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THE QUEENS OF HOME Jdr. talmage discourses on the rights of woman. Her Dominion I nbme. and Tfcere Shoald RlKfctIr'R P-Irector of the Spiritual Life of Use Huie hold Comforter of the Sick. Copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1899. Washington. Sept. 10.r-In this dis course the opportunities of usefulness for women are set forth by Dr. Tal xhage, and many sympathies are stirred and memories recalled. The text is Sol omon's Songs vi. 8.. "There are three score queens." So Solomon . by one stroke set forth the imperial character of a time Chris tian woman. She is not a slave, not a hireling, not a subordinate, bnt a queen. In a former sermon I showed you that crown and courtly attendants and imperial wardrobe were not neces sary to make a queen, but that graces of the heart and life will give corona tion to any woman. I showed you at some length that woman V position was higher in the world' than man's, and that, although she had often been de nied the "right of suffrage, she al ways did rote and always would vote by her influence, and that her chief desire ought -to be that she should have grace rightly to rule in the dominion which she has already won. I began an enumeration of some of her rights, and now I resume the subject In the first place, woman has the special and the superlative right of blessing and comforting the sick. What land, what street, what house has not felf the smitings of disease? Tens of thousands of sick beds I What shall we tin with them? Shall man. with his rough hand and clumsy foot, go stum-1 bling arourtd the "sickroom, trying to soothe the distracted nerves and allevi ate the pains of the distressed patient? L Ther young manjat college may scoff at the idea of bejngrnnder maternal influ ences, but at thefirst blast of typhoid fever on his cheek he says, "Where is mother ? ' Walter Scott wrote' partly in satire and partly in compliment: Oh, woman, In our hours of ease, . Uncertain, coy and hard to please," When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou I I I think the most pathetic passage in 11 the Bible- is-the description of the lad who went out to the harvest field of Shunem and got sunstruck, press ing his hands on his temples and cry ing out, "Oh, my head! my head!" And they said, "Garry him to his mother." And then the record is, "He sat on her knees till noon and then died." - , s$- ' A Mlnlaterinjr Angrel. It is an awful thing to be ill away from home in aT strange hotel, once in while men coming in to look at you, holding their hand over their mouth for fear they will catch the contagion. How roughly they turn you in bed! How loudly they talk I How you long for the ministries of horn 61 I know one such who went away from one of - the brightest of homes for several -weeks' business absence at the west A telegram came at midnight that he was on his deathbed far away from homa By express train the wife and daughters went westward, but they went too lata. He feared not to die, but he waa in an agony to live until his family got jthere. He tried, to bribe the doctor to make liim live a little while longer. He said, I am willing to die, but not alone," But the pulses fluttered, the eyes closed and the heart stopped. The express trains met in the midnight, wife and daughters going westward, lifeless re mains of husband and father coming eastward. Oh, it was a sad, pitiful, overwhelming spectacle I When we are sick, we want to be sick at, homa When the time comes for us to die, we want to die at homa The room may be very humble, and the faces that look into ours may be very plainV but who cares for that ? - Loving hands to bathe the temples. Loving voices to speak good cheer. Loving lips to read the comforting promises of Jesus. In our civil war men cast the cannon, men fashioned the musketry, men cried to the hosts, "Forward, march!" men uuttcu tucii yja l Laiiuua ju mo bump edges of the enemy, crying, "Charge, charge I ' ' but woman scraped the" lint, woman administered the cordials, wom an watched by the dying couch, woman wrote the last message to the home cir cle, woman wept at the solitary burial, attended by herself and four men with a spade. We greeted the generals home with brass bands and triumphal arches and wild huzzas, but the story is too good to be written anywhere save in the chronicles of heaven, of Mrs. Brady, who came down among the sick in the Ewamps of the Chickahominy ; of Annie Ross, in the cooper shop hospital; of Margaret Breckinridge, who came to men who had been for weeks with their wounds undressed some of them frozen to - the ground, and when she turned them over those that had an arm left waved it and rilled the air with their hurrah!" rof Mrs, Hodge, who came from Chicago, with blankets and with pillows, until the men 6houted: "Three cheers fcr the Christian commission! God bless the women at home 1" then sitting down to take the last message: "Tell my wife not to fret about