The Penn's Grove record., 1895-06-28
REV. DR.. TALuaGE.
The Brooklyn Diyine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: Sisters of Charity"

TEXT: "This woman was full OF good
WORKS alnsdeeds which she dids"-Aots
IL, SO.
Starting now where I left her of last Sab
path In reeiting woman's opportunities, I
have to say that woman has the special and
superiattve right Of blessing and comforting
the sick. What land, what street, what
house, has not felt the smitings of disease?
Tens OF thousands OF sickbedsl What shall
we do with theni2 Shall man, with his rough
hand and heavy foot aud impatient bearing,
Minister No, he cannot soothe the pain. He
cannot quiet the nerves. He knows not
where to set the light. His hand is not
steady enough to pour out the drops. He is
not wakeful enough to be a watcher. The
Lord God sent Miss Dix into the Virginia
hospitals, and the Maid OF Saragossa to ap-
pease the wounds Of the battlefield, and has
equipped wife, mother and daughter for this
delicate but tremendous mission. You have
known men who have despised women, but
the moment disease fell upon them they did
not send for their friends at the bank, or
their partner in business, or their worldly
associates. Their first cry was, 'ITake me to
my wifef' The dissipated young man at the
college SCOTS at the idea Of being under
home influences, but at the first blast of the
typhoid fever on his cheek he says, "Where
is motherY' Waiter Scott wrote partly in
satire and partly in compliment when he
said:
o woman, in our hour OF ease,
Uncertain, coy and hard to pleasei
When pain and anguish wiring the brow,
a ministering angel thoul
think the most pathetic passage in all the
Bible Is the description of the lad who went
out to the harvest field Of Shunem and got
misunderstanding his hands on his tenn
pies and crying outs "Oh, my headl Ny
headP' And they said, Garry him to his
mother" And then the record Is, HE sat
on her knees till noon, and then died. II
is an awful thing to be Ill away from home
IN a strange hotel, once In awhile men coma
ing to look at you, holding their hand over
their mouth for fear hat they will catch the
| contag1on. How roughly they turn you In
bedl How loudly they TALK How you long
for the ministries Of home! I knew one such
who went away from one Of the brightest Of
l homes fer several weeks business absence at
the West. A telegram same at midnight that
he was on his deathbed far away from home.
BY Express train the wife and daughters
went westward, but they went too late. He
feared not to die, but he was in an agony to
live g9til his family got there. He tried to
bribeYthe doctor to make him live a little
whilhlonger. He said, II am willing to die,
but not alone" But the pulses futtered,
the eyes closed and the heart stopped. The
express trains met in the midnight-wife and
daughters going westward, lifeless remains
OF husband and father coming eastward. Oh.
1t was a sad, pitiful, overwhelming spectacle
When we are sick, we want to be sick at
hong. When the time comes for US to die,
we want to die at home. The room may be
very humble, and the faces that look Into
ours may be very plain, but who cares for
that2 Loving hands to battle the temples.
Lovlag voices TO speak good cheer. Loving
Rps 10 read the comforting promises Of
II bur last dreadful wal men cast the cans
non hen fashioned the musketryI men cried
to IL hosts, Forward, march," men hurled
their battalions on the sharp edges OF the
enemy, crying, "Charge, charged but
woman scraped the lint; woman adminis-
tered the cordials; woman watched by the
dying ouch, woman wrote the last message
to tho nme circle; woman wept at the soils
tary bi9 Il attended by herself and four men
with q 1pade. We greeted the general home
with brass bands and triumphal arches and
wild huzzas, but the story is too good to be
written anywhere, save in the chronicles OF
heaven, Of Mrs. Brady, who came down
among the sick In the swamps ofthe Chicka-
hominyt OF Annie Ross, In the cooper shop
hospital; of Margaret Breckenridge, who
eamGN men who had been for weeks with
their wSlnds undressed, some of them frozen
to the ground, and when she turned them
4 ONtA knOco thai hil AL l. ~ " utAA
filled the air with their "Hurrah!' Of Mrs.
