The national leader., 1889-03-02

the house and by the wayside. All
women will agree that there IS more
virtue in one sunbeam than a whole
hemisphere of cloud and gloom, for we
can always know man by his hearty
good morning." Such a spirit d1spels
darkness, drives away sorrow, and des-
pair.
Imagine. if you can, happier scene
than cheerful freside, where all think
and speak kindly when mother cheers
all by her very presence. We are told
that there is no more enviable gift than
the energy to sway others to good: to
diffuse around us an atmosphere OF
cheerfulness, piety, truthfulness, gener
osity, and magnanimlty. 1t is not
matter of talent, it is an inherent quail
ity of the Individual, and rather grace
than gift.
Women exercise vast influence, con"
sciously too, by their dress and actions
upon the stage as well as at public balls
and banquets. Again, the church 22
often made place of display in dress
Some burden themselves with all sorti
of adornment with the hope Of MAXIM
themselves appear beautiful. LesSinap
the German author says, Beauty Is
most adorned when unadorned." FiE''
clothing does not make the person. glVe
character. nor cause one to be appre~
ciated. If the heart of woman is truly
christian, the outward appearance be-
comes a secondary matter.
Fine clothing and a naughty minG
are an abomlnation to the poorer c. asses.
and has tendency to make woman
unchristian.
To Christianity, woman IS emphatl-
cally debtor. II has breathed into her
its breath of life, and she has become d
living soul. To it she owes her ad-
vanced position, her commanding in-
f1uence.
Even all the refinement aud liter
ature of Greece and Rome, could not
confer on woman the boon which the
religion of Jesus has brought her.
Go where that religion is not, and
woman is naught. Christianity has
caused the foundations OF her soul 10
send forth rills of gentleness and love,
which has refreshed humanity and
poured out gladness on a dark ana
dreary world.
Well might we exclam, ,-"Let the
cross then be WOman's standard, Jesus
Woman's trust, and Christianity WO-
mans characterl''
Ii this were abandoned. al would go
back to barbari5m and woman would
again be reduced to brute degradation.
Can it ever be we'll said of woman
"She careth not if there be God, or a
soul, or time of retribution, that
| nj of
that she thirsts for no purer heaven?'
How can woman, owing her all TO
the religion OF the Bible, refrain from
exerting her energies to place the word
of life into the hands of every pilgrim
over the deserts of time? In her home,
in the Sabbath School, IN the Church,
in the community, everywhere let her
I've at work, except in the pulpit, or
openly i'll public gatherings as an ora
tor.
Women should shun public politics.
Not that they be ignorant of the great
questions of the age, better be familiar
with them. But let her not become
absorbed with them.
"Who that loves woman, that really
admircS her worth as e1Oman that thinks
of her as tn delicate. refined, tasteful
sensitive, development of humanity,
the incarnation of all that is lovely,
gentle. modest, peaceful, and pure, the
highest earthly manifestation of God as
ZOUe: who that remembers her as the
'help.naeet' can bear the thought of
hurrying her out upon the theatre of
politics, the platform of legi- -lationp''
Let her be content to be a0Onldn, for
she has no right to be man.
Let us rather see her in the quiet re-
tIrement of home, not in drudging but
the refined woman. Thus she Will WIN
our admiration and secure our love.
Another office of woman is to make
home happy. Home-what bles;e ed
word. We are indeed grateful to cur
Saxon Fathers for it. Not merely the
name, but the realities it expresses.
An Eng ISh and American home is a
Bethlehem-star in the horizon of
earth's sorrows, the shadow of a great
rock in every weary land.
The poet SAYS
''There is a magic in that litt e word,
1t is mystic circle that surrounds,
Comforts an virtues never known beyond
The hallowed limit
''The tabernacle of our earthly joys
And SORROWS, hopes an rears-thiS home OF ours
Is it not PLEASANT"
Yes, home is the centre of all ths { is
sweet in its sympathes, dear in he
affections of the soul. There the ;iss
OF love is impressed in ITS purity, The
warm pressure of the hand knows no
betrayal. the smile of joy plays no Ge.
ceiver's part. All is candid, cordial.
sincere, with all the faults and failL es
of the family, the feeling OF every MT IN
Der is-'With all they faults, L love
thee stil)."
How the traveller climbing the 81.
phine SUBMITS longs for the loved Ole
at home to share the rapture!
How the ship-wrecked mariner on
some desert isle longs for his mother 8
fond endearment, his sisters kind y
care, or any one from home. Home :
in all his thoughts. Home is the dear.
est place to US on earth, bee iuse in It
woman once reigned supr.me. at tbs
mention of the word, we often cause
the tear to start, and the heart responds
readily to the sigh of a troubled breast,
Danlnnl, DOmotne, dulce domunl HoYns
Home, Saneet Honael