AMERICA'S LIFE
RESTS ON FAMILY
Without Soundness In the Home
All Else Is Naught.
WOMAN THERE PRE-EMINENT
By Rev. Dr. NEWELL DU IOHT HILLIS.PmIo
of Plynouth church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
la "The Ameri
can Family" I)r.
Newell Dwlgbt
II i 1 1 1 it, pastor of
Plymouth church,
Brooklyn, pays
tribute to Amer
ican womanhood
and Its work in
uplifting and
maintaining the
good iu American
life. He chose ax
Ills text for this
one of the aeries
of aermous he is
preaching Prov
erbs xxxi.
BEY. DR. NEWELL
DWJOHT II1LLIH.
By way of pre-eminence the Ameri
can family la (be first and most Im
l>ortaut of American Institutions. No
other Idea lies go close to the heart
of our eager and commanding Ameri
can society. From the family have
come our school, our church and all
our civic Ideas. The republic could
spare all Its otber forms of democracy
more easily than It could the loss of the
Idea of the family.
The mere mention of certain names?
the Field family In connection with the
Atlantic cable, the movement for Inter
national law and the great names on
the bench o f the supreme court? Is fill
ed with suggestion. Witness also the
family of Lyman Beecher and the
Adams family of New England. Mul
tiply these families and their Influence
is the shadow cast across the land in
the form of the institutions they cre
ated. No other nation has exalted the
family after the fashion of this repub
lic. In this republic all things were
and are and will be for the sake of the
family.
In the interest of the home and the
beloved ones there all the wheels turn
round, all the ships set sail, all the
tools work by night and day. To bring
back treasure to the borne men dare
the chill under the frozen north and
burn under the tropic sun. Take the
family out of American society and It
la taking the intellect from the body,
the beat from the sunbeam, the cul
ture from the library, the nun from the
sky, leaving only a black and empty
socket. When the sun dies all the
harvests die with It.
The History of the Family Is the His
In general the history of the family
is the history of woman and her love.
It is a singular fact that the libraries
bold the history of wars, arts, law,
ships, engines, stones, stars, but that
no one has ever written a history of
4ove. An American scholar In one of
his "club essays" lias commented
with keen satire upon the oversight of
the historian as to that strange tumult
of the heart that begins with the ex
change of flowers, that Journeys on to
ward poetry and dally letters, tint be
gins to talk In images j>f paradise <^r
bell and before the lnfla"nimation"lias
d culminates iu a wedding or a
The history of literature Is very
largely the history of this beautiful
aud pathetic attachment that estab
lishes the family and has enriched the
home through all the centuries. In
the far off Hebrew days the old book
tells us about a brave boy and a beau
tiful girl who at night fell down and
prayed to God that they might grow
old together. That enthronement of
the heart explains the Ideal of Re
bekah and Isaac.
Woman's Place In Literature.
Italian literature was born with
Beatrice, just as Laura made Petrarch
aud Francesca transfigured Paolo. It
Is a woman also that walks through
all the pages of Mallory's "Morte d'
Arthur" and glorifies each Idyl of the
king. 8bakesi>eare understood, for It
is a man's blunder that precipitates
every crisis in the life of Ilamlet, slain
by indecision; of Othello, stupid, slain
by bis own jealousy; of Henry VII 1
and Wolsev, ruined through selfish
ness aud blbul ambition. Always
when redemption comes It Is at the
hand of some Imogene, I'ortla or Cor
delia. Every novelist of the first order
of intellect puts woman in the very
heart of the scene. Jeante I>eans
sheds luster upon all who stand with
in the circle of her life. Hawthorne's
Hester glorifies the dark shadows of
"The Scarlet Letter." At the Monday
Literary club in the I'arker House.
Boston, about 1870 Ralph Waldo Em
erson made the statement that the
novel was in some respects the high
est form of literature, but was Impos
sible without a woman standing in the
center.
A Book Without a Woman.
A young men, "Adirondack" Murray,
then and there affirmed that be could
write a novel that would succeed with
out mentioning the name of woman.
No woman's name is mentioned in
the pages, but unconsciously Murray
revealed the failure of his book in the
title, "The Storr of a Man Who Didn't
Know Much." The central figure in
Murray's tale Is a youth who had all
the feminine qualities, through which
tory of Woman.
Murray hoped to evoke the sympathetic
intervst of his reeder*. It could not
lie otherwise. Society Is a unit repre
senting the union of two temi>era
iiients. the masculine that Is fixed and
unalterable, the feminine with which
the woman in stained through and
through, like crimson set in the tluest
wool that cannot l?e washed out. God
never Intended that men should ho
feminized or women made virile. The
pathetic attachment that has subsisted
between great #ou!s like Itebekeh and
Isaac, Aspasla and Pericles, ltobert
Browning and Elizabeth Barrett tells
us plainly that the path of love in the
only road that leads to paradise, that
can turn a hut into a house, a tent Into
a palace and, though the house be ouly
a frail tent set up In the desert, with
no lamp save the light of the firefly,
yet for Jacob home Is where Itachel Is
and heaven Is that unseen city of
amethyst behind whose walls of silver
Itachel hath disappeared.
