The Grenada sentinel., 1889-10-05

sherry. You need to see the world as
is. don't believe in intemperance any
more than you. can stop drinking jas
when l want to. You shall go. Now
come right along"
Persuasion had conquered. Samson
yields to the coaxiag and there is carni
val il hell that night among the Philis
tines and they sho ut.
"Ha! hG! We've got him." Fa
Again, this narrative teaches us the
power of an i'll disposed woman. In the
portrait gallery Of Bible Greens we fint
Abigail and Ruth and Miriam and WASN'T
and Deborah, but in the rogues' CALLER,
Of police station you fad the pictures
of women as well as men. Delilah's
| picture belongs to the rogues' gallery
| but she had more power than all Philistio
armed with sword and spear. She could
| carry off the iron gates Of SamsOn's
resolution as easy as he shouldered the
gates of GAIA. The force that had killed
the lion which one day plunged out fierce
from the thlckat utterly succumbs to the
sllken net which Delilah weayes for the
giant. He who had driven an army in
riotous retreat with the bleached j'w
bone, shifting them hip and thigh with
great slaughter, now falls captive at the
feet of an unworthy woman. Delilah in
the Bible stands in the memorable COM
pany of Adah, aui Zillah, and Bath.
sheba, and Jezebel, and Athaliah, and
Herodias.
How deplorable the influence of such
in contrast with Rebecca and Phoebe and
Huldah and Tryphoua and Jephtha'S
daughter, and Mary the Mother of Jesus.
While the latter glitter in the armament
of Gods world like consultations with
steady cAeerfui, holy light the former
shoot like baleful meteors across the
terrified heavens, ominous Of war, dis
aster and death. Ii there is Divine
power in the good mother, her face
bright with purity, an unselfish love
beaming from her eye, a gentleness that
by pangs and sufferings and holy ankle
ties has been meliowing and softening
for many year, uttering itself in every
syllable, a dignity that can not be de-
throned, united with the playfulness
that will not be checked hor hand The
charm that will instantly take pain out
Of the child's worst wound, her presence
a perpetual benediction, her name our
defense when we are tempted, her mem
ory an ontgushing we'll of tears and con-
graduation and Thanksgiving, her heaven
a palm waving and a coronal; then there
is jnst as great an influence in the
opposite direction in the bad mother, her
lao o1 iaj ,ytt u
sion, her eye flashing with unsanotified
Are, her lips the fountain of fretfulness
aud deprayity, her example mildew and
a blasting, her name disgrace to COM
ing generations, her memory signal for
bitterest anathema, her eternity whirl-
wind and a suffocatiou and darkness.
One wrongheadsd, wronghearted mother
may ruin one child, and that one child,
grown up, may destroy hundred people
and the hundred blast d thousand, and
The thousand a million. The wife's
sphere is a realm of honor and power al
most unlimited. What a blessing was
Sarah to Abraham, was Deborah to Lapi-
10th, was zipporah to Moses, was Huldah
TO Shallum.
There are multitudes of men in the
mart5 Of trade whose fortunes have been
The result of a wife's frugality. Four
hands have been achieving that estate,
two at the store, two at the home. The
burdens Of life are comparatively light
when there are other hands to help US
lift them. The greatest difficulties have
often slurk away because there were four
eyes to look them out of countenance.
ha WI i,,
the world as long as you have a bright
domestic circle? Oue cheerful word in
the evening tide as you come in has
silenced the clamor Of unpaid notes
and the disappointment of poor invest
men;s. Your table may be quite frugal
ly spread, but it seems more beautiful
to you than many tables that smoke with
venison and blush with Burgundy. Peace
meets you at the door, sits beside you at
the table, lights up the evening and sings
in the nursery. You have seen an aged
couple who for scores of years have
helped each other on in life's pilgrimage
going down the steep of wears. Long
has made them much alike.
They rejoiced at the same advent they
bent over the same cradle, they wept at
same grave. In the evening they sit
quietly thinking of the past, mother knit
ting at the stand, father in his armchair
at the fire.
But there are, as my subject suggests,
domestic scenes not so tranquil. What
a curse to job and Potiphar were their
companions, to Ahab was Jezebsl, to Je-
horam was Athaliah. to John Wesley
vroc Mrc Waslav tN Samson was De1ilnh
While the most excellent and triumphant
exhibitions of char cters we find among
the women Of history, and the world
thrills with the names OF Marie Antoi-
nette and Josephine, and Joan of Arc and
Maria Theresa and hundreds of Others
who have ruled in the brightest homes
and sung the sweetest cantos, and en-
chanted tn, nations with their art and
swayed the mightiest scepters, on
the other hand the names of Mary
the First of England, Margaret Of France,
Julia of Rome, and E!izA zAbeth Petrowna
Of Russia, have scorched the eye of his.
tory with their denominations, and their
names, like banished spirits, have gone
shrieking and cursing through the world.
In female biography we find the two ex-
tremes Of exceenc and crime. Woman
stands nearest the gate of Heaven or
nearest the door of hell. While adorned
by grace she reaches a potut of Christian
elevation which man can not attain, and
when blasted of crime she sinks deeper
than man eau plunge. Yet | am glad
that the instances in which woman makes
utter shipwreck Of character are com.