The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-05-17
Sermon is Delivered
at College
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womankind. Wherever honored wo-
manhod has gone, it has been as
breathing OF Gods blessings, and when
she has passed by it is as If angel
wings have stirred. 1t is SO when
some Elizabeth Fry moves through
the shocking miserles of unreformcu
prisons, or when some Clara Barton
moves through the carnage of battle
fields, or when some Agnes Weston
opens homes for sailors, or when some
Josephine Butler spreads a sheltering
wing over the outcast OF her sex. No
wonder that someone coined that beau
tiful phrase, God could not be every
where, SO He made mothers The
blessings of womanly refinement are
on everything that this world holds
dear. The kingliest palace on earth
would be but dreary waste of marble,
beams and towers were it not for nel
who is mans counterpart.
"But think of woman, in the last
place, as a factor in the crises of the
world. Here Esther, the great type
woman, rises to her highest glory. In
the hour when the decree of death for
her people had gone forth, hers was
the voice that won mercy, and hei s
was the hand that stayed the execu-
toner's sword And from the dawn OF
history, the great epochs of the world
have felt the pulse of woman's pres
ence and power. When the cup OF
trembling was pressed to Belshazzes s
lips, and when mighty Babylon was
passing through the gates of doom, it
was the queens voice that called the
jewellers to remember Daniel the
man of God, who could read the writ
ing on the wall In the hour when
Pilates soul was troubled because OF
Him who had been unjustly accused,
pose, he refused to set Christ free, it
was his wife's voice thar pleaded with
him, in that hour of his destiny, 'Hay )
thou nothing to do with that just man,
for ! have suffered many things be-
cause of Him in my dream?' 1t was
to woman that the three events of His
life that form the basis OF our creeds
were first declared The annuncia-
tion was to Mary; His Messianic mis-
sion was first definitely declared to
the woman of Samaria, and His first
manifestation of Himself after the res
direction, was to Mary Magdalene.
Touching secular history, think of Isa-
bella backing Columbus for his dis
covery when all others had refused;
think of the quiet voice of Catherine
urging Luther on in the despairing
hours of the Reformation; think OF
that little group Of missionary women
in south China attacking the age-long
custom of foot-binding. so that today
Chinese women are free. And thus
could the story be stretched into long
pages, but this must suffice.
Woman ought to be the most relig-
ious creature on earth. And the sad
dest sight to behold is to look on A
woman's face from which the glow of
deyotion's fame has faded. Christ is
the great emancipator of womanhood,
while she is despised in pagan lands,
in the lands of Christian truth, her
babyhod is welcomed, her girlhood is
tenderly guarded, her maidenhood is
vested with halo of sanctity her
wifehood is honored, and her mother
hood glorified with the highest dignity
that the human heart is capable of be
slowing"
The theme Of the sermon was, "Wo
man and the Ways of the World
Preceding the sermon, announce
ment of the events of commencement
week were made by President Austin
the congregation joined in singing
Holy, Holy, Holy and the Glee clut
sang a sacred selection. The invoca
tion was delivered by Rev. ]. A. Old
After the sermon, another hymn sung
by the congregation and the benedic
tion by Rev. G. Lyle Smith concluded
the service, which was deeply impres
sive throughout.