Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-09-01

| him, about the kinfnesses, about the genial
| considerations OF him.
| Does sorrow come to our home and Is there
| shadow on the cradle, there are hundreds
| of hands to help. and II. any who weary not
through the long night watching, and nun.
dreds of prayers going up that COG would
restore the sick. Is there a burning, DrlIn-
ming cup of calamity placed on the paStoEs
| table. are there not many to help him 10
drink of that cup and who will not be com
| forted because he is stricken? Oh, for some
| body to write book about the rewards OF
| the Christian minister-about ais surround-
| ings of Christian sympathy.
This woman OF the text was only q type OF
| thousands of men and women who come
| down from the mansion and from the cot TO
| do kindness to the Lords servants sup
pose the men % Shunem had to pay the bills,
| bat it was the large hearted Christian sympa-
| thies Of the women OF Shunem that looked
| after the Lords messenger.
Again, this woman in the text was great In
! her behavior under trouble.
Her only son had died on her lap. Avery
| bright light went out in that household The
sacred writer puts it very tersely when he
says, "He sat on her knees until noon, and
| then he died" Yetthe writer goes on to say
| that she exclaimed, SIT is well - Great In
! prosperity. this woman was great in trouble.
Where are the feet that have not been bis
tered on the hot sands of this great Sahara?
| Where are the shoulders that have not been
| bent under the burden of grief? Where il
| the ship sailing over CLASSY sea that has not
| after awhile been caught In a cyclone? Where
is the garden of earthly comfort bat trouble
| hath hitched up its fiery and painting team
| and gone through 1t with burning plOwshare
| of disaster? Under the pelting of ages of
| suffering the great heart of the world has
| burst with woe.
Navigators tell US about the rivens, and the
| Amazon and the Danube and the Mississippi
| have been explored but who can tell the
| depth or length of the great river of sorrow
made up of tears and blood rolling through
all lands and all ages bearing the wreck of
families and Of communities and Of empires
| -foaming, writhing. boiling with the agon-
| les of 5000 years? Etna and Cotopaxi and
| Vesuvius have been described. hut who has
ever sketched the volcano Of suffering reach
| ing up from its depths the lava and the scoria
and pouring them down the sides to whelm
the nations? On if could gather all the
| heartstrinSs. the broken heartstrngs, into
harp would play on it dirge such as was
never sounded.
Mythologists tell US of Gorgon and Cen
taur and Titan. and biologists tell Us Of ex-
tinct species of monsters, but greater than
Gordon or megatherium. and not belonging
to the realm of fable, and not of extinct
species. is a monster with iron jaw and iron
hOofs walking across the nations, and his
tory and poetry and sculpture, in their at
tempt to sketch it and describe it, have
seemed to sweat great drops of blood.
But, thank God, there are those who can
conquer as this woman of the text conquered
and say: 'It is we'll Though my property
be gone, though my children be gone, though
my home be broken up, though my health
be sacrificed, it is we'll, it is we'll - There is
no storm on the sea but Christ is ready to
rise in the hinder part of the ship and hush
it. There is no darkness but the constella-
tons of Gods eternal love can illumine it,
and though the winter comes out of the
northern sky you have sometimes seen the
northern sky all ablaze with auroras that
seem to say "Come up this way. Up this
way are thrones of light. and seas of sap
phire, and the splendor of an eternal heaven.
Come up this way"
We may, like the ships, by tempest be tossed
On periious depths but cannot he lost.
Though satan enrage the wind and the tide.
TIE promise assures us the Lord will provide
heard an echo Of my text in very dark
hour, when my father lay dying. and the old
country minister said to him, 'Mr. Talmage,
how do you feel now as you are about to pass
the Jordan of death? He replied-and it
was the last thing he ever said-''I feel we'll
feel very well all is well.' lifting his hand
in benediction, speeches. benediction,
which pray God may go down through all
the generations. It is well OF course it
was well.
Again. this woman of my text was great
in her application to domestic duties. Every
picture is home picture. whether she is
entertaining an Elisha, or whether she is Civ
ing careful attention to her sick boy, or
of her prOperty-every picture in her case is
home picture. Those who are not disci-
pies of this Shunemite woman who, going
out to attend to outside charities, neglect the
duty of hor1e-the duty of wife. of mother
Of daughter. No faithfulness in public ben
efaction can ever atone for domestic negli-
gence.
There has been many mother who by in
defatigable toll has reared large family of
children. equipping them for the duties of
life with good manners and large intelii-
gence and Christian principle, starting them
out. who has done more for the world than
many another woman whose name has
sounded through all the lands and all the
centuries.
remember when kOssuth was in this
country there were some ladies who got
regulations by presenting him very grace
fully with bouquets of flowers on public oc-
casiOns. 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.
When the prophet wanted to reward her
for her hospitality by asking some prefer
mems from the king. what did she say? She
declined it. She said: Il dwell among my
own people," as much as to say 81 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 a
| figure in plaster of Paris from Palmer's
white Ca tive and would not know boys
| penciling from Bierstadt's Yosemite
| who buy large libraries by the square foot,