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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1895)
P-I 24 TI1JH OMAIIA DAILY BEE : WEDNESDA , MAY 1 , 1895. . i i I' ' ' ii i mi i - - - m " ' " " EUfi j ! ! -z ! UL .r- ! _ _ _ _ --j . _ - - IT T T ---i _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . . . . _ - _ . , - _ _ . _ - _ - - _ _ The Annual May 1st Do you move or clean house ? Something will be needed in either event. A car pet , some curtains or shades , or an odd piece of furniture. If you feel you can't af ford it , we will help you to buy during this May .month , by selling just what you want for less than you can possibly expect. May is our month to make customers as it is the time you want our goods. We expect to add man y to our list this May by the prices we are going to give you. No matter what your purchase is this i month , large or small , look at our goods and get the prices. Rugs. Mattings- Carpets- A good quality China Matting Sc 500 Bromley's Smyrna Rugs , 30x60 a yard. If this isn't cheap enoughc it Such wealth of color and such beauty of inch , regular price $4. 25 , May won't pay to design , combined with such low prices , have sale only . $2. GO cover . floors atfe4 f N / * * > fsj \ [ Q' not in the history of carpets been known. all. Same goods , 36x72 inch , regular price the quality 25 patterns best all wool Ingrains , regular price 700 ; K/ / - . , sale ' . . ' sale * J\J\ * $6.25 May on'y $3.75 it's a good May only deal for a lit Moquette Rugs , Smith's best , 27x54 tle. 10 patterns several pieces each pattern , to close out inch . , entire line of one make ; good quality Tapestry , regular price $3. 50 May A fine mix sale only . ed matting at Brussels ; regular price 650 ; May sale only i8c and 250 , 20 patterns very best makes of 5-frame Body Brussels Same goods , 36x72 inch , regular price and artistic with and without borders ; regular price $1.25 $4.75 , May sale only . & 8.5O Japanese cot per yard ; May sale price ton warp at Axminster Rugs , 9x12 feet , new de 250 and 35C. Furniture- signs and colorings , very desira They combine artistic effect and small ble , May sale only . $88. GO cost a difficult combination. We submit a few reasons why it will pay you to buy your Furniture from us : Drapery and Upholster } Goods. ist , we have an absolutely NEW" STOCK of furniture ; no old goods left over and marked down , This branch of our business appeals to every lover of the beautiful. The interior dec zd , In having no surplus stock to consider we were enabled in purchasing to take oration of a Home either makes or mars it , and the selection of fabrics as well as-the man quantities so necessary to get the BOTTOM PRICES. ner in which work is executed is all important. We have under an entire new management 3d. By the power of cash purchases we are enabled to give you unusual and added lines of fabrics never before brought to this city and can give intending purchasers both unequalecl VALUE. the advantages of stock on hand and of I$2 Cltisive Special Order work. VALUE.ROCKERS. . We have 225 separate , distinct styles in our stock : Polished Portieres. woods , sole leather seats , upholstered seats , pillow backs , Leather . Turkish Platform Rockers , Ladies' Slipper ' Rockers , Sewing Rockers , fine Reed and Twenty-five styles of Tarjest'ry and Derby Portieres ; plain ; fringed at bottom only ; Rattan Rockers , Rockers for the baby. fringed at top and bottom ; Bagdad and Kelim Rug effects ; two toned effects hrpinlc'blue , SPECIAL , green , crimson , brown , etc. Tapestry designs in Renaissance , D irectoire , Empire.I1 ! ' . tfr INDUCEMENTS IN - _ All silk portieres , fringed top and bottom , especially designed for draping arches , ; etc.v THIS SALE. Leather Apron Cobbler Seat * * " f * i// * Rocker , quarter-sawed oak back Bargain Basement Department. polish finish ; for the May sale only This department is the Patch Quilt of a carpet store ; it uses up the pieces , the odds and ends. Many carpet houses have held on to the odds and ends until their stock was little else. We let them go at some price. All remnants of carpets and odd pieces of borders go into the basement , at such prices as 75C for \\iltons , Velvets , Axminsters and Moquettes ; BOOK CASES 450 and 5oc for Tapestry Brussels ; 2oc to 4oc for Ingrains. You can see 50 styles of rugs made up from remnants of carpets arid borders at half to A SPECIAL BARGAIN. two-thirds piece price for the goods , not counting the making. Quarter-sawed oak case , 6 feet high , carved bracket top ; this May sale only Oak Book Case , five shelves , bracket top , 45 House Cleaning Odds and Ends. Shades mounted on spring rol Electric cleanser for cleaning Lace Curtains. lers , with fixtures complete carpets ; . . . . ' We carry the largest nnd most vnri.