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; NOBLE WOMANHOOD. - . " DR. TALMAGE TELLS OF THE VALUE OF GOOD WIVES. . Tfandreda off Men' Are Sccfml Omly Dfsnie off Wite nelpmtei-Crel j In Piety Klnonew ana nnipiii rCopyrlfiht, 1830. by American Press Amo ! elation. i Washington. Jan. 15.- A Scripture character whoso name Is not giren be comes the subject of Dr. Talmage'a ser mon in which he here sets forth th qualities of good and noble womanhood; text. II Kings Ir. 8. "Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman." .The hotel of our time had no coun terpart in any entertainment of olden tima The vast majority of .traveler! must then be" entertained at private aboda Here comes Elisha, a servant of the Lord, on a divine mission, and lie must find shelter. . A balcony overlook ing the valley of Esdraelon is offered him in a private house, and it is espe cially furnished for his occupancy a chair to sit on, a table from which to eat. a candlestick by which to read and a bed on which to slumberthe whole establishment belonging to a great and good woman. Her husband, it seems, was a godly man, but he was entirely overshadowed by his wife's excellences; just as now you sometimes find - in a household the wife the center of dignity and influence and power, not by any arrogance or presumption, but by su perior intellect and force- of moral na ture, wielding domestic affairs and at the same time supervising' all financial and business affairsthe wife's hand on the shuttle or the. banking house or the worldly business. You see hundreds of men who are successful only because there is a reason at home why they are successful. If a man marry a good, -honest soul, ' he makes his fortuna If he marry a fool, the Lord help him. The "wife maybe the silent partner in the firm, there may be only masculine voices down on Ex change, but there oftentimes comes from the home circle a potential and elevat ing influence. This woman of my text was the superior of her husband. He, as far as I can understand, was what we often see in our day, a man of large fortune and only a modicum of brain, intensely quiet,' sitting a long while in the same place without moving hand-or foot, if you say 'Yes" responding Yes;" if you say "No," responding No"2 inane, eyes half shut, mouth wide open, maintaining his position in Bociety only because he has' a. large patrimony. But his wife, my text says, "was a great woman. . Her name has not come down to us. She belonged to that collection of people who need no name to distinguish them. What would title of duchess or princess or queen what would escutcheon or gleaming diadem be to this "Woman of my text, who by her intelligence and her behavior chal lenges the admiration of all ages? Long after the brilliant women of the court of Louis XV have been forgotten and the brilliant women of ' the court of Spain have been forgotten and the bril liant women who salt on the throne of -Russia have been forgotten some grand father will put - on his spectacles, and holding the book the other side the light read to his grandchildren the story of this great woman of Shunem who was so kind and courteous and Christian to the good prophet Elisha. Yes, she was a great woman, f - Practice' Hospitality, i - In the first place, she was great in her hospitalities. Uncivilized and bar barous nations have thisvirtua Jupiter had the surname of the Hospitable, and he was said especially to avenge the wrongs of strangers. Homer extolled it in 4iis versa The Arabs are punctilious id0jJi3fi!4Jhis subject, and among some of weir irnws ii-Boinniu inemnin aay of tarrying that the occupant has a right to ask his.ciiest, 'Who and whence art thou ?' ' If this virtue is bo honored among barbarians, how ought it to be honored among those of us who ve in the Bible, which commands us to UT5enac1ttatity"one toward anoth er without grudging! "J Of course I do not mean under this , cover to give any idea that I approve of that vagrant class who go around from place tc-place, ranging their whole life time, perhaps under the auspices of come benevolent or philanthropic soci ety, quartering themselves on Christian families with a great pile of trunks in the hall and carpetbag portentous oi tarrying. There is many a country par sonage that looks out week by week up on the ominous arrival of wagon with creaking wheel and lank horse and di lapidated driver, come under the auspices of some charitable institution to spend! a few weeks and canvass the neighbor hood. Let no such religious tramps take advantage of this beautiful virtue of Christian hospitality: Not so much the eumptuousness of your diet and