Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-12-16

you IL an emergency demanded. Woman /:
naturally timid and shrinks from exposure
and depends on stronger arms for the achieve
ment Of great enterprises. And she is often
troubled lest there might be occasions de
manding fortitude when she would fail. Not
50. Some OF those who are afraid to look
out OF the door after nightfall, and who
quake in the darkness at the least uncertain
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 invulner-
able.
God has arranged It so that that woman
needs the trumpet OF some great contest OF
principle or affection TO rouse up her slum-
berlng courage. Then she will stand under
the crossfire Of opposing hosts at Chalons to
give wine to the wounded. Then she will
carry into prison and dark lane the message
OF salvation. Then she will brave the pes
thence. Deborah goes out 10 sound terror
into the hearts Of Gods enemies. Abigail
throws her self between raidlng party OF
infuriatsd men and her husbands VINEYARDS.
Rizpah fights back the yultures from the
rock.
Among the Orkney Islands an eagle
swooped and lifted child to its eyrie far up
on the mountains. With the spring OF a
panther the mother mounts hill after hill
crag above crag, height above height the
fire OF her own eve outfiashing the glare OF
the eagles and with unmailed hand stronger
than the iron beak and the terrible claw she
hurls the wild bird down the rocks In the
French revolution CaZ4tte was brought out
TO be executed, when his daughter threw
herself on the body OF her father and said:
"Strike. bsrbariansl You cannot reach my
father but through my hearth The crowi
parted, and linking arms father and daugh-
ter walked out free.
During the siege OF SaragoSss, Angustina
carried refreshments to the gates. Arriv-
Ing at the battery OF Portillo she found that
all the garrison had been killed. She snatcned
4 match from the hand OF q dead artillery
man and fired OF twenty six FOUNDER, then
lsaped on 1t and vowed she would not leave
It alive. The soldiers looked iu and saw her
daring and rushed up and opened another
tremendous fire on the enemy.
The life OF James /. OF Scotland was
threatened. Poets have sung those times
and able pens have fingered upon the story
OF manly endurance, but how few to tell the
story OF Catharine Douglas, one Of the
queens maids, who ran TO bolt the door, but
found the bar had been taken away 40 as TO
facilitate the entrance Of the assassinl She
thrust her arm into the stable. The muir
derers rushing against it, her arm was shat
tered. Yet how many have since lived and
died who never heard the touo hing, self
sacrificing. heroic story Of Catharine Doug
las and her poor, shattered arm
You know how calmly Nine. Roland went
10 execution and how cheertutIy Joanna OF
Naples walked to the castle Of Mura, and
how fearlessly Mme. Grimsldi listened to
her condemnation, and how Charlotte Cor
day smiled upon the frantic NIB that pur-
.ued her to the gu.llotine. Aut there
would be no end to the recital II attempted
to present all the historical incidents wnich
show that woman's courage would rouse it.
self for great emergency.
But / need not go so far. You have
known some one who was considered a mere
butterfly in society. Her hand had known
no toll. Her eye had wept no tear over
misfortune. She moved among obsequtous
admirers as careless as an insscL IN field of
bIossominz buck wheat. But in 1857 tinln-
ciai tempest struck the husbands estate.
Before he had time TO reef sail aud make
things snug the ship ctpNzs ami we1t
down. Ersmies cheered at tue misfortune
and wondered what wouli become OF the
butterfly. Cool men pltied ami said shs
would die OF broken heart
sShe will not work." say they, "and she
have failed. Disaster has transformed the
shining sluggard into practical worker
happy as princess, thou .h compelled to
hush her own cniid to sles AMI spread her
own table and answer the ringing OF her
own doorbell. Her aru had been musclei
for toe conflict against misfortune hunger
and poverty and want, and all tle other
iackals RiEpah scares from the rock.
saw one in desolate hone. Her mer-
ciless companion had pawnsd even the
chlidreus Shoes for rum. From honorable
ancestry SIZE had come down TO this. The
cruise OF oil was empty and the last candle
gone out. Her faded frock was patchel with
fragments OF antique silk that she had worn
on the bright marriage day. Confident In
God, she had o strong heart, t. which her
children ran when tu5y tr .moed at the
staggering step and qusiled un Ter fathers
curse Though the heavens wers fillet with
fierce wings and the thicSets guashe with
rage, Rizpah watchei faithfully day after
day and year after year. and wolf aud com
orsnt by her God strengthened arm were
hurled down the rocks.
You pass dav by day along streets where
there are heroines greater than Joan Of Arc.
Upon that cellar floor there ara conflicts as
fierce as Sedan, and heaven and he'll min.
gle In the hght. Lifted in that garrett there
are tribunals where more foTtituds is de-
manded than was exhibited by LAZY Jane
Grey or Mary, Queen OF Scots.
Now ask, II uere natural courage can
do so much, what may We nos ex lect OF wo-
men who have gassd on the great sacrifice,
and who are urged forward by all the voices
of grace that sound from the Bible AMI all
the notes OF victory that speak from the sEyf
MANY years ago the Forfarshire steamer
started from Hutl bound for Dundee. After
the vessel had been out a little while the
winds began to rave and pillows ris, until a
tempest was upon them. The vessel leaked,
and the fires went out and though the sails
were hoisted fore and aft she went speeding
toward the breakers. She struck with her
bows foremost on tho rock. The vessel
parted. Amid the whirlwlnt and the dark
ness all were lost but nine. These chung TO
the wreck on the beach.
Sleeping that night in Longstone light
house was girl OF gentle spirit and comeiy
couutenauce, AS the morning dawns l see
that girl standing amid the spray and tum-
nit OF contending elements looking throu gh
a glass upon the wreck and the nine wretch
ed sufferers. She proposes to her father to
take boat and put out across tbs wild sea TO
rescue them. The father says: ut cannot
be donei Just look at the tumbling surfP
But she persisted, and with her father
bounds into the boat. Though never accus-
toned to plying the oar, she takes one ami
her father the other. Steady nowl full
awayl Pull away
The sea tossed up the boat as though it
we're q bubble, but anil the Foam ana tne
wrath of the sea the wreck was reached,
the exhausted people picked up and saved.
Humane societies rendered their thanks.
Wealth poured into the lap OF the poor girl.
Visitors from all lands came to look on her
sweet face, and when soon after she
launched forth On a dark sea, and Death
was the oarsman, dukes and duchesses and
mighty men sat down in tears in AlnwlcE
castle to think they never again might see
the face OF Grace Darling.
No such deeds Of daring will PROBABLY bt
asked Of you, but hear you not the howl oil
thnt awful storm OF trouble aud sin that
hath tossed ten thousand shiverei hulks into
the breakersf Know you not that the who'll
earth Ia strewn with the shiowrecked-tha
there are wounds to be healed aud broker
hearts to be bound and drowning souls t
be reecuedf Some have gone down, aud yo'
come too late, but others are elm ying to th'
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