The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-09-30
THE WOMEN AT THE sEPULCHER.
By Kate BrOignIee Sherwood.


In the dust and the heat of the wayI
Go, tell it to them who are waiting
The dawn of a happier dayl"
Then they ran to arouse the Eleven
Ere the smiles of the angel had paled;
Though the earth it was rocked and was riven
Their hearts neither altered nor failed.
What to them were the spies in the shadows,
Or the yawning wide tOmbs of the dead,
Since they rose to the nights of rejoicing
From the desolate regions of dread?
And some to the tomb they were speeding
Ere the tidings had half been made known,
To kneel where the light of the lilies
In full resurrection had blown;
And some they remembered the story
As n tale that Is wantOnly told,
By the side of the Pickering embers
When the year it is waning and old.
" He is risen The Lord He is riseni"
He is master of death and the gravel
Let the women Of Judah be joyful
Let the palms Of the conqueTor wave!
No need of the scepter and purple,
His garments are beauty and light;
With the jewels of infinite pity
Is the King in his glory bedght!
go, tell it," Lot Christ is repeating
The message the angels have told,
And the Marys who hearken the story
They tell it to-day as of old;
Their hearts they swift To obey Him,
Their feet they are winged with desire,
And the tongues OF the Penteeost kndle
Their hopes to a eOnsecrate fire.
20, Lellui Inc gruclOuS eVNnKei,
That Love il exalted DER all;
Where the Brahmin abaseth his body,
Where the orgies of VoudoO appall
Go, tell il, in kingdom and cottage,
Where the sobbings of sorrow heard,
Till the hearts that are bruised and broken
By the wonderful story are stirredl
Be strong o my soul, to pursue him.
IT'S the King who il pleading with theel
Let me with the glorious message
To the bondsmen who cry to be free!
Till before HIM in deep alteration
The nations of earth are as one,
And the CLEANS of n heaven RE gave us
Are lost in a heaven begun.
WORD To CORPS BY CORPS PRESIDENT.
tits said that they cannot keep a secret nor can
they organization long at atime in peace and
harmony. They will gossip, one about the other,
and let every little mole Hill become a mountain in
their eyes. IL u member should forget some little
form of business. it is laid up against her by q
much said to inure her feelings. And then another
will say, well, sister sO-and-so said such and
such things about you and another is hurt. So it
goes from bad to worse, until il really that
some member has prevaricated land often il is true)
and will attempt TO trace il out, and make
a great fuss and stir over nothing at all entirely
neglectng the good and welfare of the Corps, and
nearly worry the life out of the Corps President
| who is trying her best to promote harmony and
sisterly love between Corps members. A Corps
President has enough to occupy her time If she is
\ careful and watchful of the grand work of the
W.RC. intrusted To her care, without being per-
/ picked with needless complaints and differences
/ glorious work for self and selfish purposes, and
/ thus bring reproaeh upon the Corps.
five have the welfare and good of the w r. @.
and its great work at heart, we will not let every
| little trihe offend and cause US to speak unkndy
of any who do not do just we think they should,
and If mistake IL made to set 10 down as done on
/ purpose and say, well, won't have anything to
owith her. or wont go to the Corps meetings as
long she sthere." suppose our ACCOMPLISHMENTS
had acted this principle. and some had said, /
/ wont join that company, for there are some in it
/ whom do not ike, or " / wont fight beside such
an one or IL he joins the Post won't, for do
not like him" Do we have this kind Of talk from
| Post members or old soldiers? No; they are more
nobe-spirited than To let sell or 5elfshncss kill
fraternal spirit; they let all the little chickering's
die for of petting and nursing, for they have
| banded together for higher and more noble cause
/ So let every Corps take a lesson and be prOiited
\ thereby before they are nearly broken up by the
spirit of sefshness and the side gossip which never
| should find place among members of a Woman's
| Relief Corps. II we would remember and practice
| the Golden Rule, how much trouble and heartache
would be avoided.-GraHd Army AdUocate.
WOMAN THE COMPLEMENT OF MAN.
DEAR TRIBUNE: The following little extract from
| memoirs" by Gen. Sherman, showing how the
comfort, prosperity and happiness of man are in
creased by the presence of woman, suggests the
thought that what the individual woman is to the
individual man. the W.R.C. is to the GAR. None
will deny that the usefulness, prosperity and hap
| piness of the Grand Army have been wonderfully
| Increased since the advent of woman in the organ
| ization of the Relief Corps.
| while all admit mans superiority In certain d.
| rections who will say that the Second Lieutenant
could have equaled his little bride in the wonders
| she worked with few yards Of red calico and
some candle boxes? can see in memory beau
tifuI young eity-bred lady, who had married
| poor Second Lieutenant, and followed him to his
| post on the plains whose quarters were in a dug
out 10 feet by about 10. seven feet high, with
dirt roof four feet of the walls of the natura
earth the other three OF sod. with holes for win
dows and corn sacks for curtains. This little lady
had her Saratoga trunk, which the chief article
of furniture, yet by means of a rug the GROUND
floor. "a few candle boxes covered with red cotton
calico for seats, table improvsed out of barrel
head and n fireplace and chimney excavated in tn,
back wall or bank she had transformed her 'hol,
I'm the ground into u most attractive home for he
young warrior husband, and she entertained m,
with a supper consisting of the best of coffee, fret
ham, kes and jellies from the Commissary W hel
made on my mind an impression more lasting thar
have any one of the hundreds of magnificent ban
Duets have since attended in the palaces and man
sons of our own and foreign lands "-AIaude Essex
Pittsburg, Pa.
DEPARTMENT OF NEW JERSEY.
| Mai Woerner Relief Corps, No g. is worthy o
mention in this Department. IL was organizes
| about two years ago in HOboken, with n eharte
membership of about Is, auxiliary to Maj. Woerne
Post No. 81, GAR, of the same place. At first
struggled for an existence, but the untirng effort
of its energetic members brought it safely throug
| it, ordeal Last year this Corps presented to tn
Post an elegant silk flag. which event eele
brated by a Reunion of Post, Corps and Sons
Veterans. The success of this Corps at present
| mainly due To its President. Mrs. Sophia Hesse
man. This interchangeable lady has won the respet
and esteem of not os,ly the members of the Corps
and the comrades of the Grand Army but OF all pr
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