The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-07-05
,.lesoso. soldier looked and said.

Men did their work with shot anc
) shell, and carbine and howitzer; WON
en- did their work with socks, and
slippers, and bandages, and warm
drinks, and Scripture texts, and gentle
strokings of the hot temples, and
stories of that land where they never
have any pain. Men knelt down over
the wounded and said: ION which
side did you fght?" Women knelt
down over the wounded and saids
"Where are you hurt? What nice
thing can / make for you to eat? What
makes you cry?" Tonight while we
men are sound asleep in our beds,
there will be light in yonder loft;
there will be grooming in that dark
alley; there will be cries of distress in
that cellar. Men will sleep, and women
will watch
Again: woman has superlative
right to take care of the poor. There
are hundreds and thousands of them
in all our cities. There is kind of
| work that men can not do for the
poor. Here comes group of little bare
foot children to the door of the Dorcas
society. They need to be clothed and
provided for. Which of these directors
of banks would know how many yards
it would take to make that little girl
dress? Which of these masculine
hands could fit hat to that little
girls head? Which of the wise men
would know how to tie on that new
pair of shoes? Man sometimes gives |
his charity in rough way, and it falls |
like the fruit of tree in the east,
which fruit comes down o heavily that
it breaks the skull of the man who is |
trying to gather it. But woman glides
SO softly into the house of restitution,
and finds out all the sorrows of the
place, and puts so quietly the dona-
ton on the table that all the family
come out on the front steps as she de-
parts, expecting that from under her
shawl she will thrust out two wings
and go right up to Heaven, from
she seems to have come down.
Oh, Christian young woman! if you
would make yourself happy and win
the blessings of Christ, go out among
the destitute. A loaf of bread or a
bundle of socks may make homely
Dad to carry; but the angels of God
will come out to watch, and the Lord
Almighty will give his messenger
losts charge, saying: Look after c
hat woman. Canopy her with your
wings and shelter her from all harm;" c
md while you are seated in the house s
Il restitution and suffering, the little a
mes around the room will whisper: q
Who is she? Amt she beautifully" Il
nd If you listen right sharply you t
will hear dripping down the leaky roof, a
nd rolling over the rotten stairs, the L
NIGEL chant that shook Bethlehem: II
Glory to God in the highest, and on e
arth peace, good will to men" Can u
on tell me why Christian woman, u
DING down among the haunts of ini- y
uity on Christian errand, never y
,eets with any indignity? stood in h
ne chapel of Helen Chalmers, the l
aughter OF the celebrated DR.. Chal- NJ
lers, in the most abandoned part of u
lie city of Edinburgh, and l said to et
er as looked around upon the fear. n
ii surroundings of that place: "Do II
OH come here nights to hold service?"
Oh, yes" she said. "Can it be posi- w
e that you never meet with insult VI
lille performing this Christian err. W
lnd?" Never" she said-''never." m
hat young woman who has her father 4
7 her side walking down the street,
, armed policeman at each corner of A
e street, is not so well defended as d
lat Christian who goes forth on gos- ]e
i work into the haunts of iniquity, w
frying the Bibles and bread. God, M
18th the right arm of his wrath omnipo- or
mt, would tear to pieces anyone who to
ould offer indignity. He would
1ite him with lightnings, and drown sn
IN with floods, and swallow him with dc
rthquakes, and damn him with etern- ac
indignations. Some one said: II I
slike very much to see that Chris ST
IN woman teaching those bad boys nc
the mission school, am afraid to by
we her instruct them" $780," said to
other man, II am afraid, too" gu
id the first: 81 am afraid La
ey will use vile language before Ht
ey leave the place" "Ah," said the an
her man, II am not afraid of that up
hat l am afraid of is, that if any of st;
ose boys should use bad word in ac
at presence. the other boys would Ike
ar him to pieces and kill him ON the ha
OF" That woman is the best shell TOT
red who is sheltered by Omnipo. wa
nee, and it is always safe to go where at
ID tells you to 60 1t seems as if the We
'rd had ordained woman for an espe- ca
Il work in the solicitation of chart 20
IS. Backed up by barrels in which no
ere is no flour, and by stoves in we
itch there is no fire, and ward th'
bes in which there are no of
,thes, woman is irresistible. in
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