SOCIAL COLUMN.

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RESPONSIBILITY.

A Talk With Girls

(By the Rev E E Holmes, Hon Oanon of Christ Church and Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford.) I am to talk to you about respon sibility. And I will say my my in one word, the word » my,' a good, old fashioned possessive pronoun, whish just expresses the thought I want to give you, viz ;-—

Possessive pronouns are pronouns of responsibility. The moment we say • my' we incur a responsibility. My home, my school, my governess, my pupil, my work, my shop, my dog, my bird ! Every «my' implies a responsi bility, the responsibility of possession. And first :—

I.—-Myself: self-possession. lam responsible for what; I em, for what I seem. The very compound of self shows it. Self - management, self abandonment, self-deceit, and so on ; they all speak of responsibility. Self ©onqueat, perhaps, beat illustrates the thought. 1 am responsible for it. It is the primary test of my fitness for any responsibility. And it ia a hard fight, a regular tug o*-war between my higher and lower self. There is an old epitaph which just describes it as graphically as any war correspondent.— " Here lies an old soldier whom ail should

applaud, He fouglib many battles afc home and

abroad ; But the hottest engagement ho ever was

in Was thn cor quest of self in the babble with Bin." Whoever else is responsible for me, lam responsible for myself—my tem per?, my moods, my jealousies, my peevishness, my behaviour at home, in business, in places of amusement. In a sense we are our own to do ps we like with, to will ourselves away, in self-destruction, to the lowest, or to offer ourselves, in aolf-consecration, to the highest, II —My sex. Womanhood !It has a distinct place in the Divine Order. And it bas one supreme responsibility —icfluencp. My influence. I am responsible for it. First, on my own sex—my sex ; on my mother, my sister, my maid ; on the girls I Jive with, work with, walk with, meet with; on my girlfriends, and my girl enemies (if I have any). Then on the other sox : on my father my brother, my brother's friends ; on the men I work with, walk with, act with ; on the men I meet in society, the man who takes me in to dinner, the man I dance with, or sit out with —my partner ; on the man who lores and loses, and the man who woos and wins me—my lover ; I have a respon sibility towards them all—the respon sibility of a girl's influence. And remember, if a man will go to the bad for a woman, he will »l«o go to the good for a wcmin; if, like Faust, be will degrade himself for Margaret, like Dante he will uplift himself for Beat rice.

A. girl's influence ! It can make nr ma*-, raise or lower, lighten or darken the life of many another girl and of many and many a man. How are you using a girl'a influence. Your Influence 1

111.—My appearance. I am re sponsible for it. It does matter how I look and what I wear, ''I? God so clothe the grass of the field"—mere fire fuel-— wiith colour and beauty and meadow flowers, surely he cares about my clothes and my looks p.g , (*) My face. It is said that "earth has no greater He than a woman's face." I don't believe it, Of course there are faces—like Milady's in Damis' Three Musketsers —which do tell ignoble lies j and there are faces which tell noble lies which, in spite of pain and worry and heart-screws, are so controlled as—

"To wear upon the brow no trace Of mere than common care, To show no secret in the face That men may read it there." Thank God for such faces, and there are thousands of them about Bat, as a rale, a woman's face ia the true story of a woman's life. Hence its influence. The life shines through the face; and a beautiful life, seen through a beauti ful or a plain face, is an uplifting influence wherever it ia is—in the home the school-room, the street, the slum. And (N\B) some plain women ar« the most beautiful women in the world. Expressions convey impressions, and oar lives are refponnible for our looks. Or(b) My dress. Olotbes affect the character. My clothes afiect my cha racter. What 1 wear influences, what I am. You get the thought in our word 1 habit,' A habit is both a costume and a custom, and connects national costumes with national customs—par sonal character with personal attire, You get the aanae thought in Tenny son's poem, The Lord of Burleigh Dis guised as a landscape-painter, a noble lord wins and weds a village girl, takes her to his " noble mansion," and ■ dresses her as -a " noble lady-" But! the girl is never at home in bei" grand clothes. Her " habit" never suits her i <( habifce." You remember the rest, j She dies: — j