the legality of your abode will impress the friend or the stranger that steps across Tour threshold as the warmth of yout greeting, the informality of your recep tion, the reiteration by grasp, and by look, and by a thousand attentions, in significant, attentions, of your earnest ness of welcome. There will be high appreciation of your welcome, though you have nothing but the brazen can dlestick and the plain chair to offer Elisha when be comes to Shunem. Most oeautiful .is this grace of hospitality when shown in the house. of God. I anr thankful that I have always been pastor. oi cnurcnes where strangers are wel come. But, I have centered churches where there was no hospitality. A ptranger would stand, in the vestibule for awhile and then make a pilgrimage up the long aisle.. No door opened to him until, flushed and excited and em 'barrassed. he started back again and. coming to some half filled pew. with pologetic air entered it. while the oc cupant glared on him with a look which seemed to say. "Well, if I must. 1 must Away with such accursed in decency from the house of God. Let ev ry church that would maintain large Christian influence . in community cul ture Sabbath by Sabbath this beautiful grace of Christian hospitality. A good man traveling in the far west, in the wilderness, was overtaken by night and storm, and he put in at a cabin. He saw firearms along the beams of the cabin, and he felt alarmed. He did not know but that he had fallen into a den of thieves. He sat there great ly perturbed. . After awhile the man of the house came home with a gun on his shoulder and set it down in a corner. The stranger was still more alarmed. After awhile the man of the house whispered with " his wif e and the stranger thought his destruction was being planned. Then the man of the house , came '. forward and said to the stranger : 4 'Stranger, we are a rough and rude people out here, and we work hard for a living. "We make our living by hunting, and when we come to the nightfall we are tired and we are apt to go to bed early and before retiring we are always in the habit of reading a chapter from the word of God and mak ing a prayer. If you- don't like such things, if you will just step outside the door until we get through I'll be great ly obliged to you. " Of course the stranger tarried in the room, and the old hunter took hold of the horns of the altar and brought down the blessing of God upon his household and upon the stranger within their gates. Rude but glorious Christian hospitality! ' v Woman's Sympathy. Again, this woman of my text was great in her kindness toward God's messenger. Elisha may have been a stranger in that household, but as she found out he had come on a divine mis sion he was cordially welcomed. We have a great many books in our day about the hardships of ministers and the trials of Christian ministers. I wish somebody would write a book about the joys, of the Christian minister, about the sympathies all around about him, about the kindness, about the genial considerations of him. Does sorrow come to our home, and is there a shadow on the cradle, there are hundreds j hands to help and many who weary through the nightf watching and hun dreds of prayers going, up that God would restore the sick. Is there a burn ing, brimming cup of calamity placed on the pastor's table, are there not many to help him drink of that cup and who. will not be comforted because he is stricken ? Oh, for somebody to write a book about the rewards of the Chris tian ministry about his surroundings of Christian sympathy I, " ; . ; - This woman of Iftie text was only a type of thousands of men' and women who come down from mansion and from cot to do kindness to the Lord?s serv ants. I could tell you of something that you might think a romanca A young man graduated from New Brunswick Theological seminarywas--called to a villagechurcbTJThad hot the means to burnish the parsouage. After three L or four weeks of preaching a committee of the officers of the church waited on him and told him he looked tired and thought he had better take a vacation of a few days. The young pastor took it as an intimation that hislwork was done or not acceptable He tookthelya- cation. and at the end of a came bacK. when angora eiaer saia "Here is the key of the parsonaga We have been cleaning it up. You had bet ter go up and loolr, at it. " So the young pastor took the key, went up to the par sonage, opened the door, and lo, it was carpeted, and there was the hatrack all ready for the canes and the umbrellas and the overcoats, and on the left hand of the hall was the parlor, sofaed. chaired, pictured. J He passed