Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-03-26

lis world ofgrandeur and beauty which
d called into being, he pronounced each
Creature good" as it came successfully in
kind, place and subordnation. Man was
the accomplishment in all his goodness, of
his magnificent work, but it is man aided,
ennobled, perfected by another SELF
Woman, in the mysterious province of
God, is the companion, ally, soul Of man."
in the union ofintellect and sensibility, vgor
and comeliness, dignity and grace, energy
and delicacy, courage and benevolence This
is her mission and her glory. She is not only
an adjunct but a necessity. Take her away
from the sphere Of her exalted duties, and it
is the earth robbed of light, the sky of its
mantling clouds of crimson and purple, the
senses Of their functions, the heart of the cur
rent Of life.
The true woman is everywhere co-operat-
ing with God and with man, the medium of
their thoughts, the bonds of their affections,
the author and witness Of their compact, in
all that is great, sweet and holy, for the
glory OF the Creator and the happiness of the
creature. In the family, the state, the church
she occupies her legitimate and honorable
place, and with thousand winning voices
gathers as IN her presence to pay her the trib-
ute of our reverence, love and gratitude for
the sublime and touching Offices size dis
charges, tile deUOtedness sic shoes, the trust she
inspires, the purity and patience she exempl-
fies and teaches
But n0,ohore in the long catalogue of
events is her devotion more eloquent, more
touching, more charitable, more christian
than when she has watched all through the
weary hours Of the day and night and
listened with trembling hope and earnest
prayer for the coming of her unfortunate
husband; and then with shiverng haste
puts on her shawl and at that hour of
tho night when no light is shining but
the beacon of the grog-shop, she steps
out into the darkness TO visit those places
where "youth goes down smiling and comes
up stricken with premature age" Gracious
God what an an eXecutioner, what crime
TO take blushing, happy, contiding and in
nocent girl from her happy home and drag
her down to want and to dispair-heH las
no greater monster-and yet she watches
hopes and prays. Is this not woman in her
most sublime character, and will not God
answer her prayers? Say not NO." you
wretched, liendish infidel-you pen libel
ON Christianity.
When the mother of the Grachi was asked
for her jewels, she pointed to her children
But Lamartine more beautifully describes
the love Of woman for her children, OF
rather mothers love-he says: "In some
spring ireshet, river wildly washed its
shores and rent away bough whereon a
bird had built cottage for her summer hope
Down the white and whirllng stream drifted
the green branch with its wicker cup of un.
fledged song, and flultering beside it went
the mother bird. Unheeding the roaring
river, on she went, her cries of agony and
fear piercing the heavens and the storm
How like the old fashioned mother who fol
lowed the child she had plucked from hel
heart, all over the world. Swept away by
passion that child might be, ii mattcred not
though he was bearing away with him the
fragrance Of the shattered rool.tree, yet thai
mother was with him, a Ruth through all
his life, and a Rachel at his DEATH