—— The Women of America, “Every wise woman buildeth her house.” Prov. 14:1. WoMAN a mere adjunct to man, an appendix to the masculine volume, an appendage, a sort of after-thought, something thrown in to wake things even-~that is the heresy entertained and implied by some men, This is evi- dent to them: Woman's insigaificance, as compared to man, is evident to them, because Adam was first created, and then Eve. They don’t read the whole story, or they would find that the por- poise and the bear and the hawk were created before Adam, so that this argu- ment, drawn from priority of creation, might prove that the sheep and the dog were greater than man. No. Woman was ap independent creation, and was intended, if she chose, to live alone, to walk alone, act alone, think alone, and fight her battles alone. The Bible says it is not good for man to be alone, but never says it is not good for woman to be alone; and the simple fact is, that many women who are harnessed for life in the marriage relation would be a thousand-fold better off if they were alone. Who are these men who, year after vear, hang around hotels and engine- houses and theatre doors, and come iu and out to bother busy clerks and mer- chants and mechanics, doing nothing, when there is plenty to do? They are MEN SUPPORTED BY THEIR WIVES and mothers, If the statistics of any of our cities could be taken on this sub- ject, vou would find that a vast multi- tude of women not only support them- selves, but masculines. A great legion of men amount to nothing, and a woman, by marriage, manacled to one of these nonentities, needs condolence, A woman standing outside the mar. riage relation is several hundred thous- and times better off than a woman badly married. Many a bride, instead of a wreath of orange blossoms, might more properly wear a bunch of nettles tune would be the Dead March in Saul, and, instead of a banquet of confec- tionery and ices, there might ba more appropriately spread a table covered with apples of Sodom. {IIE DOVE AND THE VULTURE. Many an attractive woman, of sound sense in other things, has ried one of these men to reform him, What was the result? Like when cious and cruel, set about to reform it, and said, “I bave a mild disposition, and I like peace, and was brought up in bring the vulture to the same liking by marrving him.” So, one day, after the vulture declared he would give up his carnivorous habits and cease longing As no boy ought to be brought up without learning some business at which Le could earn a livelihood, so no girl ought to be brought up without learning 8 Tux SCIENCE OF BELF-SUPPORT. The difficulty is that many a family zoes sailing on the high tides of suc- cess, and the husband and father de- pends on Lis own health and acumen for the welfare of the household, but one day he gets his feet wet, and in three days pneumonia has closed his life, and the daughters are turned out on a cold world to earn bread, and there is noth- ing practical that they can do. The friends come in and hold consultation, “Giving music lessons,’ says an out- sider. Yes that is a useful calling, and if you have great genius for it, go on in that direction. But there are enough music teachers now starving to death in all our towns and cities, to occupy all the piano stools and sofas and chairs and front-door steps of the city. Besides that, the daughter has been playing only for amusement, and is only at the foot of the ladder, to the top of which a great multitude of masters on piano and harp and flute and organ have climbed, “Put the bereft daughters as sales. women in stores,’ says another adviser. jut there they must compete with salesmen of long experience, or with men who have served an apprenticeship in commerce and who began as shop Some kind- hearted dry-goods man, having known the father, now gone, says, **We are not in need of any more help just now, but send your daughters to my store, and I will do as well by them as possi- ble.” Very soon the question comes up, Why do not the female employees of that establishment get as much | wages as the male employees? For the | simple reason, in many cases, the female | were suddenly flung by misfortune be- | hind that counter, while the males have | from the day they left the public school | been learning the buisness, i How is this evil to be cured? Start | clear back in the homestead and TEACH YOUR DAUGHTERS that life is an earnest thing, and that | there is a possibility, if not a strong | probability, that they will have to fight | the battle of life alone. Let ife every | what I now own were | age, or death should end my career?” “Well, I could paint on pottery and Yes, that is beautiful, and if you have genius for it go on in that direction, Bat there | River and across the bridge, “Well, Iconld make recitations in | sagle officiating, the “With all my dominion of earth and ky, I thee endow, and promise to love and cherish till death do heridan’s Ride or Dicken's Pickwick.” Yes, that is a beantiful art, but ever and anon, as now, there is an epidemic of dramatization that makes hundreds of households nervous | cried, **Stop that! did you not promise lon’t like my way, you can leave,” and with one anzry stroke of beak, and ture left the dove eyeless and wingless and lifeless. And a flock of robins fly- ing past, cried to each other and said, “See there! that comes from a dove's marrying a vulture to reform him.” Many a woman who has had the hand of a young inebriate offered to her, but i i her life to a man selfish. or of bad temper, and refused the shackles, will bless God throughout all eternity that she escaped that earthly Pandemonium. ENFORCED CELIBACY. young tragediennes dying in the fifth act and the trouble is that while your | friends would like to hear you, and really think that you could surpass | tistori and Charlotte Cushman and Fanny Kemble of the past, to say noth- ing of the present, you could not in the way of living, cents, My advice to all girls and all unmar- | ried women, whether in affluent homes | in ten years earn ten | omies are grinding, to learn to do some | kind of work that the world must have while the world stands. I am glad to | see a marvellous change for the better, | and that women have found out that | there are hundreds of practical | THINGS THAT A WOMAM CAN DO for a living if she began soon enough, | one million men were sacrificed in our Civil War, and that decreed a million women to celibacy. Besides that, since put together, have fallen under mait liquors and distilled spirits, so full of poisoned ingredients that the work was done more rapidly, and the victims fell while yet young. And if fifty thousand men are destroyed every year by strong drink before marriage, that makes in the twenty-three years since the -war one million one bundred and fifty thousand men slain, and decrees one million one hundred and fifty thousand women to celibacy. Take, then, the Aact that so many women are unbappy in their marriage, and the fact that the slaughter of two million one hundred and fifty thousand men, by war and rum combined, decides that at least that number of women shall be unafii- anced for life, my text comes In with a cheer and a potency and appropriate. ness that I never saw in it before when it says, “Every wise woman buildeth her house;”’ that is, let woman be her own architect, lay out her own plans, be her own supervisor, achieve her own destiny. In addressing these women who will have to fight the battle alone, I con. gratulate you on YOUR NATTY ESCAPE, Hejo ce forever that you will not have to navigate the faults of the other sex, when you have faults enough of your own, Think of the bereavements you avoid, of the risks of unassimilated temper which you will have to run, You the it. when and 1 can majority remem- of occu | women: but our Civil War came, and the hosts of men went forth from North and South; and to conduct the business of our cities during the patriotic ab- places; and multitudes of women, who bad been hitherto supported by fathers and Lrothers and sons, were compelled from that time to take care of them- selves. From that time a mighty change took place favorable to female employment, Among the occupations appropriate for women I place the following, into many of which she has already entered, and all the others she will enter: Sten ography and you may find her at nearly all the reportorial stands in our educa- tional, political and religious meetings, Saving banks, the work clean and hon- orable, and who so great a right to toll there, for a woman founded the first saving bank—Mrs, Priscilla Wakefield? Copyists, and there is hardly a profes sional man that does not need the ser- vice of her penmanship; and, as amanu- ensis, many of the greatest books of our day have been dictated for her writing, There they are as florists and confec- tioners and music