Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-14

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The address Of Chief Justice Spald-
ing of the North Dakota supreme
court on Sunday, May 1a, before St.
Elmo lodge No. 4, Knights OF Pyth-
las at the special service held in COM
memoration of Mothers day, was one
of the best addresses ever delivered
in the capital ity Chief Justice Spald-
ing said:
Chancellor Commander, Sir knights,
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Uncdvilized society recognizes no
equality of sexes, but emphasizes an
inequality. The female is only a
mental in the service OF the male, and
a slave to his passions. Each step of
progress in enlightenment is marked
by a corresponding advance in the
place of woman toward the equal Of
man. When she attains this position
she reaches the plane for which
Natures God intended her.
1t does not follow that she is fitted
for the same employments to which
man is adapted, or that she possesses
all his mental characteristics. 1t may
not mean that the male is to surren-
der his rightful place as the bread
winner, or she hers as the housewife.
Some who arrogate to themselves
the title of philosophers or of psyche
logists assert that, given the same en-
vironment and associations, the femi-
nine mind would possess the same at
tributes and qualities which mark the
masculine mind My mind revolts at
the thought. Woman with a mascu-
line mind loses her charm and her at
tractiveness.
The masculine is material; it rea-
sons from cause to effect, and in the
reverse direction. 1t seeks know
ledge by comparing events and their
sequence. 1t exaggerates the import
ance of mathematical demonstration
in it's search for facts.
She is spiritual. Her institutions fur
nish her conclusions; she sees, al.
though she cannot prove; she believes
without seeing; she knows without
demonstrating. He loves through
sight; she, by the contact of spirit
with spirit. He is devoted when de-
votion ministers to his wants. He is
faithful when fidelity yields a percent
age, but too often deserts friends and
principle when the cause of the one
wanes and the other no longer floats
on the wave OF popularity.
She believes in the unbelievable,
hopes when all is hopeless and for
gives sins that are like scarlet. When
the Divine Master was nailed to the
cross all but one of his male followers
deserted him. The women remained
with him to the end, and in his hour Of
agony ministered to his suffering and
comforted him by their presence. It is
written that they were the last to
cling to his cross, and the first to greet
him on the morning of the third day."
when they were seen fastening to-
ward the sepulchur, bearing spices,
fragrants offerings Of deathless love-"
His countrymen crucified him but
mot one woman mentioned in the
New Testament ever lifted her voice
against the Son of God.
Such devotion marks all the pages
Of history. 1t not only applies to
women as class, but to them in
countless individual cases.
These characteristics of the class
are Infinitely increased, and multi
piled countless times, when applied
to women in her relation as mother.
Man suffers and complains, and
blames others for his suffering. The
mother suffers, not only for herself,
but for those about her, and while
doing so renders perpetual thanks
that by her own sacrifices she is able
to alleviate the pain and to mitigate
the hardships OF those she loves.
From the first minute of mother
hood until he buries her hopes in the
grave, or is herself borne away, her
life Is an atonement for the sins of
the husband and the offspring. No
son ever appreciates the suffering en-
dured for him, or the devotion OF the
mother which has made his success
possible, until as a father he sees the
sacrifices of the mother of his own
children. Few daughters realize the
agonies OF the mother heart until they
themselves encounter corresponding
cares.
The woman who knows nothing of
these things never lives to her fullest
capacity. Those who have read Kate
Douglas Virgins '"Timothy's Quest"
will recall that the little waits, Tim
othy and Gay, in their search for a
home brought up at the SNUG coun-
tryhouse occupied only by Miss. Vida
ard Miss Samantha, two old maids,
kind-hearted and self centered, their
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