Milford chronicle., 1893-08-25
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25. 1898.


Of him. Does sorrow come TO our hom,
and is there a shadow on the cradle, ther
are hundreds of hands to help, and man
who weary not through the long nigh
watching, and hundreds of prayers goin
up that God would restore the sick. ]
there burning, brimming cup Of calamit
placed on the pastors table, are there no
many to help him drink of that cup am
who will not be comforted because he
stricken? Oh, for somebody to write
book about the rewards of the Christian
minister-about his surroundings of Chris
tian sympathy.
ONLY A TYPE.
This woman of the text was only typ
Of thousands Of men and women who com,
down from the mansion and from the col
to do kindness to the Lord S servants.
suppose the men Of Shunem had to pay tn,
bills, but it was the large hearted Christian
sympathies 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. A very
( 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" Yet the writer goes on
to say that she exclaimeds at is wellr'
Great in prosperity, this woman was great
In trouble.
Where are the feet that have not been
blistered on the hot sands of this great
Saharay Where are the shoulders that
have not been bent under the burden Of
grief9 Where is the ship sailing over CLASSY
sea that has not after awhile been caught
in cyclonei Where is the garden Of
earthly comfort but trouble hath hitched
up its fiery and painting team and gone
through it with burning plowshare of dis
aster? Under the peiting of ages Of suffer
ing the great heart Of the world has burst
with woe.
Navigators tell US about the rivers, and
the Amazon and the Danube and the Mis-
sissippi have been explored. but who can
tell the depth or length of the great river
Of sorrow made up o. tears and blood roll
ing through all lands and all ages, bearing
the wreck of families and of communities
and Of empires-foaming writhing, boiling
with the agonies Of 5000 yearss Etna and
Cotopaxi and Vesuvius have been described.
but who has ever sketched the volcano of
suffering retching up from its depths the
lava and the scoria and pouring them down
the sides to whelm the nationsg Oh, if
broken heartstrings, into harp l would
play on it dirge such as was never sounded. I
GREATER THAN GoRGON.
Mythologists tell us of Gorgon and Cen I
taur and Titan, and biologists tell us Of ex- I
tinct species of monsters, but greater than
Gorgon or megatherium, and not belong /.
Ing to the realm of fable, and not of an ex- /
tinct species, is a monster with iron jaw I
and iron hoofs walking across the nations, [
and history and poetry and sculpture in .
'heir attempt to sketch it and describe it .
nave seemed to sweat great drops of blood
But, thank God, there are those who can
conquer as this woman of the text CON
luered and say: ut is well Though my
property be gone, though my children be
zone, though my home be broken up,
hough my health be sacrificed, it is well, it
5 wellP' There is no storm on the sea but
Christ is ready to rise in the hinder part of
he ship and hush it. There is no darkness
'ut the consultations of Gods eternal love
an illumine it, and though the winter
ONES out Of the northern sky you have
seen the northern sky all ablaze
nth auroras that seem to say; "Come up
his way. Up this way are thrones of light,
nd seas Of sapphire, and the splendor Of an
ternal heaven. Come up this way"
'e may, like the ships, by tempest be tossed
n perilous deeps, but cannot be lost.
hough satan enrage the wind and the tide,
he promise assures us the Lord will provide.
1 heard an echo of my text in a very dark
our, when my father lay dying, and the !
ID country minister said to him, "Mr. :
almage, how do you feel now as you are :
bout to pass the Jordan Of death?" He :
plied-and it was the last thing he ever
id feel we'll; l feel very well; all is
ell" lifting up his hand in a benedictiOn,
speechless benediction, which pray God
ay go down through all the generations. z
was welll OF course it was well.
Again, this woman of my text was great /
her application to domestic duties Ev- b
y picture is home picture, whether she a
entertaining an Elisha, or whether she is 8
wing careful attention to her sick boy, or A
lether she is appealing for the restora- G
IN of her property-every picture in her g
Sc is a home picture Those are not dis q
1les Of the Shunemite woman who, going II
t to attend to outside charities, neglect UC
e duty of home-the duty of wife, Of ol
other, Of daughter No faithfulness in oi
bile benefaction can ever atone for do II
estic negligence. &C
THE MOTHERS MISSION. OF
There has been many a mother who by D'
iefauigable toll has reared a large family "
children, equippiug them for the duties
life with good manners and large intel
ence and Christian principle, starting
I'm out, who has done more for the world fr
IN many another woman whose name IN
; sounded through all the lands and
ough all centuries. pe
remember when Kossuth was in this St,
lpfrw fbara rrnra cnrf1a Iadfae who rro4 I 81.
honorable reputation, by pre- wi
ting him very gracefully with bouquets
flowers on public occasions, but what In
8 all that compared with the work Of the wi
in Hungarian mother who gave to truth thl
civilization and the cause Of universal ste
srty kossuthg Yes, this woman of my !n.
t was great in her simplicity by
When this prophet ated to reward her ms
her hospitality b5 asking some prefer Lo
ut from the king, what did she says She
lined it. She said, II dwell among my
] peOple"-as much as to say: Il an sat-s =.
ID with my lot. All want is my fam
and my friends around me- / dwell Y
ing my own people" Oh. what re Vii
e to the strife for precedence in all ages! am
Ow many there are who want to get mar
1t architecture, and homes furnished fou
b all art, all painting all statuary, who yor
e not enough taste to distinguish be- out
en- Gothic and Byzantine and who wit
d not tell figure in plaster of paris and
4 Palmer's white Captive aud would ure
know boys penciling from Bier bot
t's yosemite e'-men who buy large Ev,
lries by the square foot buying these eml
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iles Wleu tiiel nave udIuly enough eu- s.
lon to pick out the day Of the almanaci 80,
how many there are striving to have a.
g as well as their neighbors, or better .s
their neighbors, and in the struggle IL,
fortunes are exhausted and business ~ y
J thrown into bankruptcy, and men Of .,il
ted honesty rush into astounding for e.
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course say nothing against refine IA T
or culture. Splendor fabode, sumptu- n
ess of diet, iavishness in art, neatness ,,;t,
is no.hing against them iir.h
c Bible or out Of the Bible God does ~ I1.s'
want us to prefer mud hovel to English ~
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