on to the other side of the hall, and there was the study table in the center of the floor with stationery upon it, bookshelves built, long ranges of new volumes, far beyond the reach of the means of the young pastor, many of these volumes. The young pastor went up stairs and found all the sleeping apartments fur- the pantry, and -there were the. spices. and the coffees, and the sugars, and the groceries for six months. He went down into Jthe cellar, and there was the coal great river of Borrow, made Tip of teen and blood, rolling through all lands and all ages, bearing the wreck of fam ilies, and of communities, and of em pires, foaming, writhing, boiling with the agonies of 6,000 years. Etna, Coto paxi and Vesuvius have been described, but who has ever sketched the volcano of suffering retching up from its depths the lava and scoria, and pouring them down the sides to whelm the nations f Oh. if I could gather all the heart strings, the broken heartstrings, into a harp V would play on it a dirge such as was never sounded. Mythologists tell us of gorgon and centaur and Titan, and geologists tell us of extinct species of monsters, but greater than gorgon urr megatherium, and not belonging to the realm of fable, and not of an extinct species, a monster with an iron jaw and a hundred iron hoof s has walked across the nations, and history and poetry and sculpture, in their attempt to sketch it and describe it, have seemed to sweat great drops of blood. But, thank God. there are those who can conquer as this woman of the text conquered, dnd say It is welL Though my property be gone, though my children be gona though my home be broken up. though my health be sacrificed, it is well; it is welll" There is no storm on the sea but Christ is ready to rise ' in the hinder part of the ship and hush it. There is no darkness but the constellation of God's eternal love can illumine, and. though the winter comes out of the northern sky. you have sometimes seen that northern sky all ablaze with auroras which seem to say: ."Come up this way. Up this way are thrones of light and seas of sapphire and the splendor of an eternal heaftcsgr Come up this way. " . . . We may, like the ships, by tempest be tossed " On perilous deeps, bnt cannot be lost. Though satan enrage the wind and the tide. The promise assures us the Lord will provide Home Duties. Again, this woman of my text was great in her application to" domestic duties. Every picture is a home picture, whether she is entertaining an elisha or whethershe is giving careful atten tion to her sick boy or whether she is appealing for the restoration of ; her property. Every picture in her case is. one of domesticity. Those are not disci ples of . this Shunemite woman who, going out to attend to outside charities, neglect the duty of home--the duty of wif a of mother, of daughter. No faith fulness in public benefaction can ever atone fo domestic negligenca There has been many a mother who by inde fatigable toil has reared a large family of children, equipping them for the du ties of life with good manners and large intelligence "and Christian principle. starting them out, who has done more' for the world than many a woman whose name has sounded through all the lands and through the centuries. I remember when Kossuth was in this country there were some ladies who got honorable reputations by presenting him very gracefully with bouquets of flowers on public occasions, but what was all that compared with the plain Hungarian mother who gave to truth arid civilization and tie cause of uni versal liberty a Kossuth ? Yes. this wo- man of my text was great in her sim- few dayr piicity. When this prophet wanted to reward her for her hospitality by ask ing 8ome preferment from the king, what did shlTsay ?Shedeciined it. She said. I dwell among myxiwn people,'' as much as to say, "I am satisfied with my lot ; all I want 'is my family and my friends around me: I dwell among my own people. " ' Oh, what a rebuke to the strife for precedence in all ages 1 How many there are who want to get great architecture and homes furnished with all art, all painting, all statuary, who have not enough taste to distinguish between Gothic and : Byzantine and who could not tell a figure in plaster of paris from Palmer's "White Captive," and would not know a boy's penciling from Bier-stadt'sL--Yosemita ' Men who buv nished. came down stairs and enterl-karge libraries bv the sauare foot, buv- ing these libraries waei scarcely enough education to pick out the day of the month in the almanac! Oh. how .many there are striving to ..gEjjjggiMMv. vv wcwww wo j un, now imiiiy mere are