Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-05-11

empty the jails would be. How few
suicides would occur. How crime
would creep and slink into by-ways
instead of unblushingly pushing itseli
into the chief places of the land I'm
agine il and all these results will
fellow the destruction of the liquor
traffic as surely as the day follows
the sun-rising. 1t is great work.
1t will take time. But only faith in
God, linked to earnest, enlightened
endeavor, are needed.
Up this valley few miles stands
Slide Mountain A mighty mass has
been torn from bis beetling head and
shoulder and hurled at bis feet. He
stands there robbed of his symmetry.
have often looked upon that mount
ain in wonder. The ancients would
have said. 1.-The Titan chained under
there grew restive, and so struggled
and labored that be almost escaped
almost overturned the mountain"
But not SO do we read the marvel.
This everlasting hill was not bowed
by mighty Titan, but the gentle,
silent, tiny forces of Nature wrought
against the stupendous mass. Here
a few drops entered some seam in the
giant front. There little trickling
stream entered fssure, and urged
on by the strange, paradoxical
strength Of hydraulic force, sunk deep
er and deeper, gaining power as it
was fed by the slowly -accumulating
drops above, that penetrated day af-
ter day till they touched the heart of
The mountain. Then when the frost
above or the hidden heat below swell
ed the tiny, penetrating streams, more
was done than the dynamite OF man
ever effected-the ponderous mount
ain side was hurled into the gorge
below.
The mountains all around blush in
the glow OF morning and wrap them
selves in their purple mantle at eve-
ming, but no morning glow lights up
his scared forehead, no purple falls
on his MANNED shoulders at eveniide.
| He stands there smitten into change
less gloom. 1t is mistake we poor
human souls ale apt TO make that
great results only follow upon the
use of immense appliances, but this is
not so. Look up the valley and be
convinced. Then turn your eyes
upon tie "loomiDg bsstion iringed
With fire" behind which Satan hides
in this contest. Send the arrows of
your thoughts against it. Shoot the
winged shafts Of ) our prayers upon it.
| Turn against it the silent enginery of
public opinion, and give them time
| to work; and some morning-not very
far of, please God-you will wake TO
see that bastion fall-melt away like
the unsubstantlal fabric of a dream
Only be strong and of good courage
Let me close by holding up before
you, my dear sisters, another blessed
motive for this blessed work. Graft.
tude, yes, gratitude to God that when
He turned His thought to the re-
demption of the world He stopped so
tenderly to woman. He might have
come in such majesty and splendor
that all the kings and mail-clad war
riors of earth would have yielded
Him ready homage and followed in
His train.
But he chose to come in such guise
as forbade the ministry of mans baud
His mission was to the heart and He
came helpless baby. The taberna-
Gle in which dwelt lhe incarDate Son
of God was builded and fashioned by
the gentle beating Of woman's heart
He came into her arms by the same
gate Of agony by which my baby
came to me. by which your baby
came to you, The same sublime of
ecstasy and humanity flied her soul
when He Grst lay in her arms that |
came to you in that supreme moment
when your heart was filed with the
thought, Il am the mother of an i'm
mortal being" She thrilled at the
touch of baby lips and fingers at her
breast just as we have done She
hung over Him while He slept and
marveled at the velvet OF His skin
and the matcbless softness of His |
hair, and when He opened His eyes
she wondered Just as we have done
at the searching glance that seemed
10 read ber soul. And she nursed
Him and watched over Him, and
made His little garments, and so our
Lord consecrated by His acceptance
of it. mother pain and toll and care
He .uplifted it and made it almost So
cred.
And when He began His public
ministry He had no word of praise
for those qualities which had always
been the pride OF man, but the long
scorned attributes of true womanhood
received His blessing and His insis-
tance. And when at last, man cruci-
fed Him and buried Him, it was wo-
man who wept over His pierced body
and came very early in the morning
bringing the spices for t,and only think
Of the gentle Kindness of the Masters
voice when ia- the gIoaming Of that
first Easter morning He revealed
Himself to Mary by His utterance OF
her name.
| sometimes think that man has
ia some sort aifronted by this,
and SO when our blessed Lord was
gone from sight, and the clouds OF
heaven had received Him, man push
ed woman aside in her work for
Christ and held her labors in scorn.
Aud yet whenever woman has faced
the rebuff. and reached out her band
to guide lhe wandering and save the
lost, God has not failed to smile upon
her efforts He remembers-up there
in the blue-who comiorted His
childhood, who blessed and revered
His manhood, who quickest pcrceiv-
ed tho holiness yelled in the flesh, and
He pours out His blessing on her en-
deavors.
This is the secret, doubt not, OF
the good 80 quickly brought about in
this very work of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union for
"God ard Home and Native Land.
Remember that just here, on this
bend, seethes the pit=ef-esSrnal de
spair, and the liquor traffic is all the
time sending its victims there. And