Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-08-31

| harp I would play on IL q urge ouon
as was never sounded. J,
Mythologists tell us OF GorgOn %
| Centaur and Titan, and biologists ten
MS OF extinct species Of monsters; out
greater than Gorgon or M~egathefeum,
and not belonging to the realm OF fable,
and not an extinct species, Is a mon
ster with iron Jaw and iron hoofs walk
inc across the nations, and history anu
noetry and sculpture In their attempts
to sketch II and describe 1t have seemed
to sweat great drops OF blood.
Rut. hank God, there are those VINO
can a as this woman OF the
fort conquered. and say, at Is well!
| though my property be gone, tnougn
my children be gone, though my noIhe
| be broken up, though my health DC
sacrificed. 1t is well, 1t is well." lhere
is no storm on the sea but Christ Is
ready TO rise In the hinder part OF the
shin and hush it. There is no dark
ness but the consultations OF God ;
| eternal love can illumine it, and though
the winter comes out of the northern
ky. YOU have sometimes seen the
northern sky all ablaze with auroras
that seem to say: Come up this way,
ND this way are thrones of light ana
seas OF sapphire, and the splendor or
an eternal heaven. Come up TINS way.
We may, like the ships, by tempest be
tossed
? ON p~erilous deeps, but cannot be lost;
Though Satan enrage, the wind and the
tide
The promisc assures us, the Lord will
provide.
] heard an echo of my text in a very
dark hour when my father lay dying
and the old country minister said 10
him: "Mr. Talmage, how do you feel
now as YOU are about to pass the Jor-
dan of death?' He replied-and it was
the last thing he ever said-"I feel well;
/ feel very well'-all is well'-lifting his
hand i'm a b~enediction, n speeches. ben
ediction which l pray God may go down
through all the generations. IL was
well! OF course it was well.
Again, this woman of my tex was
great in her application to domestic du-
ties. Every picture Is a home picture,
whether she is entertaining an Elisha,
or whether she is giving careful atten-
ton 20 her sick boy, or whether she Is
| dDlllitllIiS lOI ltlc ICSlOAatoii VI ~
property-eyery picture in her case Is
n home picture. Those are not disci-
| pies Of this Shunemite oma who,
going out to attend to outside charities,
neglect the duty of home-the duty of
wife, of mother, Of daughter. No faith
fuiness in public benefaction can ever
atone for domestic negligence.
There has been many a mother who
by interchangeable toll has reared a large
! family of children, equipping them for
the duties Of life with good manners
and large intelligence and Christian
principle, starting them out, who has
done more for the world than many
another woman whose name has sound
ed through all the lands and through
all centuries.
/ remember when Kossuth was III this
country there were some ladies who got
reputation, honorable reputation, by
presenting him very gracefully with
bouquets of flowers on public occasions;
but what was all that compared with
the work of the plain Hungarian moth
er who gave to truth and civilization
and the cause Of universal liberty a
Kossuth? Yes, this oma Of my text
was great in her simplicity.
When this prophet wanted to reward
her for her hospitality by asking some
preferment from the king, what did she
say? She declined 1t. She said: II
dwell among my own people," as much
as to say. Il am satisfied with my lot;
all 1 want is my family and my friends
around me. j dwell among my own
yn1,I ~ Oh xrhnt m ,aI,,lya 81 The
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, aii
statuary, who have not enough taste
to distinguish between Gothic and BY
zantine, and who could not tell a figure
in plaster of paris from Palmer's
white Captive" and would not know
a boys penciling from Bierstadt's 'Yo-
semitic" Men who buy large libraries
by the square foot, buying these libra
lies when they have hardly enough edu-
cation to pick out the day of the al
manac! Oh, how many there are striv-
ing 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, aud men of re-
puted honesty rush into astounding
forgeries.
OF course. I say nothing against re-
finement or culture. Splendor Of abode.
sumptuOasness of diet. lavishness i'm
act, neasness in apparcl-there is moth
ing against them in the Bible or out OF
the Bible. God does not want us to
prefer mud howell to English cottage
or urtanned sheepskin TO French broad
cloth, or husks TO pineapple or the
clunisineSs Of a boor 10 the manner of
Il gentleman. God. who strung The
beach with tinted shell and the grass
OF the field with the dews OF the night
and hath exquisitely tiugcd morning
cloud and robin rcdbreust, wants us to
keep our eye open to all ~elevating sen
timents. But what | want to impress
upon you is that YOU ought not to be in
ventory the luyurics Of life as among
tho ina,spensablcs, and you ought not
to dcpreciate this woman of the text
who. when offered kingly prefcrmcnt,
responded, Il dwell among my own
people"
Yea. this woman of the text was
great in her picty. Faith in God. and
she was not ashamed 10 talk about IL
before idolaters. All. woman will