The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18

what portion of God Is there from abovey and what inheritance of the A. mighty from on high is therer (for . maid,
 Place of woman.
 Mankind never began to Ina the proper place of wornanhood In the ever enlarging portion of God. and the ever increasing Inheritance of the Almighty until the cataract was removed from the human eye by the skiliful hand or The Great Physician and even after the yapse of nineteen centuries, despite his skin. they still, like the blind man. whose eyes were annointed with spit tie. but 'see men as trees walking.
 After that He put His hands again upon his eyes and made him look up. and he was restored and saw every man clearly"
 fin humanity is not the fault of the phy- sieian's skill. it Is the result Of the des- perate extremity to which he disease had run which blurs our sight and ob- funds and all but destroys every spirit ual faculty in man.
 Jesus of Nazareth. by the tenderness of His pity for Mary Magdalene. by the depth of His love for the sisters Tn the home at Bethany. by the greeting or the resurrection morn, gave the womannooo of that age its proper setting in the panoramic display of His all-enbracing scheme which will not have even reach ed its climax when out of every nation and tribe and kindred and tongue ana color and sex. the great multitude' which no man can number, shall sur- round His throne, and ascrfbe to Him praise and honor and dornination ana power and glory. forever.
 It is said, I believe. by those wnose scholarship is adequate to make the statement, that the root of all those words. which in the subdivision oL as sn. Aryan tongue stand for daughter. means COW milker, showing that our ancient ancestors of prehistoric times who were themselves herders or cat.le. and had the iordiy privilege of roaming fine plains and valleys, had the idea that the chief use for a daughter In the familv was to stay by the stun and take upon herself the drudgery.
 I believe that some similar position has been assigned to womanhood Tn a'' ages, and among all savage tribes.
 It is said, too. that when rom ens outside of a Russian the veneer IS scraped away the inside reveals Tar tar.
 The history of our own race shows that the great majority of us have nor outllved. the aboriginal conception oi the woman,s place in the progress oi Christianity and civilization, ana m Gods inheritance.
 The idea of the mother. the wife. the daughter and the sister as eomponeni parts of the home, to promote dofhestle happiness give added efficiency to man hood in It's sphere Of activity. ana con serve moral purity and religious faith. while born In the parent religion, Ju- dafsm. has reached its highest deyei- opment under Christianity and Judaism --and yet, no intelligent Christian or lew can be satisfied with many Of the sociological conditions growing out oi the failure of even twentieth century womanhood to grasp the portion or re- alize the inheritance which belongs to 1t in the manifest scheme of dou-
 Sociology.
 Sitting the other night in the Jewish Temple and listening to the sociology cal address of Prof. Henderson, these questions came into my mihd: Can any sociological problem be settled until mothe erhood, wlfehood and daughter hood are taken into the account as es- sential and vital factors of the prob lem? Can such questions ever be set tied to the satisfaction of men and the glory of God, and the betterment of the race If the cooperation of the per sonai God is not devoutly sought by men of every faith? Is the. gospel or soap and sanitation, of chemical and microscopic analysis, of wise adminis- tration of law, and even charity well organized, the only and final hope? Is there no balm in Gilead, and no physi- elan there2 Shall Ipaterialism and commercialism alone be left to work out--I will not say the salvation of a submerged class, but of a submerged racer With these alone. we SOW the dragon teeth--the harvest will be of armed men.
 A few days later met layman of Jewish faith whose attention was turn ed to what seemed to both of us a dangerous tendency Of womanh ood, and that gentleman preached to me as we walked 6 great sermon.
 Why is the womanhood of America in danger of being swept from It's feet by the tides of worldliness, extrava- gance and folly, bringing ruin into the home and hell Into the life of much of its manhood and cumberinS the business of our courts, unless 1t be Nemesis gathering toll of manhood's failure to provide for the weaker and dependent sex those higher ideals. and that broader, better culture which this age of the world demands?
 IH0T6 are tlCtl anu WOitSh Ah SiAS @N dienee who know and they have right to know that, every memory in me of the traditions of Southern manhood and Southern womanhood rings clear and true-but here and new do lndict Southern manhood of one crime against Southern womanho ood which cries to Heaven for restitution. Our attention has been given for nearly half cen tury tc the rehabilitation of our for tunes, to the development of the al- most inexhaustible wealth which God had poured into our lap, but neither in church nor state. with exceptions so rare as hardly to deserve mention. has there been provision made for woman part in the portion of God" and "the inheritance from the Almighty" We have poured out our God-given wealth with lavish hand to gratify her whims, to indulge her follies. to adorn her glorious beauty and then we have left her neglected intellect to shrivel and starve for lack of nourishment, or have left her to gather, as best she can, like Lazarus at the rich mans gate. the few crumbs which fall into the annex of some male college.
 About Reventy-fi five years ago our fathers took a wiser and truer view of duty and obligation. As has been always the case the provision of the church foreran that of the State, as if always ought and must. Here Tn