Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-22

udu OclleE save ner nueDAnQ anu ner DOY.
Interesting and stirring games were intro
duced into the house. The mother studied
up interesting things TO tell her children.
One morning the son said: Father, you
ought to have been home last night. We
had grand time. Such Jolly games and
such interesting stories" This went on
from night to night and after while the
husband stayed in to see what was going
on, and he finally got attracted and added
something of his own 10 the evening enter
tsinments; and the result was that the
wife and mother saved her husband and
saved her boy and saved herself. Was not
that an enterprise worth the attention OF
the greatest woman that ever lived since
Abigail at the foot of the rock arrested the
four hundred armed warriors.
woNANs MISSION.
Do not, my sister, be dizzied and dis
turbed BY the talk of those who think the
home circle too insignificant for woman
career, and who want 10 get you out on
platforms and in conspicuous enterprises.
There are women who have special out
side mission, and do not dare to interpret
me ss derisive of their important mission.
But my opinion is that the woman who can
reinforce her husband in The work of life
and-sssr her children for positions Of use
fulness, is doing more for God and the race
and her own happiness, than if she spoke on
every great platform and headed hundred
great enterprises. Ny molher never made
q missionary speech in her life, and a. a
missionary meeting doubt whether she
could have got enough courage to vote aye
or To- but she raised her son john who has
been preaching the Gospel and translsting
religious literature in Annoy, China, for
about forty years. Was rot that better
thing to dol
Compare such sn one with one of these
die.away, attitudinizing, frivolous, married
coquettes OF the modern draVing.room, her
heaven and opera box on the night OF
Meyerbeers Robert lie Diable, the ten
commandments al inconvenience, taking
arsenic 10 improyethe complexion, and her
appearance a confused result ofnellsdenne,
bleached hair, antimony and mineral acids,
until one ia compelled 10 discuss her char
acter aud wonder whether the line between
a decent and indecent life is, Ike the
equator, an imaginary line
WHAT TIE WORLD WANTS
now is about fifty old.fashoned mothers,
women who shall realize that the highest,
grandest, mightiest institution on earth is
the home IL is not necessary that they
should have the sGme uldtiEle manners Of
the country iarm house, or wear the old.
fashioned cap aud spectscles and apron
that her gloritied ancestry wore; b0 mean
tho old spirit which began with the Han
nahs and the Mother Lois and the Asgails
Of Scripture day5 and .WGs demonstrated
on the homestead where some OF US were
reared, though the old house long ago was
pulled down and the occupants scattered
never 10 meet until in the higher ho!a that
awaits the families O. tIe righteous. While
there are more good and faithful wives
and mothers now than there ever were, So
ciety has got o wrong twist or this aUbIect,
/ and there are influences abroad that would
make women believe that their sphere ls
outside instead of inside the home.
HENCE ~ MANY HOUSEHOLDS CHILDREN ~
STEAD or 4 BLESSING ARE 4 NUISANCE.
Its a card case versus childs primer cGV
rage versus cradle socie,, popularity YER
sus domestic felicity. Hence intsnicide
and ante natal murder 20 common that all
the physicians, allopathic, hydrGPa.h,c,
homeopathic end ociec,ic, are crying out
, ~ horror and II Is time that the pulpits
joued with the medical profession al
pchoing and re.echoiDg the thunder OF
Monnt Sinai, which Gays Thou shalt
not kill, and the Book of Revelation
which says, "All murderers shall have
their place in the lake which burneth with
/ fire and birthstone" Aud the man or wo-
man who takes life minute old will as
certainly 90 straight to hell as the man or
woman who destroys llte forty years ole.
/ And the wildcat, loudest shrek oi Jndg-
ment Day will be given at the overthrow OF
those VINO moved in the high and respect
ed circles Of earthly society, yet aecr.ed BY
their own &C: ss tat as they could
privately effect it, the eX-
termination OF thu adrGno,
/ Ing generations, skettod in the horrid
crime By a lot of Internal quacks with
which modern medicine is infested. When,
/ on the Last Day ths crlers Of the Court
shall wi resounding "Oyez. Oyez" dc.
clare the Oyer end Ierniper Of the nj
verse opened, and the Judge with gavel OF
thunderbolt shall srhite the nations INTO
silence, and the trial Of all the traticidea,
aud psrricides, and matrici1es and Istfi.
cides. and uxorc;de1, -lu rsgicides aud
daicises, aGd lntRuticides Of the earth sha!l
proceed, more Of my hearers or readers
can say that they knew no: what the, WIr6
doing. Mirhty Coz. i.FEest the eyIlthat
il ovelslaGo ring this century.
charge you, my sister, that you
TAKE YOUR HUSBAND ALONG WITH Yor re
i GEAYEA,
OF course this implies that you yourself are
a Christian. / must take that for granted
1t cannot be possible that after what Christ
iauity has done for woman aud after tax
ing the infinitely responsible POSITION you
have assumed at tne'head ofthe household,
that you should be in o position antago-
nistc to Christ. 1t is not slip @. ihe
tongue when | speak CT J3u ss beirg 4.
the heed OF tae household We men rather
pride ourselves IS being at the head Of the
household, but it is only q pleasant delu.
sion. To who- 90 the children 60 when
they have trouble? When there ls q sore
fnger 10 be bound up or one OF the hrst
teeth that needs to be removed to make
wGy ior one that ia oFoTding it out, TO
whom does the child go' For whom DO
children CRY out in the night wien they
get frightened at bad dream? Aye, to
whom does the husband 60 when he hiss
business trouble great or too delicate for
outside ears? We the ~eu. are ESsd7 OF
the household in aame. 0u: yo1 O wives
, ore the heads Of the household in fact,
and it is Jour business to take you' bus
band with you into the kingdom OF T'd
| and see that house prepared Tor heay,o.
You can do it OF ccCrse God 8 81
, mighty grace alone can convert him, bat
you are to be the instrument. Some wives
keep their husbands out Of heaven and
' others garner them for it. If your reIlg
3 ion, 0 wife, is simpiy the yoae Of The
/. household, ii 700 would rather 60 to the
, theatre than the prayer meeting il yol can
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