West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-02-23

been no descendants There Is not a
child or grandchild or any remote descend
ant OF Washington, or Charles Sumner, or
| Shakespeare, or Edmund Burke or Pitt, or
Lord Nelson, or Cowper or Pope,or Addison,
or johnson, or Lord Chatham, or swift, or
Locke,or Gibbon,or Walpole, or Canning or
Dryden, or Moore, or Chaucer or Lord Byron
or Walter Scott, or Oliver Cromwell, or Gar
rick,o Hogarth or Joshua Reynolds, or Spen.
Ger, or Lord Bacon, or Macauley Multitudes
OF the finest families OF the earth are extenct
As though they had done enough for tho
world by their genius or wit or patriotism
or invention or conservation, God withdrew
them. In multitudeS Of cases all woman's
opportunity for usefulness il with her con
temporaries How important that 10 be an
improved opportunity
While the French warriors on their way TO
Rheims had about concluded TO give up at
lacking the castle ut Troyes because il was so
heavily garrisoned. Joan OF Arc entered tho
room and told them they would be inside the
castle in three days. 1--WE would willingly
wait six days" said one OF the leaders. ''Sixf'
she cried out, ''you shall be I'm 1t tomorrow. -
and under her leadership on the morrow
they entered. On n smaller scale every man
has garrisons 10 subdue and obstacles 10 level
and every wife may be an inspired Joan OF
Arc 10 her husband.
What n noble, wifoly 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
ethyl Coax him along with you'll You can
not drive him there. You cannot nag him
there, but you can coax him there That Is
Gods plan. He coaNes us all the way
coaxes US out OF our sins, coaxes us TO accent
pardon, coaxes US TO heaven II we reach that
blessed place il will be through a 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 witely ambition is all for this
nj n 81
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 a
house about five and half feet long and
about three feet wide and two feet high, and
concerning her souls destiny you can make
your own representation Her husband.
and her sons and daughters, who all, like her,
i've Tor tins world, will have about the same
destiny for the body and soul You, having
had sanctitied and diyinely ennobled wifely
ambition, will pass up into palaces and what
becomes OF your body is OF no Importance
Tor Tor lt Is only scafolding, pulled down now
the everlasting rest and sec your husband
come in, and see your children como in il
they have not preceded you. Glorified Chris
tlan wliel Pick up any crown you choose
from of the kings footstool and wear il. IL
was promised you long ago, and with il
cover up all the scars OF your earthly conflict
Sixteen miles from Petersburg, Russia,
was one or the royal palaces, and there one
night Catherine. tho Empress, entertained
Prince Henry. IL was severe winter and
deep snow, and the Empress and the Prince
rode in magnificent sleigh, and robe and
canopy never surpassed, followed by 1000
sleighs laden with the first people Of Russia.
the whole length of the distance ilumined by
lamps and dazzling temples built for that one
night, and limitations of mosques and Fpyn-
tan pyramids; and people OF all nations, in
all styles OF costume. standing on platforms
along the way, and watching the blaze of the
pyrotechuics. 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 a Plate
and by magical machinery il dropped and
another plate came uD loaded with still richer
viands But all that scene OF the long AGO
shall be eclipsed by the greater splendors that
will he gathered at the banquet made by the
heavenly king for those consacrated 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 az n table
compared with which all the fea,ts Mt Ken.I
worth and ST. Cloud and the Alhambra were
beggar's crust. And the platter of ona
royal satisfaction touched at the center sIolI
disappear only TO make room for n beggars
crust, and the golden plate Of one royal sat
lsfactiSn' touched at the center, shall disaD-
pear only TO make room for tho coming W Of
some richer and grander regalemont.