The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-10-14
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PiciofuentS from the king, what 0lt
she say? She declined it. She said
Il dwell among my own people," ii
J 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 rebuks
to the strife for precedence in all ages
How many there are who want tt
get great architecture, and homes
furnished with all art. all painting, ali
statuary, who have not enough taste
to distinguish between Gothic and
Byzantine, and who could not tell a
figure in plaster of paris from PaImer's
White Captive" and would not know
a boys penciling from Bierstadts
Yosemite" Men who buy large
libraries by the square foot, buying
these libraries when they have hardly
| enough education to pick out the dav
of the almanac! Oh, how many there
are striving to have things as well as
their neighbors, or better than their
neighbors, and in the struggle vast
fortunes are exhausted, and business
firms thrown into bankruptcy. and
men of reputed honesty rush into as
! founding forgeries.
OF course / say nothing against re-
finement or culture. Splendor of abode.
sumptuousness of diet, lavishness in
art, neatness in apparel-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
Unframed sheepslSin to French broad
cloth, or husks to pineapple, or the
clumsiness of boor to the manners of
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 redbreast, wants us to
keep our eye open to all beautiful sights
and our ear open to all beautiful ca
dences and our heart open to all ele-
waiting sentiments. But what / want
to impress upon you is that you ought
not to inventory the luxuries of life as
among the indispensabl and you
ought not to depreciate this woman of
the text. who when offered kingly pre-
ferment, responded: 81 dwell among
my own people"
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 to
Christianity until she knows and sees
the degradation of her sex under
Paganism and Mohommedanism. Her
very birth considered a misfortune.
Sold like cattle in the SHAMELESS. Slave |
OF all work, and at last, her body feul |
for the funeral pyre of her husband. |
Above the shrek of the fire worshipers |
in India 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 dis
honored in Turkish garden and Persian
palace and Spanish Alhambra. Her
little ones have been sacrificed in the
ianges. There is not groan, or a
dungeon, or an island, or mountain,
Or river, or sea, but could tell |
story of the outrages heaped upon her.
But, thanks to God, this glorious
comes forth, and all the
chains of this vassalage are snapped.
Ind she rises up from ignominy to
exalted sphere, and becomes the eff
ectionate daughter. the gentle wife,
he honered mother, the useful Chris
ain. Oh, if Christianity has done SO
much for woman, surely woman will
,ecome its most ardent advocate and
is sublimest exemplifcation.
When | come to speak of womanly in
luence, my mind always wanders off
o one model-the aged one who, TWEEN
y-seven years ago, we put away for
he resurrection. About eighty-seven
ears ago, and just before their mar
iage day, my father and mother stood ,
p in the old Westinghouse at Somer-
lille, N. j., and took upon them the
ows of the Christian. Through long :
fe of vicissitude she lived harmlessly
nd usefully, and came to her end ::
1 peace. No child of want ever came
, her door and was turned empty
way. No one in sorrow came to her
ut was comforted. No one asked her
ne way to be saved but she pointed | :
inn to the cross. When the angel of :.
fe came to neighbours dwelling she
as there to rejoice at the starting of !.
mother immortal spirit. When the i
ngel of death came to neighbours
yelling she was there to robe the de-
arted for the burial.
We had often heard her, leading fam. Q
y prayers in the absence of nv IA
Ter, say: ''Oh, Lord, ask not for my a
lildren wealth or honor, but do ask n
lat they all may be subjects of Thy o
gracei' Her eleven chill n
'en brought into the Kingdom of God,
e had but one more wish, and that u
as that she might see her 1ong-ab-
mt missionary son. and when the q
lip from China anchored in New York 81
lrbor, and the long-absent one passed "
er the threshold of his paternal home, o
e said: s'Now, Lord, lettest thou Thy q
rvant depart in peace, for mine eyes n
we seen Thy salvation" The prayer n
as soon answered. n
1t was an autumnal day when we "
altered from afar and found only the
,use from the soul had fed forever.
le looked very natural, the hands
ry much as when they were en- :,
Dyed in kindness for her children.
hatever else we forget, we never for g,
t the look of m others hands. As we "
BOD there by the casket we could not :.