The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-04-10

gail, lzneeling at the foot of /
the mountain until the 400 wrath /
full men, at the sight of her beauty /
and proves, halt, haIt-a hurri- /
lily. dewdrOp dashing back Niagara /
Here Is Ruth putting to shame all !
the modern slang about mOthers-in-law !
as she turns her back on her home and /
her country, and faces wild beasts and |
exile and death that she NAV be with |
Naomi, her husbands mother, Ruth,
the queen of the harvest fields. Ruth, /
the grandmother OF David Ruth, ths
ancestress of Jesus Christ. The story |
of her virtues and her life sacrifice the !
most beautiful PASTORAL ever written. 1
Here is Vashti, defying the bacchana
of 1, 600 drunken lords, and Esther will
ing to throw her life away that she
may deliver her people. And here Is
Dorcas, the sunlight OF eternal fame,
| gliding her philanthrOpic needle, and
the woman with perfume in a box made
from the hills of A1abastrOn, pouring
/ the holy chrism On the head of Christ,
/ the aroma lingering all down the cOrri-
[ dor of the centuries. Here is Lydia,
/ the merchantess of Tyrian purple, inn
| mOrtalized for her Christian behavior.
| Here is the widow with two mites,
more famous than the PeabOdys and
1 the LenONes of all ages, while here
| comes in slow OF gait and with careful
! attendants and with especial honor and
/ high favor, leaning on the arm of in
| spiratiOn, one who is the Joy and pride
/ of any home so rarely fortunate as TO
| have one, an old Christian grandmother
| wOrshipers to-day than any being that
! ever lived earth, except Jesus
| Christ? Mary. For what purpose did
| Christ perform his first miracle upon
/ earth? To relieve the embarrassment
/ OF wOmanly hOuseLeeper at the fall
inn oh ~ 7,c1v- 4
Christ break up the silence Of the tomb
! and tear off the shrOud and rip up the
| rocks? 1t was to stop the bereavement
of the two Bethany sisters For whose
| comfort was Christ most anxious in the
hour of dying excruciation? For a
/ woman, an old woman, a wrinkle
faced woman, a woman who in other
days had held him in her arms, his first
friend, his last friend, as it is very apt
to be, his mother. All the pathos of
the ages compressed into one utter
ance, Behold thy mother" Does the
Bible antagOnize woman?
If the Bible is 50 antagOnistic to
woman how can you account for the
difference in wOman's condition in
China and Central Africa and her cOndi-
ton In England and American There
is no difference except that which the
Bible makes In lands where there is
no Bible she is hitched like a beast of
burden to the PlOws, she carries the
| hOd, she submits to indescribable in
| dignities. She must be kept in Pri-
vate apartment, and if she comes forth
; | she must be carefully hooded and re-
ligiOusly yelled, as though it were a
shame to be a woman. Do you not
know that the very first thing the Bible
| does when 1T comes into new country
is to strike of the shacllels of wOman's
5 serfdOm?
Furthermore, rather than invite I re-
-s-A Ill
, has wrought no positive good for the
s world, and is always a hindrance. 1
: ask you to mention the names of the
/ merciful and the educational institu-
- tons which infidelity founded and is
] | supporting and has supported all the
D | way through; institutions pronounced
T. against God and the Christian religion
? and yet pronounced in behalf of suffer
Y ing humanity. What are the names of
I them? Certainly not the United States
p / Christian commission, or the sanitary
o commission, for Christian George Il.
p Stuart was the president OF the one and
2 Christian Henry W. Bellows was the
e president OF the other. Where
g are the asylums and merciful
= institutions founded by infidelity
| and supported by infidelity, pro
/ / nOunced against God and the Bible, anC
t yet doing work for the aueviatiOn o,
'' suffering?
d There stands Christianity There
o stands inhdelity. Compare what they
l. have done Compare their resources
s Is infidelity so poor, 50 starveling, Sc
mean, so useless? Get out, you miser
h able pauper Of the universe! Infidelity
q standing to-day amid the suffering
= groaning, dying nations and yet doing
n absolutely nothing, save trying to i'm
# | pede those who are tOiliug until they
s fail exhausted into their graves in trying
!. to make the world better. Gather VI
- all the work, all the merciful work
Y that infidelity has ever done, add it al
n together, and there is not so much no
d bility in it as In the smallest bead o
II that sister of charity who last nigh
e went up the dark alley OF the town, Pu
It a jar OF jelly for an invalid appetite OF
A. broken stand, and then fzuelt on tn.
d bare floor, praying the mercy OF Chris
it on the dying soul