The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1883-11-02
PAsCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI FRIDAY. NOVEMBER ?. 1888

Tor her own little circle, she may
not belong 10 missionary society
tor she has the little htathen all
around her and she il their mis-
slOnary, she may be femiss in her
attendance at church and have but
little time 10 read her Bible, aud
can only utter short and earnest
prayers from an over burlene,l
heart, but when she dies and her
weary spirit appears ut the ce.
lestiat gates, ST. Peter will ask
her who she is aud what she wants
She will reply: Il have been Il
faithful wife aud loving mother
for 10, these many years, aud |
want rest. ST. Peter will open
wide those everlasting gates aud
bid her enter, and inscribe her
name in The long list OF martyrs,
Tor baving once been II marr.e,l
man himself, he knows she has had
punishment enough already.
Thousands sacrifice themselves
on the marriage altar fur our good,
and strange 10 say, that with the
experience Of centuries, thousands
now stand ready to be msrtyre,l
on the SAME altar. They will do
anything Tor love, and ii they cunt
get that the strong minded among
them will rush into the lecture field,
join the salvation army. storm grog-
shops, form women's rights socie.
ties, aud do deeds to make the
angels weep. Tue true women OF
the Land who are the Safeguards OF
religion, virtue, aud even civiliza.
ton itsrlt, are not public brawlers.
The administrative faculti are
not hers, she plans no campaigns,
nor leads armies To battle nor fleets
to victory, the forum is no theatre
for her silver voice, she discerus
not tile course Of planets, Orion
with his belt, and Arctutus With
his suns, are naught to her but
pretty baubles set up in the sky,
she guides no vessel through night
aud tempest across the trackless
SEA, She eomposes no lliad, the
strength Of Milton's poetic vision is
tar beyond her delicate perception,
she woald have been aiirigh ed at
that fiery SEA upon whose hdmins
billOws
Satan, with head above the waves,
And eycs that sparl lug blazedr
For she reigns in the heart, hel
seat aud throne are by the hearth.
stone, aud they are the salt that
keep the world from universal cor.
ruption.
The labor for existence aud the
desire for reprodttcton keep all an.
inated thugs at constant work.
We notice it IN our great Caucas.
sian race, the direct descendants of
Adam, who was tile son Of God,
and we see il in the woolly-headed
African and III! those ifongrpl
types who came from-God only
knows where. We see it in the
huge elephant that roams
the tropical junglcs in the
PRIDE of his strength, and in the
tiny mouse that nibbles the miller's
meal sacks. We see it in the hinge
leviatl,an which siaaketh the deep
to boil like n pot and the animal.
cule which has its bsief exister &c
In a drop OF water.
All animate thiags obey the law
of force. The rsInt6w which arch.
es the heayens wIih its blended
beauty, the zephyr which hans the
fevered cheek, the summer light.
ming which puriffes tile atdiospbere
and adds variety to the landscape,
obey the same law which produces
earthquakes, volcanoes, hurrlcans
and temyests. The earth, in obe.
dience to the law OF force, is always
in motion, with her sister planets
and attending satellites, all whirl
IN space around the sun with the
same velocity, The same regularity
AS wlIeu dropped, like balls, from
the hand of the Creator. The sun
with the myriads Of other suns--
'those stars who hold their festival
around the midnight throne, for
ever mockiug MS with their unap.
proachable glories'-all move
around common cepire, which
may be the throne of the Deity
Himself,-without haste, without
rest, all move on forever. Work !
1t il everywhere. God works, for
the Bible says He rested. Work.
1t reaches from the throne OF God
down through the shining courts