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great blotch of eruptons. and his property
was destroyed by a tornado. and, more thar
ALL bereavement hal come and the poor mar
needed all wise counsel. she advises him tt
go to cursing and swearing. She wanted
him to poutice hi3 boils with blasphemy.
But he lived right on through his marital
disadvantages, recovered his health and for
tune and raised splendid family, and the
closing paragraph of the Book Of Job has
such jubilance that wonder people do not
oftener read it:
$50 the Lord blessed the latter end Of JOB
more than his beginning, for he had four
teen thousand sheep. anil six thousand camels,
and thousand yoke of oxen, and a thou
sand she asses He had also seven son;
and three daughters. And he called the
name Of the first Jemima, AMI the name of
the second Kez,a, and the name of the third
| KerenhaupuHh. And in all thu land were no
women found so fair rs the daughters Of Job,
and their father gave them inheritance among
their brethren. After this lived Job one
hundred and forty years. and saw his sons.
and his sons SONS. even four generations
So job died, being old and full of days"
Now, my badly married friend Of either
sex, if Job could stand it by the help of God,
then you can stand it by tho same divine
reinforcement. You have other relations,
are mother, train up your children for God
and heaven. If you arc member Of a
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 1t
make what your unrighteous husband calls
you, IL God calls you his child and you are
an heiress Of whole kingdoms beyond the
skvi
Immerss yourself in some kind OF outside
usefulness, something that will enlist your
| prayers, your sympathies, your hand, your
neeille, your voice. Get your heart on fire
with love to God and the disenthrallment Of
the human race, and the troubles of your
home will be blotted out in tho glory Of your
| as Paul exclaims in his letter to the Cor
inthians: "What knowest thou, oh, wife,
whether thou shalt save thy husband| And
| If YOU cannot save him you can help In the
! grander. mightier enterprise of helping save
the world. Out Of the awful mistake Of your
marriage rise into the sublmest life Of self
sacrifice for God and suffering humanity.
Instead Of settling down to 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 stout masonry.
The engineer having these dykes in charge
was soon to be married to maiden living in
one Of the villages, tho existence Of which
depended on the strength Of these dykes.
anu piiCi "oo W W q A0etoo III oiiO Va
the villages that approaching evening in
honor of the coming bridegroom. That day
great storm threatened the destruction of
the dykes, and hence the destruction Of
thousands of lives in tho villages shell
tered by that stone wall. The ocean
and the tides and the terror were still
rising. "Shall go to the FEAST says the
engineer, Cor shall go and help my work
men take care Of the dykesl" Take care Of
the dykes he said to himself: 81 must and
will" AS he appeared on the wall the mon
working there were exhausted and shouted:
"Here comes the engineer Thank Godi
Thank GodI" The wall was giving way,
stone by stone. and the engineer had a rope
fastened around his body, and some Of the
worRtnen had ropes fastened around their
bodies and were let down amid tho wild
surgcs that beat thu wall. Everything was
giving way. "NIore stones!" cried the men.
"More mortar" But the answer came:
'There is no more!n "Then," cried the
engineer, take off your clothes and
with them stop the holes in the
ness and surf it was done, and with
the workmens apparel the openings in the
wall were partially filled. But still the tide
rose, and still the ocean reared Itself for more
awful strokes. ard for the overwhelming of
thousands of lives In tho villages. "Now we
have done all we can" said the engineer:
"down on your knees, my men, and pray to
God for help" And on the trembling AMI
parting dykes they prayed till the wind
changed and the sea subsided, and the vii
lagos below, which, knowing nothing Of the
peril were full Of romp and dance and hilar-
ity. were gloriously saved.
Now, what We want in this work Of walling
back the Dreams of poverty and drunkenness
and impuritv and sin is the help OF more
womanly and manly hands. Oh how the
tides come in! Atlantic surge Of sorrow
after Atlantic surge of sorrow and the tenn
pests of human hate aud satanic fury are in
full cry. Oh, woman Of many troubles, what
are ali the feasts of worldly delight, il they
were offered you, compared with the oppor-
tunity of helping build and support barriers
which sometimes seem giving way through
mans treachery and the worlds ASSAULT Oh,
to the Syss' Bring hEinS
And having done all. kneel with us on the
quaking wall until the God Of the wind and
the sea shall hush the one and silence the
other. To the dykesl Sisters, mothers,
wives, daughters Of America, to the dykesl
The mightiest catholicon for all the wounds
and wrongs Of woman or man is complete
absorption in the work to rescue others.
Save some man, some woman, some child!
In that effort you will forget or be helped
God will take you mp out Of your disturbed
and narrowing coniugal relation of earth
into heaven all the happier because Of pre-
ceding distress When Queen Elizabeth Of
England was expiring it was arranged that
the exact moment of her death should be
signacd to the people by the dropping of q
sapphire ring from window into the hands
Of an officer, who carried it at the top Of his
speed to King James of Scotland. But your
departure from the scene of your earthly
woes, IL you are ready to 60, will not b. the
dropping OF a sapphire to the ground, but
the setting Of Jewel in a kings coronet.
Blessed he His glorious name forever!
Saloons and Municipal Government.
Few, il any, intelligent citizens of the
United States doubt that the saloon Is
moral, social, and political blight on our
civilization. Since the days of the prophets
the Incorporate use Of strong drink has been
denounced as a morel evil by Statesmen,
sages and philosophers In later days the
traffic in intoxicating liquor has been investl-
gated from physiological and economic stand
points, and more recently the attention OF
thinking men has been drawn to the political
power Of the saloon and its contaminating
influence on the ballot box. In republic
which is based OH manhood suffrage, the
saloon becomes q dangerous factor In politl-
cal life The occupation OF the saloon keep
ers appears to destroy all patriotism; Their
political actions are entirely governed by self
ish motives. Their political influence over
the patrons Of their bars is great and the
practical politicians in the large cities
look on the saloons located amidst the
struggling POOR as q stronger ally IN
an election lhnn either press or
pulpit. We have known politicians
10 be tho owners of several saloons for the
strength it would give them in az election.
Ard in the smaller cities and towns OF our
rou,trv thp saryicps of the saloon keeDSr are