The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-25
SPEAKS ON POWER
 OF WOMANHOOD  Miss MilIar Greeted By a Large Audience IS DEEPLY IMPRESSIVE Says Ii Is Not Americas Wealth But Americas Home Life Which
 Makes the Nation
 So Great

Miss Elinor Stafford Milar of the Moody in Birmingham under the auspices of the Sunday School Graded union and the religious department of the Young Woman's Christian association, in spite of the extremely inclement weather, spoke to very large audience at the First Methodist church yesterday afternoon. As have been all of Miss Millar's au- diences in this city during the past week, the one yesterday sat deeply impressed with her versatility. power and spiritual ity. Her theme was '"rhe Power of Wom- anhood' and the crowd was spellbound by the manner in which the speaker brought out her points.
 She spoke first of the inherent powers l of woman-of her delicate power of feel l ing; she spoke of her superior powers of sacrifice-sacrifce as only woman knows it; of her subtle power of infiu ence, fineness of distinction and delicate discrimination. She pleaded for the pow CT of feeling; the investment of feeling in the real, the vital things of life and not the wasting of them upon the trivial, ioi III SuSil AllNtotuicnt ihC AVdi ltciihbS are lost She pleaded for a wise invest ment of time and energy and affection and in womans power to sacrifice.
 "In this day as woman reads her Bible she has been looked at most cu- riously," said the speaker, "and over and over again we hear that women have no time to read their Bible these days" She urged maintenance of the sanctity of the Sabbath. "Oh, let us keep our beau- tiful Sabbath. I come to you American people not to see your White House, your capitol or your tall buildings, your mil lions and millions-I ask you to take me to your homes. Let me know the home life, which I cannot know in the trains or hotels. Take me into your homes;
 let me see the mother there with her
 little children about her knee; let me see her with the open Bible and hear her teach the sanctity of the Sabbath, which some nations by losing have gone down
 in defeat as a nation. Let me hear her pray and I will tell you what your United States of America is.
 Let her invest the power of her in- fuence for the betterment of humanity,
  are lovely, whatsoever things are pure and we realize how glorious a thing is womanhood.
 Influence is thing which is-whether good or oakland one which never ceases. How happy said one. T would be could know that my influence was buried with me It is Phillips Brooks, l believe, who speaks so wonderfully of Influence. We may commit a wrong deed today and we come to a change In our life later and we would go and stop that in- fluence, but the deed goes on repeating itself merchant tells a lad a mercan- tile lie; later he wishes to rectify 1t and goes to the boy and tells him he would do this, but the lie cannot be changed; he has told it to other lads and it goes on repeating itself. Well for us if our in- fluence is for the good, the beautiful and the true.
 There can also be a wrong investment of conscience and in these days of faith" said Miss Millar. Let her tie her faith in these days to the Word of God and to Jesus Christ as she has never done before. Let us be sure we are invest ing our faith In the right way. It is possible in these days to mar the finer instincts and conscience by the choice of material things. The visible bedims our eyes. Jesus felt this when He was speak ing to the multitude of Himself as being the revelation of God and they called for mama and Moses.
 What is the exquisite bit of lace sent me from over the sea? Why is it 80 precious? Why, except that they wrote me it was worn by mother on the 60th anniversary of her marriage to father the diamond anniversary That Is it--it is mother back of 1t. And why is tho emerald I have ever with me so precious? Why, except it was fathers last gift to me That is it. back of the material.
 And so back of your play stands the principle of nation. Lower our stand ard of principle, for whichN we should willingly insert our emotion, our sacri- flee. our influence, our conscience, our faith-and the soul of us would be color less and powerless. All depends upon the right investment of power and Jesus, Himself. is the generator of power and must be the center of our circumfer- ence''
 Miss Millar will give Bible readings at the Young Woman's Christian associa- tion each evening this week at o'clock except Wednesday and Saturday, and at the First Presbyterian church under the auspices of the Graded union Tuesday and Wednesday morning at II o'clock. The arrangements for the Thursday, Friday and Sunday meetings will be announced later