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We give below, a few extracts from an address delivered by Mr. -. Grubt (whom the press has delighted to hon or') before an appreciative audience in St. Louis, who were banded for the purpose of considering the ways and means of bettering the condition of woman. Her speech opens as follows: “I must beg pardon for introducing my remarks with an anecdote, taken from a late periodical, which I pre sume you have all seen, but which illustrates an idea so forcibly as to be irresistible. There was once an old woman, who, in answer to a visiting almoner’s inquiry as to how she did, said; ‘Oh, sir, the Lord is very good to me. I've lost my husband, and my eldest son, and my youngest daughter, and I’m half blind, and I can’t sleep or move about for the rheumatics; but I’ve got two teeth left in my head and, praise and bless His holy name, they’re opposite each other.’ NOT SATISFIED. “The ladies who assemble here, from time to time, for the avowed purpose of bettering the condition of 'women and lifting them to a higher level, seem to differ entirely from this old woman, in not being excessively thankful for small favors. We are supposed, by those unacquainted with us to be a set of discontented, aspiring termagants, whose only object in life is to vote every hour of every day in every year, for ourselves to fill every office in the land. We are represented as going about outraging the delicate proprie ties of elegant life, by wearing short dresses and shorter hair, flourishing blue cotton umbrellas, sporting ‘stoga’ No. 7 shoes, cultivating the most de termined, fierce and uncompromising expressions upon our vinegar counte nances, while hailing men and breth ren as tyrants, whom only the lack of power-saves from the fate of unfortu nate kittens. We are supposed to be slatterns at home, and strollers abroad; ‘blue stockings by the illiterate, and uncultured by the learned. Our hus bands are pitied as snubbed, subdued weaklings, whose chief aspiration is to cross over the Jordan, where there will be no more marrying or giving in marriage. Our babies are thought of as poor, sickly, blue, half-conscious little victims of V inslow s soothing wyrup, given over to the care of hire lings, while their mothers are constant ly out trying to vote. We are hinted at in the street cars as ‘wanting their rights, now take them and stand up.’ ; \\ e are darkly alluded to in the pul pits as those who would profane the faith and set the Scriptures aside. M e are scorned by young ‘ivies.’ whose sole aim it is to twine around some ‘noble oak. and ridiculed by young ‘noble oaKs as having a weakness to- j wards supremacy. We are stigmatized by the press as the “shrieking sister- . hood’, and feared by the priesthood as a dangerous element. AH this, and stiil the world moves; moves by the | silent, unseen force of the soft-voiced, I elegant women around me —moves by i the power of women, whose homes of 1 culture and refinement attest no less I the graceful presence of loving hearts and willing hands than of brightened intellects. That we are in an era of the most rapid development the world has ever known, particularly in the do mains of science ami psycology. is a 1 fact that constantly impresses itself 1 upon, the thoughtful reader of general 1 and scientific literature. In the march of ages WJ. HECOGNIZE THREE Ft>BCES that have governed, now govern, ami will govern the wo rid--physical force, mind and morals, each dependent in a measure, upon the others, yet each having its ascendancy in its own par ticular period. Little by little, through the long dark ages, were the higher principles of life evolved—hopelessly arrested In unforeseen difficulties, yet ever ad vancing, till man became a powen stronger than nature -overcoming hir . ami -till i vet finding in her, new fori es to m:isl r. in the grand, passion ate drama of life men, as a class dis tinct from women, have been the priu < ipal actors. Outwardly and vi.si’riy, thex have been the only agents o| ef fectual force. The splendid advanta ges of might, and strength, ami power -re theirs from the beginning. They overcame the obstacles of nature, pro vided homes, built cities, studied the arts of war, enriched themselves by bpoils obtained through bravery or stratagem, and. as civilization advanc ed. they cultivated the peaceful indus tries, evok< I law, ami introduced the sciences. All this we owe to men as a class. The under-current of civili zation, the secret forces of progress, exactly corres|x»n<ling to the secret forces of nature, were woman's. lu the early discipline of society, man ust d Lis proud abilities in overcoming his brother man; but the humanizing. vu.'