striving 10 uiupB"to " mnw for all thecomtng winter. He went into have things as well asteirghborsoeiHia of all the dihincr hall, and there was the tahla k-. "u :uw a : :.Jl . u L the diiiing hall, and there was the table uu'oady set the glass and the silver ware. He went into the kitchen, and there were all the' culinary implements and a great stova The young pastor lifted one lid of the stove, and he found the fuel all ready for ignition. Putting back the cover of the stove, he saw in another part of it a lucifer match, and all that young man had to do in start ing to keep house was , to strike the match. You tell me that is apocryphal. Oh. no. that was my own experience. Oh, the kindnesses, oh. the enlarged sympathies sometimes clustered around those who enter the gospel ministry 1 I suppose the man of Shunem had to pay the bills, but it was the large hearted Christian sympathies of the woman bt Shunem that looked after the Lord's messenger! ' - ' Strong; to Dear Trouble. ' j j Again, this woman of the text was great in her behavior under trouble. Her only son had died on her lap. j A very bright light went out in that household. The sacred writer puts it very tersely when he says. 'He sat on her knee until noon, and then he died. " Yet the writer goes,on to say that she exclaimed. "It is welll" Great in pros perity, this woman was great in trouble. Where are the feet that have not been blistered on the hot sands of this great Sahara? Where are the soldiers that have not bent under the burden of griff? Where is the ship sailing over glajy, sea that has not after awhile been caught in a cyclone? Where is the garden of earthly comfort, but trouble hath hitched up its fiery and panting team and gone through it with burning plowshare of disaster? Under the pelt ing of ages of suffering the great heart of the world has burst with woa Navi gators tell ua about the rivers, and the Amazon, and the Danube, and the Mississippi have been explored, but who an tell the depth or the length of the or better than their .neighbors, and in the struggle vast fortunes are exhausted and business firms thrown into bank ruptcy and men of reputed honesty rush into astounding forgeries 1 Of course, I say nothing against refine ment or culture. Splendor of abode, sumptuousness of diet, lavishness in art. neatness in apparel there is noth ing against them in the Bible or out of the Bibla God does not want us to prefer mud hovel to English cottage or untanned sheepskin to French .broad cloth or husks to pineapple or the clum siness of a boor to the manners of a gentleman. God. who strung" the beach with tinted shell and the grass of, the field with the dews of the night and hath exquisitely tinged morning cloud and robin redbreast, wants us to keep our eye open to all beautiful sights and our ear open to all beautiful cadences and our heart open to all elevating sen timents. ' Great In Piety. But what I want to impress upon you. my hearers, is that you ought not to inventory the luxuries of life among the indispensables. and you ought not to depreciate this woman of the text, who. when offered kingly preferment, responded. 1 dwell among my own peopleT " Yes, this woman of the text was great in her piety. Jnst read the chapter after you go homa , Faith in God. and she was not ashamed to talk about it before idolaters. Ah. woman will never appreciate what she owes to Christianity until she knows and sees the degradation of her sex under pagan ism and Mohammedanism! Her very birth considered a misfortune. Sold like cattle on the shambles. Slave of all work; and at last her body fuel for the funeral pyre of her husband. - Above the shriek of the fire worshipers in India, and above the rumbling of the Jugger aauta I hear the TnilHrm voiced groan 3f, wronged, insulted, broken hearted. LS I - - ! ' ' '! - J-.. -A " ' r 'J.-'.;,A,-. ' Be Emjied,. so Few IPossess It But the disposition of one hundred Mackintoshes is the We are going to sell these garments move an our business. ' ' the price will range from 'I . k Cap U a oi P to WO fe h Mi, next ana With VELVET COLLARS, WORSTED and SILK-LINED If you want a good 1U1 Qfl!liIQU8, Mackintosh don't let the weather keep y0- away; that's what they are built for. Remember its- liMiliiieilii mm I tin Salesmen : r3 W. Crawford, W. H. Bees. Harry 8. Donhell, Will. B. Bankin, W. H. Matthews. 