The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-10-02


gallery Of Bible queens we find Abigail and
Ruth and Miriam and Vashti and Deborah
but in the rogues' gallery Of police sta
ton you lind the pictures Of women as well
as men. Delilah's picture belongs to the
rogues' gallery, but she had more power
than all Philistia armed with sword and
spear. She could carry off the iron gates
Of Samson's resolution as easily as he shoul-
dered the gates OF GAIA. The force that
had killed the lion which one day plunged
out fierce from the thicket Utterly succumbs
TO the sillSen net which Delllah weaves for
the giant, He who had driven an army in
riotous retreat with the bleached jaw bone,
shifting them hip and thigh with great
slaughten now falls captive at the feet Of
an unworthy woman. Delilah in the Bible
stands IN the memorable company Of Adah,
and Zillah, and Bathsheba, and Jezebel, and
Athaliah, and Herodias.
How deplorable the influence Of such In
contrast with Rebecca and Phoebe and HUI.
dah and Tryphona and Jeptha's daughter
and Mary, the mother of Jesus. While The
latter glitter in the armament OF Gods
work like consultations with steady, cheer
full, holy light, the former shot like baleful
meteors across the terrified heavens, omi-
nous Of war, disaster and d. Nth II there
is dlvine power IN tne good lnooAer ner lace'
bright with purity, an unsellsh love beam
ing from her eye, a gentleness that by pangs
and sufferings and holy 'anxieties has been
mellowing and softening FOR many a year,
uttering itself In every syllable, dignity
that can not be dethroned, united with the
playtulness that VIII not DC checked, ner
hand the charm that VIII Instantly Jake PAIN
out OF the echlld'sworst wound, her presence
aperpetual benediction, her name our ae-
tense when we are tempted, her memory an
outgushing well OF tears and congratulation
and thanksgiving, her heaven palm waV,
ing and coronal; then there Is Just as great
an influence In the opposite dlrecuon IN tne
bad mother, her brow oeclouded WIN un-
governef passions, her eye nashlng win
unsancthed hre, her lips the FOUNTAIN Oh
fretfulness and depravity, her example
mildew and blastng, her name disgrace
TO coming generations, her memory slgnal
for bitterest anathema, her eternity a
whirlwind and sunocauon ana darkness
One wrong-headed, wrong-hearted mother
may ruin one child, and that one child,
grown up, may destroy a hundred people,
and the hundred blast thousand, and the
thousand million. The wife's sphere Is o
realm Of honor and power almost unlimited.
What blessing was Sarah 10 Aoraham,
was Deborah TO Lapidoth, was Lipporah TO
Moses, was Huldah TO Shallum'
There are multitudes OF men IN the marts
Of trade whose fortunes have been the re-
suit Of wife's frugality. -Four hands have
been achieving that estate, two atthe store,
two at the home. The burdens OF life are
comparatively light when there are other
hands to help US mt them. The greatest
difficulties have often skunk away because
there were four eyes TO look them out OF
countenance. What care you Tor the hard
knocks In the world as long as you have a
/ bright domestic circle for harborl One
cheerful word In the evening tide as you
come in has silenced the clamor OF unpaid
notes and the disappointment OF poor In
vestmeuts. Your table may be quite fru'
gally spread, but II seems more beautiful U
you than many tables that smoke with
venison and blush with Burgundy. Peace
meets you at the door, sits beside you a
the table, lights up the evening stand, ant
sings In the nursery. You have seen al
aged couple who Tor scores OF years nave
helped each other In mes pilgrimage gont
down the steep'of years. Long assoclatior
has made them much alike, They reloioet
at the same advent, they bent over th'
same cradle, they wept a. the same grave
In the evening they SIT thinking OF the past
mother knitting at the stand father in hi
arm chair at the fire.
Now and then grandchild comes and the,
look at him with affection untold and CONT
well nigh spelling him with kindnesses. Tit
life currents beat feebly in their pulses ant
their work will soon be done and the Maste
will call A few short days may separate