Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-08
IN THE LONG RUN SHE WILL BE
CALLED BACK TO SPHERE
Profession, Commerce and Merchan-
dsing but Irksome and SIavish
Toll in Comparison, De-
clares Minister

domestic circle. IN the long run WOllSH
will do women's work. and men will do
mems work. All abnormal conditions
will see reactions which will leave mas
Culne employments to men and reserve
feminine employments for women; each
today trespasses upon the other. 1t is
proved that a woman can do many
things that a man can do, but her call
and mission are to do the things that
a man cannot do; her mission is as
great as mans because her personality
is as distinct as his. She has to do
with things spiritual and idealistic.
Womans work should comport with
the eternal feminine
There is no doubt that the last gem
Grafton has developed a company of
women who regard woman's position IN
the home as a decreasing and less I'M
portant obligation. These women have
hoped for public life, business and polit-
ical and have become FESTIVE under
what has been called the limited sphere
for women. My contention tonight is
that women's sphere should be as wide
as her tastes, her abilities and her
necessities, and that, as the custodian
of the home, she has sphere whlch
far surpasses in extent and Importance
any work possible to men. As the
home keeper and character builder, she
is engaged in a sublime employment
beside which profession. commerce and
merchandising are but irksome and
slavish TOLL
Called to Defend Home
1.-THE new century is calling to women
to rally to the defense of the home
from devastating influences and to
come back to the ideal of the past that
woman's highest and noblest and
divinest and most useful place is as sis
ter, daughter, wife or mother. The
home has seriously suffered during
these years in which women have ex-
perimented and coquetted with the at
fairs Of public life. 1t is sometimes
said today that there are not enough
mothers to go round.
women must become an organized
force against the enemies of the home.
They will be justified in coming forth.
whenever it is necessary, from the
shelter of the home circle, to make
victorious attacks upon the deadly in
fluences which are at work today with
demonish deception and persistence
against the home. Whatever hurts the
morals of a people Injuries the home. l
have argued in favor of the suffrage
for women because I believe it will help
her to defend her home.
women should vehemently demand
and stand for a rest, home and Wof-
ship day. for with this day come large
opportunities for intoxicating morals. IT
is impossible to have a home without
religion If there were no obedience,
no respect for parents, no recognition
of the rights of others, no honor, no
honesty-in short, no recognized stand
ard of morals, the home could not be
maintained.
"Women must oppose unbelief and in
fidelity as directed against the security
of their homes. Women are the truest
friends and the cruelest enemies of
I CT hapnma atheists
and anarchists and liberalists they are
dangerous and destructive. Christian
ity is woman's chance, for she is the
product of the gospel of Christ, and is
degraded and despised wherever in the
world the truths of Christianity have
not come. Women should therefore pro-
mulgate the principles of the gospel
which has emancipated them.
Must Battle Against Vice
Because all forms of vice prosper
at the expense of the home women
should concentrate their attention upon
the great reforms of temperance and
social purity. Just as women organize
themselves into societies for beautify-
ing the cities and for abating the smoke
nuisance etc, because these aesthetic
matters are closely related to the train
ing and comforts Of the home, so every
city in this country today is waiting
for the women of culture and influence
and character to take up the serious
questions of temperance social purity
and vice in all its multiplied and devil
ish forms.
"These things are now so entangled
with politics that there is very little
honest, permanent effort made to re-
duce or suppress or control these pub
lie evils. If one hundred of the maturer
and more matronly women of our city,
women whose family cares are not now
so heavy as when their children We're
small, would organize for the purpose
of enforcing the laws against vice and
for recovering many who have fallen
into the grip of the monster, and for
securing better legislation, the problem
of the evils of our city would be more
nearly solved than it has ever been.
at is women's work to rescue their
sisters who have become degraded; and
by continuing to despise the outcast
they are but increasing the woes of the
world and the dangers of their own
homes. 1t is in an important part of
her custodianship of the home that
women shall enter into an active war
fare against all evils which imperil
their firesides
1.-THE Christian home is worth saving.
When the home goes, woman as
power in civilization disappears. While
the woman Is the home maker the
home also makes the woman. Wnen
she forsakes Christ she goes back to
the paganism and slavery and debase-
ment of the orient.
men rarely rise above the moral and
ethical standards of their homes. What
great epochs of history have been COM
menced in a fond mothers heart
Thank God for the prophetesses who
have given visions to their children, for
the mothers who have made their boys
builders of emDirpS and TaOublipSP