Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-08-21

i III q benedlct1On, q speeches. bened1c-
ton, which I pray God may go down
through all the generations. It is we'll!
! Of course it was well.
Again, this woman of my text was
! great in her application to domestic du-
ties. Every picture is q home picture,
whether she is entertaining an Elisha, or
whether she is giving careful attention
to her sick boy. or whether she is appeal
| ing for the restoration of her property
every picture in her case is q home pic
ture. Those are not disciples OF this
Shunemite woman who, going out to at
tend to outside charities, neglect the duty
Of home-the duty of wife, of mother, of
daughter. No faithfulness in public ben
efaction can ever atone for domestic neg
igence.
There has been many mother who
by indefatigable toll has reared a large
family of children, equipp1ng them for
the duties Of life with good manners and
large intelligence and Christian princi-
pie, starting them out. who has done
more for the world than many another
woman whose name has sounded through
Ill the lands and through all centuries.
remember when Kossuth was ia this
country there We're some ladies who got
reputation, honorable reputation, BIZ pre-
senting him very gracefully with Dou-
quets of flowers on public occasions, but
what was all that compared with the
work of the plain Hungarian mother
who gave to truth and civilization and
the cause of universal liberty Kossuth?
Yes, this woman of my text was great in
her simplicity.
HUMILITY.
When the prophet wanted to reward her
for her hospitality by asking some pref
erment from the king, what did she
say? She declined it. She said: 81 dwell
among my own people" as much as to
say: Il am satisfied with my lot All
want is my family and my friends around
me. dwell among my own people" Oh,
what a rebuke to the strife for precedence
in all ages!
How many there are who want to get
great architecture and homes furnished
with all art, all painting, all statuary,
who have not enOugh taste to distinguish
between gothic and byzantine and who
could not tell figure in plaster Of paris
from Palmer's ''White Captive" and
would not know boys penciling from
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 we'll as their
neighbors, OF better than their neigh
bors, and in the struggle vast fortunes
are exhausted and business firms thrown
into bankruptcy, and men of reputeG
honesty rush into astounding forgeries.
OF course | say nothing against refine
ment or culture. Splendor of abode,
sumptuousness Of diet, lavishness i'll 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 cl1rnsines5
of 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 l11xuri,,
of life us among the indispensables, and
you ought not to depreciate this woman
of the text, who, when offered kin.1-
prefernont. responded Il dwell amol.,
my own people,
WOMANS DEBT TO CHRISTIANITY.
Yea, this woman OF the text was GREAT
in her piety, faith i'll God, and she was
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alters. 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 mis-
fortune. Sold like cattle in the sham
bles. Slave of all work, and at last her
body fuel for tho funeral pyre of her hus-
band
Above the shrek of the IRE worship
ers in India and above the rumbling of
the juggernauts / hear the million
voiced groan Of wronged, insulted. bro
ken hearted, downtrodden woman. He.
tears have fallen in the Nile and Tigris
and the La Plata and on the steDpes 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 groan, OF a dungeon, or an
island, or a mountain, or q river. or !.
sea but could tell q story Of the outrages
heaped upon Ter.
But, thank to God, this glorious Chris
tianity come 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 mucn Tor woman. surely woman
will become its most ardent advocate