The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-10
TRUTH TRIUMPHANT.
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more blood than tears. OH give women
free access to all the realms where she
can get a livelihood, from the telegraph
Office to the pulpit. Let mems wages be
cut down before others are cut down.
Men have iron in their souls, and can
stand it. Make the way free to her OF
the broken heart. May God put into my
| hand the cold, bitter cup of prlVation,
and give me nothing but wlndOWiess
| hut for shelter for many years rather
than that after am dead there should
go out from my home into a pitiless
world woman's arm to fight the Get
tysburg, the Austerlitz, the Waterloo OF
| life for bread.
And vet how many women there are
seated between the rock of bereavement
on the one side and the rock of destitu-
tion on the other, BOZez and Seneh in
terlOcking their shadows and dropping
them upon her miserable wayl There
is a sharp rock on the one side and a
sharp rock on the other side" What are
such to do? Somehow let them climb
up into the heights of the glorious prom
Use: Leave thy fatherless children; |
will preserve them alive, and let thy
widows trust in me-" Or get up into
the heights of that other glorious prom
ise: 'The Lord preserveth the stranger
and relieyeth the widow and the father
less" o, ye sewing women on starving
wagesl o, ye widows turned out from
once beautiful hOmel o, ye female teach
ers kept on a niggardly stipend! o, ye
despairing women seeking in vain for
work, wandering along the docks and
thinking to throw yourselves into the
river at night. o, ye women of aching
sides and weak nerves and short breath
and broken hearts! You need something
more than human sympathy. You need
the sympathy of God. Climb up into
his arms. He knows it all, and He loves
you more than father OF mother OF hus-
band ever could or ever did; and instead
of sitting down and wTinging your hands
in despair, you had better begin to climb.
There are heights of consolation for you,
though now "there is a sharp rock on
the one side and a sharp rock on the
other SIDE"
Again, that man is in the crisis of the
text who has wasted life on the one
side and an unillumined eternity on the
other. Though a man may all his life
have cultured deliberatiOn and self-pOiSe,
if he gets into that position all his self
possession is gone. There are all the
wrong thoughts of his existence, all the
wrong words, all the wrong deeds
strata above strata, gigantic, ponderous,
OYershadowing, that rock l call B0Zez.
On the other side are all the retributlOns
of the future, the thrones of Judgment,
the eternal ages, angry with his long de-
fiance, piled up, concentrated, accumu-
lated wrath. That rock l call Semen.
Between these two rocks Lord Byron
perished, and Alcibiades perished, and
Herod perished, and ten thousand times
ten thousand have perished. 0, man,
immortal man, redeemed man, blood
bought, climb up out of those shadows!
Climb up by the way of the cross! Have
your wasted life forgiven; have your
eternal life secured. This morning just
take one look to the past and see what it
has been, and take one look to the future
and see what it threatens to be. You
can afford to lose your health; you can
afford to lose your property; you can af-
ford to lose your reputation, but you can
not afford to lose your soul. That bright,
cleaning, glorious, precious, eternal
possession you must carry alOft in the
day when the earth burns up and the
heavens burst. 0, God, help that man to
save his sOull
You see from my subject that when a
man goes into safety of peace of the
Gospel he does not demean himself,
There is nothing in religion that leads
to manliness or unmanliness. The Cos
pei of Jesus Christ only asks you to
climb as Jonathan did-climb toward
God, climb toward heaven, climb into
the sunshine of Gods favor. To become
a Christian is not to go meanly down; it
is to come glOTiOusly up-up into the
communion of saints, up into the peace
that passeth all understanding, up into
the cOmpanionship of angels. He lives
up, he dies up.
Oh! then, accept the wholesale invita-
tion which make to all people. Come
up from between your invalidism and
financial embarrassments. Come up
from between your home trouble and
your outside persecution. Come up from
between your bereavements and your
destitutiOn. Come up from between a
wasted life and an unillumined eternity.
Like Jonathan, climb with all your
might, instead Of sitting down to wiring
your hands in the shadow and in the
darkness-'a sharp rock on the one side
and sharp rock on the other side."