Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-02-24


been no descendants There is not a
child or srandchild or any remote descend
ant OF Washington, or Charles Sumner, or
Shakespeare, or Edmund Burke, or Pitt, or
Lord Nelson, or Cowper, or Pope,o or Addison,
or johnson, or Lord Chatham, or Swift, or
LOcke,or Gibbon, or Walpoie, or Canning. or
Dryden, or Moore, or Chaucer or Lord Byron,
or Walter Scott, or Oliver Cromwell, or Gar
rick, or Hogarth, or Joshua Reynolds, or Spen-
Ger, or Lord Bacon, or Macauley. Multitudes
Of the finest families Of the earth are extenct.
As though they had done enough for the
world by their genius or wit or patriotism
or invention or conservation, God withdrew
them. In multitudes Of cases all woman's
opportunity for usefulness Is with her con-
temporarieS. How important that it be an
improved opportunity
While the French warriors on their way to
Rheims had about concluded TO give up at
tacking the castle at Troyes because 1t was so
heavily gafrisoned, Joan of Are entered the
room and told them they would be inside the
castle in three DAYS. 1--WE would willingly
wait six days said one of the leaders Six
she cried out, "you shall be in it tomorrow,
and under her leadership on the morrow
they entered. On smaller scale every man
has garrisons to subdue and obstacles to level,
and every wife may be an inspired Joan of
Arc to her husband.
What noble, wifely ambition. the deter
mination, God helping, to accompany her
companion across the stormy sea of this life,
and together gain the wharf of the celestial
ethyl Coax him along with you'll You can
not drive him there. You cannot nag him
there, but you can coax him there. That is
Gods plan. He coaSes us all the way
coaxes us out of otir SINS coaNes us to accept
pardon, coaxes us to heaven. II we reach that
blessed place It Will be through prolonged
and divine coaxing: By the same process
take your companion, and then you will
get there as well, and all your house
hold. Do just the opposite to your neighbor.
Her wifely ambition is all for this
world, and a disappointed and vexed
and unhappy creature she will be all the
way. Her residence may be better than
yours for the few years of earthly stay, but
she will move out of it as to her body into a
house about five and a half feet long and
about three feet wide and two feet high, and
concerning her souls destiny you can make
your own representation. Her husband,
and her sons and daughters who all, like her,
live for this world, will have about the same
destiny for the body and soul. You, having
had sanctified and divinely ennobled uifely
ambition, will pass up into palaces, and what
becomes of your body is of no Importance,
for it is only a scaffol ling, pull ed down now
that your temple is done. You will stand in
bU6 pN6TldSUlllR ItSI am Stb your
come in, and see your children come in, il
they have not preceded you. Glorifed Chris
tian wife! Pick up any crown you choose
from off the kings footstool and wear it; il
was promised you long ago. and with il
cover up all the scars of your earthly conflict
Sixteen miles from Petersburg, Russia
was one of the royal palaces, and there one
night Catherine, the Empress, entertained
Prince Henry. 1t was severe winter and
deep SNOW; and the Empress and the Prince
rode in magnificent sleigh, and role and
canopy never surpassed, followed by 1000
sleighs laden with the first people of Russia
the whole length of the distance illumined by
lamps and dazzling temples built for that one
night, and limitations of mosques and Egyp.
tian pyramids; and people of all nations in
all styles of costume, standing on platforms
along the way and watching the blaze of the
pyrotechuics At the palace the luxu-
ries of kingdoms were gathered and
spread, and at the table the guests
had but to touch the centre of a plate
and by magical machinery it dropped, ant
another plate came up loaded with still richer
viands. But all that scene of the long age
shall be eclipssd by the greater splendors that
will be gathered at the banquet made by thu
heavenly king for those consecrated womer
who come in out of the wintry and snowy
chill of their earthly existence into the warn
and illummed palaces of Heaven. With thu
king himself and all the potentates yoursel
robed and crowned, you will sit at a tabl,
compared with which all the feasts at Kenil
worth and st. Cloud and the Alhambra wert
beggar's crust. And the platter of on
royal satisfaction touched at the center shall
disappear only to make room for beggar'
cr1st, and the golden plate of one royal sat
isfaction, touched at the center, shall disap
pear only to make room for the coming up O
some richer and grander regalement.