Th# Breakdown of the Family.
Now, all these considerations In
crease the alarm of patriots who love
their country when we come to consld
vr the threatened breakdown of the
American family. There Is a well
known principle In economics that a
strong demand will create the Instru
ments for the supply. The mere fact
that there are now 3,000 courts to
which unhappy couples may repair for
divorce publishes the keen demand for
institutions that can sever a tie that
is frail as a thread, but should be as
strong as a steel cable. It Is a far cry
from the .'1,000 divorce courts of today
back to the time a century and a half
ago, when the mother of Alexander
Hamilton, a beautiful Huguenot girl,
living in the West India islands, want
ed a divorce from the Dane, who had
become drunken, cruel and depraved,
who had gone back to Europe and from
whom she never heard again. There
was not one court In the ltritlsh colo
nies or in Great Britain that could
give a decree of separation. Divorce
meant that, tit* woman with her
wrongs must go to London, secure In
fluence strong enough to carry a bill
through the house of commons at an
expense of about $5,000. Now tike pen
dulum has swung to the other ex
treme.
Divorce In America.
There are now .1,000 divorce mills
grinding all day long In our country.
Sixteen thousand divorces have been
granted within a single year, though
the same year witnessed only 800 di
vorces In England and about a score
in Canada. Indeed, the records of our
country showed some time ago three
divorces in Canada and over 10,000 In
our country. Most .disquieting the
spectacle of the minister uniting young
men and women in the morning and a
judge separating them in the after
noon. The blackest part of the trage
dy concerns the children, now denied
a father's guiding hand and now with
out a mother's love. '
Reasons For Divorce.
From the viewpoint of Tennyson's
"Dream of Fair Women" of the nine
teenth century anil our own observa
tion of noble women in the twentieth
woman's chief motive for asking sep
aration is her revulsion from the im
morality of man. Some poor women
appeal to the courts because of non
support and the neglect of a man to
provide for his children. At rare in
tervals a working woman seeks re
dress from n Judge because the man
is a tyrant and so Brutal in his speech
that the little children flee at the ap
proach of their father as the dove
flees from the hawk and the lamb from
the coming of the wolf. But the chief
motive in the vast majority of cases
is woiuan's djsljke of lepers, physical
and 'moral. Thlnlt of what lies back
of the fact that in a brief interval ry
ccntljr tiftecn tnudiw babes born In
the tenement regions of New York
were committed to homes for feeble
minded children! Even in the farotT
times of lMlny, sixty years after the
birth of Jesus, the Koman lawyer ex
plains tlie divorce evil by the immoral
ity of meu. How significant is this
passage: "Five hundred years after
the i'lty of the Seven Hills was found
ed a divorce case obtained a place In
our legal record. 1 will not undertake
to assert that there were no divorces
for the first f>00 years of the life of
Itome, but certain it Is that there is
no authentic recorded divorce during
these tirst five centuries." Then what
happened? During the era of luxury
and manimoulsm meu bccame false,
immoral, sensual. For a time the Ko
man matrons cherished secret anger,
then their Indignation broke into
speech. At last these Injured women
took on the aspect of the unrelenting
tigress whose whelps have been In
jured, and within a single month fifty
Koman matrons poisoned their hus
bands. What evil men did sow that
they were made to reap.
Woman'* Revolt.
Either the worklngmen of this coun
try must give up whisky, sensualism,
drugs, and maintain a life of hculth
ami sobriety and keep themselves as
clean within and without as they were
during their twenties when they were
lovers, or else the working women are
going to refuse to War children that
carry forward the sins of their fathers.
Those women understand the threat
ened breakdown of the American phy
sique. It is not their fault that in the
tenement house region children are
born with imperfect vision, teeth with
out enamel, feeble hearts and poor cir
culation. Scieuce, sound ethics, love
of humanity, all unite in telling us
that these working women are right in
the rebellion that they are organizing.
One of the duties that lie in front of
our legislators is the duty of giving
every mother, rich or i>oor, at least
$100 a year for the supi>ort of every
babe she bears until the child is four
teen years of age. When the state
plnys fair with these mothers there will
be a revolution Id this country. The
overthrow of the saloon will ?lo much
to bring In this new era. ami that In
a victory already within sight.
The New Woman.
