The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-23
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relations, woman, beside the wifely re-
lation. II you are mother, train up
your children for God and heaven. II
you are member Of 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 insignificant
How little difference does IL make what
your unrighteous husband calls you II tod
calls you his child and you are an heircss
OF the whole kingdoms beyond the sky2
lmmersc yourself in some kind OF out
side usefulness, something that will enlist
your prayers, your sympathies, your hand,
your needle, your voice. Get your heart
on lire with love 10 God and the olsen
thrallment OF the human race, and the
troubles Of your home will be blotted out
in the glory Of your consecrated life. l
cry out to you, . woman, rs Paul exclaims
in his letter TO the Corinthians "What
knOwest thou, o wife, whether thou shalt
save thy husbandT' And il you cannot
save him you can help in the grander,
mighIer enterprise OF helping save the
world. Out OF the awful mistake OF your
marriage rise into the sublimest life oisclf-
sacrifice Tor God and sunering humanity.
Instead OF settling down 10 NOPE over your
domestic woes, enlist your energies for
the worlds redemption.
Some parts Of Holland keep out the ocean
only by dykes or walls Of s,Uut masonry.
The engineer having these dykes in charge
WIS soon to be married To a maiden living
in one OF the villages the existence Of
which depended on the strength of these
dykes. And there wis TO be great feast
in one Of the Villages that approaching
evening in honor OF the coming BRIDE
groom. That day great storm threatened
the destruction OF the dykes, and hence
the destruction OF thousands OF lives in the
Villages sheltered by that stone wall. The
ocean wis in full wrath, beating against
the dykes, and the tides aud the terror
were still rising. "Shall 90 TO the icasi, y
says the engineer, cor shall ! go and help
my workmen take care of the
dykcs?' Take care OF the dykes, he said
10 himself, 81 must and will" AS he
appeared on the wall the men working
there were exhausted and shouted "llerc
comes the engineer. Thank Godl Thank
Cod" The wall WIS giving way, stone by
stone, and the engineer had u rope fas-
tened around his body, and some OF the
workmen had rOpcs fastened around their
| bodies and were let down amid the wild
suuus that beat the wall. Everything was
giving way. "More stOnesl" cried the men.
"More moriarl" but the answer came
"Thero IL no mOrcl" "Ihcn," cried the
engineer, take of your clothes and with
them stop the holes In the wall" And N,
in the chill and darkness and surf IL was
done, aud with the workmen's apparel the
openings in the wall were partially filed.
| lIut 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 20 God for help
| And on the trembling aud parting dykes
| They prayed till the wind changed and tho
sea subsidized, and the villages below, which
knowing nothing Of the peril were full OF
romp aud dance and hilarity, were glori-
ously saved.
Now, what we want In this work Of wall.
| ing back the ocean Of poverty and drunk.
enncss and impurity and sin Is the help OF
morc womanly and manly hands Oh,
how the tides come inl Atlantic surge OF
sorrow after Atlantic surge OF sorrow, and
| the tcmpests OF human hate and Satanic
| fury are In full cry. . woman Of many
troubles, what are all the fcasis Of worldly
delight, II they were oiIcrd You, com
| pared with the opportunity of helping
build and support barriers which some
times seem giving way through mans
trcachory and the worlds ASSAULT .
woman, 10 the dykes Bring prayer,
bring lcarS. bring cheering words Help !
helpl And having done all, knccl with
Ms on the quaking wall until the God Of
the wind aud the sea shall hush the one
and silence the other. To the dykcsl Sis
tens, mothers. wives daughters Of America,
90 the dykes The mighlicst catholicon
ior all the wounds and wrongs Of woman
or man is complete absorption In the work
30 rescue others. Save some man, some
woman, some child
In that effort you will forget or he helped
10 bear yourown trials, andin little while
God win take you up out Of your disturbed
and narrowing conjugal relation Of earth
into heaven all the happier because Of
preceding distress. When Queen Eliza.
beth Of England was expiring Il was mr.
ranged that the exact moment Of her death
should he signaled 10 the people by the
dropping q a sapphire ring from a window
into the hands Of an officer, who carried II
ut the top Of his speed 10 King James, Of
Scotland. But your departure from the
scenes Of your earthly woes, II you are
ready 10 go, viii not be the dropping Of y
sapphire TO the ground, but the setting oI
"A level In ~ Kings cOronct. blessed bC
| His glorious name forever