The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-01-26
Remember the patience Of Job. Wha,

a wife he had At time when he was
one great biotch of eruptions, and his
| property was destroyed by tornado, and,
more than all, bereavement had come
and the poor man needed all wise coun-
! sci, she advises him to go to cursing and
| swearing. She wanted him to poultice
his boils with blasphemy. But he lived
right on through his marital disadvan-
tages, recovered his health and his for
tune and raised a splendid family, and
| the closing paragraph of the book of Job
has such a jubilance that wonder people
do not oftener read it:
| $50 the Lord blessed the latter end Of
Job more than his beginning, for he had
fourteen thousand sheep, and six thou
sand camels, ard thousand yoke OF
! oxen, and a thousand she asses. He had
| also seven sons and three daughters. And
he called the name of the first, Jenainna;
and the name of the second. Kezia; and
the name of tho third, Kerenhappuch.
And in all the land were no women
found SO fair as the daughters OF job; and
their father save them Inheritance
among their brethren. After this lived
Job a hundred and forty years, and cav
his sons, and his sons SONS, even four
generations. So JOB died, being old and
full of days"
Now, my badly married friend Of either
sex, if Job could stand it by tho help Of
God, then you can etand it by the same
divine enforcement. You have other
relatiozss eias woman, f,esides the wifely
I felatioEs yoU s.ro mother, train ND
your children for God and heaven. If
you are a member of a church, help
move on its enterprises. You can get so
much of the grace OF God in your heart
that all your home trials will seem in
significant. How little difference does it
make what your unrighteous husband
calls you if God calls you his child and
you are an heiress Of whole kingdoms
beyond the sky?
Immerse yourself in some kind of out
side usefulness, something that will en-
list your prayers, your sympathies, your
hand, your needle, your voice. Get
your heart on fire with love to God and
the disenthrallment of the human race,
and the troubles of your home will be
blotted out in the glory of your conse-
Grated life. 1 cry out to you, oh woman,
|
Corinthians: What knowest thou, oh
wife, whether thou shalt save thy hus-
bandl" And if you cannot save him you
can help in the grander, mightier enter
prise of helping save the world. Out of
the awful mistake of your marriage rise
into the subiimest life of self sacrifice
for God and suffering humanity. In
stead of settling down to NOPE over your
| domestic woes, enlist your energies for
the world s redemption.
Some parts of Holland keep out the
ocean only by dykes, or walls of stout
masonry. The engineer having these
dykes in charge was soon to he married
to a maiden living in one Of the villages,
strength OF these dykes. And there was
to be a great feast in one Of the villages
that approaching evening in honor of the
coming bridegroom That day a great
storm threatened the destruction of the
dykes, and hence the destruction of
thousands of lives in the villages shell
tered by that stone wall. The ocean was
in full wrath, beating against the dykes,
and the tides and the terror were still
rising. "Shal go to the feast?" says
the engineer, ''or shall / go and help my
workmen take care of the dykes?"
''Take care of the dykes, he said to
himself; Il must and will" AS he ap-
peared ON the wall the men working
there were exhausted and shouted: "Here
comes the engineer. Thank God Thank
God!'' The wall was giving way, stone
by stone, and the engineer had a rope
fastened around his body, and some of
the worl1nen had ropes fastened around
their bodies and were let down amid the
wild sllrges that beat the wall. Everything
was giving way. ''More stonesr' cried
the men. ''More mortarr' But the answer
came: "There is no morei" ''Then,n y
cried the engineer, take off your clothes
and with them stop the holes in the WALL y
And so in the chill and darkness and surf
it was done, and with the workmens S ap-
parel the openings in the wall were
partially filed. But still the tide rose
and still the ocean reared itself for more
awful stroke and for the Overwhelming
of thousands Of lives in the villages.
''Now we have done all we can, said
the engineer, "down on your knees, my
men, and pray to God for help" And
on the trembling and parting dykes they
prayed till the wind changed and the sea
subsided, and the village below, which,
knowing nothing of the peril, were full
of romp and dance and hilarity, were
gloriously saved.
Now, what we want in this work OF
walling back the oceans of poverty and
drunkenness and Inpurity and sin is the
help of more womanly and manly hands,
Oh how the tides come in Atlantic
surge Of sorrow after Atlantic surge Of
sorrow. and the tempests of human hate
and Satanic fury are in full CRY. Oh
woman of many troubles what are al
the feasts of worldly delight, if they were
offered you, compared with the oppor.
tunity of helping build and support bar.
riers which sometimes seem giving
way through mans treachery and
the worlds assault. Oh woman, tt
the dykes! Bring prayers. bring tears
bring cheering words! Help! Help
And, having done all, kneel with us OF
the quaking wall until the God of the
! wind and the sea shall hush the one an(
silence the other. To the dykes, sisters
mothers, wives, daughters of America
to the dykes! The mightiest catholicor
I
or man is complete absorption in the worl
to rescue others. Save some man, some
woman, some child!
In that effort you will forget OF b.
helped to bear your trials, and in a littl
while God will take you up ont of you
disturbed and narrowing conjugal rela
ton of earth into a heaven all the hap
pier because of preceding distress. Whei
Queen Elizabeth of England was expir
ing it was arranged that the exact mo
ment of her death should be signaled t,
the people by the dropping of sapphir
: ring from a window into the hands of al
: officer, who carried it at the top of hi
, speed to King James of Scotland. Bu
your departure from the scene of you
earthly woes, if you are ready to go, wi
not be the dropping of sapphire to tn
; ground, but the setting of jewel in
kings coronet. Blessed be his gloriou
Eame foreverl