me, but to meet me in heaven; tell her to train up the boys whom we have loved so well ; tell her we shall meet again in the good land; tell her to bear my loss like the Christian wife of a Christian foldierj and of Mrs. Sheltoh, into whose face the "convalescent soldier looked and said, "Your grapes and co logne cured ma" "And so it was also through all of our war with Spain women heroic on the field, braving death' and wounds to reach the fallen, watching by their fever cots' in the West Indian hospitals or on the roop ehips or in our smitten home camps. Men did their work with shot and shell and carbine and howitzer ; women did their work with socks and slippers and bandages and warm drinks and Scrip ture texts and gentle stroking of the hot i temples and stories of that land when thev never have any pain. Jien knelt down over the wounded and said. "On which side did you fight ?" Wom en knelt down over the wounded and said: "Where are you hurt? What nice thing can I make'for you to eat ? What makes you cry?" Tonight while we men are sound asleep in our beds there will be a light in yonder loft; there will be groaning down that dark alley; there will be cries of distress in that cellar. Men will deep, and women will watch. , .. - . - Succor the Destitute- Again, woman has a special right to take care of the poor. There are nun dreds and thousands of them . all over the land. There is a kind of work that men cannot do for the poor. Here comes a group of little barefoot children to the door of the Dorcas society. They need to be clothed and provided for. Which of these directors of banks would know how many yards it would take to make that little girl a dress? Which of these masculine hands could fit a hat to that-little girl's head? Which of the wise men would ' know how to tie on that new pair of shoes? Man sometimes gives his charity in a rough way, and it falls like the fruit of atree in the east, which fruit comes down so heavily that it breaks the skull of the man who is trying to gather it. But woman glides so softly into the house of desti tution and finds out all the sorrows of the place and puts so quietly the dona tion on the table that all the family come out on the front steps as she de parts, expecting that from under her shawl she will thrust out two wings and go' right up toward heaven, from whence she seems to have come down. ) O Christian young woman, if yori would make yourself happy and win the blessing of Christ, go out among th$ destitute. A loaf of bread or a bundle of socks may make a homely load to carry, but the angels of God will come out to watch, and the Lord Almighty will give his messenger hosts a charge, saying, "Look after that woman ; can opy her with wings' and shelter her from all harm," rand while you are seated in the bouse of destitution and suffering the little, ones around the room will whisper, "Who is she?") "Ain't she beaatiful?" And if you will listen right sharply you will hear drip-f ping down through the leaky roof and rolling over the rotten stairs the angel chant that shook Bethlehem, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men. " The Lord's Errand. " j Can you tell me why a Christian woman, going down among the haunts of iniquity on a Christian errand, never meets with any indignity ? 1 stood in the chapel of Helen Chalmers, the daughter of the celebrated Dr. Chalmers, in the most abandoned part of the city of Edinburgh, and I said to her as I looked around upon the fearful sur roundings of that place, "Do you come here nights to hold a service?" "OhJ yes!11 she said. "Can it be possible that you never meet with an insult while performing this Christian errand?" "Never," she said, "never." That young woman who has her father by; her side, walking down the street,! armed police at each corner, is not so well defended as that Christian woman' who goes forth on gospel work into the haunts of iniquity, carrying the Bibles and bread. God, with the red right arm of his wrath omnipotent, would teariw pieces any one who should offer indig nity to her. He would emite him with lightnings and drown him with floods and swallow him with earthquakes, and damn him with eternal indigna tions. Some one said: "I dislike very much to see that Christian woman teaching those bad bos in the mission school. I am afraid to have her instruct them." "So said another man, "I am afraid too. " Said the first, "I am afraid they will use vile language be fore they leave the place." "Ah," said the other man, ' 4I am not afraid of that What I am afraid of is that if any of those boys should use a bad word in her presence the other boys would tear him to pieces and kill him on the spot." That woman is the best sheltered who is sheltered by the Lord God Almighty, and ou need never fear going any where where God tells you to go. It seems as if the Lord had ordained woman for an especial work in the so licitation of charities. Backed up by barrels in which there is no flour, and by stoves