Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-07-04

but after awhile there comss q day
When you say; 'sHere / shall have to
stop, and you call in your partners, and
you call in the most Prominent men in
your employ, and you say: I'VE have
to stop" You leave the store suddenly.
You can scarcely make up your mind to
pass through the street and over on
bridge or on the ferry boat. You feel
everybody will be looking at you, and
blaming you and denouncing you. You
hasten home. You tell your wife all
about the affair. What does she say?
Does she play the butterfly? Does she
talk about the silks, and the ribbons,
and the fashions? No. She comes up
to the emergency. She quails not un-
der the stroke. She helps you to begin
to plan right away. She offers to go
out of the comfortable house into a
smaller one, and wear the old cloak an
other winter. She is one who under
stands your affairs without blaming
you. You look upon what you thought
was thin, weak woman's arm holding
you up; but while you look at that arm
there comes into the feeble muscles Of
it the strength of the eternal God. No
Gliding. No fretting. No telling you
about the beautiful house of her father,
from which you brought her ten, TWEEN
ty. thirty years ago. You say: "Weu,
this is the happiest day Of my life. !
am glad have got from under my bur-
den. My wife don't care-I don't care. !"
At the moment you were utterly ex-
hausted, God sent Deborah to meet
the host of the Amalekites, and scatter
them like chaff over the plain.
There are sometimes women who sit
reading sentimental novels, and who
wish that they had some grand field in
which to display their Christian pow
ers. 0, what grand and glorious
things they could do if they only had
an opportunity! My sister, you need
not wait for any such time. A crisis
will come in your affairs. There will
be Thermopylae in your own house
hold, where God win tell you to stand.
There are hundreds of households
where as much courage is demanded of
woman as was exhibited by Grace OAR
ling, OK Marie Antoinette, or Joan Of
Arc.
Woman is further endowed to bring
us into the kingdom of Heaven. 1t is
easier for a woman to be Christian
than for man. Why? You say she
is weaker. No. Her heart is more re-
sponsive in the pleadings of divine love.
The fact that she can more easily be-
come a Christian, prove by the state
ment that three-fourths of the mem
bers of the churches in all Christendom
are women. So God appoints them to
be the chief agencies for bringing this
world back to God The greatest SER
mons are not preached on celebrated
platforms; they are preached with an
audience of two or three. n in pri-
vate home life. A pat ent, loving.
Christian demeanor in the pr -sence of
transgression, in the presence Of hard
ness, in the presence of obduracy and
crime, is an argument from the force
of which no man can escape.
Lastly, one of the specific rights OF
woman is, through the grace OF Christ,
finally to reach Heaven. Q, what
multitude of women in Heaven, Mary,
Christ's mother, in Heaven; Elizabeth
Fry in Heaven; Charlotte Elizabeth in
Heaven; the mother of Augustine in
Heayen the countess of Huntingdon
who sold her splendid jewels to build
chapels-in Heaven; while great many
others who have never been heard of on
earth, or known but little, have gone
to the rest and peace Of Heaven. What
a rest! What change it was from the
small room, with no Gre and one Win
dow, the glass brol n tut, and the ach-
ing side and WORKOUT eyes, to the
..house of many mansions!" No more
stitching until IL o'clock at night, no
more thrusting of the thum by the en-
ployer through the WORK to show that
it was not done quite right. Plenty OF
bread at last. Heaven for aching
heads. Heaven for broken hearts
Heaven for anguish-bitten frames. No
more sitting up until midnight for the
coming Of staggering steps. No more
rough blows across the temples. NO
more sharp, keen, bitter curses. Some
of YOU will have no rest in this world
1t will be toll, and struggle, and sui
fering all the way up. You will have
to stand at your door fighting back the
wolf with your own hand, red with
carnage But God has crown for
Won. want you to realize that He is
now making it, and whenever you weep
a tear. He sets another gem in that
crown; whenever you have pane
Of body or soul, He puts another gem
in that crown, until, after awhile, in
ali the tiara there will be no room for
another splendor, and God will say to
His angel: "The crown is done; let her
IN that she may wear it." And as the
Lord of Righteousness puts the crown
upon your brow, angel will cry to
angel, '.Who is she?" and Christ will
saw. Il will tell you who she is. She
is the one that came up out OF great
tribulation, and had her robe washed
and made white in the blood OF the
Iamb.i And then God will spread a
banquet, and he will invite all the
municipalities Of Heaven to sit at the
feast: and the tables will blush with
the best clusters from the vineyards OF
God and crimson with the twelve
a,nar ~ fruitS from the Tree OF