teachers and book- keepers, for which they are specially QUALIFIED BY PATIENCE AND AC. CURACY ; and Wood-engraving, In which the Cooper Institute has turned out so many qualiled; and Telegraphy, ior which she is specially prepared, as thousands of the telegraphic offices will testify. Photography, and in our establishments a may there at cheerful work, nearly all be found workers in translators, as a8 ht-wo- bp men, as li arn woes no one but women could so appropri- ately and delicately do. On the Bo ing platform; for you know the brilliant success of Mrs, Livermore and Mrs, Hallowell and Ms, Willard ind Mus, Lathrop. As physiological lecturers to their own sex, for which service there is a demand appalling and terrific. As preachers of the Gospel, and all the pro- tests of ecclesiastical courts cannot hin- der them, for they have a pathos and a power in their religious utterances that men can never reach, Witness all those who have heard their mother pray. 0, young women of Americal as many of you will have to fight your own battles alone, do not wait until you are flung of disaster, your father is dead, and all the resources of your family have been scattered; but now, while in a good house and environed by all pros- perities, learn how to do some kind of WORK THAT THE WORLD MUST HAVE as long as the world stands, Turn your attention from the embroidery of fine glippers, of which there is a surplus, and make a useful shoe. Expend the time in which you adorn a cigar-case in learning how to make a good, honest loaf of bread. Turn your attention from the making of flimsy nothings to the manufacturing of important some- things, Much of the time spent in young ladies’ seminaries in studying what are called the “higher branches” better be expended in teaching them something by which. they could support themselves, If you are going to be teachers, or if you have so much as- sured wealth that you can always dwell in those high regions, trigonometry of course, metaphysics of course Latin and Greek and German and French and Italian of course, and a hundred other things of course ; but if you are not ex- pecting to teach, and your wealth is not established beyond misfortune, you have learned the ordinary branches, take hold of that kind of study that will pay in dollars and cents in case you are thrown on your own re- Learn to do something better anybody else. Buy Virgina Penny's book, entitled "The Employ- ments of women! and learn there are five hundred ways in which a n a living, “No, no I’ savs some young “1 will not undertake anything UNROMANTIC AND COMMONPLACE that, An excell*nt WwWOornan, Sy as author way of preparation, 8 prominent chem- advertised that he would teach a class of women to become drugeists and apothecaries if they would go through ist is printer advertised that he would take class of women fo learn the trade if they would go through an ap- prenticeship as men do, and how many, according to the account of the authoress, in the druggist business and printing business? Not one! ‘But,’ you “what would my father and mother say if they saw I was doing ts ask, such UNFASHIONABLE WORK?" yw the whole responsibility upon the pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, who is constantly hearing of young Bhi) ol roundings for the awful struggle of life into which they have been suddenly hurled, seemed to have thing left now and damnation. There they go along the streets seven o'clock in the wintry mornings, through the slush and storm, to the place where they shall earn only half enough for subsistence, daughters of once prosperous merchants, lawyers, clergymen, artists, bankers and capitalists, who brought up their chil dren under the infernal delusion that it was not high-toned for women to learn a profitable calling. take this affair in your own hand, and perous families of Brooklyn and New knowledge in occupations and styles of business by which they may be their own defence and their own support if al hands forever fail them. I have seen TWO BAD SIGHTS the one a woman in all the glory of her young life, stricken by disease, and ina week lifeless in a home of which she had been the pride. As her hands were folded over the still heart and her eyes closed for the last slumber, and she was taken out amid the lamentations of kin- dred and friends, I thought that was a sadness immeasurable, But I have seen something compared with which that scene was bright and