-d stock of Luce Curtains in this city , nnd our sales for the month ready to hang .12,4o Cacll H and H soap for cleaning car April were larger than ever in our history. We intend to make the MAY SALE eclipse April , nnd we luivo o pets 2 for.25c provided ourselves with goods for that purpose. * Curtain poles , wood , with r We have taken of the any advantage sacrifice sales enormous now In nrocress in the en < ? t nnd unn mmtA brass ball ends , sockets , rings , White tar camphorette to keep pric cs LOWER than you EVER KNEW. DO NOT FAIL to examine our stock and get quotaUons before Jou buy complete ready to hang I5c each out moths brackets . 15c Sc Set box Nottinqham9.LV-.A..7So upwards. . . Irish Point $5 Value for 93.25 , Curtain - Thread Brussels and Point Lace S45O uo to S75.OO- Rug fringe , all colors _ . 12c yard Stair rods , wood 4c each ' , . . . . . - ruffled and Point U'Esprit embroidered. $ * and upwards. Embroidered muslins , full 3yds. $2 and upwards. Tacks , 8 or 10 oz 2c piper Stair rods , brass lOc each Renaissance , Marie Antoinette , Saxony , Phrygian , etc. , in exclusive designs ! Thread , best linen 2c Oil cloth 17c yard We do the LACE CURTAIN business. ORCHARD & WILHELM CARPET CO. RELIGIOUS REFLECTIONS Various Opinions on Topics of Interest to Ohuich People. AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE fVINISTRY Experiences of tlio First Woman MluUler In tlie United States Theologi cal Schools Oj > i > n to Women. Mre. Minnie Douglass Wilson. That women are Intellectually the equals ot men Is a fact that has been proved be yond dispute. That they are entitled to "equality before the law" Is not yet so well proven. The leaders of the woman suffrage move ment In their' efforts to sustain their theory have placed themselves on precarious ground where they are liable to lose that which they liavo labored for years to gain , that Is , the good opinion of the world in general and of th.e rejig'118 ' world In particular. The venerable woman who today Is pub llshlng a so-called Woman's Bible 1ms , In her first article , shown such opposition to the ac cepted doctrine of the church universal con cerning the majesty of God , that she forfeits all right to serious attention from any devout minded person. Her chief argument Is based upon an Inference that will not bear the slm pie test of the rules of grammar , TJie Ideas advanced are revolting to a mind that recalls , _ 5 StatSl2l ? I our UlXl'V ' ? L9J" < L IVho did not kay. "H ftould seeTu iiiofe rational to suppose , " tmt who 3 U fay , speaking as one \\ltli au thority , "That In heaven there Is neither marrying nor giving In marriage. " The Idea of a heavenly mothi-r to whom we should pray Is nowhere set forth In the Scriptures , and , although a. large part of the ChrUtlan world today address on whom they term the Mother of God , yet they would declare Mrs , BUnton's argument fallacious , and with no foundation In fact. The same weakness is In the commentary on. the second chapter of Genesis , her argument having no foundation but the one of sand , "It Is fair to Infer. " Souls require facts not Inferences upon which to found beliefs. She who de nounces the author of the Dock of Genesis as a "wily writer" will alienate hosts of thosj who might have been her friends In this , which we hoped would be a veritable search after truth. Prof. M. J. Wade , speaking before the World's Congress of Religions , touched what In many cases la the keynote ot the .misery which drive's women out Into the world to crowd out men from their rightful employ ments. He emphasized "tho need of more stringent laws securing the proper support of the wife and the family. " Here Is the root from which much evil springs. Let the wife and the adult children have their due share , not an exorbitant one , of the family Income , and there will be fewer young women crowding Into factories and places