" And he came to look upon her, And he looked at her and said— ' Bring the dress and put it on her That she wore when she was wed.' Then her people, softly treading, Bore to earth her body dresb In the dress that she was wed in, That her spirit mighb have rest." Dress and spirit 1 Oiotb.es aod char acter ! My clothes affect my character Isn't it tree ? Doesn't a careless in difference to dress, a slipshod appear ance, often mark the beginning of a girl's loss of self respect—that very life-blood of womanhood ? And doesn't an exclusive devotion to dress lower a girl's whole tone? Doesn't it show that, in her opinion, Christ is wrong and that' the body,' with all its wonders and its destiny, is not ' more than raiment '—raiment which la ruined by a careless servant, or spoilt by the mad of a passing cab ! My clothes influence me And they influence others It is said that men dress to please themselves, but women dress to please others. If so, the women have the best of it. Of course we dress to please others. Why not! This is why dress is so tremendously important—not umnaportanfr. Clothes convey impres sions: and we are responsible for the impressions we give, though we must pot be always thinking about the ins

pression we make IV—My health. lam responsible for it. God wants it. Do remember that God wants your good health as well as your bad health. He wants yon—you at your healthiest and best; you when your body is strongest and fairest, and your mind is keenest and clearest. He wants you, crammed fall of health and spirits, yon with your laughter and fun as well as your worries and your prayen. Your r'ding, your playing, your work ing. He is interested in them all and wants them all used in the right way and on the right; side. Nothing bat sia is outside the interests of God, Fancy ! God wants my health, and recklessly I fling it away. Just take this one word w reckless." There are two kinds of recklessness : deliberate and impetuous. There is the recklessness of the girl who, in defiance or despair or disappointment, deliberately and of eet purpose tries to injure her fhealth. May I give you one thought 1 Don't risk the future for the sake of getting rid of the pre sent. And there is the impetuous | recklessness of the girl who, in a mad 1 mood or a nasty temper, will do rath things in a moment which mean months of misery, it may be years after, both to herself and other*. May ' I say to you, do nothing as a girl that you will be aorry for some time as a

woman. My health. lam largely responsible for it, for pampering or wasting it, for a reckless use of drags or stlamlants which girls call harmless, bat which coroners call suicidal; for all self made misery, hysteria, delicacy, etc, which makes so much misery for others as well as ourselves. It is God's great gift to mo * it mast be my great gift to God.

