The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-07-18

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t~ransgress, is a consolation, and that He
often looks with plying eye upoh lhe mar
row ness of Interpretation by those whose
vision is interrupted by a cloak of sanetiLy,
We do not doubt. When the path becomes
50 narrow that we cannot see any right
way beside our own particular mode or
method of worship, We think it entirely
too narrow for comfort, or foI drawing
souls toward our loving, merciful Saviour,
who is ever ready to help in time of need
We know what it is to be in ''the great,
struggling, teiling, suffering mass " 18th a
very uncertain light before MS, and when
we come "boldly unto the throne OF
grace" we know we will ''obtain mercy
and that the Saviour will shed His divine
light in our souls if we will but look to
Him to receive it, and we almost conclude
that the way pointed out TO us was pic
tured so narrow that the light was hardly
perceivable, but when we are brought to
mingle with those of other creeds and doc
trines and find them seeking to obtain the
same right of citizenship with God, our
prospects brighten because our souls
broaden. o, what a mistaken idea of
s~a1etity it is to entertain the thought that
our especial mode of religious worship is
more holy than that of any other, and we
Athi q CiiDtiiA.tktNifiI DprStSS ttiai Dt-
lief. Every protesting Christian land be-
ware lest it is only a profession) whose
vision is SO narrow that they cannot see
righteousness through any path beside the
one they have chosen, is indeed a pitiable
object in this day of grace. In short, We
are in some instances too DESTROYS to wish
to appear before others as a shining light.
as far as the cloak will make us shine, for
getting that it is only the Spirit of God
within us that draws hearts toward us.
We remember upon one occasion, when
our spirit seemed utterly crushed with
homesickness and defeat and we felt as
though we must have light from some
source, we stepped aboard a car tina we
might call on a friend, in a distant part of
the city, whose larger Christian heart was
ever at work for the suffering Masses"
and after partaki pg of her rict. store of
sympathy, she urged us to attend a meet
ing in st. Georges Hall. where Hannah
Whitall Smith, now of England, was to
give one of her matchless interpretations
of Bible truths. The subject she had
chosen was ''Faith," and to our parched
soul, who had failed to look TO Him with
sufficient faith to partake of that rich
Fear thou not, for am 18th thee there
came such a humiliating sense of our lack
of that quality. She urged MS not to take
into consideration that II am" indiyid-
ually, but always turn it round and think
and be SO thankful for what "He is" We
in ourselves are nothing; He is ~omnipotent.
So when We see a Christian (?) soul so
dead that it is not quickened to any inter-
est in the great moral questions of the day,
We can but conclude that it is wearing a
cloak of s~anctity and singing Psalms, not
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masses are battling for their daily bread.
And these, in their sheltered security, do
not know, or do not realize, how much
they might help their less fortunate fell
low if they would but take hold Of these
moral questions and help push them
through to a reality.
This question of Woman's Suffrage
seems to rs to be one OF the greatest OPP
portunities put in the pathway of men,
whereby so many necessary reforms may
reach f%ruition. Now just imagine you
were ore of that mass spoken of, struggling
for the necessaries of life, and suppose
again that you know what a detriinent to
peace and prosperity is the Withholding of
the ballot from woman's hand, which will,
when it is bestowed, Gas 1t surely will be
in a few years. balance in favor of the ex-
termination of a giant evil which causes
women in inn1merable~ instances to become
bread W winners; and in becoming bread
winners, had they the right of franchise,
they would not be 50 %unequally compen-
stated, but would feel better able 10 COM
pete with those of the sterner sex, whom
they already excel in many branches of in
dustry. and would then, and not till then,
be enabled to demand equal pay for equal
work.
This Withholding of the ballot from
woman's hand is one of the greatest draw
backs to an advancement of all Christian
principles. since three fonrths of the mem
bership of the church are women and since
women are the leaders in all moral reforms.
Yes, we know there are lots and lots of
You dear, Sweet, gentle women, whose
lives have been so sheltered from the ills
which make your less fortunate Co sisters
desire the ballot, that you cannot at all
appreciate its needs and who think in
your seclusion that WI are almost unsex-
ing ourselves in advancing this argument,
bat our defence is, go among the masses
as we have been and see, and feel, aud
know why the ballot in woman's hand is
needed. To those of you who declare you
would not vote if o were given the
opportunity, to yon we would say truth
fully, although it may he bluntly, you
only show your ignorance upon the adj
vanced opinions of the day by making
such assertions. To those of you who sit
in your cloaks of sanctity, unheeding this
mass of humanity, you no doubt think our
idea of a Christian duty is faI-fetched, but
in the afterward, if not now, you may see
why we link Christianity and woman suf-
frage together.
OF Clinton 3. Fisk, our faithful standard
bearer in IS, who died at his home in
New York last week of heart disease, We
would say with Mary t. Lathrap's lines
quoted in a recent issue of the MONITOR.
"Fisk dead! say the same of the sunshine,
When evening comes over the hill;
say music is dead. when in slumber
The hand of the player is still.
Behold The dilnoned splendor has broken
In morning, eternal and calm,
And listen! the player is sweeping
The chords OF an infinite psalm"
Very sincerely, RUTH.
Woodstown, It'll mo. 18th, 1890.
Victoria and Vicinity.
Charlie kaighn and VIII Eenal have opened
II news depot and candy store on Main street,
Westvfle.
Mr.. and Mrs. {. b. smith spent some time at
Cape May last week.
A great many OF our people are talking OF
going 10 Atlantic City ON The knights of the