Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-08-26


doing him a kindness until the
day she ran away, so that he wrote
in his diary these words: ~ did not for
sake her; have not dismissed her;
will not recall her." Planting one foot,
John Wesley did, upon outside persecu-
tion, and the other foot on home trouble,
he climbed up into the heights Of
Christian joy, and after preaching forty
thousand sermons, and travelling two
hundred and seventy thousand miles,
reached the heights Of heaven, though ia
this world he had it hard enough-''a
sharp rock on the one side, and sharp
rock on the other"
Again, that woman stands in the crisis
of the text who has bereavement and
struggle for livelihood at the same time.
Without mentioning names, speak from
observation. Al, il is hard thing for
woman to make an honest living even
when her heart is not troubled, and she
has .air cheek and tie magnetism Of
an exquisite presence. But now the hus-
band, or the father, is dead. The ex-
penses Of the obsequies have absorbed all
that was left in the savings bank; and
wan and wasted with weeping and
watching, she goes forth "a grave, a
hearse, a coffin, behind her-to
contend for her existence and
the existence of her Children. When
l see such battle as that opn | shut my
eyes at the ghastliness of the spectacle.
Men sit with embroidered slippers and
write heartless essays about women's
wages; but that question is made up of
tears and blood, and there is more blood
than tears. Oh, give women free access
to all the realms where she can get Ia live
hhood, from the telegraph office TO the
pulpit. Let mems wages be cut down
before hers are cut down. Men have
iron in their souls and can stand it.
Make the way free TO her Of the broken
heart. May God put into my hand the
cold, bitter cupof privation. and give me
nothing but a windowless hut for shelter
for many years, rather than that after
/ am dead there should go out from my
home into the pitiless world woman's
arm to fight the Gettysburg, the Auster-
litz the Waterloo Of life, for bread.
And yet how many women there are
seated between the rock of bereavement
on the one side, and the rock Of destitu-
ton on the other, Bozez and Seneh in
terlocking their shadow and dropping
them upon her miserable way. There
is a sharp rock on the one side. and a
sharp rock on the other side" What
are such to dol Somehow, let them
climb up into the heights of the glorious
promise. Leave thy fatherless children;
| / will preserve them alive, and let thy
widows trust in me- Or getup into the
heights Of that other glorious promise:
The Lord preserveth the stranger and
relieveth the widow and the fatherless. F"
o. We sewing woman on starving wages.
| O. ye widows turned out from the
once beautiful home. o. We female
teachers, kept on niggardly stipend. 0i
ye despairing woman, seeking in vain for
work, wandering along the docks, and
| thinking 10 throw yourself into the river
last night. Ol We women Of weak nerves
and aching sides. and short breath and
broken heart, you need something more
than human sympathy; you need the
sympathy of God. Climb up into his
arms. He knows it all, and he loves you
more than father, or mother, or husband
ever could or ever did; and instead Of sit
ting down, wringing your hands in des-
pair. you had better begin to climb.
There are heights Of consolation for you,
though now there is a sharp rock on
the one side, and a sharp rock on the
other side"
/
Again, that man is in the crisis Of the
text who has wasted life on the one
side and an unillumined eternity on the
other Though man may all his life
have cultured deliberation and self poise,
if he gets into that position all his self
possession is gone. There are all the
wrong thoughts Of his existence, all the
wrong deeds, all the wrong words
strata above strata. granite, ponderous,
overshadowing. That rock call Bozez.
On the other side are all the retributions
of the future, the thrones Of judgment,
the eternal ages, angry with his long de-
iiance. That rock call Seneh. Between
these two rocks Lord Byron persisted, and
; Alcibiades perished. and HerOd perished.
and ten thousand times ten thousand
J have perished o! man immortal, man
redeemed. man blood-bought, climb up
! out Of those shadows. Climb up by the
p way of the cross. Have your wasted
o life forgiven; have your eternal life Sc
: cured. This morning Just take one look
r to the past and see what il has been. and
0 take one look TO the future and see what
!, il threatens 20 be. You can afford TO
o lose your health, you can afford 10 lose
o your property, you can afford TO lose
d your reputation; but you cannot afford
Y 10 lose your soul That bright, gleam-
z ing, glorious, precious, eternal possession
l. you must carry aloft In the day when
q the earth burns up and the heavens
% burst.
4 You see from my subject that when a
u man goes into the safety and peace Of
e the Gospel. he does not demean himself.
o There is nothing In religion that lead:
d 20 meanness or unmanlincss. The Cos
4 pei Of Jesus Christ only asks YOU Il
+ climb as Jonathan did-climb towart
G God, climb toward heaven, climb int,
q the sunshine Of Gods favor. To becom,
a Christian Is not 10 go meanly down
D 1t is to come gloriously up-up into th,
communion Of saints. up into the peac,
that passeth all understanding. up int
!, the companionship Of angels. lie live
I up; he dies up.
o. then, accept tho wholesale invita-.
= tion which make this morning 10 all Oh,