Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-05
TALMAGE'S SERMON
INTERESTING THEME BY THE
INV YORK PREACHER.
Subject: " sisters of Charity"

TF1r: This woman was full Of GOOD
works and almsi-eis which she did."-Arts
TX. Sc.
Starting now where left her uff last Sab
hath In reciiing w0man's opportunities. /
have 90 say that woman has the special and
superlatiye right % blessing and comforting
the sick. What land, what street. what
house. has not felt the smitngs OF disease
Tens Of thousands 10 $ickbeds What shall
We do with thems shall man, with his rough
hand and heavy foot aud impatient bearing
minister No he cannot ~1Othe the pain. H.
cannot quiet the nerve. He knows not
where e. set the light. His hand is not
steady enough to pour out the drops. He is
not wakeiul enough To- Dee watcher. The
Lord God sent Ms Dix into the Virginia
hospitals. and the Maid 81 Saragos.a o. ap-
peaSe the wounds ui the battlefield. and has
equipped wife. mother and daughter for this
delicate but tremendous mission. You have
known men who have drsplsed women. but
the moment disease fell upon them they did
not send for their friends at th" bunk, or
their partner ia business. or their worldly
associate. Their first cry was, Take me L.
my wife" The jis-ipatel young man at the
college SCOTS at the idea of being under
home influences. Int at the first blast Of the
typhoid fever ON his cheek he SAYS. where
is moth-2' Walter Scott wrote partly in
satire AMI partly ia compliment when he
said:
q woman. in our hour Of casa.
Uncertain, coy ant hurl to please:
When pain HUi anguish wiring the brow.
A ministering angel thou'
| think the most pathetic passage in all the
Bible is the description OF the lad who went
ont to the harvest field Of Shunem and got
sunstruck- throwing his hands on his tenn
pies and CRYING out: ooh, my headl NV
head" And they said. Garry him to his
mother And then the record is, He sat
on her knees till noon, and then died" 1t
Is an awful thing To be i'll away from home
in strange Motel, once in awhile men COM
ing 10 look at You, holding their hand over
their mouth for fear that they will catch the
contagion. How roughly they turn You in
bed. How loudly they talk! How You long
for the ministries Of home | knew one such
who went away from one Of the brightest Of
homes for several weeks business absence at
the West. A tclcgi am came 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 until his family got there. He tried tn
bride the doctor 10 make him live little
while longer. He said. Il am willing to die,
but not nl0nc. But the pulses flutterel,
the eyes closed and the heart stopped The
express trains met in the midnigh aud
daughters going westward, lifelesS remains
oil husband and father coming eastward Oh
1t was sad, pitilul. overwhelming spectacle.
When We ere sick. we want to be sick at
home. When the time comes for us to die,
We want to die ut home The room may be
very humble, and the faces that look into
ours may be very plain, but who cares for
that? Loving hands to battle the temples.
l.9Ninr voices a. snlgl- tr1al 9hanr
lips to read the comforting promises OF
Jesus
In oar last dreadful war men cast the can
non; men fashioned the musketry: men cried
t. the hosts. Forward. march, men hurled
their battalions on the sharp edges of the
enemy. crying, "tAarEe. charge but
woman Scrapei the lint; woman admins
tered tine cOrdials; woman watched by the
dying couch; woman wrote the last message
to the home circle; woman wcpt at the soil
tary burial attended hy herself and four men
with spade. We greeted the general home
with brass bands ana 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 swNmps ofthe Chicka.
hominy; OF Annie Ross. in the cooper shop
hospital; of Margaret breckenridge. who
came to men who had been for weeks with
to the ground. and when she turned them
over those that mad an arm lett waved it and
lllled the air with their "Hurrah!' of Mrs
Hodge WAC came from Chicago with hlan-
kets and with piii5ws, until the men shouted:
Three cheers for the Christian commission!
God bless the women at home = then. sit
ting down to take the last message: Tell
my wife not to fret about me, but to meet me
in heaven. Tell her to train up the bows
whom we have loved so well. Tell her we
shall meet again in the good land. Tell her
10 bear my loss like the Christian wife Of
Christian soldier, and Of Mrs. Shelton, into
whose face the cOnvalesent solder looked
and said, 'Iour grapes and cologne cured
me. Men did their work with shot and
shell and carbine and hOwitzer, women did
their work with socks and slippers and
bandagas, and warm drinks. and Scripture
texts, and gentle strokings Of the hot temples.
and stories Of that land where they never
have any pain. Men kneIt down over the
wounded and said, son which side did YOU
fight? Women knelt down over the wound
ed and said; where are you hurt? What
nice thing can make for you to eat? What
makes you cry? Tonight, while we men
are sound asleep in our beds, there will be a
light in yonder loft; there will be grooming
III that dark alley; there will be cries of dis
tress in that cellar Men will sleep. and
women will watch.
Again. woman has a supcrlatlye right TO
take care OF the poor There are hundreds
and thousands OF them in all our cities.
1hers Is Kind OF work that men cannot do
lOf the poor Here comes a group of little
barefoot children to the door of the Dorras
Society. They need to be clothed and pro-
Vided for. Which Of these directors Ct
banks would know how many yards it would
take to make that little girl dress? Which
pf thp.n mo in, b,,,, L., 4.
that little girls head? Which Of the wise
men would know how to tie on that new
pair OF shoes? Man sometimes rives his
charlly III rough way, and ii falls like the |
lrult OF tree in the East, which fruit comes !
down so heavily that it breaks the skull of
the man who is trying to gather il. Bur
woman glides so softly into the house of /
restitution, and finds out all the sorrows of |
the place, and puts so quietly the donation
on the table, that aIl the family come out on |
the 'front.' steps as she departs, expecting that |
from under her shawl she will thrust out two |
wings and go right up toward heaven, from |
whence she seems to have come down. O |
CHRISTIAN Young woman. il you would make |
yourself happy and win the blessing of |
Christ, 80 out among the destitute. A loaf |
OF bread or bundle Of socks may make a
homely load to carry, but the angels of God |
Will come out to watch and the Lord |
Almighty will give His messenger hosts a
charge. saying: "LoOk after that woman,
Canopy her with your wings and shelter her
from all harm, and while you are seated in
the house Of destitution and suffering the |
little ones around the room will whisr err.
"Who is she? Amt she beautiful?" and if !
You listen right sharply, you will hear drip
hihg down the lea&y root and rolling over
The rotten stairs the angel chant that shook
bethIehem, GLORY to God IN the highest and |
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