The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-02-23

honest Do not urge your husbands to an |
mex Naboths vineyard to your palace OF sue
cess, whether right or wrong, lest the dogs
that cSme But to, destroy Naboth como Out |
also to devour you. Righteousness will pay
best in life, will pay best in death, will pay
best in the Judgment, will pay best through |,
all eternity.
In our effort to have the mother Of every |
household appreciate her inhueace over her
children We are apt to forget the wfes nau-
tho ifiauence upon the husband is the only
home influence. In great multitude OF the
best and most important and most tai
ented families of the earth there have
been no descendants. There is not .
child or grandchild or any remote descend
ant Of Washington, or Charles Sumner, or
Shakespeare or Edmund Burke, or Pitt, or
Lord Nelson or Cowper, or Pope, or Addison,
Or johnson, or Lord Chatham, or Swift, Or )
Locke, or Gihbon, or Walpo,e, or Canning. u
Dryden, or Moore, or Chaucer, or Lord Byron,
or Walter Scott, or Oliver Cromwell, or Car
rick or Hogarth, or Joshua Reynolds, or Spen-
GER, or Lord Bacon, or Macauley. Multitudes
6f 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 womaas
opportunity for usefulness Is with her con
temporaries. How important that 1t bs an
Improved opportunity!
Nhile the French warriors on their way to
Rheims bad about concluded to give up at
tacking the castle at Troyes because 1t was so
heavily garrisoned, Joan of Arc 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
l. t,e md oh .trclpe tO laval
and every wife may be an inspired Joan OF
Arc to her husband.
What a noble, wifeiy ambition tho deter
mination, God helping, to accompany her
companion across the stormy sea Of this life,
and together gain the wharf of the celestial
cityl Coax him along with you! You can
not drive him there You cannot nag him
there, but you can coax him there That is
Gods plan He coaxes us all the way
coaxes us out of our sins, coayes us to accept
pardon. coaxes us to heaven. Il we reach that
blessed place it will bs through a prolonged
and divine coaxing. By the same process
take your companion, and then you will
hold. Do just the opposite to your neighbor..
Her wifely ambition is all for this
world, and disappointed and vexed
and unhappy creature she will ba 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 fest long and
about three feet wide and two feet high, and
| concerning her souls destiny you can make
| your own prognostication. 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 sanctifed and divinely ennobled wifely
| ambition, will pass up into palaces, and what
| becomes Of your body is OF no Importance,
| for it is only foliing, pulled down now
| that your temple is done. You will stand in
| the everlasting rest and see your husband
| come in, and seq your children come in, il
they have not preceded you. Gloritied Chris
tian wife! Pick up. any crown you choose
| from off the kings footstool and wear it; it
was promised you long ago, and with it
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 wsntnr and
deep snow, and the Empress and the Prince
rode in magnificent sleigh, and robe and
canopy never surpassed followed by 1900
| sleighs laden with the first people of Russia
the whole length of the distance ilumined 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
pyrotechnics. 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, anc
another plate came u loaded with still richer
yiands But all that scene OF the long ago
shall be eclipsed by the greater splendors thai
will he gathered at the banquet made by thu
heavenly king for those consecrated womel
who come in out If the wintry and snowy
chill of their earthly existence into the warn
and illumined palaces Of Heaven. With th'
king himself and all tho potentates, ycursel
robed and crowned, you will sit at tab,
COMPARED with which all the feasts at Kenil
worth and ST. Cloud and the Alhambra wer
beggar's crust And the platter of on
royal satisfaction touched at the center shal
disappear only 10 make room for beggar'
crust, and the golden plate of one royal sat
isfactiSn. touched at the center, shall disap
pear only to make room for the coming up o
some richer and grander regalement.