Milford chronicle., 1895-06-28

Again, / have to tell you that it is wOm-
ans specific right to comfort under the
/ stress of dire disaster. She is called tbs
weaker vessel, but all profane as well as
sacred history attests that when the crisis
comes she is better prepared than man to
meet the emergency. How often you have
seen woman who seemed to be a disciple
of frivolity and Incidence, who, under one
stroke off calamity, changed to heroinel
Oh, what q great mistake those business
men make who never tell their business
troubles to their wivcsl There comes
some great loss to the store, or some of
their companions in business play them
sad trick, and they carry the burden all
alone. He is asked in the household again
and again, "What is the matter?" but he
believes it a sort of Christian duty TO keep
all that trouble within his own soul Oh,
sir, your first duty was to tell your wife
all about it, She perhaps might not have
disentangled your finances or extended
your credit, but she would have helped
you to bear misfortune. You have noright
to carry on one shoulder that which is in
tended for two. There are business men
who know what I mean. There comes a
crisis in your affairs. You struggle bravely
and long, but after awhile there comes a
STOP" and you call in your partners, and
you call in the most prominent men lin
your employ, and you say, 1--WE 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 blaming you and
denOunoing 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 rib |
bons and the fashions? No She comes up !
to the emergency. She quails not under /
the stroke. She helps youto begin to plan /
right away. She offers to go out Of the 1
house into a smaller one and !
wear the cid cloak another winter. She is 4
one who understands your affairs without i
blaming you. You look upon what you
thought was a 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 10, 20 or 80
years ago. You say: 'Well, this is the
lappiest day of my life. l am glad have
got from under my burden. My wife don't
'are-I don't care" At the moment you
we're utterly exhausted God sent De-
,orah to meet the host of tho AmalelSites
md scatter them like ohaf over the plain.
Her Responsive Heart.
There are sometimes women who sit
oading sentimental novels and who wish !
hat they had soTno grand field in which TO
display their Christian powers. Oh, what
rand and glorious things they could do If
hey only had an opportunity My sister, r
on need not wait for any such time. A
risis will come in your affairs. There +
7ill be Thermopyl@ in your own house /
old, where God win tell you to stand.
here are hundreds of households where
S much courage is demanded Of woman /
g was sxnlDIUeu by urauo DarImg o. L
darie AntOinette or Joan of Arc. 4
Woman Is further endowed to bring us
nto rhe kingdom of heaven 1t is easicl v
or a woman to be a Christian than for G
nan. Whys You say she is weaker No d
Ter heart is more responsive to the plead Il
ngs Of divine love- The fact that she can
lore easily become a Christian prove by c.
he statement that three-fourths of the "
lembers of the churches in all Christen- b
ON are women. So God appoints them L
} be the chief agencies for bringing this >
'orld back to God. The greatest sermons 81
re not preached on celebrated Platforms; W
icy are preached with an audience Of two 81
: three and in private home life. A pa p'
emit, loving Christian demeanor In the
resenoe of transgression, in the presence u
hardness, in the presence Of obduraoy 10
I'D crime, is an argument from the force
which no man can escape. z
The Best Right OF All.
Lastly, one Of the specific rights of wom-
J is, through the grace Of Christ, finally
reach heaven. Oh, what a multitude Of
omen in heavenl Mary, Christ's mother,
heaven; Elizabeth Fry in heaven, Char
tie Elizabeth in heaven, the mother Of
aEnstina Ia heaven, the Countess OF
sold her splendid jewels I
build chapeis-in heaven; whilo a great !
any others who have never been heard Of .
earsh or known hut littlc have gOno
tho rest and pence Of laeyan What q