News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-09

name of the first Jemima, AMI the name OF
the second Kez a, and the name OF the thrd
KerenhaDpuch. And in all the land were no
women found so fair as 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 the same divine
reinforcement You have other relations,
oh, woman, beside the wiSely relation. If you
are mother, train up your children for God
and heaven. If you are member OF
church. help move on its enterprises. on
can get so much of the grare Of God in your
heart that ell 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
skyl
Immerse yourself in some kind Of outside
usefulness, something that will enlist your
prayers, your sympathies, yoIr hand, yonr
needle, your voice. Get your heart on fire
with love to God and the disanthrallmant OF
the human race and the troubles of your
home will be blottel out in the glory Of your
consecrated life. l cry out to you, oh woman,
as Paul exclaims i'll 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 suhlime5t 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
onIv bv dykes or walls of stout masonry.
The engineer having these dykes in ch 'rge
was soon TO be married to a maiden living IN
one of the villages, the existence OF which
depended on the strength of these dykes:
And there was to be a great feast in one or
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 the villages shel-
tered by that stone wall. The ocean
was in full wrath beating against the dykes.
and the tides and the terror were stIh
rising. 'Shall l go to the feast" says the
| engineer, cor shall l go and help my work
| men take care of the dykes2" Take care of
the dykes" he said to himself; 81 must and
will" As he appeared OF the wall the men
working there were exhausted and shouted:
"Hera comes the engineer THANK GOdl
| Thank God!' The wall was giving way,
| stone by stone, and the engineer had a rome
fastened around his body, and some Of the
| workmen had ropes fastened around their
| bodies and were let down amid the wild
surges that beat the wall. Everything was
| giving way. "More stonesl" cried the men.
'More mortar!" But the answer came:
| "There is no more" Then" cried the
engineer, take off your clothes and
with them stop the holes in the
wall" Aud so, in the chill and dark
ness and surf it was done, and with
the workmens apparel the openings in the
wall were partially filed. But still the tile
rose, and still the ocean reared itse f for more
| awful strokes, and for the overwhe ming of
| thousands of lives in the villages. Snow 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 and
| parting dykes they pravei till the wind
changed and the sea sIbsided, and the vii
| lagos below, which, knowing nothing Of the
! peril, were full of rOmp and dance and hilar-
| ity. were glOriOIsly slved.
Now, what we want in this work of walling
back the oceans of poverty and drunkenness
and impuritv and sin is the help of more
womany 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 and satanic fury are in
| full cry. Oh, woman of many troubles what
are ali the feastS of worldly delight, if they
| were offered you, compared with the oppor-
tunity of helping build aud support barriers
which sometimes seem giving way through
mans treachary an the worlds ASSAULT Oh,
woman. to the DYKES! Bring prayer, bring
tears, bring cheerful words! Help HelD
And having done all. kneel with US on the
quaking wall until the God of the wind and
the sea Shau nuSh Jne one ami silence inc
other. To the dySasl Sisters, mothers,
wives, daughters of Amer'cl, to the dykesi
The mightiest catholico1 70" 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 viii forget or he helped
to bear your. own tr as and in a lite while
God will take you up out of your disturbed
and narrowing con ugal relation of earth
into a heaven all the happier because of pre-
I 1,,Nb If
England was expiring it was arranged that
the exact moment of her death should be
s'gnaled TO the people by the dropping Of
sapphire ring from a window into the hands
OF an officer, who carried il at the top of his
speed to King James of Scotland But your
| departure from the scene of your earthly
| woes, if you are ready to go, will not b. the
| dropping of a sapphire to the ground, but
| the setting of a jewel in a kings coronet.
| Blessed be His glorious name forever!