St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-03-06


same old-time manners Of the coun try
farm house, or wear the old fashioned cap
or spectacles and apron that her glorifie ed
ancestry wore; but I mean the old spiri!
which began with the Hannahs and tho
Mother Lois and tne Abigails of Scripture
days, and was demonstrated ON the home
stead where some OF us were reared, though
the old house long ago was pulled dowh
and it's occupants scattered never to meeS
until in the higher home that awaits ths
families of the righteous. While there ara
more good and faithful wives and mothers
now than there ever were, society has go.
a wrong twist on this subject, and there
are influences abroad that would mako
women believe that their chief sphere is
outside instead of inside the home.
Hence in many households children, i'm
stead of a blessing, are nuisance. 1t is
card case versus child's primer, carriage
versus cradle, social popularity versus
domestic felicity. Hence infanticide and
and ante-natal murder are SO COM
mon that all the physicians, allo-
pathic, hydropathic, homeopathic and
eclectic, are crying out in horror, and it is
time that the pulpits joined with the med
ical profession in echoing and re echoing
the thunder of Mount Sinai, which says:
s'Thou shalt not KILL" and the Book of
Revelation, which says, "All murderers
shall have their pace in the lake which
burneth with fire and birthstone" And
the man or the woman VINO takes life
minute old will as certainly go strai ght 20
hell as the man or woman who destroys
life forty years old. And the wilde t,
loudest shrek of jud gment day will be
given at the overthrow of those who
moved in the high and respectable circles
of earthly society, yet decreed by their
own act as far as they could privately
effect it, the determination of the advanc-
ing generations, abetted in the horrid
crime by lot OF Internal quacSs with
which modern medicine is infested. When,
on the Last Day, the criers Of the Court
shall, with resounding "OyeZ," "Oyez" de-
clare the "Oyer and Terminer" OF the uni
verse opened, and the Judge, with gavel
of thunderbolt, shall smite the nations
into silence, and the trial of all
the fratricides, and PARTICLES, and
matricides, and patricides, and uxori-
cides, and regicides, and decides, and
infantcides of the earth shall proceed,
none of my hearers or readers can say that
they knew not what they were doing.
Mighty God! Arrest the evil that is over
shadowing this century.
| charge you, my sister, that you take
your husband along with you to Heaven.
OF course, this implies that you yourself
are a Christian. l must take that for
granted. 1t can not be possible that after
what Christianity has done for women,
and after taking the infinitely responsible
position you have assumed at the head Of
the household, that you should be in a po-
sition antagonistic to Christ 1t was not
a slip of the tongue when spoke of you as
being at the head of the household. We
men rather pride ourselves as being at the
head Of the household, but it is only
pleasant delusion. To whom do the chill
dren go when they have trouble! When
there is a sore finger to be bound up or one
Of the first teeth that needs to be removed
to make way for one that is crowding it
out, to whom does the child go: For whom
do children cry out in the night when they
get frightened at a bad dream? Aye, to
whom does the husband go when he has
business trouble too great or too deli
cate for outside ears. We, the men,
are heads Of the household in name but
you, 0 wives. are heads of the household
in fact, and it is your business to take your
husband with you into the Kingdom of
God and see that house prepared for
Heaven.
But you say be belongs to worldly club
or he does not believe word of the Bible.
or he is an inebriate and very loose in hi:
habits? What you tell me shows that you
don't understand that while you are at the
one end of prayer, the omnipotent God
is at the other end, and it is simply a
question whether Almightiness is strong
enough to keep His word.
have no doubt there will be great con-
ventions in Heaven called for celebrative
purposes, and when in some Celestial as
semblage the saints shall be telling what
brought them to God, I believe that ten
thousand times ten thousand will say, "My
wife"
I put beside each other two testimonies
of men concerning their wives, and let you
see the contrast. An aged man was asked
the reason Of his salvation. With tearfu'
emotion he said: "My wife was brough,
to God some years before myself. perse
cuted and abused her because Of her re
ligion. She, however, returned nothing
but kindness constantly, maintaining AL
anxiety TO promote my comfort and hap
piness, and it was her amiable conduct
when suffering ill-treatment from me that
first sent the arrows of conviction to
my SOUL" The other testimony was from
a dying man: Harriet, am lost man:
you opposed our family worship and m.
secret prayer; you drew me away into |
temptation and to neglect every religious
duty. I believe my fate is sealed. Har
riet you are tbs cause of my everlasting
ruin ,, How MANY married couplas in |