in which there is no fire, and by wardrobes in which there are no clothes, a woman is irresistibla Pass ing on-her errand, God says to her, "You go into that bank or store or shop and get the money." She goes in and gets it The man is hard fisted, but she gets it " She could not help but get it It is decreed from eternity she should get it No need of your turning your back and pretending you don't hear; you do hear. -There is no need of your saying you are begged to death. There is no need of your wasting your time, and you might as well submit first as last You had better right away take down your checkbook, mark the number ot the check, fill up the blank, sign your name and hand it to her. There is no need of wasting tima Those poor children on the back street have been hungry long enough. That sick man must have some farina. That consumptive must have something to ease his cough. I meet this delegate of a relief society coming out of the store of such a hard fisted man, and I say, "Did you get the money?" "Of course." she says, "I got the money; that's what I went in for. The Lord told me to go in and get it, and he never sends me on a fool's errand." Comforters of Distress. Again. I have to tell you that it is a woman's specific right to comfort under the stress of dire disaster. She is called the weaker vessel, but all profane as well ss sacred history attests that when the crisis comes she is better prepared than man to meet the emergency. How often you have seen a woman, who seemed to be a disciple of frivolity and indolence, nnoer one stroke ox calamity I i - -- changed to a heroina Oh, what a great mistake those business men make who never tell their business troubles to their wives! There comes some great loss to their store or some of their com panions in business play them . a sad trick, and they; carry the burden all alone. He is asked in the household again and again, "What is the mat ter?" But he believes it a sort of Chris tian duty to keep all that trpuble with in his own scuL Oh, sir, your first duty was to tell your wife all about it! She perhaps might not have disentangled your finances or extended your credit. but she would have helped you to bear misfortune. - Yon have no right to carry on one shoulder that which is intended for two. -Business men know what I mean, There came a crisis in your af fairs. You struggled bravely and loner but after awhile there came a day when you said, "Here I shall have to stop. and you called in your partners, and you called in the most prominent men in your employ, and you said, "We have got to stop." You left the store suddenly. .You could hardly make up your mind to pass through the street and over on the ferryboat You felt ev erybody would be looking at you and blaming you and denouncing you. You hastened home. You told your wife all about the affair. What did she say? Did she play the butterfly ? Did she talk about the silks and the ribbons and the fashions? No. She came up to the emergency. She quailed not under the stroke. She offered to go out of the comfortable house into a smaller one and wear the old cloak another winter. She was the one who .understood your affairs without blaming you. , You looked upon what you thought was a thin, weak woman's arm holding you up, but while you looked at that arm there came into the feeble muscles of it the strength of the eternal God. No chiding. No fretting. No telling you about the beautiful house of her father from which you brought her 10, 20 or 30 years ago. You said: "Well, this is the happiest day of my Ufa I am glad I have got from under my bur den. My wife don't care; I don't cara " At the moment you were exhausted God sent a Deborah to meet the host of Amalekites and scatter them like chaff over the plain. There are sometimes women who sit reading sentimental novels, and who wish that they had some grand field in which to display their Christian powers. What grand and glorious things they could do if they only had an opportunity ! My sis ter, you need not wait for any such tima A crisis will come in your affairs There will be a Thermopylae in -your own household where God will tell you to stand. There are scores and hun dreds or nousenolds today wnere as much bravery and courage are demand ed of women as was exhibited by Grace Darling or Marie Antoinette or Joan of Arc. Christian Women. - Again, I remark it is woman's right to bring to us the kingdom of heaven. It is easier for a woman to be a Chris tian than for a man. Why ? You say she is weaker. No. Her heart is more responsive to the pleadings of divine lova She is in vast majority. The fact that she can more easily become a Christian I prove by the statement that three-fourths of the members of churches in all Christendom are women. So God appoints them to be the chief agencies for bringing this world back to God. I may stand here and say the soul is im mortal. There ia'a man who will deny it I may stand here and say we are lost and undone without