Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-12-10

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and stiffen the sprightliest step. Rizpah
quits the courtly circle and sits 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. Hagar 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 the castle OF
Fotheringay. The wheel OF fortune
keeps turning
But this is the place TO which God
comes. Jacob with his head on a stone
saw the shining ladder. Israel in the
desert beheld the marshalling OF the
fiery baton. John ON barren Patmos
heard trumpeting and the clapping OF
wings, and the stroke of seraphic fin
gers on golden harps, and nothing but
heavenly strength nerved 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 rapturous 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-
gencies. What mother, or sister. or
daughter would dare to go out and
fight the cormorant and jaclxal? Riz-
pah did it. And so would you II an
emergency demanded. Woman is
naturally timid and shrinks from ex-
posture and depends on stronger arms
for the achievement of great enter
prises. And she is often troubled lest
there might be occasions, demanding
fortitude when she would fall. Not so.
Some of those who are afraid to look
out of doors after nightfa!l and who
quake in the darkness at the least I'M
certain sound and who start ut the
slam of the door, and turn pale in
thunderstorm, If the day Of trial came
would be heroic and invulnerable. God
has arranged it SO that woman needs
tho trumpeter of some great contest OF
principle or affection to rouse up her
slumbering courage. Then she will
stand under the cross fire 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
pestilence. Deborah goes out to sound
terror into the heart of Gods enemies.
Abigail throws herself between a raid
ing party of infuriated men, and her
husbands vineyards. Rizpah fights
back the vultures 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 above hill, cray above crag, height
above height The fire OF her own eye
outflashing the glare of the eagles.
And with unmailcd 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 heart!" The crowd
parted, and linking arms father and
daughter walked out free. During the
siege of Saragossa, Augustine carried re-
freshments to the gate. Arriving ut
the battery of Portillo she found that
all the garrison had been killed. She
snatched match from the hand of n
dead artilleryman and fired off Il
twenty-siX FOUNDER, then leaped on it
and vowed she would not leave il alive.
The soldiers looked in and saw her dar-
ing, and rushed up and opened another
tremendous fire on the enemy. And
there would be no end to the recital If
attempted to present all the historical
incidents which show that woman's
courage will rouse itself for great emer-
gency.
But l need not go so far. You have
known some one who was considered
mere butterfly in society Her hand
had known no toll. Her eye had wept
no tear over misfortune. But in eight
cen hundred and siXty-'even finacial
tempest struck the husban's estate
Before he had time to reef sail
and make things snug the ship
capsized and went down. Enemies
cheered At the misfortune and won
dcred what would become of the but
terAy. Good men pitied and said
she would die of broken heart. ''She
will not work." say they, land is too
proud to beg" But the prophecies have
failed. Disaster has transformed the
shining sluggard into a practical
worker. Happy rs 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. arm had been muscled for
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