The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-12-07
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among Brazilian diamonds shivered
with fear of massacre. Stephen OF En-
gland sat on a rocking throne. And
every mast of pride has bent in the
storm, and the highest mountains Of
honor and fame are covered with per-
petual snow. Sickness will frost the
rosiest cheek, wrinkle the smoothest
brow and stiffen the sprightliest step.
Rizpah quits the courtly circle and sits
on the rock
Perhaps you look back upon scenes
different from those in which now from
day to day you mingle You have ex-
changed the plenty and luxuriance OF
your fathers house for privation and
trials known Co God and your own heart
The morning of life was flushed with
promise. Troops of calamities since
then have made desperate charge upon
you. Darkness has come. Sorrows have
swooped like carrion birds from the sky,
and barked like jackals from the
thicket. You stand amidst your slain,
anguished and woe struck. Rizpah on
the rock.
So 1t has been in all ages. Vasht
must doff the spangled robes Of the Per-
sian courtier and go forth blasted from
the palace gate Hagar exchanges orr
entail comfort for the wilderness of Beer
sheba. Mary, Queen Of Scots, must pass
out from flattery and pomp to suffer
ignominious death in the castle Of Foth-
eringay. The wheel of fortune keeps
turning, and mansions and huts ex-
change, and he who rode the chariot
pushes the barrow, and instead OF the
glare of festal lights is the simmering
Of the peat fire, and in place of Saul's
palace is the rock, the cold rock, the
desolate rock.
But that is the place to which God
comes. Jacob with his head on stone
saw the shining ladder. Israel in the
desert beheld the marshlling Of the
fiery baton. John on barren Patmos
heard trumpeting, and the clapping Of
wings, and the stroke Of seraphic fingers
on golden harps, and nothing but heav-
enly strength nerved Rizpah for her ap-
palling mission amid the scream OF wild
birds and the stealthy tread of hungry
monsters The grandest visions Of glory.
the most rapturous experience of Chris
tian love, the greatest triumphs Of
grace have come to the tried and hard
pressed, and the betrayed and the
crushed. God stepping down, from
Heaven to comfort Rizpah on the rock.
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plays the courage of woman amid great
emergencies. What mother or sister or
daughter would dare to go out to fight
the cormorant and jaclsal? Rizpah did
II. And so would you II an emergency
demanded. Woman is naturally timid
and shrinks from exposure and depends
on stronger arms for the achievement
Of great enterprises. And she is otter
troubled lest there might be occasions
demanding fortitude when she woult
fail. Not so. Some Of those who arC
afraid to look out of doors after night
fall, and who quake in the darkness a
the least uncertain sound, and VIII,
start at the slam OF the door, and turI
pa'ein a tlrnder storm, II the day o
trialGam would be heroic and invul
nerahl9 God has arranged II so tina
woman needs the trumpet of some grea
contest of principle or affection +
rouse up her slumbering courage The
she will stand under the cross FIRE o
opposing hosts at Chalons to give win
TO the wounded. Then she will carr
into prison and dark lane the messag
Of salvation Then she will brave tn
pestilence. Deborah goes out to SCUM
terror into the heart of Gods enemies
Abigail throws herself between raid
ing party Of infuriated men and he
husbands vineyards Rizpah fight
back the vultures from the rock.
Among the okney Islands an eagl
swooped and lifted child 10 its eyri
far up on the mountains. With tn
spring Of panther the mother mount
hill above hill, crag above crag, heigh
above height, the fire Of her own ey
outAashing the glare Of the eagle
And with unmailed hand stronger tina
the iron beak and terrible claw sh
!, hurled the wild bird down the rock
In the French revolution Gazette wa
: brough tout TO be exec uted when h
daughter threw herself on the body {
her father and said: "Stril1el barbar
ansl You cannot reach my father br
through my heartl" The crowd parte'
and linking arms father and daughtG
walk out free. During the siege (
Saragossa, Augustine carried refresl
ments to the gates. Arriving ut u
battery of Portillo she found that a
the garrison had been killed. 81
snatched a match from the hand Of
dead artilleryman and fred off twent
six FOUNDER, then leaped on It and vowC
, !, she would not leave 1t alive. The soldie
looked in and saw her daring, al
rushed up and opened another tremei
dous fire on the enemy. The life
James ]. of Scotland. was threatene
!. Poets have sung those times, and nb
pens have fingered upon the story
manly endurance, but how few TO Ia
the story Of Catharine Douglas, one
the queens maids, who ran TO bolt u
door but found the bar had been TAX,
away so as TO facilitate the entrance
4 the assassin. She thrust her arm in
the staple. The murderers rushir
against II, her arm was shattered Y
how many have since lived and di,
= who never heard the touching, self-sa
: rificing story Of Catharine Douglas al
her poor, shattered arm. You lsno
how calmly Madsme Rohnd went
execution and how cheerfully Joanna
Naples walked 20 the castle Of Muir
and how fearlessly Madame Grimal
It.toxad 20 har condemnation and hn