Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-02-03
fame, and he will help you in your lifelong

hame, and he will help you in your lifelong
misfortune.
Remember the patience OF job What a
wife he hadl At time when he was one
great blotch of eruptions. and his property
was destroyed by tornado. and, more than
oil, bereavement had come and the poor man
needed all wise counsel, she advises him 10
go to cursing and swearing. She wanted
him to poultice his boils with blasphemy.
But he lived right on through his marital
disadvantages, recovered his health and for
tune and raised splendid family, and the
closing paragraph OF the Book of job has
such jubilance that wonder people do not
oftener read it:
$50 the Lord blessed the latter end Of Job
more than his beginning, for he hal four
teen thousand sheep and six thousand camels,
and thousand yoke of oxen, aud a thou
sand she asses. He had also seven sons
and three daughters. And he calle1 the
name of the first Jemim1, an the name of
the second Kez a, and the name OF the third
kerenhappuch. And in all the land were no
women found so fair as the daughters of job
aud 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.
Nov, my badly married friend Of either
sex, II Job could stand il by the help of God,
then you can stand it by the same divine
reinforcement You have other relations,
oh, woman beside the wifely relation. If You
are mother, train up your children for God
and heaven. If you are a member of
church, help move on its enterprises You
can get so much of the grace of God in your
heart that all your home trials will seem in
significant How little difference does it
make what your unrighteous husband calls
you, II God calls you his child and you are
an heiress of whole kingdoms beyond the
SKYE
Immerse yourself In some kind of outside
usefulness, something that will enlist your
prayers, your sympathies, your hand, your
needle, your voice. Get your heart on fra
with love to God and the dsenthrallment of
the human race and the troubles of your
home will be blotte1 out in the glory of your
consecrated life l cry out to you. oh woman,
as Paul exclsims in his letter to the Cor
inthians: what knowest thou, oh, wife,
whether thou shalt save thy husbandN 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 sublimest 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
only by dykes or walls of stout masonry.
The engineer having these dykes in charge
was soon to be married to maiden living in
one of the villages, the existence of which
depended on the strength of these dykes.
And there was to be great feast in one Of
the villages that approaching evening in
honor of the coming bridegroom. That dav
great storm threatened the destruction of
the dykes, and hence the destruction of
thousands of lives in the villages shell
tered by that stone wall. The ocean
was in full wrath, beating against the dykes,
and the tides end the terror were still
rising. "Shall / go to the feast" says the
engineer, "or shall l go and help my work
men take care of the dykesl" "Take care of
the dykes" he said to himself; 81 must ard
will" As he appeared on the wall the men
working there were exhausted and shouted;
"Here comes the engineer. Thank Cod
Thank Godl" The wall was giving way
stone by stone, and the engineer hal rope
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" And so, in the chill and dark
ness and surf it was done, and with
the workmen's apparel the openings in the
wall were partially filed. But still the tide
rose, and still the ocean reared itse'f for more
awful strokes, and for the overwhelming OIL
thousands of lives in the villages. snow WE
! have done all we CAM said the engineer
'down on your knees, my men, and pray t.
God for help" And on the trembling and
parting dykes they praye1 till the WIND
changed and the sea slbsided, and the vii
| lagos below, which, knowing nothing of the
peril, were full of romp and dance and hilar
| ity, were gloriously saved.
| Now, what we want in this work of wallina
back the oceans of poverty and drunkenness
and impuritv and sin is the help of more
womanly and manly hands. On 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 ir
full cry. Oh, woman of many troubles, what
are all the feasts of worldly delight, if they
were offered you, compared with the oppor
tunity of helping build and support barrier:
which sometimes seem giving way through
J mans treachery and the worlds ASSAULT Oh
woman, to the dykes Bring prayer, bring
tears: bring cheerful words Help Help
| And having done all. kneel with us on tn
qual1ing wall until the God of the wind anC
the sea shall hush the ono and silence tn
other To the dykasl Sisters, mothers
wives, daughters Of America, to the dykes
The mightiest catholicon for 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 will forget or be helped
to bear your own trials, and in little while
God will take you up out of your disturbed
and narrowing con- ugal relation of eartl
into heaven all the happier because of pre-
ceding distress. When Queen Elizabeth o
England was expiring it was arranged tina
the exact moment of her death should b.
signaled to the people by the dropping of ,
sapphire ring from window into the hand
of an officer, who carried it at the top of hi
speed to King James of Scotland. But YOU
departure from the scene of your earthly
woes, if You are ready to go, will not b. tn,
dropping Of sapphire to the ground, but
the setting of jewel in a kings coronet
Blessed be His glorious name forever!