West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-02-02

flame, and he win help you I'm your lifelong
Remember the patience OF job What a
wife he hadi At time when he was one
great blotch of eruptions and his property
was destroyed by a tornado. and, more than
All bereavement had come and the poor man
needed all wise counsel, she advises him 10
| go to cursing and swearing She wanted
him To poultice his boils with blasphemy
But he lived right on through his marital
aisadvantages recovered his health and for
tune and raised a splendid family, and the
closing paragraph of the Book OF Job has
such n jubiance that wonder people do not
oftener read it:
| more than his beginning for he had four
teen thousand sheep. AMI six thousand camels
and thousand yoke of oxen, and n thou
sand she asses. He had also seven sons
and three daughters. And he called the
name OF the first Jemima, nni the name OF
the second kez'a, and the name OF the third
herenhappuch. And in all the land were no
women round SO fair as the daughters of Job,
nhi their rather gave them Inheritance among
their brethren After this lived job one
hundred and forty years, and saw his sons,
anu ms sons sons, even four generations.
so JOB died, being old and full of days.
Now, my badly married friend OF either
sex. X Job could stand il by tho help of God,
then you can stand IL by the same divine
reinforcement. You have other relations.
oh, woman, beside the wifeff relation III yo,
are mother, train up your children for God
and heaven II YOU are a member OF n
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 Il
make What your unrighteous husband calls
you, IL God calls You his child and you are
| SKYE
Imnerss yourself In some kind OF outside
usefulness, something that will enlist your
PRAYERS, your sympathies, your hand, your
ndsh'e lc your yoce. Get your heart on fire
the human race and tho troubles OF your
home will DO blotted out In the glory OF your
consecrated life Icry out to you, oh woman,
inthians: "What knowest thou. oh wife.
whether thou shalt save thy husbandr' And
IL you cannot save him you can help I'm the
grander, mightier enterprise Of helping save
tho world. Out OF tho awful mistake OF your
marriage rise into the sublimest life OF self
sacrifice for God and suffering humanity.
instead OF settling down to NOPE over yoIir
domestic I,s,, woes, enlist your energies for the
Some parts OF Holland keep out the ocean
only by dykes or walls OF stout masonry.
The engineer having these dykes i'm charge
was soon to be married to n maiden LIVING in
one of the villages the existence of which
depended on the strength of these dykes.
Ana there was to be a great feast i'm one of
tue villages that approaching evening i'm
honor OF the coming BRIDEGROOM. That day
a great storm threatened the destruction OF
the dykes, and hence tho destruction of
thousands of lives in the villages she-
tered by that stone wall. The ocean
was in full wrath, beating against the dykes
and the tides and tho terror were still
rising "Shall / go to the feast" saws the
engineer "or shall go and help my work
the dykes he said to himself: 81 must and
Will" AS he appeared on the wall the men
working there were exhausted and shouted:
T,haI,, comes comes the engineer. Thank Godi
stone by stone, and the engineer had n rope
fastened around his body, and some of tho
,workmen had ropes fastened around their
oodies and were let down amid the wild
surges that beat the wall. Everything was
giving way. "More stonesm cried the men.
More mortarw But tho answer came:
There is no morein "Then," cried the
e %iib Them take se0, off your clothes and
wall" And SO, in the chill and dark
ness and surf it was DONE and with
the workmen's apparel the openings I'm the
wall were partially filed. But still the tide
rose and still the ocean reared itself for moe
awfui strokes, and for the overwhelming of
thousands of lives In the villages snow we
nave nav, done all we cam" said tho engineer;
down on your knees my men. and nray 10
God FOR help" And on the trembling and
parting, dykes they prayed till the wind
changed and the sea subsidized and the vii
lages below; which, knowing nothing of the
peril, were full of romp and dance and bilar
lily. were gloriously saved
NOW, what we want in this work of wallinp
back the Dreams of poverty and drunkenness
and impurity and sin is the help of more
womanly and manly hands oh how the
tides come in! Atlantic surge of sorrow
atter Atlantic surge OF sorrow, and the tenn
pests or human hate and satanic fury are in
fuii cry. Oh, woman of many troubles. what
are all the feasts of worldly delight. il thew
We're offered you, compared with the oppor-
tunity of helping build and support BARRIERS
which sometimes seem giving way throuob
mans treachery AMI tho worlds assault, Oh
woman. to the dykesl Bring PRAYER bring
tears. bring cheerful wordsl Helm Helm
Aud having done all. kneel with us on the
9uaking wall until the God of the wind AMI
the sea shall hush the one and silence the
other. To the dykesl Sisters. mothers
wives, daughters of America to tho dykesi
Inc mightiest catholicon for all the wounds
anu wrongs or woman or man is complete
absorption IN the work to rescue Others
rtye some man, some woman. some child!
IN that effort You viii forget or be helped
70 bear your own trials, and in n littlo while
God viii take you up out of your disturbaI
aud narrowing coniugal relation of earth
into heaven all the happier because of nre
ceding distress. When Queen Elizabeth of
England was expiring it was arranged that
TIE exact moment of her death should be
sgnaied TO the people by the dropping OF n
sapphire ring from a window into the hands
or an officer, who carried IL at the ton Of his
speed 10 King James of Scotland But your
departure from the scene of your e1rthIv
woes. II you arc ready TO go, will not b. the
dropping of n sapphire to the ground hut
nis settlng of jewel in n kings coronet
blesset be His g'orious name foreverj