The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25

from Palmer's white Captive" and
would not know boys penciling from
Bierstadt's Yosemite"--men who buy
large libraries 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 THEN
neighbors, or better than their neigh
bors, and in the struggle vast fortunes
are exhausted and business firms thrown
into bankruptcy, and men of reputea
honesty rush into astounding forgeries
OF course say nothing against refine.
ment or culture. Splendor of abode,
sumptuousness of diet, lavishness 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 cottage, or I'M
tanned sheepskin to French broadcloth,
or husks to pineapple, or the clumsiness
of a boor to the manners of a gentleman
God, who strung the beach with tinted
shell and the grass of the field with the
dews Of the night and hath exquisitely
tinged morning cloud and robin red
breast, wants us to keep our eye open To
all beautiful sights, and our ear open to
all beautiful cadences, and our heart
open to all elevating sentiments. But
what | want to impress upon you is that
you ought not TO inventory the luxuries
of life as among the indispensables, and
you ought not to depreciate this woman
of the text, who, when offered kingly
preferment, responded, 81 dwell among
my own people"
WOMAN DEBT TO CHRISTIANITY.
Yea, this woman of the text was great
in her piety, faith in God, and she was
not ashamed to talk about it before idol
aters. All, woman will never appreciate
what she owes to Christianity until she
knows and sees the degradation of her
sex under paganism and Mohammedan-
ism. Her very birth considered a mis-
fortune. Sold like cattle in the sham
bles. Slave of all work, and at last her
body fuel for thefuneral pyre of her hus-
band.
Above the shrek of the fire worship
ers in India and above the rumbling of
the juggernauts l hear the million
voiced groan of wronged, insulted, bro
ken hearted, downtrodden woman. Hel
tears have fallen in the Nile and Tigris
and the La Plata and on the steppes of
of Tartary. She has been dishonored in
Turkish garden and Persian palace and
Spanish Alhambra. Her little ones
have been sacrificed in the Ganges
There is not a groan, or dungeon, or an
island, or mountain, or a river, or q
sea but could tell story of the outrages
heaped upon her.
But, thanks to God, this glorious Chris
tianity comes forth, and all the chains of
this vassalage are snapped, and she rises
up from ignominy to exalted sphere and
becomes the affectionate 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 exemplifcation!
When l come to speak of womanly in
huence, my mind always wanders off to
one model-the aged one who, 81 years
ago, we put away for She resurrection
About 81 years ago, and Just before their
marriage day, my father and mother
stood up in the old meeting house at
Somerville, N. j., and took upon them
the vows of the Christian. Through a
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 empty away
No one in sorrow came to her but was
somforted. No one asked her the way
to be saved but she pointed him to the
cross. When the angel of life came to a
neighbours dwelling, she was there to re-
joice at thestarting of another immortal
spirit. When the angel Of death came to
neighbours dwelling, she was there to
robe the departed for the burial.
We had often heard her, when leading
family prayers in the absence of my ia
ther say. 30 Lord, ask not for my chill
dren wealth or honor, but do ask that
they all may be the subjects of thy com
forting grace!" Her II children brought
luUO LIE klIlGuO1u tTOu, she udu Dtlt
one more wish, and that was that she
might see her long absent missionary
1on, and when the ship from China an.
chored in New York harbor and the long
absent one passed over the threshold of
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''Dont she look beautiful" IT was :
cloudless day when, with heavy hearts
we carried her out to the last resting
place. The withered leaves crumblei
under hoof and wheel as we passed. ani
the sun shone on the Raritan river unit
it looked like fire; but more calm ani
beautiful and radiant was the settine
sun of that aged pilgrims life. No more