V—My fault*, Now I'm going to say something you won't like. lam responsible for them or for most of them. I have no right to shift them \on to others, or to heredity, or cir cumstances, or the trying conditions of my life, A parent's fussiness or ma! --! bility to understand is no excuse, nor |ie a sister's jarring ways, or an em ployer's harshness and tyranny. My faults are my own, and it's mean to shirk them,; God may excuse them, bat I mast correct them. How am 1 ; to conquer them ? Well, I stole a hint from a policeman jast now. It was on ! a 'bus; there was a street fight, and I asked ray neighbour the best way to stop hi This was his reply: "Go for the biggest and bounce him, the others won't give you much trouble. 1' Vl.—My neighbour. The fast that he is my neighbour gives him a claim up on me. I cftuutt seperate my neighbours interests from my own. There is no such thing ma independence: An illus tration will explain ; the story of the late Prince Imperial's death, as told in Life in the Tuilleriea, by Annie Bicknell The Zulus are upon me. His one chance of escape is to mount his horse. He seises the leathern band crossing the pommel. The band breaks. The horse bolts. The Prince is killed. It turned out that the leathern bind w»s not leather at all, but p»per faced. Thus for ail we know, the fate of the Prince the destiny of France, the history of Europe may have been changed, and all because of a bit of shoddy saddlery by an unknown workman in an unknown saddler's shop. How little that man thought how much depended upon his work! Just as little do we realise the responsibili'y of our own commonplace lives—the dull teaching, the routine in the shop the little tempers at home Remember, upon the well doing of each depends the well being of all Tsn,t it grand ? Grand, because it banishes for ever that disabling sense of lonlioess that feeling that what we are an J do mtkes no difference to anyone, and that nobody cares Grand ! And jet many a Bin and many a bitter moment may be traced to this very feeling — nobody oares. Thousands say it, and hundreds feel it, in their work, their business, the streets There they are. And nobody cares any more about them than the policeman cares about the crowd he disperses with a " Pass away, please," or cares any more than he does where they pass away to. How Is the gold in the " golden rule " of Hillel become dim ? It's all over wrong. But fact and fiction are full of it. You may have read the story which came out in the Century, 1892, called, !l An Inland Story; or Serene's Religions Ex perience." The story is this: Serene loved and lost, and nobody carsd. Sent away for a change, she is delayed at a wayside station, and wanders aimlessly into an open church. At last she prays, < Lord, make me to stop oaring, but if You can't, then show me that j You care I'm not happy. If I could | feel and know that You eared, I think I might be happier,' Serene ia not the | only girl who has gone through that experience I ' Nobody cares' so often leads to ' I don't care,' that wreekless lie which is sure to end in misery and sin. Ah, there ia sin which comes from misery as well as the misery which comes from sin. Stop the misery and, you will stay the sin; And you will try to stop ifc, won't you? So many are | waiting for a cheering word of help •'Ah, many a ono i« losgiag for word* i that are never said, And many a one In hungering for aome thing better than bread." t Help one of them, some girl from i the country, strange to the mesmerism of the lights and the pavements, somt unpopular schoolgirl, some girl in business " down on her luck, 1' some poor soul who has got to fly through life with a broken wing, someone who is bitter beeaaae a bib lonely, and nobody cares. Nobody cares I Yes, you do. You will feel your responsi bilities yearning to help others, perhaps being the means of helping them. There is a story told in Grant Duff's Diary of a bird which passed rights through the battle of Inkerman unhurt by shot or shell. Morning by morning it rose from the trenches singing, dusty and soiled but not hart. Make it a story of real life. Help another—boy or girl, man or woman—-to live; help someone to rise morning by morning with new heart for s» new day; help another right through the battle of life, dusty, perhaps soiled ; soiled, but not shot. Myself, my sex, my appearance, my faults, my neighbour—l am responsible for them. Everything that follows "my " implies responsibility. Respon sibility means action. If you want to be happy, accept your oouamoiplace reipo&iibiHtiei. Don't ibirk.

THE ASHBURTOH OOARDIAH • SATURDAY, o<ttoßßtl 87, 190t

Printed Mid published by Ambis Jtav TyRKELL-BAXTKB, of Bnroetb ■tnefe MMfe, for the Proprieton, Rouiv Bill «od * Hekbt Ami Maokay, ab bhafr Prtatisa Offioe, Baraetb Street, Aihbartoo. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, ISOQ



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NICOLL BEOS. F Nicom.. E F Nicoia, LA Niooll. Merchants & General Agents, B'UTJfIBB OF FAT SHEEP & LAMBS. AGENTS FOB— ChrUtchurch Meat Coi, Ltd! Islington Fertiliser! LtttleY Sheep Dtp Ooean, Accident and Guarantee Corpora tion, Ltd United Insurance Co., Ltd. (Fire and Marine.) GRAIN BOUGHT AND SOLD ON COM MISSION We shall be pleMed to receive samples from farmer! wfao'have parcels for disposal. SrATioir Books Kbpt and Aui>im». ' We have received mmi of Trait Moniet. raagiDg from £100 to £1000, to lend on Freehold Securities ab 4£ and 5 per cent. F B tfl T. We teaelre regulur Consignment* from Auckland, Sydney, and the lilandi ,an* bare in itook Apples, Pearl, And Frnit is I seaaoD aU the year round* SEEDS. We stock Oloteri, Ryegrau, Bapo, amd Turnip Seed of reliable quality. T~~~IB~OHRISTOHUROH .HliflDO", LIMISKD. ISLINGTON MANIJBES Especially prepared for WHEAT, TURNIPS, BAPE and any other crop, and to suit any description of soil Greatly InortMtd produotlon wherever Died. Sfttlifaafcloa given everywhere. Niooll Bbos. ntore five y»rleti«« of thl celebrated fertiliser. Price on s application Allowance made for qaanbltietJ Letters will receive prompt Attention. NICOLL BRoiTiiitriot Ageat*. •



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