The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-14

wear and tear OF life, Martha makes an inn
pOrtant rush upon the library or drawing
room, be patient, be lenient. o. woman,
though may fail TO stir up an appreciation
in the souls OF others in regard to your
household tolls, let me assure you, from the
kindliness with which Jesus met Martha,
that he appreciates all the work from garnet
to cellar; and that the God Of Deborah and
Hannah, and Abigail, and Grandmother
Lois, and Elizabeth Fry, and Hannah Moore is
the God OF the housekeeper. Jesus was never
married that he might be the especial friend
womanaood. L blunder; Christ was mar
ried. The Bible says that the Church Is the
Lambs wife, and that all Christian women
have a right to go to Christ and tell him of
their annOyances and troubles since by his
oath of congual fidelity He is sworn to
sympathize. George Herbert, the Christian
poet, wrote two or three verses on this sub
ject:
The servant by this clause
Makes drudgery divine;
Who sweeps room, as for Thy laws,
es this and the action fine.
Again, there is
TIE TRIAL OF SEVERE ECONOMY.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine households
out of the thousand are subject to it-some
under more, and some under less stress of
circumstances. Especially if a man smoke
very expensive cigars, and take very costly
dinners at the restaurants, he will be severe
in demanding domestic economies. This is
what kills tens of thousands of women-at-
tempting TO make 50 do the work OF 81.
How the bills come in The woman is the
banker of the household; she is the presi-
dent, the cashier the teller, the discount
clerk; and there is panic every few weeks!
This thirty years war against high prices,
this perpetual studies of economies, this life
long attempt to keep the outgoes less than
o, my sister, this is part of the
Divine discipline. If it were best for you,
all you would have to do would be to open
the front windows and the ravens would fly
in with food; and after you had baked fifty
times from the barrel in the pantry, the bar
rel, like the one of Zarepath, would be full
and the shoes of the children would last as
long as the shoes of the Israelites in the will
derness-forty years. Beside that this is
going to make the heaven more attractive in
the contrast. They never hunger there, and
consequently there will be none of the nui-
sances of catering for appetites, And in the
land of the white robe they never have to
mend anything and the air in that hid
country makes everybody well. There are
no rents to pay; every man owns his own
house, and a mansion atthat. 1t will not be
so great change for you TO have chariot
in heaven if you have been in the habit of
riding in this world. Il will not be so great
y
the river of life if in this world you had
country seat; but if you have walked with
tired feet in this world what a glorious
change to mount celestial equipage; and if
your life on earth was domestic martyrdom.
y! the 10Y of an eternity III which you shall
have nothing to do except what you choose
TO do. Martha has had no drudgery for
eighteen centuries. quarrel with the theo-
logians who want to distribute all the
thrones of heaven among the John knoxes
and the Hugh Latimers, and the Theban
Legion. Some OF the brightest thrones of
heaven will be kept for Christian housekeep-
ers. o. what change from here to there
from the time when they put down the roll
ing.pin to when they take up the scepter. If
Chatsworth Park and the Vanderbilt man
sion, on Fifth Avenue, were to be lifted into
the Celestial City, they would be considered
unlnhabitable rookeries and glorified Laz-
arus would be ashamed to be going in and
out of either of them.
There are many hOuSekeepers who could
get along with their tolls if it were not for
sickness and trouble. The fact is, one-half
of the women in the land are more or less
invahds. The mountain lass, who has never
had an ache or pain may consider household
toll inconsiderable, and toward evening she
may skip away miles to the fields and drive
home the cattle, and she may until 10 o'clock
at night fill the house with laughing racket;
but o. to do the work of life with a wornout
constitution, when whooping-co9gh has been
raging for six weeks in the household, max
ing the night as sleepless as the day-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. ana sat the crib IN the
garnet, because the occupant has been
hushed into a slumber which needs no
mothers lullaby. Oh she could provide
for the whole group great deal better than
she can for part of the group now the rest
is gone. Though you may tell her God is
taking care of those who are gone, it is
mother-like to brood both tiecks; and one
wing she puts over the flock in the house,
the other wing she puts oyer the flock in the
grave.
THE NEED OF oLD-FAsHIoNED RELIGION.
There is nothing but the old-fashioned re-
Ggion of Jesus Christ that will take woman
through the trials of home life. At first,
there may be a romance or novelty that
will do for a substitute. The marriage hour
has just past, and the perplexities of the
household are more than atoned by the Joy
OF being together and by the fact that when
it is late they do not have to discuss the
question as TO whether it is time to GO The
mishaps OF the household, instead of being a
matter of anxiety and apprehension, are a
matter OF merriment-the loaf of bread
turned into geological specimen the slushy
1t is a very bright sunlight that falls on the
cutlery and the mantel ornaments of a new
home.
But after awhile'the romance is all gone,
and then there is something to be prepared
for the table that the book called Cookery
Taught in Twelve Lessons" Will not teach.
The receipt for making it is not handful of
this, cup of that, and spoonful of some
thing else. 1T is not something sweetened
with ordinary condiments, or favored with
ordinary flavors, or baked in ordinary ovens.
1t is the loaf of domestic happiness; and all
the ingredients come down from heaven,
and the fruits are plucked from the tree OF
life, and it is sweetened with the new wine
of the kingdom, and it is baked in the oven
of home trial. Solomon wrote out his own
experience. lie had a wretched home. A
man can not be happy with two wives. much
less six hundred; and he says, writing out of
his own experience; Better dinner of
herbs where love is than stalled OK and
hatred Herewith.
THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF HoUsEKEEPERs.
How great are the responsibilities of
housekeepers. Sometimes an indigestible
article of food, by its effects on a commander
or king, has defeated an army and over
thrown an empire. Housakeepers by the
food they provide, by the touches they
spread, by the books they introduce, by the
int thov hrfpU arOunA their homo