The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-12-07

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he had time to reef sail and make
things snug the ship capsized and
went down. Enemies cheered at the
misfortune and wondered what would
become of the butterfly. Good men
pitied and said she would die OF
broken heart. ''She will not work" say |
they, ''and she Is too proud to beg"
But the prophecies have failed. Disas-
ter has transformed the shining slug
gard into practical worker. Happy as
princess though compelled to hush
her own child to sleep and spread her
own table and answer the ringing OF
her own door-bell. Her arms had been
muscled for the conflict ag ainst misfor-
tune. Hunger and poverty and want
and all the other jackals Rizpah scares
from the rock.
l saw one in a desolate home Her
merciless companion had pawned even
the children's shoes for rum From
honorable ancestry she had come down
to this. The cruise of oil was empty
and the last candle gone out Her faded
frock was patched with fragments Of
antique silk that she had worn on the
bright marriage day. Confident In God
she had strong heart to which her
children ran when they trembled at the
staggering step and quailed under a
fathers curse. Though the heavens
were filed with fierce wings and the
thickets gnashed with rage, Rizpah
watched faithfully day after day and
year after year, and wolf and cormorant
by her God-strengthened arm were
hurled down the rock.
You pass day by day along streets
where there are heroines greater than
Joan of Arc. Upon that cellar floor
there are conflicts as fierce as Sedan,
and Heaven and hell mingle in the
fight Lifted in that garret there are
tribunals where more fortitude Is de-
manded than was exhibited by Lady
Jane Grey or Mary, Queen Of Scots.
Now l AISLE If mere natural courage
can do 30 much, what may we not ex'
pect of women who have gazed on the
Great Sacrifice. and who are urged for.
ward by all the voices of grace that
sound from the Bible, and all the notes
of victory that speak from the sky.
Many years ago the Forfarshire steamer
started from Hull bound for Dundee.
After the vessel had been out a little
while, the winds began TO rave and bill
lows rise until tempest was upor
them. The vessel leaked and the frei
went out, and though the sails were
hoisted fore and aft, she went speeding
toward the breakers. She struck will
her bows foremost on the roclL Th'
vessel parted. Amid the whirlwind anC
the darkness all were lost but nine
These cluug to the wreck on the beach
Sleeping that night in Longstone light
house was girl of gentle spirit ant
comely appearance. AS the morning
dawns, see that girl standing amid tn
spray and tumult Of fcontending element
looking through glass upon the wrecl
and the nine wretched sufferers Sh
proposes TO her father to take boat an,
put out across the wild sea to rescu
them. The father says: ut canno
be donel Just look at the tumblinI
surfr But she persisted and with he
father bounds into the boat Thougl
! never accustomed to plying the oar sh'
takes one now and her father the other
: Steady nowl Pull away Pull away
| The sea tossed up the boat as though
| were a bubble, but amid the foam an
] the wrath of the sea the wreck wa
, reached, the exhausted people pickle
! up and saved. Humane societies ter
dered their thanks Wealth poure
: into the lap of the poor girl Visitor
Q from all lands camc to look on he
Q sweet face and when soon after sh
] launched forth on dark sea and Deaf
/ was the oarsman, dukes and duchesse
!. and mighty men sat down in tears 4
I Alnwick castle to think they neve
, again might see the face of Grace Dai
ling.
, No such deeds of daring will probs
a bly, be asked of you, but hear you no
a the howl Of that awful storm OF trou
q BILE and sin that hath tossed ten thor
4 sand shivered hulks into the breakers
g Know you not that the whole earth
/, strewn with the shipwreck ed? Tha
n there are wounds to be healed an
q broken hearts to be bound and drown
!. ing souls to be rescued? Some hav
q gone down and you come too late, bu
d others are clinging to the wreck, ar
II shivering with the cold, are stranglin
1. in the wave, are crying to you for d.
il liverance. VIII you not, oar in hanC
put out to-day from the Lighthouse
n When the last ships timber shall hay
II been rent and the last Longston
!. beacon shall have been thundere
"a down in the hurricane, and the Ia,
II tempest shall have folded its wing
"a and the sea itself shall have bee
n licked up by the tongue Of all-consun
y. ing fire, the crowns Of etc rnal rewar
d shall be kindling into brigh ter glory o
-s the brow Of the faithful. And Chris
d pointipgto to the inebriate that you r.
a. formed, and the dying sinner whom yo
d taught to pray, and pointed TO God fC
4 shelter, will say: "You did 1t to then
le You did 1t to mer'
,i Again, the scene Of the text impress'
II upon us the strength Of maternal a
II tachment Not many men would ha,
,e had courage or endurance for the awfl
IN mission Of Rizpah. To dare the rage
d wild beasts, and sit from May to Oct
to Der unsheltered, and to watch u
70 corpses of unburied children was
81 work that nothing but the matern
d heart could have accomplished.
c. needed more strength than TO stand b
ID fore opened batteries or to walk
W calmness the deck of founderir