Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-01-25
OUR ANXIOUS MOTHERS.
DISAPPOINTED MOTHERS WAITING
AT THE WINDOWS.
Two Persons Who Never Give You
Up, God and Mother-How Sfsera
Was Killed by JaeI-The News
Brought to His Mother.

~ ~ AhAS
Brooklyn, Spectator. Talmage took
for his text to-day: sJudgesv, %, The
mother OF Siscra looked out at n win
dow"
Spiked to the ground Of Jaels tent
lay the dead commander in chief of the
SCanaanitish host, General Sisera, MT
7ss- fT3m She river EEisiisH, which was
only a dry bed of pebbles when in 1889
In Palestine. we crossed it, but the gull
lies and ravines which ran into 1t indL
rated the possibility of grsat freshets
IKE tile one at the time of the text.
Aeheral Sisera had gone out with 300
iron ctlariots, but he vas defeated, and
his chariot wheels interlocked with the
whfelss of other chariots, he could not
reIeat fast enough, and so he leapcd 10
ine ground and ran till, exhausted, he
vent into Jaels tent for safety. She
he'd just been churning. and when he
asked for water she gave him butter
milk, which In the east is considered a
most refreshing drink. Very tired and
supposing he was safe, he went to sleep
upon the floor. but JaeI, who had re-
solved upon his death. o a tent pin,
long and round and sharp, in hand
and n hammer In the other hand, and,
putting the sharp end of the tent pin to
the forehead OF Sisera, with her other
hand she lifted the hammer and
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with a stout stroke, when Sisera str1ig-
gief to rise, and she struck him again,
and he struggled to rise, and the third
time she struck him, and the command
er in chief OF the Canaanitish host lay
dead.
Meanwhile in the distance Sisera's
mother sits amid surroundings of
wealth and pomp and scenes palatial
waiting for his return. Every mother
expects her son to be victorious, and
this mother looked out at the window
expecting to see him drive up i'm his
chariot followed by wagons loaded
with embroideries and also by regi-
ments of men vanquished and enslaved.
4 see hef now sitting at the window,
in high expectation. She watches the
farthest turn of the road. She looks
for the flying dust of the swift hoofs.
The first fash of the bit of the horses
bride she will catch.
The ladies of her court stand round,
and she tells them of what they shall
have when her son m up-chains of
gold and ~carcanets of beauty and
dresses of such wondrous fabric and
splendor as the Bible only hints at, but
leaves us to imagine. "He ought to be
here by this time" says his mother.
That battle Is surely over. i hope that
freshet of the river Kishon has not i'm
peded him. | hope those strange ap-
pearances we saw last night in the sky
were not ominous, when the stars seem
ed to fight in their courses. No! No!
lie is so brave in battle I know he has
won the day. He will soon be here
But alas for the disappointed motheri
She will not see that glittering head
gear OF the horses at full gallop bring
ing her son home from victorious bat
tle.AS a solitary messenger arriving in
hot haste rides up to the window Mt
which the mother of Sisera sits, he
cries. Your armies are defeated, and
your son is dead. There Is n scene of
horror and anguish from which we
turn away,
Now you see the full meaning of my
short text, THE mother of Sisera look
ed ont at a window Well, my friends
we are all out in the battle of life; IL
is raging now, and the most of us have
a mother watching and waiting for
news of our victory or defeat. If she
be rot sitting at the window of earth,
she Is sitting ut n window of heaven,
and she is going TO hear MI about II.
where's mother" IS the question
most Frequently asked in many house
holds. 1t Is asked by the husband as
well as the child coming in at nightfalI,
seWherers mother" II is asked by the
little ones when they get hurt and come
In cryiag with the pain, where's
motherg' Tt Is asked by those who
have seen some grand sight or heard
some good news or received some beau
tfuI gift, where's mother?' She
sometimes feels wearied by the ques-
xon. for they all ask 1t and Keep ask
ing II all the time. She is not only the
first to hear every case OF peTplexlty,
hut she is the Judge in every court of
domestic appeal. That IS what puts
the premature wrinkles on so many
maternal faces and powders white 50
many maternal forcheads. You see.
III is a question that keeps on for all
thc years OF childhood. II comes from
the nursery, and from the evening
stand whore the boys and girls are
learning their scnoor lesson. and from
the starting out in tho morning, when
the tippet or hat or slate or book or
overshoe Is lost, unttl at night, Ill out
~ breath. the youngsters come in aild
shout until you cm hear them from cell
lar TO garnet and from trent dear 20 the
back fence of the back ward, Where's
mother ~ Indeed q child's life Is so full
of shat question that IL he be taken
away one of the things that the mother
most misses and the siience that most
oppresses her is the absence of that
Ssses.cn : -ss.ch she viii never hear oii
earth again. except she hears 1t in a
dream which sometimes restores the
nursery just rs ii was, and then the
voice comes back SO natural. and so
Sweet. and so innocent. and so inquir-
ing that the dream breaks at the words,
where's MOTHER
f~fhat question was put TO most of
Us this morning. we would have to say.
IL we smoke truthfully. like Sisera's
mother, shN is AZ the palace window.
SHE if.s become a queen unto God for,
y and she is pulling back the rich
folds of the Kings upholstery to look