The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-07-04

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she play the butterfly Does abe talk
about the silks, and the ribbons, and
the fashions? No. She comes up to
the emergency. She quails not under
the stroke. She offers to go out Of the
comfortable house into smaller one,
and wear the old cloak another winter.
She is one who understands your af-
fairs without blaming you. You look
upon what you thought was thin,
weak Womans 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 frettlng. No telling you
about the beautiful house of her ia
theirs. from which you brought her,
ten, twenty, or thirty years ago. You
say: well, this is the happiest day of
my life. l am glad I have got from
under my burden. My wife don't care
Il don't care" At the moment you
We're utterly exhausted God sent
Deborah to met the host of the ANA
lekites, 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
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 a
Thermopylae in your own household,
where God will tell you to stand.
There are hundreds of households
where as much courage is demanded
OF woman as was exhibited by Grace
Darling, or 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 a Christian
than for man. Why? You say she
| is weaker. No. Her heart is more re-
sponsive TO the pleadings of Divine
love. The fact is that she can more
easily become Christian, prove by
the statements that three-fourths of
the members Of the churches in all
Chrlstendom are women. So God ap-
points them to be the chief agencies
for bringing this world back to God.
! The greatest sermons are not preach
ed on celebrated platforms; they are
preached with an audience of two or
three and in private home-life. A pa
tient loving, Christian demeanor in
the presence of transgressional, 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 a
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 a great
many others who have never been
heard of on earth, or known but little
nave gone to the rest and peace OF
heaven. What a rest! What change
1t was from the small room, with no
fire and one window, the glass broken
out, and the aching side and WORKOUT
eyes, to 1.-The house of many man.
slons!' No more stitching until IL
O'Clock at night no more thrnsting of
the thumb by the employer through
the work to show that was not done
quite right Plenty Of bread at last.
Heaven for aching heads. Heaven
bitten frames. No more sitting up I'M
til midnight for the coming of stagger-
Ing 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
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But God has crown for you. want
you to realize that he is rcw making
It, and whenever you weep q tear, he
sets another gem in that crown:
whenever you have a pang Of body or
SOUL he puts another gem in that
crown, until, after while, in all the
tiara there will be no room for an
other splendor, and God will say to
his angel, 1.-THE crown is done; let her
up that She may wear it, And as the
Lord of righteousness puts the crown
upon your brow, angel will cry to an
gel, "'who is she?" and Christ will say,
IL will tell you who she is. She is
the one that came up out of great
trlbulation and had her robe washed
and made white in the blood of the
Lamb" And then God will spread a
principalities 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
manner of fruits from the tree of life,
and waters from the fountain of the
rock will wash from the golden tank
ards; and the old harpers of heaven
will sit there, making music with
their |harps; and Christ will point you
out. amid the celebrities of heaven,
saying, "She suffered with me on
earth, now we are going to glorifed
together" And the 'banqueters, no
longer able to hold their peace, will
break forth with congratulation.
HAIL! Hail!' And there will be hand
writing on the wall-not such as
struck the Persian noblemen with
horror, but with fire-tipped fingers,
writing in blazing capitals of light
and lowe and victory, "God has wiped
away al tears from all faces"
| A Decoration Misplaced.