The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-05-17
Woman and the Ways Of the
World" is the Subject Chosen
by DR.. Robert Goodrich
for Discourse
QUEEN ESTHER Is
TAKEN AS TYPE
Woman, as Bearer Of the theWorId's
Sorrow, the Refiner Of Life,
and Factor in the World
Crises

Pointing TO Queen Esther as one OF
the most ennobling OF all great per-
sonalities.' type OF the highest wo-
manhood. Dl Robert E. Goodrich, pas
TOR Of St Luke's Methodist church, Ok
lahoma City, delivered the baccalau-
rea;e sermon for the graduating class
OF the Oklahoma College for Women
to a large congregation at the college
auditorium Sunday evening. holding
the closest attention OF the audience
by his impressive delivery, his polish
ed language and the eloquent message
that was conveyed.
In his Introductory remarks, Dr.
Goodrich traced the revolution that
has come over the world with respect
to womanhood and then he proceeded
to draw some lessons from the life OF
Esther. He first called attention to
women as the bearer OF the world
sorrow, saying in part:
Go into the homes Of poverty where
want stares families In the face, wheIc
little children shiver from cold ana
where they cry for lack OF bread.
where grim. despair hoyers with its
haunting presence by day and BY night
and you will find the deepest night OF
sorrow resting-not on the heart or
the father He feels its chill, TO be
sure. but in the presence of moving
throngs; in the changing scenes OF a
city's life; in the busy pursuits OF his
daily tolls, he is removed from the
haunting presence of suffering In those
who look to him for succor. But not
SO with mother. All day long she is
shut up with her grief. All day long
she looks into hungry faces that stare.
No changing scenes break the monu.-
ony, no moving throngs draw her eyes
away from the suffering objects of her
love. no engaging tasks take her mind
from unclothed bodies and unfed
mouths. II we turn to homes spoile-
by the sin of mans selfishness-curs
ed by the demon of drink, ii is not he
who goes in his degradation to the
slavery of an evil habit that bears the
greater sorrow. II is she who faces
the nightmare Of staggering step, an
angry word or cruel blow, instead OF
the endearing affection to which sine
plighted her life Or, when wars dcss-
late land. and the men are at the
front, stirred by the bugle's blast, the
real sufferer is yonder in the forsaken
home, constantly nursing the ghastly
expectation of tragic news from the
front.
"And so when we have run all the
scale Of human experiences, think we
shall find that the weight of sorrow on
the woman's side of the balances far
outweighs the portion that is on mans
side.
"But think, also, of woman as a re-
finer Of the worlds life. Reading the
book of Esther. one can almost see the
coarseness and brutality of corrupt
court and city stink away as she moves
back and forth through the leprous at
mosphere. Here. too. she is represent
tative of her sex. Not that there are
no exceptions. Many are the Atha-
liths, and the Jezebels, and the Sap
phiras and the Bloody Marys OF his
tory, but still they are exceptions. II
'is supreme compliment to the sex
that, everywhere in Christian lands.
woman's presence is a rebuke to any
thing that hints at coarseness. Very
beautiful are Longfellow's words de-
scribing Evangeline, when, after
church,
'Homeward serenely she walked with
Gods benedictions upon her,
And when she had passed, 1t seemed
like the ceasing of exquisite
music
But in the beauty of his poetic phrase
Evangeline Is hut a proper name fol-