The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-01-26


Gcasi s3cici3- resri15sssz tiiali. otiU II must
he t:io Wy if'st resort, slId auir after all
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lt,''la .t.oi.il.sa .-ii il Is ,sali. !iecatisa Of
le.;s,uli2t outsiders, ;.l.s. omen tell the
,F:o.ieest ssilc how she OF ut 10 stand on laer
rights, and men tel the wrongeti husband!
how ne ou,,,,0 to stand on his rights And
let husband and wife in an unhappy mar
riage relation stand punctf.. ously or their
rights, and there will be ne read justrnent
ard Only thing viii be sure to them, and
that Is Il LeIi ii earth.
IL YOU ulshappiIy married, in most
cases adlviSo yo1 70 make the best YOU can
of III aw4uily ha'i bargain. Do lot project
your pecsiit:'lii,s more than is necessary
PCriiclS rou IllE have some faults of vour
own which the other Irs-ty in the marital al
lance may have, - suffer. You are in tho
same yoke. If you pull aside the ~ sssvill
+ only twist your neck. Better f,ail ..h-;,d
The world Is full of people who made. mis-
takes about many things, and among
other Things about betrothal and mar
ringe. ana yet have been tolcrably
happy and very useful i'll the strength
OF Cod, AID by tho grace promise, |
III every time of need if thos2 who seek it
conqrc:' the advantageous circumstances
l am ,,t PAINTED with lovely women married
to contemplate rlen, aud genial men yoked
with ter;noSants inspired OF the devil And
yet under these disad vaEoasses my friends are
useful AMI happy. God helps people in other
kinds Of rlnrtyrdom and to sing in the flame,
and he viii help you in your lifelong misfor-
tune.
Remember the patience of job. What a
wife he had. AT time when nc was one
great biotch of eruptions, and his property
was destroyed by tornado, and, more than
all, bereavement had come and the poor man
needed all wise counsel, she advises him to
go to cursing and swearing She wanted
him to poaltice his boils with blasphefny
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 had four
teen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels,
and a thousand yoke of oxen, and q
thousand she asses. He had also seven
sons and three daughters. And he called the
name Of the first JeIni,la, and the name of
the second kczia, and the name of the third
kerenhappuch. And III all the land were nc
women found so fair as the daughters of Job,
and their father gavc them inheritance among
their brethren. After this lived Job ono
hundred and forty years, and saw his sons,
and his sons sons, even four generations
So job died, heing old and full of days"
Now, my badly married friend of either
sex, if job co,;id stand it by the help of God,
then you cen stand it by the same divine
reinforcement. Ken have other relations,
oh woman, l.e> dc tho wifcly relation II you
are a>ruo;hcr, :rcin Up your children for God
and heaven. II you are member of a
church, help move on its enterprises You
can get 50 Eluch of the grace of God i'll
your heart that all your home trials will
seem i;asig ficant. How little difference
does it rl.aAe what your ;lnrighteous husband
calls scl:, il God calls you his child and
you arr ~. heircss of whole kingdoms beyond
the SKY.
1nnacrEt, yourself in soinc kidd of outside
uyefuln. S. something that viii enlist Your
prayers. your syinpathies, your hand, your
needle, your voice. Get your heart on fire
with love to God and the observation-disclosures OF
the human race, and the troubles of your
home viii be blotted out in the glory of your
consecratcd life. cry out to you, oh woman
Paul elclai;1ls in 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, mighticr enterprise OF helping save
the world. Out of the awful mist Ike 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 a maiden living in
one Of the villages the existence of which
depended on the strength of these dykes.
And there was to be n great feast III one of
the villages that approaching evening in
honor of the coming bridegroom. That day
n great storm threatened the destruction of
tie dykes, and hence the destruction of thou
sands of lives IN the villages shell
tered by that stone wall The ocean
was in full wrath, Beating against tie dykes,
and the tides and the terror we're still
rising. ''Shall l go to the FEAST" says the
engineer, cor shall go and help my work
men take care of the dykes?~ stake care of
the dykes he said to himself; ''t must and
will" AS he appeared on the wall the men
working there were exhausted and shouted:
Hero comes the engineer. Thank Godi
Thank God!" The wall was giving way,
stone by stone, and the engineer had 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 stonesin cried the men,
"There is no more!n ''Then,n 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 worklnens apparel the openings in the
wall were partially filed But still the tide
rose. and still the ocean reared itself for more
awful stroke, and for the overwhelming of
thousands of lives IN the villages Now we
down OH your knees my men, and pray to
God for help" And Gil the trembling and
parting dykes they prayed till the wind
changed and the sea subsidized, and the vii
lagos below, which, knowing nothing Of the
peril, we're full of romf and dance and hilar-
ity, were gloriously saved.
Now, what We want in this work of walling
back the oceans OF poverty and drunkenness
and impurity and sin is the help of more
womanly and manly hands. Oh how the
tides como IN Atlantic surge OF sorrow
after Atlantic surge OF sorrow, and the tenn
pests OF human hate and satanic fury are In
full Cry. On. woman OF many troubles. what
are al the feasts of worldly delight, if they
were offered you, compared with the oppoi-
tunity of helping build and support barriers
which sometimes seem giving way through
mans treechery and the worlds ASSAULT Oh
woman, to the dykes! Bring prayer, bring
tears, bring cheering words! Helpi Helpi
And having done all, kneel with MS on the
quaking wall until the God of the wind and
the sea shall hush the one and silence the
other. To the dykesl Sisters, mothers,
wives, daughters of America, to the dykes!
The inighticst cathoIicon 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 q little while
God viii take you up out of your disturbed
and Lali.o,iin.r con ir1c,al relation, Of oa,..,,