.lizing forces of Woman's life, were ' r the powers that moved the world io a higher eixiliaation. He has been the active force controlling nature, she the secret force, gathering up the ' tlircft.d and weaving the ■woof of a con i needed and progressive life, bequeath ’mg acumen, mental strength ami insight to her sons, that made men of \ mark, as physicians and scientists aver, in all Ages. Nature has now become man’s most willing and obedi ent servant, yielding authority to him so universal as to be almost illimitable, ushering in the period when mind I alone controls, yet banishing, at the i same time, the age of man’s suprema , cy to Woman. BODILY LIGHT, , except as an exerted force tlirough ' other agents, is now of the most infe , rior importance. ■ Yet the order of things, the dogma I that “might makes right,” the arro- | gant assumption that Woman bondage ' placed upon sex. are so strong in their ■ ■ influences as to be great barriers to , this advancement. Variation from , a customary order of events is the | most difficult as well as the most for- I midable of all obstacles in the path of ! progress. Theories of right obtain ■ ; and. are entertained by the best minds ; iin every Age. But in practice, the old errors return again and again, raid | retard and arrest development. It would seem impossible to conceive a state of society in which it could proposed to forward the whole by ad vancing one-half its competent parts, while, nt the same time, it is proposed to retain the other half in its exact pc»-' sition; yet this is precisely what is at- . tempted, year by year, by intelligent people, in withholding from women., i the best educational, literary and po litical privileges. The great lessons of subjection and. patience she has been forced to learn jin the world's history will prove in the future the most sj lendid lessons ever learned by humanity; giving an . advantage in their effect* hi the com ing moral government of the world which no other experience would ever ' have effected—yet, at the same time, I we feel that their authorities are none ' the less to blame, nor that is anything ' but utter blindness to the good of liu- , manity that withholds any good from any individual. Our protest against the i CLOSED DOORS OF Ct<aj?GES does not arise from feeling, that we are i ' deprived of any particular advantage I in not being educated with men as a | • class. It is that we are debarred fr< ah privileges and advwinges which ■ tinae and money alone 't:ui procure, ami to which we ue quite as I luneh the rightful heirs* as our more fortunate and successful, brothers. Give ust colleges, univeiwitias, profes sorships, and endowments, of equal merH and infliier***.,itli those ' which the. past has giveT?...to» them, and Howaj.d, Yale, Amherst- a»d Prince ton, may keep closed doors, without a I sight from ’is, till doomsday, although we would skill know t > at. they were pnsaessiwg an heritance • alisase, which, rightfully should have b&exi shared , witli.us.. Iriiacoiit*, v-ldens. ami rii.ni of honest, tnrUiful Awes, whose ‘testimony the world. Lelies. UfMHt, as giving a reality tcsflre rehgji'Ub -of Clrri’st.. constantly urgq upon, their hearer* the necessity <xfbearing their part in.the advance ment of. hikkingf lorn. They call upon us. .as Christiiknf to avail ourselves cf. thf.