Christ There is a man who will contradict it. I may stand here and say there will be a judg ment day after awhila Yonder is some one who will dispute it But a Chris tian woman in a Christian household, living in the faith and the consistency of Christ's gospel nobody can refute that The greatest sermons are not preached on celebrated platforms; they are preached with an audience of two or three and in private home lifa A consistent, consecrated Christian service is an unanswerable demonstration of God's truth. i A sailor came slipping down the rat lines one night as though something had happened, and the sailors cried. "What's the matter?" He said, "My mother's prayer haunts me like a ghost." Home -influences, consecrated home influences, are the mightiest of all influences upon the souL There are men who have maintained their integ rity not because they were any better naturally than some other people, but because there were home influences praying for them all the tima They got a good start They were launched on the world with the benedictions of a Christian mother. They may track Si berian snows;:they may plunge in Afri can jungles, they may flee to the earth's end they cannot go so far and so fast but the prayers will keep up with them. I j - ."T Power For Good. I speak to women who have the eternal salvation of their husbands in their right hand. On the marriage day you took an oath before men and angels that you would be faithful and kind until death did you part and I believe you are going to keep that oath, but after that parting at the grave will it be an eternal separation ? Is there any such thing as an immortal marriage, making the flowers that grow on the top of the sepulcher brighter than the garlands which at the marriage banquet flooded the air with aroma? Yea I stand here as an embassador ofthe most high God to proclaim the. banns of an immortal union for all those who join hands in the grace of Christ O woman, is your husband, yourfather. your son. away from God? The Lord demands their redemption at your hands. There are prayers for you to offer, there are exhortations for you to give, there are examples fcr you to set and I say now as Paul ' said to the Cor inthian woman, "What knowest thou but thou shalt save thy husband?" A man was dying; and he said to his Ui- v Th s Suit We are coin n mm n m mm mi if, wife, "Rebeoca, you wouldn't let me have family prayers, you laughed about all that and you got me away into worldliness, and now I'm going to die, and my fate is sealed, and you are the cause of my ruinl" O woman, what knowest thou but thou canst destroy thy husband? I M Are there not some of you who) have kindly influences at home ? Are there not some who have wandered far away from God who can remember the Chris tian influences in their early home ? Do not despise those influences, my broth er. If you die without Christ, what will you do with your mother's prayers, with your wife's importunities, with your sister's entreaties ? What will you do with the letters they used to write to you, with the memory of those days when they attended you so kindly in times of sickness ? Oh, if there be just one strand holding you from floating off from that dark sea, I would just like to take hold of that strand now and pull you to the beach I For the sake of your wife's God, for the sake bf your mother's God, for the sake of iyour daughter's God, for the sake of j your sister's God come this day and be saved. Crowned In Ileaven. Lastly, I wish to say that one of the specific rights of woman is, through the grace of Christ, finally to reach heaven. Oh, what a multitude of" women in heaven! Mary, Christ's mother, in heaven ; Elizabeth Fry in heaven, Char lotte Elizabeth in heaven, the mother of Augustine in heaven, the Countess of Huntington, who sold her splendid jewels to build chapels, in heaven. while a great many others who have never been heard ""of on earth or known but little have gone into the rest and peace of heaven. What a rest I What a change it was from the small! room, with no fire and one window (the glass broken out), and the aching side, and wornout eyes, to the ''house of j; many mansions I" No more stitching until 12 o'clock at night, no more thrusting of the thumb by the employer through the work to show it was not done quite right Plenty of bread at last I Heaven for aching heads 1 Heaven for. broken hearts I Heaven for anguish bitten frames I No more sitting until midnight for the coming of staggering steps 1 No more rough blows across the templet No more sharp, keen, bitter curses I Some of you will have no rest in this world. It will be toil and struggle and suffering all the way up. You will have to stand at your door, righting back the wolf with your own hand, red, with carnaga uut liod nas a crown for you. I want you to realize this morning that he is now making it and whenever you weep a tear he sets another gem in that crown, whenever you have a pang of body or soul he puts another