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world by their genius or wit or oatriotlsn
or invention or conservation, God ,"lthdreW
them. In multitudes of cases all woman S
opportunity for usefulness is with her ION
tcmporaries. How important that it be al?
improved opportunity!
While the French warriors on their way to
Rheims had about concluded to give up at
tacking the castle at Troyes because it was so
heavily garrisoned, Joan of Arc entered the
room and told them they would he inside the
castle in three days. "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
has garrisons to subdue and obstacles to level,
and every wife may be an inspired Joan of
What q noble, wifely ambition. the deter
mination, 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 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, coaves us to accept
pardon. coaxes us to heaven. II we reach that
blessed place it will be through prolonged
and divine coaxing. By the same process
take your companion, and then you will
get there as well, and all your house
hold Do just the opposite to your neighbor.
Her wifely ambition is all for this
world, and a disappointed and yexed
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 yoI 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 a scaffolling, 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, II
they have not preceded you. Glorified 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. It was severe winter and
deep snow, and the Empress and the Prince
rode in magnificent sleigh, and robe and
canopy never surpassed, followed by 2,0O0
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 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 plate.
and by magical l.'hinery it dropped, and
another plate came Il loaded with still richer
viands. But all that scene OF the long ago
shall be eclpsed by the greater splendors that
will be gathered at the banquet made by the
heavenly king for those consecrated women
who come in out of the wintry and snowy
chill of their earthly existence into the warm
and illumined palaces of Heaven. With the
king himself and all the potentates, yourself
robed and crowned, You will sit at table
compared with which all the fea'ts at Kenil-
worth and St. Cloud and the Alhambra were
a beggar's crust. And the platter of one
royal satisfaction touched at the center Shall
disappear only to make room for q beggar's
crust, and the golden plate of one royal sat
isfaction, touched at the center, shall disap.
pear only to make room for the coming up of
some richer and grander regalement.