Part 5 (1/2)

Generally the world's cold, nipping scorn, coirl would much rather work in a factory, or a 'saloon,'

because she can be called 'Miss,' dress finer, and iirl! It is this delusion, this false pride, that crowds the streets nightly with pretty young girls, some of whom count only twelve short summers With Hamlet, I exclaim, 'Oh, horrible! irl, Annie C, not seventeen, and she attended in a restaurant I once said to her, 'Why do you not take the situation of a seaentleman's fa, 'Me be a servant! That will do very well for Irish, or Dutch, or English girls, but I aood as anybody_'

”However, this girl afterwards went as a ballet-girl at one of the lowest places in Boston; and the last account I heard of her was, she was travelling with an Ethiopian troop _alone_ Poor young creature!

ill be her end? The truth is, that after a girl is fifteen years old, in this country, she considers herself a person of _sound judgment_, and the parents look up to these sprites with a sort of deferential fear These girls are si everything they are incapable of understanding And who could be charmed with such woenuine well-bred woarb; and shoddy vulgarity, even should it be incased in rubies and diamonds, will only be rendered the lance can discover the difference--to those who cannot be deceived, even by the radiant sparkling of these richest of gehts” They would like, if they kne, to turn the world upside down, and inside out This great desire a a certain class of women, to have the world think that they possess enerally proceeds from persons ish to create a sensation, and fail to do so in the station they belong to When a woo out of her natural element, she shows that her intellect is shallow, and she is desirous of being thought greater than her sex generally; while, in reality, she discovers to us her own littleness These people seem to wish to be what it is impossible for them ever to becoe, He said, 'It is not good that man should live alone: I will make him a helpmeet' Now, had Godthe same pursuits, and capable of the same herculean labors that evidently is meant to be man's destiny, why, He would have made _another man_ But no! When God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Ada in EVERY WAY THE COMPLEMENT OF MAN And, after they ate of the tree of knowledge, God said to the woman, 'Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall RULE _over thee_' And unto Adam he said, 'Because thou hast _hearkened_ unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree which I co, _Thou shalt_ not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;' thus plainly de to us, that MAN was ry_ because Adam HEARKENED unto the voice of his WIFE; and Ada So it is clear to be seen, that wo for her offspring, and man was intended to labor as the provider for her whom he chose as a helpmeet, as well as for the entire household Wo before she is able to leave her couch Does not all this prove to every thinking person that woood and perfection of wo contentedly in the place which God has assigned the If the hand wishes to be in the place of the eye, and the eye wishes to be where the hand is, they becoood order and harmony of the body Now it is the same with the aged in the occupation which God has chosen for them, they enjoy a profound peace; they rest under His protection; they are nourished by His grace; they are enriched by His blessings, and work out their eternal happiness with but little pain

This truth, however, is considered byimportance; they seem not to care as to whether they live up to their divine calling or not The Holy Ghost, however, admonishes every one thus: ”Let every man abide in the vocation to which he was called” (1 Cor vii 20); for, ”Blessed is the man that shall continue in wisdom--and that considereth her ways in his heart”--(Eccles xiv 22, 23) Blessed that wo, penetrates into, and adth and heart, to comply with all its duties One of the most usual temptations which the arch-enemy of mankind makes use of to shake woust and dissatisfaction for their divine calling Hence it is that we so often hear theing their condition of life, they shall fare better: yes, provided they changed themselves Would to God they were sworn eneerous, and bad desires! God wills to speak to them amidst the thorns, and out of the midst of the bush (Exod iii 2), and they will Hientle air_”--(III Kings, xix 12) They ought, then, to remain on board the shi+p in which they are, in order to cross froht to rely, and with affection Let the else; let them not wish for that which they are not, but let them earnestly desire to be the very best of what they are Let them endeavor to do their best to perfect theeously all the crosses, light or heavy, that they may encounter

Let the principle, and yet the one least understood in the Christian life_ Every one follows his own taste; very few place their happiness in fulfilling their duty according to the pleasure of our Lord What is the use of building castles in Spain, e are obliged to live in America? ”As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that leaveth his place” (Prov xxvii 8), his occupation, or station of life Let every wo, if she wishes to insure her tranquillity of mind, her peace of heart, her temporal and eternal happiness

To become unfaithful to their vocation is for woh some accident, has been wrenched out of place They are continually tormented by evil spirits, who have power over a soul that is out of its proper sphere They are no longer under the protection of God, since they have withdrawn frouidance, and voluntarily abandoned His watchful Providence They fall often into grievous sins, because they are not sustained by the grace which belongs to the state in which God desires them to be A woman, therefore, can never show her superior intellectual powers better than by cheerfully accepting the calling for which the Creator evidently intended her; that is, for _woman, wife, and mother_

CHAPTER VIII

EVIL CONSEQUENCES OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM CONTINUED

Few questions affect so directly the welfare and interests of the people as the question of education; and assuredly, in this country, there is none ofand permanence of our national institutions These, our institutions, our prosperity and civilization, depend for their permanence and perpetuity, not so much on the culture of the arts, sciences, literature, or philosophy, as on the general diffusion of the salutary and vivifying principles of religion

