in the Past Ages,
Two thousand years ago Jew
began his morning invocation with
the sentiment, BLESSED art thou 0
Lord, who hast not made me a
besathen; who hast not made me a
slave; who hast not made me a wo
man"
Among The familiar proverbs OF
ancient times.2 COO aud $500 years
ago. were such as these: The
badness of man Is better than the
goodness of woman "A man OF
straw is better than woman OF
gold "a dead wife Is the best
goods In mans house E>thetic
Greeks were Cften worse than Jews
in their dcnunclations Out Of ten
types of women described b.
Simonides only ore was fit for a
wife, and she because she was like a
bee, and would add to her fortune
A satiIist of the Golden Age
Greece said, "a man has but two
pleasant days with his wife, the
one when he marries her, and the
other..when he burries her"
Two thousand years ago the lives
of women were narrow beyond ex'
preston. The more respectable a
woman was, the more utterly in
significant. Confucius taught her
three obediences, first to father
then to husband and son.
The evolution of woman was the~
traced to the present under the
following head. "Sappho 2,5oc
years ago." Spartan women
Roman and Grecian woman,
Woman In the Fourth, Thirteenth
and sixteenth Centuries" and
women in the Twentieth Century,
her higher education" Woman
In the Industries and Professions
"Women and Law" Women in the
+ Ministry Legal Status of womer
The women's Crusade.
Conclusion.
Thus, dear friends, we have
found hat the years of questioning
criticism, doubt aud scientific at
talnment have not robbed us 9.
vital truth, but that the foun-
dations of faith have been strength.
ened, that much of superstition
which had gathered about these
central truths had been stripped of
and cast away. But an enlargins
knowledge of the universe has
only strengthen ed our faith In
the everlasting realities of religion
The belief In God, omnipotence
omnipresence, in Christ. atonement
prayer, the Holy Spirit, the Life
Eternal, were never so precious, ST.
clear to intellect as we'll as heart, a:
at the beginning OF this wonderful
century, and the difficulties which
still beset both religion and scienc'
must sometime, somewhere be
made clear to heart and mind, to,
truth IS of God.
( The subject we are to conside
tonight Is the one very difficult Il
approach, because we are met OF
one hard by prejudice and hatred
which makes the sweeping and TN
qualified statement that prohibition
does not prohibit, that 1t Is an I'm.
pudent failure and an impuden
fraud; we are met on the othe
hand by the enthusiastic reformer
who In their Utmost soul, believ
that the passage of the Prohibition,
law will immediatel. bring US th
millennium
The mistake Of Ieformers Is al
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