, 1886-02-28
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paintings and musical instruments; and yet
there is in that place the chill OF Novn
Zsmbla Hore Is another home that has not
had one-twenticth part OF the outlny-a
ninno of the cheapest kind, and the whole
place has rn air OF the simplest style, and
all the furniture In the household thrown on
the market would not bring but q few dol
lars. Ne- as soon as we enter we feel the
glowing warmth Of satisfaction and OF
happy domesticity. The great art Of getting
the most tumfort and happiness IS the
point that every wife ought to study.
At the siege OF Argus. perhurst was
killed by u stone from the roof OF a
house by a woman. Abimelech was slain
by q rock discharged at him from tho tower
Of siege by "A woman. Earl Monthorn was
killed by "A stonu thrown from the wall at
Tolu by n woman. But no higher or might
Ter Of Weapons are required than a cold and
cherries house arrangement TO kill all the
beauties in the domestic circle, and q wife
and mother who. from popularity. gives her
whole time to social life. while her husband
passes all the evenings away, tho boy fifteen
years OF age did the same. the probability
was that the other children, rs thny got old
enough. would take the same turn. The
wife and the mother one day bethought her.
self OF the importance OF slving her husband
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home circle all tho bright and entertaining
mud stirring games and plays she could
think OF she studied up and got n great
many interesting things TO tell. and there
was n grent change in that home. Night
nfter night this Improvement went on. until
one morning the hoy said to bis father;
Father, you ought to have been home last
night; such games, such interes ing ~storieal'
Fnther, after a while. stayed home ono
night TO see hat was going on, and he was
attracted. Then he added his Information
10 the entertainment, and, 10 make a long
story short, that wife and mother saved her
husband and saved her boy. and saved her
self. And was not that an achievement
worthy Of tho greatest woman that ever
lived since Abigail ARE tod 400 menl How
many foes have come down upon your
householder Tcn-a hundred-two hundred
-threo hundred-four hundred IL four
hundred in the strength OF the Lord Col OF
Abigail, you can arrest themi
NY sister, do not be guilty Of contributing
TO all this talk abroad about the homo circle
being too insignificant for n woman's cnrear.
Oh, this attempt to take you out ON tho
platform, and In conspicuous enterprisesi
While there are women who have an out
side mission-and do not dare to misintcr-
prot me Of being derisive OF their mission,
IT Aue importance OF their WOik, LOT i DC
lieve In their mission-but l do believe th1tif
a woman re-enforces her husband in the great
work Of life and bringing up her children 10
usefulness she has done far more for her
race than If she had stool on the great plat
form and met wrh success In a hundred en-
terprises. My mother never made n mis-
sionnry speech In all her life, and | doubt If,
in n missionary meeting, she would have
had the courage 10 vote either yea or nay.
But she made a missionary OF her sou John,
who IS nov in Amoi, China. preaching the
gospel OF Jesus Christ and translating re-
ligious literature into that foreign tongue,
and has been for forty years. Wasn't that a
better thing to dol Compare such a one
with ono Of these attitudinizing, frivolous.
married coquettes Of the modern drawing
room, whose heaven is an opera box at a
nights performance OF "Robert tbs Devil1;
eating arsenic to improve her complexion;
her whole appearance n confused result of
belladonna and bleached hair and nnti-
mony and mineral acid, until you are com
PEELED to discuss her character, and begin to
wonder whether the limo between decency
and indency is not, after oil, like the equator
an imaginary line.
What the world wants to-day is fifty
thousand old Fashioned mothers who realize
that the highest and %grnndest and mightiest
Institution on earth is the home. It is not
necessary that they have all the old-time
: apparel Of cap or spectacles or apron which
their ancestors wore. Il Is not necessary
that they have either the apparel or manner
OF the past. They can be up to the very
present moment In all that Is right and
honorable, but mean women with the spirit
shown by Hannah and Grandmother LOWS,
and Abigail OF my text, md afterwards
demonstrated on some Of the old homesteads
where we were brought up, though the old
house has long ago been pulled down, and
the occupants have been scattered, never to
10 gathered together again until In the
higher home which awaits tho families OF the
righteous There are more good gnd faithful
wives and mothers now than there ever
werc-an hundred times more, But you know
as we'll as ] that in society to-day there IS n
wrong twist, and the influence is abroad TO
try and persuade women that her chief
sphere is outside, instead of inside, the home.
Hence in many families children, instead Of
being n blessing, are n nuisance, and il Is
marriage against the cradle, and II Is social
popularity against domestic felicity hence
infanticide, and hence n%nte-natal murder, so
common that all physicians, allopathic.
Homeopathic. h~ydropathic and eclectic. cry
out in horror. and it is time the pulpit should
join the medical profession in tho thunder
uttered before Sinai Thou shalt not killfi
and the announcement in tho Book OF Revela
ton; All mgrdcrers shall nave their place in
the lake that burneth with fire and brim-
stone The loudost, widest shrek in the
day Of Judgment will be from the overthrow
OF those who, on earth. moved in highly 70
spectacle society, yet who decreed, rs far rs
they could affect IL, the determination Of tho
advancing generation, and were aided by n
lot OF Internal "quacks,' who infest modern
society When the last great day comes,
and tho criers OF the court shall, with
rcsouuding 'shear yel hear yer announce
that the oyer and termine OF the universe
Is open, and tho Judge. with gavel thunder
tolt shall smite all nations into silenee, and
the trial OF all the fratricides and matricides
nm rarricides and regicides and infanti-
cidcs shall begin, o my hearers and my
ratdsrs, none of them can say they did not
know what they were about Almighty
Col, arrest this o~vorshadowing crime Of tn
century.
| charge you, also. my sister, that you
take your husband with you to heaven. OF
courso all this implies that you are yourself
a Christian am Obliged to believe that
II cannot be that after what Christianity
has done for woman, and after your having
taken the infnite responsibility at the head
Of The household, that you can a~ntagonize
Christ 1t was no slip Of the tongue when l
said that you are at the head of the house
hold We men are under the delusion that
we ARE at tho head Of the household. But 1t
is only a delusion To whom do tho chill
dren go when they have any trouble, when
IL is the sore hand TO be bound up, or when
IL is the first tooth to be removed, so rs to
let the one crowding on take the plncc Of it;
to whom does tho child 60 theni When in
the night the child Il frightened by bad
dreams. for whom docs he cryi When
tie husband has business troubles 50
great or 50 delicate. that he cannot tell
tt 20 outside ears, to whom docs he
20 We The msu. are at TIN head