The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-02-16
nnts. There is not child or q grand
child or any remote descendant of Mash-


ington Or Charles Sumner or Shakes
leare or Edmund Burke or Pitt or
Lord Nelson or Cowper or Pope or Addi-
son or Johnson or Lord Chatham or Grat-
tan or Isaac Newton or Goldsmith or
Swift or Locke or Gibbon or Walpole or
Canning or Dryden or More or ChaucT
or Lord Byron or Walter Scott or Oliver
Cromwell or Garrick or Hogarth or
Joshua Revnclds or Spencer or Lord Ba-
con or Macaulay. MuItitudes Of the
finest families of the earth are extinct.
AS though they had done enough for the
world by their genius or wit or patriot
ism or invention or conservation, God
withdrew them. In multitudes of cases
all womans opportunity for usefulness
is with her contemporaries. How inn
portant that it be an improved opportu-
nitv
While the French warriors, on their
way to Rheims, had about concluded to
give up attacking the castle at Troyes, be-
cause it was so heavily garrisoned, Joan
of Arc entered the room and told them
they would be inside the castle in three
days. "We would willingly wait six
days, y said one of the leaders .'Six -
she cried out. ''you shall be in it to-mor-
row, and under her leadership on the
morrow they entered. On a smaller
scale every man has garriscns TO subdue
and obstacles to level, and every wife
may be an inspired Joan Of Arc to her
| husband.
What a noble, wifely ambition, the de-
termination, God helping. to accompany
her companion across the stormy sea of
this life and together gain the wharf of
the Celestial City! Coax him along with
you! You cannot drive him there. You
cannot nag him there; but you can coax
Kim there. That is Gods plan. He
coaxes us all the way--coaxes us out of
our sins, coaxe5 US to accept pardon,
| coaXes us to heaven If we reach that
blessed place it will be through pro-
longed and diving coaxing. By the
same process take your companion. end
then you will get there as well, and all
your household. Do just the opposite
to your neighbor. Her wifely ambition
is all for this world, ,kand 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 house about five
and half feet 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 dRstiny for the body and the soul.
| You, having had a sanctified and divinely
ennobled wifely ambition, will pass up
into palaces, and what becomes of
your body is of no importance,
| for it is only scaffolding.
pulled down now that your temple is
done. You will stand in the everlasting
rest and see your husband come in, and
| see your children come in, if they have
not preceded you. Glorifed Christian
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, enter
tanned Prince Henry. 1t was severe
winter and deep snow, and the empress
and the prince rode in magnifcence of
sleigh and robe and canopy never sur
passed, followed by two thousand 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 Egyptian 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 Injuries of kingdoms
were gathered and spread, and at the
table the guests had but to touch the
center of plate, and by magical ma
chinery it dropped and another plate
came up loaded with still richer viands.
But all that scene of the long ago shall
be eclipsed by the greater splendors that
will be gathered at the banquet made by
the Heavenly King for those consecrated
women who come in cut of the winter
and snowy chill of their earthly
existence into the warm and IL
lumined palace Of heaven. With the
king himself and all the potentates,
yourself robed and crowned, you will sit
at table compared with which all the
feasts at Kenilworth, and st. Cloud and
the Alhambra were q beggar's, crust.
And the platter of one royal satisfaction
touched at the center shall disappear only
to make room for a heggar's crust, and
the golden plate Of one royal satisfaction,
touched at the center, shall disappear
only to make room for the coming up OF
some richer and grander regalement.