History tells us in its every page, that the decline and downfall of nations have ever been caused by irreligion and immorality

Indeed, it is not the State that has in, keep _itself_ or _them_ free It has no mission to reform men or manners; its boasted material civilization is no civilization at all For stea, and in fact all the arts and natural sciences, have never civilized or converted one e, and never will They are the results of civilization, and even then the least part Nor are they adequate to maintain or preserve the State What is called _ else than _polished barbarisence of a man, and the cruelty and instincts of a beast It may flatter the vanity of modern nations to think they are superior to the ancients in scientific and industrial developreatly mistaken I admit the superiority of the moderns, but not on this account In the first place, many arts and products of head and hands have been lost, but even those that remain are the envy and despair of ed by comparison with its contemporaries Yet they have fallen; and antiquarian travellers search in vain for the ruins of the proudest and greatest cities of the past The nation and people--the raved their names on the imperishable fields of Plataea and Marathon, who conquered at Salamis, or died at Thermopylae--that carried eloquence, heroise which boasted of Pericles and Praxitelles, of Plato and Aristides--perished from excess of its material civilization, deprived, as it was, of the vital eleion Without this no nation can live, nor exhibit in its actions true grandeur, or nobility of character There is a such a cruelty, a perfidy, and a beastly lust, which sooner or later bring on their decay and ruin

Look at ancient Rome, the once proud mistress of the world In her palmiest days, amidst her thousands of marble palaces and triumphal arches, amidst her innumerable temples and altars, there was _not one to Mercy_ Nor was there, ale _hospital_ for the poor of any age or condition The Roions to the ”_Hither Inde_,” and far beyond the depths of ”_Hercynian forests_” Conquered kings ated nations to swell her triuth of the then knoorld lay at her feet

Here was exhibited on a scale--the grandest the world ever saill see--the triumphs of ”_material civilization_” Yet all this cru-haired ”_barbarian hordes_,” co they knew not whither, only able to give the single answer, that they were ”_the scourge of God_” Where, then, was the power to save? It was not in their ions What all these could not do was acco in the nahty God, unknown alike to Attila and to Rons, and Him it is the State would exclude fro alike the lessons of history and its Christian duty These United States, or no existing nation (relatively to the age), has never attained the point of artistic, aesthetic, social or material perfection of the Greco-Roman States; yet they fell, as I have just said, to slavery and ruin, not soinfluence of a _ inevitably in public and private impotence and demoralization

Only keep up the present Godless system of State education, and depend on it, as sure as effect follows cause, every species of villany and defilement will flood the land It is certain that all education which is not based on religion is heathenish, and must prove destructive in the end It will destroy the very people whom it was expected to save

It will consume theht on the ”Cities of the Plain”

the material fires of heaven? Or ere the sins and crimes of the Gentile nations that called forth the terrible chastisements predicted by the prophets? Why, the self-same pride, worldly-ard of God and His lahich is at this hour taught in the Public Schools This, I ae, but it is made with all deliberation and sense of responsibility Indeed, the ancients were in many respects more excusable than we are They had but the Old Laays incomplete and obscure, whilst we live under the fulfilraces Now, if God did not spare the ”Cities of the Plain,” if He destroyed the ancient nations in punishard of Himself and His lahat reason have our eance--they who in every respect are ht? Let the measure of the evil consequences of the Public School system become full, and rest assured the wrath of God will not fail to come down upon the Areat punishment for the whole country Thousands of men were launched into eternity unprepared to appear before their Eternal Judge Yet this punishment is only a forerunner of a far more terrible one The Lord is patient, and slow in punishi+ng a whole nation, which He may spare for many years for the sake of His just Yet for all that He will not fail to punish private families, fathers, and ard for Hiive theive you some instances, taken from the little book ”Fate of Infidelity,” by a Converted Infidel

”You all have, undoubtedly, heard of Blind Palmer, a professed infidel

After he had tried to lecture against Christ he lost his sight, and died suddenly in Philadelphia, in the forty-second year of his age You will also have heard of the so-called Orange County Infidel Society They held, ae in lasciviousness, and that it was right to regulate their conduct as their propensities and appetites should dictate; and as these principles were carried into practical operation by so to the association, in one instance a son held criminal intercourse with his mother, and publicly justified his conduct The step-father, and husband to the mother who thus debased herself, boldly avowed that, in his opinion, it was ht to hold such intercourse The members of this impious society were visited by God in a remarkable e or unnatural manner One of these was seized with a sudden and violent illness, and in his agony exclaimed: 'My bowels are on fire--die I must,' and his spirit passed away

”Dr H, another of the party, was found dead in his bed the next

”D D, a printer, fell in a fit and died immediately, and three others were droithin a few days

”B A, a lawyer, came to his death by starvation, and C C, also educated for the bar, and a er, and filth

”Another one, who had studied to be a preacher, suddenly disappeared, but at length his remains were found fast in the ice, where he evidently had been for a long time, as the fowls of the air, and the inhabitants of the deep, had consumed the most of his flesh