Hodge, who came from Chicago with blan-
kets and with pillows, until the men shoutedi
''Three cheers for the Christian commissionl
God bless the women at home |" then, sit.
ting down to take the last messenger; "Tell
my Wife not to fret about me, but to meet me
In heaven. Tell her to train up the boys
whom we have loved so well, Tell her we
shall meet again in the good land. Tell her
to bear my loss like the Christian wife OF a
Christian soldier" and of Mrs. Shelton, into
whof face the convalesent solder looked
and laid, "Your grapes and cologne cured
me, " Men did their work with shot and
shell md carbine and howitzer, women did
their work with socks and slippers and
Damages, and warm drinks, and Scripture
| textA and gsntle stockings Of the hot temples,
and stories of that land where they never
have any pain. Men knelt down over the
wounded and said, "on which side did you
igbtp" Women knelt down over the wound.
ed and said; "Where are you hurtf What
nice thing can make for you to eat2 What
makes you cry2" Tonight, while We men
are sound asleep in our beds, there will be a
hight in yonder loft; there will be groaning
tres In that cellar. Men will sleep, and
women will watch.
Again, woman has q superlative right e
take care OF the poor. There are hundreds
and thousands Of them In all our cities
The D is q kind Of work that men cannot dc
for me pOor. Here ZONES a group of little
barefoot children to the door Of the Dorcai
soetaty: They 3eed to be clothed and pro
vde Tor. Which OF these directors o.
ban 4 would know how many yards ii woult
TAX 70 make that little girl q dress? Which
OF t Ase masculine hands could fit a hat Il
thai little girls head? Which of the wise
men would know how to tie on thai new
pair Of shoes? Man sometimes gives bill
lchar'iy in a rough way, and it falls ike thu
fruit Of a tree In the East, which fruit comel
| dow so heavily that it breaks the k q
the a who Is trying to gather it. But
woman giides so softly into the house o
de3tuution, and lnds out all the sorrows o
the ARee, and puts 80 quietly the donation
on tae table, that all the family come out OF
the 'front.' steps as she departs, expecting thai
front under her shawl she will thrust out Two
wings and go right up toward heaven, IRON
whence she seems to have come down. {
Christian young woman. If you would MAKE
yourself happy and win the blessing o
Christ, go out among the destitute. A loa
of bread or q bundle of socks may make
homeiy load to carry, but the angels OF Goo
will come out to watch, and the LORI
Almighty will give His messenger hosts
charge. saying; "Look after that woman
Canopy her with your wings and shelter ne
| from LII uuEmg anu Nulio gOA ~ oeotNA a.
the house OF restitution and suffering tn
little ones around the room will WHISPER
"Who Is she2 Amt she beautiful" and
you listen right sharply. you will hear drip
ping down the Ieaky roof and rolling owe
the rotten stairs the angel chant that shoo
Bethlehem, 'Glory to God in the highest. an
on earth peace, good viii to men," Ca
you tell me why a Christian woman, goin
down among the haunts OF iniquity. on
Christian errand, never meeis with an
indignity? / stood In the chapel OF hele
Chalmers, the Daughter Of the celebrated ID
Chalmers, in the most abandoned part OF IN
city Of Edinburgh, and l said TO her as
looked around upon the fearful surround
ings OF that plas "Do you come here nigh
To- hold serviceY" "oh, yes" she sait
"Can 1t be possible that you never meet wit
an insult while performing this Christian e.
randi" "Neyor,' she said. Never
II That youuc woman who has her tather
her side wal ting down the street, an arme
policeman Al each corner Of the street. Is M
10 we'll defended "a that Christian who goo
forth on gospel work into the haunts OF ~,
uuity, carving the Bibles and bread. dot
with the right arm Of His wrath omnipoeten
would tear TO pieces anyone who should on
! lndienfty. he would smite him with ign
, nines and drown him with Hoods and swa
low him with earthquakes and damn NJ
with eternal i~ndiguGson Some one sal
} n diAliks very much 80 see tnat Cnlisus