songful, It was a young woman who had been all her days amid wealthy surroundings, by the visit of death and bankruptcy to the household turned out on a eold world without one lesson about how to get food or shelter, and into the awful whirlpool of city life, where strong ships have gone down, and for twenty years not one word has been heard from her, Vessels last week went out on the At- lantic Ocean, looking for a shipwrecked craft that ‘was left alone and forsaken onthe sea a few weeks ago, with the jden of bringing it into port. But who shall ever bring again into the harbor of peace and hope and heaven that lost womanly immortal, driven in what fem aflame in what conflagration sinking into what abyss? O God, help! 0 Christ, rescue ! jsters, give not yonr time to fancy work which the world may with in bard times, but connect your skill with THE INDISPENSABLES OF LIVE, The world will always want some- thing to wear and something to eat, and shelter and fuel for the y, and knowlekge for the mind, and religion for the soul. And all these things will continue to be the necessaries, and if are especially endowed TRY FIRST fEACHER of every child, by Divine ar of every child, by Divine atrangement, uated after & department, till there is only a unit, and that yourself, For a while you may keep wages and a place through the kindly sympathies of an employer, but you will eventully get no more eom- pensation than you can make yourself worth. Let me say to all women who have already entered upon the battle of life, that the time is coming when woman shall not only get as much salary and wages as men get, but for certain styles of employment women will have higher salary and more wages, for the reason that for some styles of work they have more adaptation. But this JUSTICE WILL COME TO WOMAN, not through any sentiment of gallantry, not because woman is physically weaker than man, and, therefore, ought to have more consideration shown her, but be- cause through her finer natural taste and more grace of manner, and quicker perception, and more delicate touch, and more educated adroitness, she will, in certain callings, be to her employer worth ten per cent, or twenty per cent, more than the other sex. She will not get it by asking for it, but by earning it, and it shall be hers by lawful con- { quest, Now, men of America, be fair, and GIVE THE WOMEN A CHANCE, Are you afraid that they will do some of your work, and hence harm your | prosperities? Remember that there are ! of thousands of men doing { women’s work. Do not be afraid ! God { BCOTres tean feed and shelter, and when it gets { too full He will end the world, and, if { need be, start another, God will halt ithe inventive faculty, which, by “3 - {out work. I hope there will not be ing machine, or corn-thresher, or other new machine, for the next five hundred years. We want no more | wooden hands and iron hands and steel i hands and electric hands substituted for | men and women, who would otherwise {do the work and the liviihood, But god will arrange all, and have to do is to do our best and { Him for the rest. let me cheer al | women fighting the battle of life alo | with the fact of thousands of WOMEN WHO HAVE WON Mary Lyon, founder of Mount Female Seminary, fought the Adelaide Newton, the tract distributor, alone ; Fidelia Fisk, the consecrated missionary, | Dorothea Dix, angel of the insane asylums, alone ; | indispensable { the day. i Holvoke : hattle alone; the reinforcement of her . alone ; Maria Takrezewska, the of the Berlin hospital, al Chalmers, patron of for the poor of Edinis | alone, And thousands and thousands of women, of whose and self-sacrifice and glory of character world has mads no ord, but whose deed are in the heavenly archives 3 1 brothe: $1 heroine ! Helen schools the red i i SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. BunDAY, JAN. 20, 1888, Peter Contessing Christ, LESSON TEXT. Matt, 16: 13.28, Memory verses, 15-17.) LESSON PLAN, Toric oF THE QUARTER; King tn Zion. GOLDEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER: He is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and fatthful.—Rev, 17 : 14, Jesus the Lesson Toric: The d_.vq's Follow- ers Instructed, 71, The Bource oi Right Knowiedge, Yi 15.17 wire ihe lesson | 2. The Foundation of Christ's Church, Outline : | ve 18.21 | 8. The Spirit of True Discipleship, va nas GoLpex Text: Whosorver there- fore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Falher which is in heaven. ~Matt, 10 : 32, Dairy Home READINGS: MM. Matt, 16 : 13-28, The King's followers instructed, T.