TALMAGE ON WOMAN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2416, 25 October 1892, Page 4

TALMAGE ON WOMAN.

Hundreds of fortunes that have been ascribed to the industry of men bear upon them the marks of a wife's hand. IJergham, the artist, was as lazy as he was talented. His studio was over the room where his wife sat. Every few minutes all day long, to keep her husband from idleness, Mrs IJergham would take a stick and thump against the ceiling, and her husband wou'd answer by stamping on the floor, the signal that he was wide awake and busy. Qne-half of the industry and punctuality that you witness every day in places of business is merely the result of Mrs Bergham's stick thumping against the ceiling. But alas for the man who has an experience anything like the afflicted parson, who said that he had had during his life three wives—the first was very rich, the second very handsome, and the third had an outrageous temper. ''So," said he, " I have had the world, the flesh, and the devil." Woman ! Direct from God, a sacred and delicate gift, with affections so great that no measuring line short of the Infinite God can tell their bound. Fashioned to refine and soothe and lift and irradiate home and society and the world; of such great value that you do not appreciate it, unless your mother lived long enough to let you understand it; or who in some great exigency of life, when all other resources failed, had a wife to reinforce with a faith ju God, Hut nothing could

disturb. Speak out, ye cradles, and tell of the feet that rocked you and the anxious fuces that hovered over you ! Speak out, ye nurseries of all Christendom, and ye homes now desolate or still in full bloom, with the faces of wife, mother, and sister, and heip me to define what a woman is!—New York Observer.