-priviligps. erf an individual action iin these uu?eke igs. They assure «'*- i of the strength and power that arise iluxrefDonu.aiul tell us that without-ai personal isibilit z there can he no ndvanjNmjetfit in religious life; insist that it is a. duty , nay, a sacred obliga tion to bear te stimoi y to what ( ixl has done fewr us. Three-fourths of these beaners a re wointn, to whon 4 so far as it is puaf .ible t » make a per son al appbjatioflu these addresses tA*e a farce.. Uuey are, m. reality, m iiher expected, nor c esireddio take pari. If the vuarth* of these aaen were aken literally, uad acted the 1 uijor itv of shun: au diems sx, they themselves would be sinx-ked bwthe impropriety. • They aldrcss Chai-Jinns, and vet we who know that for • years our hearts, and kves. ami beings have In'su con secrated to Christ’t iservice are no more meiuX than the 11 arble pillar > behind whuh we hide < 42.' faces. I Do these* truthful, honest izt-n mean vffiat they say. or do they n‘.t ? ARE W¥ -CHRISTIANS . or are we Mohizumeda ns‘c As it is, custom has had such an f<ect that, if every Christian minister <®re to arise and desire the.-women of his congre gation to take part ir. the exercist*—- nay urge t/ariu in the kindest and most cordial Tmamer to do so, they could nvt, for yea» at least, over come the feeing and prejudice that they know exists. Ami yet Woman, her religiows tendeisHes, and strong, loving heart, wouid Mid an eh-'uient of grace thal could uot but advance far more rapidly tboi kingdom for which men so fervenUy pr*y- The highest development of any class can be secured only as a consequence of emulation, and by the attrition of strong and ar dent minds. And it is the baldest of facts, that, the grandeur of moral and the brilliancy of intellectual character can alone be attained by the frceest scope, the most genial influmacos, and the largest liberty. These, we rest as sured will come with the coming years. IV e bide our time. Not in impatience or despondency, but in quiet, serene and earnest endeavor after truth, con scious that, although others may mis understand us, in the bright circle of home, amid the tender sympathy and loving appreciation of husbands, sons, fathers and brothers, we have plased the lover that will move the world. A Great Blessing. Never, since the time “when the morn ing stars sa»g together,’’ has shore been a greater medical discovery and blessing to the human race than the GLOBE FLOWEE COUGH SYBUT This defightffil and rare cotnround is th? ac ive principal, obtained by chemical pro cess, from tho “Sriobe Slower, ” known also as “Button Rost,” audi in Botany as “Ce pha’athus Ocridewtalia-. Globe Flywer Cough Syrup is almost an infallible cure feravery dsseription of Cough Colds' Hoarseness-, Soza Throat, Croup, Whooping C«jugri; Pleur:K7, influenza, Asth ma, &c.; and wij'.'cure CbnwiEnpsion, wb.cn ■ taken in time —thousands will testify. , Globe Elower Gough Syrup will cure the i most obstinate caces of Chornie- Cough and Lung affections, when ait boasted remedies ; a ’ l ;. Globe Flower Cough Syrup does not con- ! tain a particle of opium ©c’’ any of its pre- I parations. Globe Flower Ccegh Syrap does not con- ! tain a particle of poiton, o? any ingredient ' that could hurt, the tfozlfr/fe child. Globe Flower Cough Syrxp has become I where known, the most popular Cough Medicine in the country,, because it has I been successfully withstood the three great tests o-f merit, viz: Time. liaperience and Competition, remaina-after passing through this ordeal, the best' article :-i’ it? kind in th a- world. 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Atlanta, Ga., 3la;n'’u 25, 1871, .'■fyxsrs J. S. fudurton I i t'o; —Gentl*»- mow—l have baen afflictedi for ten years wiuh a terrible ough and serious lung diw dis*ase, and ha « used ail t.ie- boasted iur.g amu cough reii >diesof tho*-a«e, and have biti-n under tr< atment of ainlsast one dozca ol’ the most coinent phyoieians—but ray CMgh never and tdte’Jast six moatae- I comraanced the ‘-asr of your Glbte- Fb>wer Syrupv my life was despaired iofi omd I came to>the conch. »E*n that my case reas beyona iie reach 0 J medicine—Sai* II now well,, being cureoiof my cough>and* ring affectio» by theus»of two hottlas.of rour Globe flower Synijh It is four Mjmtshi since I have-taken tbeLewbe Flower Syrups and I have ihad no cougia since. My gen eral health, aas in»prov*-l so muh thatmiyf friends aro-astonished) my ccovejiy. T«.o many it sterns like a miracle. With feel ings of gratitude, ’I -riall always retnaiaa warm friend to th t Gio e Fl-#>er Syrup and youjsclves. • W. Hi Pen, Artist. W I). 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