Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-08-26

done more for the world than many an
other woman whose name has sounded
through all the lands and through all
centuries.
When this prophet wanted to re-
ward her for her hospitality by asking
some preferment from the king, what
did she say? She said: ~ dwell
among my own people," as much as to
say, II am satisfied with my lot; all I
want is my family and my friends
around me. ! dwell among my own
people," Oh, what rebuke to tao
strife for precedence in all ages.
How many there are who want to
get great architecture, and homes fur
nished with all art, all painting, all
statuary, who have not enough taste
to distinguish between Gothic and By
zantine, and who could not tell figure
in plaster of paris from Palmer's
white Captive" and would not know
n boys penciling from Bierstadt's
Yosemite" Men who buy large libra
ries by the square foot, buying these
libraries when they have hardly enough
education to pick out the day of the
almanac! Oh, how many there are
striving to have things as well as their
neighbors, or better than their neigh
bors, and in the struggle vast fortunes
are exhausted and business firms
thrown into bankruptcy, and men of
reputed honesty rush into astounding
forgeries.
OF course say nothing against re-
finement or culture. Splendor of
abode, sumptuousncss of diet, lavish
ness in art, neatness in apparel-there
is nothing against them in the Bible or
out of the Bible God does not want
us to prefer mud howell to English cot
tage or untanned sheepskin to French
broadcloth, or husks to pineapple, or
the clumsiness of boor to the man.
ners of gentleman. God, who strung
the beach with tinted shell aud the
grass of the field with the dews of the
night and hath eXquisitly tinged morn
ing cloud and robin redbreast, wants
us to keep our eye open to all beautiful
sights and our ear open to all beautiful
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waiting sentiments. But what ! want
to impress upon you is that you ought
not to inventory your luXuries of life
as among the indispensables, and you
ought not to depreciate this woman OF
the text, who, when offered kind pre-
ferment, responded, 81 dwell among
my own people"
Yea, this woman of the text was
great in her piety. Faith in God, and
she was not ashamed to talk about it
before idolaters. All, woman will never
appreciate what she owes Christianity
until she knows and sees the degrade
ton of her sex under Paganism and
Mohammedanism. Her very birth is
considered n misfortune. Sold like
cattle in the shambles. Slave of all
work, and at last, her body fuel for the
funeral pyre OF her husband. Above
the shrek of the fire worshipers 10 In
dia and above the rumbling OF the
juggernauts ! hear the million-voiced
groan of wronged, insulted, broken
hearted, down-trodden woman. Her
tears have fallen in the Nile and Tigris
and the La Plata and on the steppes of
Tartary. She has been dishonorcd in
Turkish garden and Persian palace and
Spanish Alhambra. Her little ones
have been sacrificed in the Gauges.
There is not u groan, or dungeon, or
an island, or mountain, or river. or
u lake, or sea, but could tell story
of the outrages heaped upon her.
But. thanks to God, this glorious
Christianity comes forth, and all the
chains of this vassalage are snapped,
and she rises up from ignominy to ex-
allied sphere. and becomes the affec-
tionate daughter, the gentle wife, the
honored mother, the useful Christian.
Oh, if Christianity has done SO much
for woman. surely woman will become
its most ardent advocate and its
sublimest eXemplification.
When / come to speak of womanly
influence, my mind always wanders OF
to one model-the aged one who,
twenty-seven years ago, we put away
for the resurrection. About eighty
seven years ago. and just before their
marriage day, my father and mother
stood up in the old meeting house ut
Somerville, n. j.. and took upon them
the vows of the Christian. Through q
long life of vicissitude she lived harm
lessly and usefully and came to her end
in peace. No child of want ever
came to her door and was
turned away empty No one in
sorrow came to her but was comferted.
We had often heard her, when lead
ing family prayers in the absence OF
my father, say: 20, Lord, l ask not
for my children wealth or honor, but ]
do ask that they all may be subjects OF
Thy comforting grace" Her eleven
children brought into the Kingdom OF
God, she had but one more wish, and
that was that she might see her long
absent missionary son; and when the
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