—Mark 8 : 27-38. Mark’s paral- lel narrative, W-—Luke 9 : 18.27. lel narrative, T.~—John 6 Christ, Eph, 2: foundation. 8-1 Cor. foundation, Matt. 7 foundation. iike's paral- 60-69, Jesus the F. The 1-22. 1-15. Christ £3 Ld >, 21-20 The rn A An LESSON ANALYSIS, . Wrong Opinions : Some say John: 14). Herod. . . said. This Baptist (Matt, 14 : 2}. Others said, It is a prophet (Mark 6 : 15%. t was said by some, . appeared (Luke 9 : 7). Many of them said, He hath a devil John 10 : 20), 11. Right Opinions. Thou art the Christ, living God (16 Of a truth thon Matt. 14 : 33 Peter saith Christ (Mark B ; John the is the Son of the an ito hi al] i i their the thirty or fifty or eighty years of earthly existence, shall through pointed out with the admiring “These are they who came out of tribulation and had their robes washed and make white in the | Lamb.» great blood $11 {life alone, that their conflict will tend. There is one wonl written over i word is Despair. APPEAL TO CHRIRT, comforted their domestic trouble, and who in His % who own hands and feet and heart, as He {and called a friends attention to care of her any longer, would have done, if [had Lived, held thy I” If, under Bee mother | pressure of unrewanded and unappre- ciated work, your hair is whitening and very last fatigue, and may your depart- ure be as pleasant as that of Graham, who closed her life with a smile and the word *“Peace.”’ The daughter of ja regiment armory is all surrounded by bayonets of she is kept safe. And you are the the Lordof Hosts, Afterall, you are not fighting the battle of life alone. All; heaven ison your side. You will be wise to appropriate to yourself the words of sacred rhythm : One who has known in storms to sail 1 have on board: Above the roaring of the gale 1 hosr my Lord. tie holds me : when the billows smite 1 shall not fall. If short, "tis sharp ; if long, "tis Yght, He tempers all. ai —— Home Love and Sympathy. The years of childhood and boyhood are as it were, a sort of prophetic reci- i i 3 i : | | i i i 8 i 68, Thou art the John 11 IL Infallible Teaching: Fle h and blood hath t revealed unto i Father (17 i +n shall be taught : 13). God revealed them thy frit (1 Cor. 2: 10), shined in our hearts, to gi (2 Cor. 4: 6). pleasure us son in me (Gal Christ, the Son oY « wid le Li thee, but my of the Unto the Sp Grond 1s ough ve the ligi It was the good hs God... .t0 reveal | i 1:15, 16). 1. “Who do men say that the Son of man is?" 1} A great personage ; (2% A varied estimate ; (3; A diver gent report.—{1} Who the Son of man is said to be: (2) Who the Son of man really is, of 3 de 8 the living God.” (1) The Messiah- ship of (2) The Sonship of Jesus, —{1} Christ's fullness appre- hended : (2) Christ's fullness fessed, JESUS § it unto thee.’ vealed | denied ; firmed, THE FOUNDATIONS CHURCH, Divine Parpose : I will build my chawrch (18). # shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied (Isa 53 : 11). 1t is he that shall save his people from their sins (Matt. 1: 21). is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom (Luke 12: 32). Human Divine disclosure {<3 {<) impartation af- §“F ia 1. OF CHRIST'S L H it Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it (Eph. 5: 25). IL Apostolic Service : 1 will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom (19). As a wise master-builder 1 laid a foun- dation {1 Cor. 3 : 10). In Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel (1 Cor, 4:15). The foundation of the apostles and prophets (Eph. 2 : 20). Twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles {Rev. 21: 14). 111. Vicarious Saffering: He must go,....and suffer,....and be killed, and. . . . be raised up (21). He was wounded for our transgressions (Isa. 53 : 5). The Son of man came....to give his life a ransom (Matt, 20 : 28), Who was delivered up for our tres passes (Rom. 4 : 25). Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all {1 Tim. 2:6). 1. “Upon this rock I will build my church.” (1) The foundation ; (2) The building ; 2 The bulldere.s) Ths rock ; (2) The church ; (3) Jord, 2. ““The gates of Hades shall not pre- vail against it.” (1) Powerful foes ; a Fruitless assaults (1) The arch assailed; (2) T Church secure. 