CARDINAL MANNING ON THE IN FLUENCE OF WOMAN.

Southland Times, Issue 3579, 10 December 1879, Page 3

CARDINAL MANNING ON THE IN FLUENCE OF WOMAN.

Cardinal Manning, addressed' an audience of about 4,000 people in tlie'League-lr-ill, Liverpool, on Friday night,- and spoke at some length on the. influence of women. Of all the powers upon earth, he said, there was in the hands of mothers and daughters and sisters a power whicti^could control the greatest stength of man, (/and this the power of good example, of a good life, of true Christian love, the persuasion of thenpatience in waitiug until the faults of those whom they tried to win to better ways' should be wiped out., Menjnight reason' and wrangle,, an.d'^ mighferTCopvince one another, but they had not the power of persuasion thatamother, or siater, ortUmghter possessed over, a^father or a brother. They could sometimes do what priests could not. . The good- Bishop-jof Ferns, 1 who had gone to his rest, had told them that he had 'of ten seen women kneeling beside men and taking the pledge along with- them for the purpose of giving'th'em courage and strength to do that which' many of them were so cowardly that they dare not promise to do. Many a man had been brought to heaven and the' sacrament and a 1 holy death by the influence of wife, or mother, or sister. It was most certain that the character,, of man was formed for life by the mother,' and he had rarely known a gooji mother, who had a bad daughter or a" bad son. "Speaking of drunkenness, he~ "described it as the sin of the Christian world, saying that among the Africans and the people . of the East drunkenness only came, in when we brought it. During all the time he spent abroad, in France, or Italy ,-or Rome, he never saw a drunken women, though here and there a drunken man, very few. When Frenchmen and Italians came over to ' England they often, for the first time, saw men and women drunk in the streets. Towards the conclusion of his remarks he condemmed the employment of married woman outside their' own households, saying that when a woman married she entered into a solemn contract fcr life that she would give her time to her husband,- her home, and children; and if >shß did not do so, it destroyed the whole domestic life.