The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-07-06

hnps. might not have discntang1ed
| your finances. or extended your credit,
but she would have helped you to bea r
| misfortune. You have no right to
CARRY on one shoulder that which
is intended for two There are
| business men who know what l
mean. There comes crisis In your
affairs. You struggle bravely and
long, but after awhile there comes y
day when you say, "IIere shall have
! to stop" and you call III your partners,
and you call In the most prominent
men in your employ, and you say:
eve 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
ferryboat You feel everybody will
be looking at you and denouncing
you. You hasten home. You tell your
wife all about the affair. What does
she say? Does she play tho
butterfly? Does she talk about
the silks, and the ribbons, and
the fashions? No. She comes up
to the emergency. She quails not un-
to plan right away. She offers to go
out Of the comfortable house into q
smaller one, and wear the old cloak
another winter. She is one who un-
derstands your affairs without blam-
ing 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 childing. No fret
ting. No telling you about the beau
tiful house of her father, from which
you brought her ten. twenty or thirty
years ago. You say: well, this is the
happiest day Of my life. am glad l
/ have got from under my burden.
Ny wife don't care-I don't care" AT
the moment you were utterly exhaust
cd God sent n Deborah to meet the
host of 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
powers. Oh, 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 will tell you to stand.
Woman is further endowed to bring
us into the Kingdom of Heaven. 1t is
easier for woman to be Christian than
for a man. Why? You say she is
weaker. No. Her heart is more re-
sponsive to the pleadings of Divine
love. The fact that she can more
easily become Christian, prove
by the statement that three
fourths of the members of the
churches in Christendom are women.
So God appoints them to be the
chief agencies for bringing this world
back to God. The greatest sermons are
not preached on celebrated platforms;
they are preached with an audience of
two or three and in private home life.
A patient, loving, Christian demeanor
in the presence of transgression, in the
presence of hardness, 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. Oh,
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 Heaven; 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
n rest What change it was from the
small room, with no fire and one win
dow, the glass broken out, and the
aching side and worn-out eyes, to the
''house of many mansionsT No moro
stitching until twelve o'clock at night,
no more thrusting of the thumb
by the employer 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 suffering 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 a crown fol
you. want you to realize that He IL
now making it, and whenever you
weep tear He sets another gem in
that crown; whenever you have n pani
of body or soul, He puts another gen
in that crown, until, after awhile, IL
all the tiara there will be no room fol-
another splendor, and God will say t.
His angel: 1.-THE crown is done; lei
her up that she may wear it.
And as the Lord OF righteous
ness puts the crown upon YOU
brow, angel will cry to angel, who Il
sheg" and Christ will say: II will tel
you who she is. She is the one tha
came up out Of great tribulation, ant
had her robe washed and made white