3. “He must go....and suffer,.... and be killed, and,....be raised up. 3 (1) Outgoing ; (2) Suffering ; Ch Dying ; (4) Rising. IIL, THE SPIRIT OF TRUE DISCIPLESHIP, [ am come, . . . .not to do mine own will (John 6 : 38). Christ also pleased not himself (Bom, 15: 8}. Ij). Not IAfe-soeking : Whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it (25). Be not anxious for your life (Matt, 6:26). He that loseth: his life for my sake shall find it (Matt, 10 : 39), Whosoever would save his life shall lose it (Mark 8 : 35). He that loveth his life loseth it (Joh 12 : 25). 1. “Get thee behind me, Satan,” (1) Satan’s subtle approach ; (2) Batan’s quick detection ; (3) Batan’s crush- ing rebuke, —(1) An apostolic tool ; (2) A Satanic operator ; (3) A divine Judge, 2, “Whosoever would save his life shall lose it*’ (1) A popular pur- pose ; (2; A disastrous failure, (1} Life sought; (2) Death found. 3. “If he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life.” (1) The gain; (2) The loss ; (3) The profit, - wit ihren LESSON BIBLE READING, CHRIST AND H18 CHURCH, He loves his church (Eph. 5 : 25, 20). He gave himself for it (Gal. 2 : 20; Eph. bi:26). He redeemed 18, 193, He 5, + in its Head Eph. 1:22; iis body (Eph, 1 : 23: t is his bride (Rom. 7 : 4; is assured {Matt it (Acts 20: 28:1 Pet. 1: sanctifies it (1 Cor. 6 ag wh ie 14 LESSON SURROUNDINGS, Jetween the last and present Matthew and Mark insert | further journeyings of our Lord and disciples. The miracles of healing n | tioned in Matthew 15 : 30, 31, | place on the east side of the lake. They i were followed by another miraculous | feeding of great multitudes (Matt, 15 : | 32.88: Mark 8: 1-9). This too occurred | on the eastern side. It is, however, in | both accounts, carefully distinguished | from the previous multiplication of the loaves and fishes: not only by different details given, but also by subsequent | reference to the two miracles as distinct | (Matt. 16 : 9, 10; Mark 8 19-21). The urney {or voyage AO POSK to the western { Magadan,” or Dal- 15:38; Mark 8: 10 Version reads ‘'Mag- " and confused typographical led to the assumption that this lace was in Decapolis, But this vovage it was followed by teaching of our Lord ir He at encountered I speedily withdrew side of the lake {Matt ~4; Mark 8: 11-13), These journeyings were not without sufficient reason, On little company moved toward Bethsaida Julias; and as they v our Lord warned his disciples against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees { Matt, 16 : 5-12; Mark 8: 14- 21). At Bethsaida another case of | gradual bealing occurred {Mark 8 : 22- 26), Thence the journey was norih- ward Ceesarea Philippi, near the head-waters of the Jordan, the scene of | the present lesson | The time was the summer of the yea: of Rome 782, —A. D, 29, Parallel passages: Mark 8 © Luke © : 18-27. acooun Was side next Tod the inne borders « * { Matt. 3 1 ge4d wi ULHOTIseg to Galilee, and i once 10 i ib the eastern side the ent ’ § Y « 4 0 37109: : i: | Girls who Can Make Their Own Way. i | Did girls get from childhood the | game business training as boys, and | were it clearly understood in all fam- { ilies that it is not a credit, but a discre- | dit, for women to be idle to hang belp- {less on the men instead of doing their | own work, and, if necessary, earning | thelr own living, 1believe society would | be not the worse but the better for the | change. Men wound find out that the | more they elevate women the greater use they get out of them. If, instead | of a man working himself to degth for his unmarried daughters and then leav- | ing them ignominivusly depeuden’, upon | male relations, he educated them to in- | dependence, made them able eboth to maintain and protect themselves, it would save him and them a world of unhappiness, They would cease to be either the rivals—a | very hopeless rivalry— or the play- | things first and then the slaves of men, | and become, as was originally intend- i ed, their co-mates, equal and yet differ- ent, cach sex supplying the others de- ficiencies and therefore fitted to work together, not apart, for the good of the world, —————— SS A ——— The Best Pet of AIL The best pet of all is the little child oid enough to talk and to understand, with a child’s comprebension, The child that is a pet is always promising to be a better pet, because a more ap- preciative one, Its receptive and re- tentive mind is greedily gathering ten thousand facts and then ten thousand
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