The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-10

which women can carry the Gospel Of
our Lord and Saviour which you and I,
brethren, could not enter with any hope
Of doing good.
II ever there was an age in which wo-
mans work for Jesus was needed, it is
this age. Our foreign missionary oper-
ations have taught Us that in heather
countries there are walls so high and so
strong that the white horse Of the gospel
can neither leap over nor break through,
but the angel who bears the everlasting
gospel can fly over them and carry the
gospel beyond. That angel is woman.
she can gather classes and form schools
IN secret places, hiding away the true
germ of the principles Of the gospel
where they viii sprout and flower and
send blooms over desoIate lands.
Christianity Is designed to be most
especially the Church in the House.
Our modern church service is especially
useful as it quickens home religion.
When Jesus first sent out apostles, they
were not 10 make organizations nor
build edifices They were TO 90 from
house 10 house. Each family dwelling
was TO be a sanctuary. In every house
was TO be erected the home altar 1t
was years and years before any Chris
tian society owned a church edifce. |
do not suppose that any of the original
twelve apostles, or even Paul, ever en-'
tered such a building. But Christianity
grew marvelously. 1t spread with a
rapidity, which Mohammsdism could
not initiate, even with all the force Of
the sword. 1t was the Church in the
House, and women were the great prop
agators Of faith whose field was the
home circle
That God designs Christianity to be
always a home religion seems indicated
by the fact that, in every age, under
every form OF civilization, that church
has made most progress which has best
learned how to organize and employ the
agency OF women. The association NAV
hold TO wrong doctrines, and have /
false basis in some other particulars, 4
and men may be able to resist priest aud 4
but when = poor forlorn /
wretch wakes from the delirium of a /
contagious fever, and sees quiet /
woman sitting by his bedside, who /
through all the days he has been riding
the sea Of fire, has kept a steady band +.
on the helm and brought him around |
again, she becomes to him the Muse Of |
Faith, and the sister Of his soul, and she I
can lead him where she viii. /
My dear young ladies as you have !
walked in yon court il maiden medita-
ton or sat wrapped in day dreams under
these glorious trees or filed your walk
hours at night with pictures Of what
you would ike to be, you may have
fancied yourselves. perhaps. the wives of
dispensing splendid hospi
-alities, or powerful and fascinating
writer's, like George Elliot, without
making shipwreck OF your moral
character as that poor gifted woman did
or poetry, like Elizabeth Browning,
bearing the echoes of fame from afar.
Alas! You might be all these and be
neither happy nor useful. If you wish to
impress your generation for good and
keep your immortality above the stars,
beseech you to place yourselves among
.he women who labor with the apostles
If the Christian faith. Above all the
blessings I could wish or think for you
pray that when you pass the veil into
.he world beyond Jesus may introduce
YOU to the angels with the words;
These are the women that labored with
ne in the Gospel."