The Red Cloud chief., 1892-12-16


your slain, apguished and woe-struck.
Rizpah on the rock.
So it has been in all ages vashti
must doff the spangled robes of the
Persian court and go forth blasted from
the palace gate. lIagar exchanges
oriental comfort for the wilderness OF
Beersheba Mary Queen Of Scots must
pass out from flattery and pomp to suf-
fer ignominious death In tho castle OF
Fotheringay. The wheel Of fortune
keeps turning.
But this is the place to which God
comes. Jacob with his head on q stone
saw the shining ladder. Israel in the
desert bchcld the marshalling Of tho
fiery baton. John ON barren Patmos
heard trumpetiug and the clapping Of
wings, aud the stroke of scraphic fin
gers on golden harps, and nothing but
heavenly strength nervcd Rizpah for
her appalling mission amid the screams
Of wild birds and the stealthy tread Of
hungry monsters. The grandest visions
Of glory, the most r%apturous expert
ences Of Christian love, the %grandest
triumphs Of grace have come to the
tired and hard pressed and the betrayed
and the crushed. God STOPPING down
from Heaven to comfort Rizpah on the
rock.
Again the tragedy Of the text displays
the courage Of women amid great emer-
Rencies What mother, or sister, or
daughter would dare TO 60 out and
fight tho cormorant and jackal2 Riz-
pah did IL. And so would you II IN
emergency demanded. Woman Is
naturally timid aud shrinks from ex-
posture and depends on stronger arms
for tho achievement Of great enter
prises. And she is often troubled lest
there might bs occasions, demanding
fortitude when she would fall Not so.
Some Of those who are afraid ~ look
out Of doors after nightfall and who
quake in the darkness at the least un-
certain sound and who start at the
slam Of the door, and turn pale in a
thunderstorm, IL the day Of trial came
would be heroic and invulnerable. God
has arranged it so that woman needs
the trumpeter of some great contest OF
principle or affection TO rouse up her
slumbering courage. Then she will
stand under tho cross fire OF opposing
hosts ut Chalons to give wine to the
wounded. Then she will carry into
salvation Then she will brave the
pestilence. Deborah goes out to sound
terror into the heart of Gods enemies.
Abigail throws herself between q raid.
ing party of Infatuated men, and her
husbands vineyards. Rizpah fights
back the vultures from the rock.
Among tho Orkney islands an eagle
swooped and lifted II child to its eyric,
far up on the mountains. With the
spring Of a panther, the mother mounts
hill above hill, crag above craY, height
above height The fire of her own eye
outiashing the glare OF the eagles.
And with unmailed hand stronger than
the iron beak and the terrible claw,
she hurled the wild bird down the
rocks. In the French revolution, Ca
Zotte was brought out to be executed,
when his daughter threw herself on the
body Of her father and said: Strike
barbarians! You cannot reach my father
but through my hcart!" The crowd
parted, and linking arms father and
daughter walked out free. During The
siege Of Saragossa, Augustine carried re
freshments to tho gate. Arriving al
the battery Of Portillo she found tina,
all the garrison had been killed. She
snatched o match from the hand Of Z
dead artilleryman and fred of q
twenty-six FOUNDER, then leaped on Il
and vowed she would not leave 1t alive
The soldiers looked in and saw her dar
ing, and rushed up and opened another
tremendous fire on the enemy. AnC
there would be no end to the recital 1
l attempted to present all tho historical
incidents which show that woman's
courage will itself for great emer
gency.
But / need not go so fur. You have
known some one who was considered q
mere butterfly in society. Her hant
had known no toll. Her eye had wept
no tear over misfortune. But in eight
cen hundred and sixty-seven fnaciaI
tempest struck the husban's estate
Before no had time to reef sal
and make things snug the ship
capsized and ven down. Enemie.
cheered at the misfortune and won
dered what would become OF the but
terfy. Good men pitied and sale
she would die Of a broken heart. "Sh,
will not work." say they, land IL to-
proud to beg" But the prophecies hav'
failed. Disaster has transformed tn,
shining sluggard into q practica'
worker. Happy rs u princess though
compelled to hush her own chile
to sleep and spread her own table ant
answer the ringing Of her own doc,
bell Her arm had been muscled fol
the conflict against misfortune, hunger
and poverty and want and all the othel
jackals Rizpath scares from the rock.
saw one in n desolate home. Hei
merciless companion had pawned ever
the children's shoes for rum. From
honorable ancestry she had come dowI
to this The cruise of oil was empty anC
the last candle gone nut. Her faded
frock was patched with fragments OF
antique silk that she had worn on the
bright marriage day. Confident in God
she had q strong heart TO which hel
children ran when they trembled at tn,
staggering step and quailed under q
fathers curse. Though the heavens