gem in that crown, until after awhile in all the tiara there will be no room for an other splendor, and God will say to his angel, "The crown is done ; let her up, that she may wear it" And as the Lord of righteousness puts the crown upon your brow, angel will cry to an gel, "Who is she?" and Christ will say: I will tell you who she is. She is the one that came up out of great tribula tion and had her robe washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.,, And then God will spread a banquet, and he will invite all the principalities ' of heaven to sit at the feast, and the ta bles will blush withrthe best clusters from the vineyards of God and crimson with the' 12 manner of fruits from the Tree of Lifa and waters froni the fountains of the rock will flash from the golden tankards, and the old harpers of heaven will sit there, making music, with their harps, and Christ will point you out, amid the celebrities of heaven, saying, "She suffered with me on earth; now we are going to be glorified to gether. And the banqueters, no longer able to hold their neace. will hr brth with congratulation,, "Hail! 1 ((mr&hopkins) STROUD ' i s - . : -jnninh1 of Clothes LISTEN r MAKE OF . Boys' Clothes Is the 'best made and the best known j of any brand of V "T H boys' clothing that has ever been given -to the boys of this section. e to make them more DODuIar , . j and to induce this trade we propose to give one of shown in this advertisement' absolutely free with Clothes that we sell, commencing from this date further advised. Ages 4 to 16. ma mm m ma mm mim, mm I sees 300 SOUTH ELM ST., GREENSBORO. haiir And there will be handwritings on tne wail not such as struck the Babylonian , noblemen with horror, but fire tipped fingers, writing in blazing capitals of light and love," "God hath wiped away all tears from all faces!" A WONDEBFUIi CURE OF DIAR RHOEA. A Prominent Virginia Editor Had Almost Giyen Up, but Was Brought Back to Perfect Health by Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar 4 rhoea Remedy Bead His Editorial From the Times, Hills ville, Va. I suffered with diarrhoea for a long time and thought I was past being cured. I had spent much time and money and suffered so much misery that I had almost de cided to give up all hopes of re covery and await the result, but noticing the advertisement of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and also some testimonials stating how some won derful cures had been wrought by this remedy, I decided, to try it. After taking a few doses I was en tirely well of that trouble, and I wish to say further to my readers and fellow-sufferers that I am a bale and hearty man today and feel as well as I ever did in my life. O. R. Moore. Sold by C.E. Hol- ton, Druggist. A Little Girl Nailed to a Tree. While a party of little girls of South Pottstown wereTDlavine vesterdav afternoon they resolved (o give a rep resent a tien of the crucifixion, which had been the subject of their Sunday bcnooi lesson. Accordingly some nails were secured and little Alice Bell, aged five years, daughter of John Bell, was selected as the one to take the principal role. Placing her against a tree a naU was driven clear through the middle fioeer of her left band. She screamed with Dai n and when assistance came it was found she had been literally nailed last. The wound is a serious one and there is serious apprebenrions as to its results. Pottstown, Pa Dispatch to the Philadelphia Times. All previous high records will be broken by the corn crop of the United States of 1899. A canvass of the eight states that raise most of the corn of the United States warrants an estimate above that of 1896, which heretofore has been the record, and there is much in the advices received to justify a prediction that the crop will ap proximate 2,500,000,000 bushels. The first corn crop of ' the country to reach 2,000,000,000 bushels was that of 1885. Including the crop now to be harvested, only , nine crops of 2,000,000,000 bushels or over jiave been produced. The Kansas City Journal face tiously announces that a lawsuit is mw threatened in Brown county (Kan) because the ears of corn in one farmer's field have grown so large that they have pushed the line mf fence over forty , feet onto his neighbor's farm. They have discoyered a greater cataract than Niagara in India, but t will be a lone: time before bridal couples will be induced to frequent t as much as they do the American waterfall. ! " - This Knife? I ; V, h 1 -Hi I i w - indnTii'n i j - ucrv I rail c the handsome knives every suit of Bovs and to continue until Necessity the-Mother of W"-J We are told tht , IT univ po, with the ti of his wife, cultivated . f arm.resorted to an unusual ice'bj of takingjjare of the baby tk, the mother was helniiwr imi,. He prepared a box for the tilt, lasiening it to the plow stock. r wnen the father was plowing K sue znomer noeinfc the bat ? m nuiuk:. juonroe Journa . 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