300 Sofitli Elm St., Greensboro downtrodden woman, Her tears have fallen in the Nile and Tigris, the La Plata, and on the steppes of Tartary. She has been dishonored in Turkish gar den and Persian palace and Spanish Al hambra. Her little ones have been sac rificed in the Indus and the Ganges. There in not a groan, or a dungeon, or an island, or a mountain, or a river, or a late, or a sea but coma tell a story ox the outrages heaned urjon her. But. . - thanks to God. this glorious Christianity comes forth, and all the chains of this vassalage are snapped, and she rises from ignominy to exalted sphere and becomes the affectionate daughter, the gentle wife, the honored mother, the useful Christian. Oh. if Christianity has doneso much for woman, surely woman willxbecome its- most ardent ad vocate and itasublimest exemplification I Mr. S. A. Fackler, Editor of the Micanopy (Fla.) Hustler, with his wife and children, suffereilterribly from La Grippe. One MlnutexCough Cure was the only remedy that helped them. It acted quickly. Thousand of others use this remedy as, a specific for La Grippe, and its exhausting aftereffects. Howard Gardner. No one doubts that the treaty of peace, which went to the Senate laap week, will in due time receive the necessary Dumber of votes to ratify it, with a number to spare,1 but it does not necessarily follow1 that the Senate will in the mean-j time consent to be muzzled. This was fully demonstrated when the1 banate adopted, oyer the vigorous protest of Senator Davis, chairman of the Comrrjittee on Foreign Bela tionjfal late a peace commis sioner, Senator Hoar's resolution calling upon the President, if not incompatible with public interests, POLYGAMY" STILL PRACTICED instructions given to the peace commissioners, and of all corres- nondence , with the commissioners during their xstay in Paris. The Senate took the ground that it ought to have this information be fore voting on the treaty. Coughing injures and iniiames sore lunzs. One Minute Coub Cure loosens tbecold, allays coughing and beats quickly. The best cough cure for children. Howard Gardner. The following paragraph is going the rounds of the press, credited to "Exchange:" W live in a land of high mountains and high taxes, low valleys -and low wages, ' big crooked rivers and big crooked statesmen, big lakes, big strikes, big drunks, big pumpkins, big men with big pumpkin heads, silver streams that gambol in the moun tains and pious politicians who gamble in the night, roaring cata racts and roaring orators, fast trains, fast horses, fast young men and girls fast, fastest, sharp law yers, sharp financiers and sharp toed shoes, noisy children, fertile plains that lie like a sheet of water, and thousands of newspapers that lie like thunder, and these thou sands of newspapers sands of delinquent who lie like blazes and a cent !" i have thou subecribers wont's pay Horrible .agony is caused I by Piles. Burns and Skin Diseases. These are immediately relieved and quickly cured by De Witt's Witch ntzel Sulve. Beware of worthless Imitations. How ard Gardner. . Fresh Garden Seed at Gardner's, cor. opp. postomce. It is Just as Much Alive in Utah as . ' it Ever Was. "Polygamy is just as much alive in Utah today as it ever was," said Rev. William R. Campell, of Salt Lake City, a missionary of the Presbyterian church, today. It is preached and practiced by the leaders of the Mormon church, from President Lorenzo Snow down. "That polygamous Mormons have added and are still adding to their list of wives is no secret in Utah, Despite all denials to the contrary, Robertswas the church candidate, and it was understood long in ad yance that be would be nominated and elected." JJr. uampneu has lived among the Lattwr Day Saints, much of the time within a stone's throw of President Snow's house, for the last twelve years, has mingled constant ly with the people of authority, in and out. of the church, and is ably qualified to speak on existing con ditions in the State. I Dr. Campbell comes direct from Salt Lake, having arrived in the city today. Speaking of President denial, Dr. Campbell says : "Mormon marriages take place in- the secrecy of the Mormon temples, where no iientiles ever ener, and, of course, no records are made of polygamous marriages except in the private books of the church. . "The Mormons whcoTdte8tify the truth wtir perjure them selves when called upon to produce their records, and swear they have no records or that they cannot find them." Chicago Tribune. Great Book Free. When Dr. It. V. Tierce, of Buffalo. V. Y.. pub- liht the Jltt edition of hit work. The People's Common sjenee Medical Aartser, be aonouorea that aftei 680.0C0 copiea had been sold at the reg ular price $1.50 per copj. the profit on which wjald repay him for the great amount of labor arid money expended in producing it, he would dihtribute the next half million free. 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