Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-22

salu. 'Eat9ef, you ought 10 nave ueeh
home last night. We had a grand time.
Such jolly games and such interesting
stories." This went on from night TO night,
and after "A while the husband stayed in
to see what was going on, and he finally
got attracted and added something Of his
own to the evening entertainments, and
the result was that the wife and mother
saved her husband and saved her boy aud
saved herself. Was not that an enter
prise worth the attention OF the greatest
woman thatever lived since Abigail 1.-THE
foot of the rock arrested the four hundred
armed warriors.
DO not, my sister, be dizzied and dis
turbed by the talk of those who think the
home circle too Disqualification woman's
career, and who want to get you out on
platforms and in conspicuous enterprises.
There are women who have a special out
side mission, and do not dare TO interpret
me as derisiVe of their important mission.
But my opinion is that the woman who
can reinforce her husband in the work of
life and rear her children for POSITIONS of
usefulness, is doing more for God and the
race and her own happiness, than If she
spoke on every great platform and headed
a hundred great enterprises. My mother
never made "A missionary speech in her
life, ana at missionary meeting doubt
whether she could have got enough cour-
age TO vote aye or no, but she raised her
son john, who has been preaching the
Gospel and translating religious literature
IN Annoy, China, for about forty years.
Was not that n better thing to do.
Compare such an one with one OF these
die-away. attitudinizing, frivolous, mar
ried coquettes of the modern drawing
room. her heaven an opera box on the
night OF Meyerbeer's 'RObert le Diable,"
the Ten Commandments" an inconven-
ience, taking arsenic to improve the COM
pleXiOn, aud her appearance confused
result OF belladonna, bleached hair, anti
mony and mineral acids, until one is COM
pelled to discuss her character and won
der whether the line between a decent and
indecent life is, like the Equator, an i'm
aginary line.
What the world wants now is about
fifty Old-fashioned mothers, women who
shall realize that the highest, grandest,
mightiest institution on earth is the
home. 1t is not necessary that they should
have the same Old.tme manners Of the
country farm house, or wear the old
fashioned cap and spectacles and apron
that her glorified ancestry wore; but /
mean the old spirit which began with the
Hannahs and the Mother Lois and the
Abigails Of Scripture days, aud was de-
mOnstrated on the homestead where
some Of US were reared, though the old
house long ago was pulled down and its
occupants scattered never TO meet until
in The higher home that awaits the
families of the righteous. While there
are more good and faithful wives and
mothers now than there ever were, So
ciety has got wrong twist on this SUBJ
iect, and there are influences abroad that
tsfomId make rsre.-aan Aslse~o tifs-e tueIr
chief sphere is outside instead Of inside
the home.
Hence in many households children in
stead OF "A blessing are nuisance. IL is
card case versus child's primer, carriage
versus cradle, social popularity versus
domestic felicity. Hence infanticide and
ante-natal murder 80 common that all the
physicians, allopathic, hydropathic, home
Opathic and eclectic,ar CRYING out in hOr-
rOr and II is time that the pulpits joined
with the medical profession in echoihg
and re-ecnOlng the thunder OF Mount
Sinai, which says: Thou shalt not KILL"
and the book Of Revelation, which says:
"All murderers snail nave their place In
the lake which buTneth with fire and
birthstone" And the man OF the woman
VINO takes life minute old Will as GER
tainly go straight TO hell as the man or
woman who destroys life forty years old.
And the widest, loudest shrek of jLdg-
ment day will be given at the overthrow
OF those who moved in the high and re-
spected circles of earthly society, yet
decreed by their own act as far
as they could privately effect
il, the determination of the adVanc-
ing generations, abetted in the hOrrid
crime by a lot Of internal quacks with
which modern medicine is infested.
When, on the last Day, the criers OF the
Court shall with reBounding "Oyez,"
"Oyezn declare the "0yer and Termi-
ner' OF the Universe opened, and the
Judge with gayel Of tnunderbolt shall
smite the nations into silence, and the
trial Of all the fratricides, and parI icides,
and matricides, and patricides, and uxOri-
cides, ard regIcides. aud decides, and in
faptlcdes Of tho earth shall proceed, none
OF my hearers or readers can say that
they knew not what they were dOipg.
Mighty GOdl Arrest the evil that is over
shadOwIng this century.
Charge you, my sister, that YOU take
your husband along with you 10 heaven.
or course this implies that you yourself
are a Christian. 1 must take tnat for
granted. II cannot be possible that after
what Christianity has done for woman
aud 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. IL was not
"A slip OF the tongue when 1 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 IL is only
a pleasant delusiOn. To whom do
the children 60 when they have
troubley When there Is sore
finger to he bound up or one Of the first
teeth that needs to be removed 10 make
way for one that Is crOwding Il out, 10
whom does the child go? For whom do
children cry ont In the night when they
get frightened at "A bad dreamf Aye. 10
whom does the husband 60 when he has
business trouble great or too delicate for
outside earsl We, the men, are heads Of
the household In name, but you, o wiYesi
are the heads Of the household In fact,
and 10 is your business 10 take your hus-
baud with you into the kingdom OF God
and see that house prepared Tor heaven.
You can do i'll OF course Gods al
mighty grace alone can convert him, but
YOU are 10 be the instrument. Some
wives keep their husbands out OF heaven
and others garner them for II. III your
religion, o wife, IL simply the Joke OF the
household. II you would rather 10 10 the
theatre than the prayer meeting, II you
can beat all the neigbbornoOd IN progress
sive euchre, II your husband never sees
you kneel at the bedside In prayer before
retiring, II the only thing that reminds
the family OF your church relations Is that
on communion day you get home late
10 dinner, you will not be able
70 take your husband 70 heaven, Tor the
simple reason that YOU will not get there
yourself. But / suppose that your relig-
ion Is genuine and that the husband real