The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-04-02

the old house long ago was pulled dow
and its occupants scattered never to mat
until in the higher home that awaits u,
families of the righteous While there a.
more good and faithful wives and mother,
now than there ever were, society has cot
a wrong twist on this subject, and ther,
are influences abroad that would maks
women believe that their chief sphere /,
outside instead of inside the home
Hence in many households children, in.
stead of a blessing, are nuisance. 1t isa
card case versus child's primer, carrias,
versus cradle, social popularity versus
domestic felicity. Hence infan .icids and
and ante-natal murder are so com
mon that all the physicians, allo-
pathic, hydropathic, homeopathic and
eclectic, are crying out in horror, and Il n
time that the pulpits joined with the med
ical profession in echoing and re echoinr
the thunder of Mount Sinai, which says:
"Thou shalt not KILL" and the Book q
Revelation, which says, "All murderers
shall have their place in the lake which
burnesh with fire and brimstone." And
the man or the woman who takes life
minute old will as certainly go straight to
hell as the man or woman who DESTROYS
life forty years old. And the wilde {,
loudest shrek of judgment day will b.
given at the overthrow of those VII
moved in the high and respectable circlea
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 hogrid
crime by q lot of internal quacks with
which modern medicine is infested. Whsu,
on the Last Day, the criers of the Cont
shall with resounding "Oyez," "Oyez" d.
clare the "Oyer and Terminer" of the UNI
verse opened, and the Judge, with gsvsl
of thunderbolt, shall smite the nstios
into silence, and the trial of IN
the fratricides. and PARTICLES, and
matric;des, and patricides, and uxoei-s
cides, and ragicides. and decides, And
infanticides of the earth shall proceed.
none of my hearers or readers can say that
they knew not what they were doing.
Mighty God. Arrest the evil that is Over.
shadowipg this century.
char 1ou, my sister, that you tah
your husband along with you to Heav0.
OF course, this implies that you yourssk
are a Christian I mist take that for
granted. It can nos be possible that afsr
what Christianity has done for womse,
and after taking the infinitely Responsible
position you have assumed At the head It
the household, that you should he in po-
sition antagonistic to Christ. It was not
slip of the tongue when spoke o. You -
being at the head of the household ~
men rather pride ourselves as being at e.
head of the household, but it Ii only =
pleasant delusion. To whom do the CHI
dren go when they have trouble! WIZ
there il q sore finger to be bound up or o.
of the first teeth that needs to be removso
to make way for one that is crowding 4
out, to whom does the child go? For who
do children cry out in the night when thCy
get frightened at q bad dream? Aye, =
whom does the husband go when he -
business trouble too great or too deli-
cate for outside ears. We, the M
are heads of the household in name, -
you, O wives! are heads of the householl
in fact, and it il your business to take yoq
husband with you into the Kingdom
God and see that house prepared e.
Heaven.
You can do i'll OF course, Gods almigi13
grace alone can convert him, but you IN
| to be the instrument. Some wives keGl
their husbands out Of Heaven, and othaI
garner them for it. If your religion, @
| wife, is simply the joke of the househol9
| If you would rather go to the theater tn
the prayer-meeting, il you can beat 81 -
neighborhood in progressive euchrss &
your husband never sees you kneel at -
bedside in prayer before retiring, il -
| only thing that reminds the family Of y0u
| church relations is that ON communto~
day you get home late to dinner, ycu 80
| not Be able to take your husband to Hesvem
for the simple reason that you win mot g.
there yourself. But / suppose your g
ligion 10 genuine, and the husband reals
there is in your soul divine principle. q
thst though you may be naturally quic11
tempered than he is, and have many -
| projections that distress you more ~
they can any one else, still you are -
tined for the skies when the brief scsnee 9
this life are over. How win you taks -
with you? There are two oars to that -
prayer and holy example.
But You say he belongs to worldly 60
or he does mot believe word Of the BIZ
or he is an inebriate and very loose n -
habitss What you tell me shows that -
don't understand that while you are O. So
one end Of prayer, the omnipossns 81
is at the other end, and it is simply
question whether Almightiness Is str1
enough to keep His word.
! have no doubt there will be great -
ventions in Heaven called for celshgooy
purposes. and when in some Celestial -
semblage the saints shall be telling -
brought them to God, / believe that ~
thousand times ten thousand win 49,
wife,"
| Iput beside each other twg tsstimoaall
Of men concerning their wires, and r. y
see the contrast. An aged man was -
the reason Of his salvation. With tseffn
emotion he said: ..1y wife was breael1
to God some years before myself. Ip~e
cuted and abused her because Of - =
ligion. Sbss however, returned ncsen1
but kindness constantly, maintaining
anxissy 70 promote my comfort ard
pinsss, and it was her amiable eone