The Brookhaven leader., 1886-04-15

to silence the jumping tooth-some-
thing to soothe the earaChe.
You must be in half dozen places Al the
same time, or you must attempt to be. II
under all the wear and tear of life, Martha
makes an impatient rush upon the library
or drawing room, be patient, be lenient.
q! woman, though l may fail to stir up
an appreciation in the souls Of others in
regard to your household tolls, let me as
sure you, from the kindness with which
Jesus Christ met Martha. that he appreci-
ates all your work from garnet to cellar;
aud that the God Of Deborah, and Han
nah. and Abigail and grandmother Lois,
and Elizabeth Lois. and Elizabeth Frey,
and Hannah More is the & I'd Of the house,
keeper Jesus was never married that he
might be the especial friend and confidante
of a whole world OF troubled womanhoOd.
blunder: Christ was married. The Bible
SAYS that the Church is the Lambs wife,
aud that makes me know that all Christian
women have a right to 90 TO Christ and
tell him Of their annOyances end troubles,
since by hi, oath Of conjugal fidelity he is
sworn to sympa thiza. George Herbert,
the Christian poet. wrote two OF three
verses on this subject:
The servant by this clause
Makes druid gerry divine
WHO sweeps 4 room as for thy laws
Makes this and the action fine.
Again. there Is the trial of severe econ
omv. Nine hundred and ninety mine
households out Of the thousand are SUBJ
jected to it-some under more and some
under less stress of circumstances Es
pecially if man smoke very expensive
cigars. and takes very costly dinners at
the restaurants, he will be severe in de-
manding domestic economies. This is
what kills tens of thousands of women
attempting to make five do the work of
seven dollars. How the bills come ius
| The woman is the banker of the household:
she is the president. the cashier, the teller,
the discount clerk: and there is a panic
every few weeks, This thirty years war
against high prices, this perpetual study
of economies, this lifelong asempt to
keep the outgoes less than the income. ex-
hausts millions of housekeepers. o, my
sister, this is a part Of the divine disci-
pline. If it were best for you, all you
would have to do would be to open the
front windows and tine ravens would hv in
with food: and after you had baked fifty
times from the barrel in the pantry. the
barrel, like the one OF Zarepa'h, would be
full: and the shoes of the children would
last as long as the shoes Of the Israeites
in the wilaeruess-forty years. Beside
| that, this Is going to make heaven the
more attractive in the contrast. They
never hunger there, aud consequently
there will lie none Of the nuiSances
of catering for appetites And in the
land of the white robe thew never have to
mend anything. and the air in that
hill country makes every body we'll. There
are no rents to pay: every body owns his
own house. and a mansion at that 1t will
not be so great d change for Won to have a
chariot in heaven if YOU have been in the
habit of riding in thi, world. 1t will not
be so great a chance for you to sit down on
| the bank of theriver Of life. if in this world
! you had a country seat: hut if YOU have
! walk ed with tired feet in Ibis world. wh at
glorious change to mount celestial
! equipage: and if your life on earth was
domestic martyrdom, 0. the JOY Of an
eternity in which you shall have nothing
| 10 do except what vou choOS 70 do. Mar
| tina has had no drudg-ry for eighteen
! centuries. | quarrel with the theoluai ans
who want to distribute all the thrones Of
heaven among the John Knoxrs, and the
| Hugh Latimars, and the Thehan Iegion
Some of the brightest thrones of heaven
will BE- kept for Christian housekeepers.
o, what change from here to there
from the time when they put down the
rolling-p pin to when they take up the
scepter. If Chatsworth Park and the
Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth avenue were
to be lifted into the Celestial CITY, they
| would he considered uninhahitahle rock
cries nd llorified Lazarus would be
ashamed to be going i'll and out of either
of them
There are many housekeepers who could
get along with their tolls if il were not for
sickness and trouble. The fact is one-half
of the women of the land are more or less
invalids The mountain lass, who has
never had an ache or pain, NAV consider
household toll inconsiderable, and toward
evening she NAV skip away miles to the
fields and drive home the cattle. and she
NAV until ten O'Clock at ni2ht fill the house
with laughing racket; but o. to do the
work Of life with worn-out constitution,
when whooUing cough has been raging
for six weeks in the household, making the
night as sleepleSs as the dav-that is not
so easy. Perhaps this comes after the
nerves have been shattered by some be-
reavement that has left desolation in every
room of the house, and set the crib in the
garnet, because the ocCupant has been
hushed into slmber which needs no
mothers lullaby. Oh. she could provide
for the whole group a great deal better
than she can for a part of the group. now