Democratic messenger., 1888-08-25


Men sit with embroidered slippers I'd
write heartlcss essays about womcta =
wages. but that question Is made up 6f
tears and blood, and there Is more blood
than tears. oh give women free access
to all the realms where she can get live.
lihood, from the telegraph Office to the
pulpit. Let mems wages be cut down be-
fore hers are cut down. Men have iron
In their souls and can stand t. Make the
way free TO her OF the broken .hcart. May
God put into my hand the cold, bitter cup
Of privation, and give me nothing but a
windowlcss hut for shelter for many years
rather than that aftcr l am dead there
should go out from my home into the pit
iless world n woman's arm 10 fight the
Gettysburg, the Austerlitz, the Waterloo
Of life for bread.
And yet how many women there are
seated between the rock of bereavement
on the one side aud the rock ofdcsiitution
on the other, Bozcz and Scnch intcrlock-
ing their shadows and dropping them
upon her miserable way !"Therc is n sharp
rock on the on. side, and sharp rock ON
the other side" What are such TO dO?-
Somehow, let them climb up into the
heights Of the glorious promise; leave
thy fatherlcss children will preserve
them alive, and let thy widows trust
Me-" Or get up into the heights OF shat
other glorious promise "The L0fd pre-
scrvcth the stranger and relievc,h the
widow and the fi.thcrlcss." Oh! ye sew
ing women on starving wages. Oh! ye
widows d rned out from the once beauti-
fal home. Nh! yc fey1le teachers, kept
on niggard N,ipep/ /oh'yc dcsparing
women, seck lin for work, wan
dcring along cks and thinking to
throw your. 5t,e river last night. Oh!
We women Scak nerves and aching
Nes, and jrt breath and broken heart,
y0uSjccd Something more than human
sympathy; you need the sympathy of
God. Climb up into Ills arms lie knows
II all, and lie loves you more than faith
er, or mother, or husband ever could or
ever did and instead Of sitting down,
wringing youi hands in despair, you had
better begin to climb. There are heights
Of consolation for you, though now There
is sharp rock on tho one side. and a
sharp rock on the other side"
THE OTHER ROCK.
Again, that man Is in the crisis of the
text who has wasted life on the one side
and an unillumincd eternity on the other.
Though man may all his liic have cul.
iurcd ,lclibcraiion and self.poise, il he gets
into that position all his sclfpossession is
gone There are NIL the wrong thoughts
Of his existence, all the wrong deeds, all
the wrong words-strata above strata,
granitic, pondcrnus, Oycrshadowing. That
rock ! call Bozcz. On TIE other side arc
al the rctributions Of the future, the
thrones of Judgment, the eternal ages, an.
cry with his long t'ciancc. That rock
call Scnch. Between these two rocks
Lord Byron pcrishcd, and Alcibi.ies -.
ishcd, and lIcrod perishcd, ana 10000
times 10000 have pcrishcd. q man i'm
mortal. man redeemed. man blood.bought,
climb up out of these shadows. Climb up
by way Of the cross. Have your wasted
life forgiven have your eternal life sccur.
ed. This morning just take one look to
the past and see what II has been, and
take one look TO the future and isee what
Il threatens to he. You can afford to lose
your health. you can afford to lose your
property, you can afford 10 lose your rep
utation but you cannot afford TO lose your
soul Tha, bright, cleaning, glorious
precious, eternal possession you must car
ry aloil In the day when the earth burn.
up and the heavens burst.
You see from my subjcc, that when q
man goes into the safety and peace of the
Gospel lc does not dcmcan himself There
is nothing in religion that leads To mean
ness or unmanhness. ,'rhe Gospel ofJesus
Christ only asks you TO climb as Jonathan
did-climb toward God, climb toward
Heaven, climb into the Sunshine of Gods
favor. To become Christian is not ia
80 mcanly down i, is to come gloriously
lup--up into the communion Of saints, ur
INTO the peace that passcth all understand
ing, up into the companionship of angels
lie lives up; lac dies up.
| o then, acccp, the wholesale invitation
which make this morning To all the pco
pie Come mp from between your inyal
idism and financial cmbarrassmcnts. Come
up from between your bcreavcmen,s and
your des,itution. Come up from between
a wasted life and an unillumincd eternity
Like Jonathan. climb with all yourmighi
instead OF sitting down To wiring your
hands in the shadow and in the larkncs.
Ia sharp rock on the one side and 4
sharp rock on the other side"
Order NiSi.