The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-24

have 70 suffer. fo3 are IN he same YOKE. ~
you ph.! p re t.e YOKE VIII OK go: 4 ~
mex, 80 es #ili aAc~d: 10 "tt'o - -
- tcoi4e = 40 'a1@e lt:s'aee5 a"s3. -
'li -tsS 'iel .tiihaa = '"U -.
"..a iiatf.--a tA1 W. IT, 30. to ~ ~
H'l %ne ftss ussi % r. ',.g .it..:'s - 81; f
ri' ,,ia 800 .'.t',. ~ E; IL
nee = o'2. @ii' heeH COZ ..ei ~
.el...,,t.;.f1
49, -, ..''''' In ,,...r., III,
" ~ ''' !i.,'' - ..Il.. r. ~
i ;i. '',N ~ .4'' W. ' LIZ ,..5,,. Gcd
IF ,..e,.t.,,i.,.n and
" IL, II :. -, ~. ~ Ia ,,iii 1,eI1 Won in
~ ai-i? ~ llio .,,i'i - - s.' - ''-
WI H. ,at,.. If rob What a
~ ~. ,,I a.. u ~ Mo, Ir 49,, f,.,.. .raat
Jiutci ~ o,,,,.,;l,,e l,.d III; r,rorortv was de-
etr,,,-"d IT.. to,.'5flG ard more ti,al ail he-
.,.,-,. III .,,.,, ,...l ~. MO-. ,,a,. tica,ipd
Iii iaa ,,,,,l s,n 6,j1.ics bi,, IN 90 10 ours
iT,..,,,,i g,,..,,i,'.. i,. ,,s,taj fitl 10 uoul-
ficr lid bni,s VIII, bIoeh,arl,,v. Bat he lived
r;obt IN iEr3iig,I ri, marital disadvantages,
rconvrrad If4 Eo.,}+l, a,a i,is fortune ,5d raised
a snfcndil fa,,il, uu,i tIa .l e;,p g..,,h of
the book Of ,tai, las such q i.tbinc3 that
wonder reGplc 40 not 9gnner read it:
ESQ tho ord IIegecd ,,a latter. end e Job
more tEan his be1i,jij,,q: for he had fourteen
thousand sheen. ana six thousand cameIs, and
. thnu.,od yol..a If 49,, ana q ti,oIsand she
asses, Tie had also seven sons and three
dauoIters And he called ths name OF tho
first ,Iaipiues. and the maine Of the second
* Okla ANA the name of the tlird Ker4nlap-
puck And in all the land were no women
found SO fair "a the daughters Of Job: and
their father rave them inheritance among
their brethrei. After tits lived job hun
dred and forty wears. and saw his sons. ana his
sons sous, eve en- four generations. SoJob died,
being old and full of DAYS"
Now. my badIv-,narried friend OF eithersex,
if JOB could stand II by the helm Of God. then
you can stand it by the same divine reinforce
mcut You have other relations 0 woman,
beside the yifely relation. Ii Won are a moth
er train M YOUR children for God and heaven.
If Won arc q mepber Of n church helm move
on its enterprises You can get so much of
the grace Of God in vour heart that ali your
home trials win seem insignificant. How lit
tie difference does il make what your unrght-
cons husband calls you if God calls you Ills
child and YOU are hoiress Of whole kingdoms
beyond the sky?
Tlnmerse Yourself in some kind Of outside
usefulness. something that will enlist your
prayers, your syinpathies, your hand, your
needle, your voice Get your heart on fire
with love to God and the observation-disclosures of
the human race, and the troubles of your home
will be blotted out in the glory of your conse-
Grated life cry out to YOU, o woman; as
Paul exclaims in his letter to the Corinthians:
"What knowest thou Q wife, whether thou
shalt save thy husband ?" And if YOU cannot
save him Won can help in the grander. mirhtier
enterprise of helpjnp save the world. Out of
the awful mistake Of your marriage rise into
the sublmcst life of self-sacrifice for God and
suffering hu,nanitv Tneteod of settling down
to none over vonr domestic woes. enlist vour
energies for the world's redemption.
Some parts of Holland keen ont the ocean
only by dykes or walls OF stout masonry. The
engineer having these dykes in charge was
soon to be married 10 n maiden Iiyiuo in one
of the villages the existence OF which
depended on the 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 tie destruction
of the dykes, and hence the destruction OF
thousands of lives in the villages sheltered by
that stone wall The ocean was in full wrath,
beating against the dykes and the tides and
the terror were still rising "Shall [ 90 to
tho feast" saws the engineer, cor
shall / 20 and help nv workmen
take care Of the dykes?" take care of the
dykes" he said to himself, II must and will"
As he appeared on the wall the men working
there were exhausted and shouted Here
comes the engineer Thank God! Thank
God!" The wall was giving vay. stone bv
stone, and the engineer had a rope fastened
around his body, and some of the worknen
had ropes fastened around their bodies and
were let down amid the wild snrges mat heat
the wall Everything was giving way, More
stones ., cried tie men More mortarn' But
the answer came; "There is no more ~
"Then, +" cried the engineer, take off vour
clothes and with them stop the holes in the
WALL" And go, in the chill and darkness
and surf it was DONE and with the
workmens apparel the openiuos in the wall
were partially filed. But still the tide rose
and still the ocean reared itself for more
awful strokes 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 helm" And on the trembling and
parting dykes they prayed till the wind
changed and the sea sutsi5ied. and tbe vii.
lagos below, which knowing nothing of The
peril were full Of romp and dance and hilari-
~. were ploriously saved
Now, what we want in this work
OF walling back the ocean ~
poverty and drunkenness and impuritv
ana sin ia the helm of more yyornanlv a,d NAV.