ot business , fewer wives going out by the day , or leaving their husbands entirely , that they may earn enough to feed them and clothe them In a respectable manner. Woman's work in the home Is ot just as much Importance as man's work outside of the home , and of fully as much value to the welfare of thefamily. . Just so long as a wife Is mad * to feel that she Is merely a pensioner on her husband's bounty Instead of a worker entitled to Just wages there will be rebellion In her heart and In the home. Just so long as a daughter Is made to feel as If she were guilty of a crime when she Is compelled to ask for means to purchase necessary clothing sa long will the daughters of well-to-do parents leave their homes for lives of hard labor to earn their dally bread and the sweet liberty ot eating it in perfect Indepsndence. The night Hon. William D. Gladstone Ii quoted as saying that the only remedy for the divorce laws now In existence Is the making It a crime for either party to re marry. He is right. He- founds his argument on the teachings of Christ , and of His inter pretation ot the laws of Moses that bear upon this subject , and proves that marriage is a contract which no law can annul. He shows that it is only a small proportion of the In nocent partners who ever desire to re-enter tbo marriage bonds , and though these few might hayi > tojuflcr what seems au Injustice , It would be no Injustice , only the sacrifice of a few for the good of many , for the guilty partners almost Invariably seek some other Innocent life to wreck. Their being placed under restraint would withhold them from In creasing the sorrows of the world , There Is much force In his statement that where marriage is known to be a life contract , with no possibility of divorce , men and women will submit to the Inevitable and adapt them selves to their surroundings ; even as In Catholic marriages today many are living comfortably and even happily who might , without the restraint placed upon them as regards divorce , have separated long ago , but who with patience have striven to over come difficulties until they have conquered them. MINNIE DOUGLASS WILSON. Vln Uoloroxnj Via Glojnsa. Lord Jesus , Thou hast trodden once for all The Via Dolorosa and for us ! No artist power , or minstrel gift , may tell The cost to Thee of each unfaltering step. When love that passeth knowledge led Thee on , Faithful and true to God. nnd tnie to us. And now , beloved Lord , Thou callest us To follow Thee , and we will take Thy word About Jhe faith which Thou hast marked for us. Narrow-minded it Is ! Who does not choose The narrow track upon the mountain side. With ever widening vew , and freshening air. And honeyed heather , rather than the road With smoothest breadth of dust , and loss of view. Soiled blossoms not worth gathering , nnd the nolso Of wheels , Instead of silence of the hills , Or music of the waterfalls ? Oh , why Should they misrepresent Thy words , nnd make "Narrow" synonymous with "very hard ? " For Thou , Ulvlneft Wisdom , Thou hast said Thy ways are ways of pleasantness , nnd all Thy paths are peace ; and that the path of him Who wears Th'y perfect robe of righteous ness Is as the light that shlneth more and more Unto the perfect day. And Thou hast given An olden promise , rarely quoted now , liecause It Is too bright for our weak faith : "If they obey and serve Him , they shall ppend Days In prosperity , and they shall spend Their years In pleasures. " All because Thy days Were full of sorrow , and Thy lonely years Were passed In grief's acquaintance all tor us ! FRANCES RIDLEY ii o.u.j.JT.V So far as can be ascertained the first woman to preach in America was Anne Hutchlnson , who landed in Boston In 1C34 and immediately began to promulgate her peculiar doctrines. She won many converts and ex erted a powerful Influence la the community. Her followers _ made practical application of her principles to the affairs of the day. Han- croft says that her teaching Infused Its spirit Into everything. It Interfered with the levy- in of troops In luePequod war ; It Influenced the respect shown to the magistrates , the dis tribution of town lots , the assessment rates , and , in fact , most other things until she be came very obnoxious to the authorities and was banished from airfsiachusctts. From this time women are occasionally found -preaching the 'goipel , but without ec cleastlcal recognition. Susanna , the mother of the Wesleys , was by Dr. Clarke pro nounced an "able divine. " To her has been ascribed the honor of being In England "the real founder of Methodism. " High authority In this church also muntlons another woman , "Barbara Heck , the real founder of American Methodism. " The limits of this article do not permit details , nor even the mention of names pertaining to 'thU ' early period. A little later we find women among the rec ognized preachers of the Hickslte Quakers or Friends. Among them are many dis tinguished names , but none more so than that of Lucretla Mott. So tar ay the writer has been able to ascertain the first woman outsldo the sect of Friends to b regularly authorized to preach by her church was Itev. Lydla Sexton , who recently died In Seattle. Wash , , at the advanced age of 96 years. Mrs. Sexton's career was a most remarkable one. The daughter ot a Baptist clergyman named Casad , she was born In Hockport , N. J. , April 12. 1799. Shs was three times mar ried. Her first husband met his death by ac cident a few days after the wedding and ( he second lived but a short time. With the third , to whom she was married In 1829 , she lived more than fifty years , until his death , She began to preach publicly about 1842 and was actively engaged In the work for over fifty years. It was not until 1S51 that she was regularly licensed as a preacher by Joslah Turrell , presiding elder at the quar terly Illinois conference of the United Breth ren , of which church the had been for thirty years a member. When past 70 years ot age Governor Harvey of Kansas appointed her prison chaplain of the state penltcntfary. During her tem of office nearly 100 convicts embraced the Christian faith. She was a delegate to the national prison council In 1870 and a year or two later was chief among those active In the relief of the distress caused by successive failures of crops. Her ministry was a notable success from the first. Her forte was In revival work , and her converts during the first twenty or thirty years of her regular ministry num bered many thousands. In 1892 a Washing ton paper said of Mrs. Sexton : "She still frequently preaches and makes trips to sur rounding towns and holds revivals. " Her mental faculties were unimpaired to the last. She took the liveliest Interest In the con ference of women ministers of all denomina tions assembled In connection with the World's Parliament of Religions In Chicago In 1893 , and wrote that but for her blindness she would attend In person. As It was , she sent a letter of sisterly greeting , full of In spiration and wise counsel , to which the con ference replied. Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell was the first woman regularly ordained according to the usages of the modern church. She received ordination from the Orthodox Congregational church In 1S53. More than thirty years elapsed before the ordination of Ilev. Louise S. Baker In Nan- tucket. During the last decade , however , a score or more of women have been ordained In the Congregational church. Ten years after the ordination of Mrs. Blackwell two women were ordained by the Unlversallst church , and at about the same time two by the Adventlsts. Twenty years later still , the Unitarian church began to ordain women. In recent years the movement has spread rapidly , and few are aware of Its extent. The first theological school to receive women students was St. Lawrence University at Canton , N. Y. The divinity school of thb Boston University has been open to women from the first , as has that of the new Uni versity of Chicago , Tuft's college also grad uates women from Its theological department. Many other divinity schools , all of them of high grade , offer their full privileges to women. To one of the oldest and best of them , Lombard University of Galesburg , III. , belongs the honor of being first to confer upon a woman the degree of doctor ot di vinity. At least eighteen well known religious bodies ies now ordain women as preachers. These are , In addition to those above mentioned , the Baptist , Free Baptist , Christian ( not Disciples ) , Dunkers , Evangelical Christian Union , Friends , both Liberal and orthodox , Jewish , African Evangelical Methodist , Frco Methodist , the Protebtant and the