What, then, is the Influence of the
so called "new woman" upon the A mer
' lean family? So farreaching la that
fju< -iti> n that the answer uiuat be baaed
ni'ou an unaly?-i* of what mukea the
twctilleth century American woman to
l t> K|t->ncu of as u "new woman." Flrat
of nil. .-lie Is an educated woman. One
hundre 1 yeais have now passed since
I die I: st ii liiuli a<hool waa thrown
open to (,'iil* with hungry minds. Dur
ing thin ? entury young women have
exblhft d mi enthusiasm for the higher
education <julte undreamed of during
other centuries. In the average high
school of the country two young wom
en graduate to every young man. The
boy In lila eagerness to enter business
drops out of the higli school, while the
girl carrlea on her studies. In the state
university also, little by little, young
women are equaling In number the
you uk men who are studying for the
professions. If this tendency continues
the time is not far distant when the
overwhelming majority of the studenta
receiving their diplomas in the depart
ments of literature, languages and the
sciences will be women.
The New Woman Hae a Clear Vision
and a Warm Heart.
To the education of the new woman
we must now add her clear vision and
her warm heart. Of old philosophers
used to say that man has an Intellect
first and Incidentally a heart, but that
woman has a heart tirst and Incidental
ly a mind. The statemeut Is meaning
less because It Is untrue. When fully
unfolded the Intellect means the whole
soul in the act of knowing, and the
heart means the whole man or wo
man In the act of feeling; but, giv
en a great sorrow, woman Is strange
ly gifted with sympathy. From a
woman's heart Is l>orn the movement
of brave Mary Ware In the time of tl^e
plague In London; the struggle for sol
diers on the battlelleld by Florence
Nightingale and Lady Augusta Stan
ley, braving every form of death In the
Crimea; the plans of the Christian
commission women in our civil war,
working with the ambulance force In
the very midst of battle; the Ited Cross
movement at the battle front of Eu
rope. And think of Mary Siessor, be
ginning as a missionary In Africa aud
little by little achieving an influence
so unique that the members of the cab
inet In England sought her advice,
that the native tribes appealed to her
decision, that feuds between states and
warring hosts might be settled!
Influence of Women In American So
ciety.
No words fan describe the influence
of tlie modern woman in American so
ciety. Who can tell the achievements
of these women who have organized
the movement for the higher education
In Wellesley, Yasser, Smith and Bryn
Mawr! Women like Frances Wlllard
and Jane Addams and l>r. Anna Shaw
and a host of others have changed the
very atmosphere of this laud.
Women without financial ability?
llarriman and Itussell Sage and the
man who founded the l?on Marclie in
Paris all \Jeft their millions to their
wives. Wben that Frenchwoman lost
her husband she carried the sales of
the Hon Marclie from r>0,000.<XH> of
francs up to HX),<x>o,ooo and 200,000,
<XH>. because #lie was free through
death to work out her own ideas.
When the bees that are the female
workers and collect all the sweets in
the hive have gotten through with
their lords they sting the males to
death, and the females spend the win
ter eating the honey that their own
skill gathered.
I V
Pre-eminence of Women Through Skill
and Delicacy.
An ox cart demands a man's muscle;
steam locomotives depend upon a
man's brute strength; the next age will
be an ape of electricity and chemistry.
An electric machine Is best handled by
a delicate finger. Once the giant forces
are controlled by electricity, a woman's
sensitive hand may handle them bet
ter than a man's. An era may come,
therefore, in which women will have
the same pre-eminence in society and
the creation of wealth as the female
workers have in the beehive.
Most of the charges brought against
woman as to her Inferiority represent
the verdict of a male Jury and a male
Judge, who for purposes of self defense
brought in a verdict against woman In
general and pronounced her guilty of
Inferiority. The time may come when
women will constitute the Jury and in
dict the man for inferiority, and then
heaven help us all in the hour of the
jury's verdict, for It remains for us to
confess that in no country have women
tried so successfully to put ethics into
industry. Justice into law, geutlenesi
into government, sympathy into reform
and purity and tenderness and love
Into the household. No land can boaW
a womanhood more glorious.
Great i* the power of trade and cora
meiTi'. Wonderful the strength of man
to till the granary and the storehouse.
Marvelous the achievements of the sol
dier and the sailor, but man is not a
body. Ilis soul uses the body, and the
chief influences that shape character,
create institutions and regenerate laws
are the Influences of heart and con
science and social sympathy, that are
the pre-eminent gifts of women. As
> children we all wake to conscious life
lying upon a woman's lap, hi youth it
was a woman's hand that pointed to
the paths of prosjterity and peace, and
when the end comes, happy Is the old
man upon whose fevered brow in the
last hour a woman's hand falls, and
the first faie lieyond into which the
weary and w*>rn man shall lo?k will be
the face of a woman, his mother, who
lingers alx>'it the -ate >?( hcaveu until
her son conic* h< n ?
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Under and by virtue of the powers
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House door, in Smithfield, Johnston
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Beginning at a stake, J. A. Star
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