The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-12-30

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give I'm back his kingdom" She mounted
the war steed-iler person, her voice, her
her standurd-the divinity which the SOL
diers saw shining en- her fine face, filed
the army with suck strange wild enthusiasm
that from the depths of despair they sprang
TO the heights of exultation. The most re-
nowned chiefs at once placed her at the
edged by the soldiers as their highest au.
thori.y. The English seemed awestruck
at the sublime heroism of Joan. At
the dead of night, amid lightning and thun-
der, with her little band of two hundred, the
peasant girl of Domtemy made an en-
trance Tito Orleans, surrounded as it was
by a powerful English army: Is strange
that the people looked upon her as a child Of
heaven Angel, maiden, warrior, martyr +,
Immortal in history She was deifed by
by the holy superstition of her country.
Her mission was SIMPLY the bursting into
action of patriotic faith.
Recognizing only her wonderful power
they questioned not whether she was man or
woman, they thought of her but as their
d eliverer.
when woman has herself arisen in nation
al or private history, and no5ly shcne in any
form of excellence, men have received her,
not only willingly, but with triumph" If
woman desires higher position, she must
realize that she cannot command success,
but rather say she will DO more, she will
deserve 1t. The higher arts, such as music
and the drama are as bountitul Of reward
TO woman as to man. The child Of gong
who enchaDts u. upon the cperatic stage
resolves a larger income than tie savior OF
q nation who maintains ben honor on the
fell.
History is fill of instances Of the deYo-
ton of wpmau Besides the twelve dis
cipl,s Of Jesus singular band Ct women
followed him, and first among these is
Mary Magalcne, who clung to Jesus with
q fidelity that could net be surpassed, an
affection which seems to have grown more
earnest aud fearless with danger and
which during his cruciGxion and after his
burial, places her even before his own
mother in intensity CT self devotion.
Josephine, the star of Napoleon was
more than the harbinger of his rising. She
gave additional lustre to his brilliancy
From the quiet life of her Island home she
rose to the splendor of royalty which bor'
rowed lustre from her virtues character
that like silver sire am broken On the
verge of a rrscipice was the most lovely
when the Eonted flow of existence was In.
terrupted by q great calamity.
History scarcely shows a stronger in
stance os sef.denyirg devotion. She be-
came willing to sacrifice all her interests !;
to leave the proulest throne the world
could then boast Of and lay the crown at his
feet wto had bestowed it upon her; to see
all her hopes Wi Their, to mourn over the
blight Of her ten derest affectipns--willine
to give Up every thing, could she advance
the glory of Napolean. The trial though
severe WAS met aad sustained With heroic
fortitude she looked into the gulf before hel
and with calmness stepped forward to NEE,
her fate.
In striking contrast to Jo.ephine's ncble
self sacrificing devotion appears Madame
de Maiutenon, whose life was one continued
struggle for power, to obtain which she
deemed no. even her virtue too great q
sacrifice. Born in prison, bred in poverty
she controlled Louis XIV. A woman of won.
derful power she ruled France in Its grand
est days, yet in all that pretains to true
nobility of character, her life may be con-
sliered sad failure.
But a darker, dreariar picture is the life
of Nell Gwynne, who began by selling
flowers at the door of a theatre and ended
by selling her soul within the portals oil
a palace. Beautiful in person, possessed of
intellectual graces which peculiarly adapt
ed her to the stage and voice which might
Rave made her famous In the world O
song: she was not content to win hono
and distinction by her noble God given
powers. A desolate, dark picture over
which We care not to linger, yet We canno.
escape its truth.
History no more truly shows the cub
lime heights to which woman may rise,
than it does the dark horrible abyss into
which she too often falls. Beautiful is tn
picture of the virtue and happiness of our
sisters loved AID tenderly cared for-hou
beautiful the thought of those lost in the will
sea of corruption and vice which dashes
and breaks against the bulworks of society
In the touching story of the water spirit
Undine.is represented as weeping passion
aIely in view of her coming soul. Wei
might all weep at the possession of sou
if all they are to do for poor erring human
ity is to wrap their mantle of purity NOR
closely saying-"Tcuch me not, | an
boiler than them" All are childre,
Of one Heavenly Father. Glory may hav
sought out one, aud placed her name higl