Wesleyan Methodist churches , Salvation army and United Brethren. The number of ordained women aggregates more than 300 , the majority of whom are settled pastors. H Is safe to say that a thousand more are licensed , or otherwise recognized as preachers , in the various de nominations , some ofhlch do not yet con fer ordination upon women. Of ordained women , the Christian church has the largest number , the Unlversallst church ranking second , and the Congrega tional third. In Chicago In 1893 was held the greatest convocation ever assembled In the name of religion on the face of the earth. In this great parliament women stood upon the plat form on equal terms with men. Eight wo men ministers had a part In the program , and besides these there were present Julia Ward Howe and Mrs. Ormlston Chant , women ordained of heaven , and needing no vote of council or laying on of hands. Tjuly the day has- come when the scripture Is ful filled : "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. " AUGUSTA J. CHAPIN. D. D. Frcncheu In I'lttsburr. It was edifying to the new woman , as well as to other people , to read of women In the pulpit In conservative old PIttsburg Sunday , April 21. The International convention of the Young Women's Christian association closed Its session on that day , and In the evening twenty-seven of the most prominent delegates occupied the pulpits of as. many fashionable churches. Among those which opened the doors of their sanctuaries to the women were the Union Baptist , the Third Presbyterian , First United Presbyterian. Union Mcthodla Episcopal , the Puritan church , south side , and many otheri ot these and other denom inations. Including the Reformed Presbyte rian , German Lutheran nnd Protestant Epis copal churches. Saya the Inter Ocean : "These denominations do not allow women to preach from their pulpits. To get around the church law and extend the courtesies of their pulpits to the dlitlngulshed ladles vis iting , some ot the congregations had plat forms erected In front of the pulpits , and from these platforms the ladles addressed large audiences. " The new woman wonder * whether the pul pit Is holler than auy otter part of a church edifice dedicated to the- worship of GoiAri4 whether , as between the pulpit and a plat form In front of It , there Is anything njoro than a distinction without a dlfferenco , At all events , it U clear that the people wish to hear the woman's message , and the churcho. even the most conservative of them , must find a way of conforming to the popular d mand. A. J. C. As gathering cloudslUTo'er the blue. Sometimes light , then datker hue ; bo trials come , and press us sore , Ami rrmke us long nnd long , for mo Of Truth's brig u vision , which shall grow , . en unto " " * the "perfect clay , "When all tears shall be wiped away. " And Borrows cloud shall burst ! When lot Life , Truth nnd Love shall ever stream , And reign throughout high heaven' * ex - treme , And man redeemed , exultant soy , Soula cloudless nnd eternal day ! The heart Btlll yearns for greater power. Than Meeting fancies ot the hour ; The spirit burdened , ere bi'gun , The race that all on earth must run. Oh , why the longings ? Headlines out Of man , In search of truth and light. For things unseen to mortal Bight , If they are all Involved In doubt ? We know the voice thut upeaks within * The voice , that Is Divine In Him ; Assures a rest from all called eln , A icfuge that hath ever been. All envy , malice , hatred , utrlfe , All selfishness the bane of life v Hunger nnd pain , and team's cold blast. Are fruits of evil not to last. Yet , how we cling , ami lull , and plan , As this , the ultimate of man. Are not the very thought * that fan The fainting soul , His great "I Am , ' Proclaiming- immortality And Joy unbounded , when set free , Unfettered thiough eternity , The understanding given thee. Of Truth and Love ? And hope aweeV winged- Through whlc.h true man has ever alcantoY The message thut. brings strength tnj' cheer , And sobs the evil wo call Fear ? Then , lead us on , till mission o'er , We'll stand triumphant evermore. Hopes , yearning * , aspirations high , All realize' ) , , without a sigh. Hut gee and know , us we are seen , And known , us those whom Christ r'e - dcemed , And reach at last through portaln vernal , Uy God' own way , the Life eternal. U1QHTBU