The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-06-28

| WHICH Is Intended Tor tWO Iner6 arr
business men who know what | mean
There comes crisis in your affairs
You struggle bravely and long, but aft
er awhile there comes day when yor
say, Here shall have to STOP" ant
you call in your partners, and you cal
in the most prominent men in your EN-
ploy, and you say, "We have to stop. >
You leave the store suddenly. You car
scarcely make up your mind to pass
through the street and over ON bridge OF
on the ferryboat. You feel everybody
will be looking at you, and blaming
you, and denouncing you. You hasten
home You tell your wife all about the
affairs. What does she say? Does she
play the butterfly? Does she talk about
the silks, and the ribbons, and the fash
ions? No. She comes up to the emer-
gency. She quails not under the stroke
She helps you to begin to plan right
away. She offers to go out of the COM
Portable house into smaller one and
wear the old cloak another winter. She
is one who understands your affairs
without blaming you. You look upon
what you thought was a thin, weak wo-
mans arm holding you mp, but while
you look at that arm there comes into
the feeble muscles of it the strength of
the eternal God. No Gliding No fret
ting. No telling you about the beautiful
house of her father, from which you
brought her, 10, 30 or 80 years ago.
You say: well, this is the happiest
day of my life. I am glad have got
from under my burden. My wife don
care-I don care. " At the moment you
were utterly exhausted God sent De-
borah to meet the host of the Amalekites
and scatter them like chaff over the
plain.
Another Specific Right.
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 op-
portunity My sister, you need not wait
for any such time. A crisis will come
in your affairs. There will be Their
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
or Joan of Arc.
Woman is further endowed to bring
is into the kingdom of heaven. It is
70 n b. h.
han for man. Why? You say she is
weaker. No. Her heart is more respon-
i've to the pleadings of divine love. The
act that she can more easily become a
christian prove by the statement that
hree-fourths of the members of the
hurches in all Christendom are wom-
n. So God appoints them to be the
hief agencies for bringing this world |
Jack to God. The greatest sermons are
lot preached on celebrated platforms.
hey are preached with an audience of
wo or three and in private home life.
patient, loving, Christian demeanor
q the presence Of transgression, in the
of hardness, in the presence of
bduracy and crime, is an argument
rom the force of which no man can es-
ape. -e~--.,
Glorious Right.
Lastly, one of the specific rights of
oman is, through the grace of Christ,
nally to reach heaven. Oh, what
Multitude of women in heaveni Mary,
hrist's mother, in heaven; Elizabeth
ry in heaven, Charlotte Elizabeth in
eaven, the mother of Augustine in
9aven, the Countess of Huntingdon,
no sold her splendid jewels to build
lapels, in heaven, while great many
hers who have never been heard of on
nth or known but little have gone to
10 rest and peace of heaven. What
st What a change it was from the
nall room, with no fire and one win
wv, the glass broken out, and the ach-
g side and wornout eyes, to the "house
many mansions ~ No more stitching
It'll IL O'Clock at night, no more
rusting of the thumb by the employer
rough the work to show that it was
1t done quite right. Plenty of bread at I
st. Heaven for aching heads Heaven
broken hearts Heaven for anguish
item frames. No more sitting up until
ldnight for the coming of staggering
cps. No more rough blows across the
mples. No more sharp, keen, bitter g
rseS
Some of you will have no rest in this '
orld- 1t will be toll and struggle and a
tfering all the way up. You will have
stand at your door fighting back the {
of with your own hand, red with car
ge. But God has crown for you. I B
mt you to realize that he is now max g
g it, and whenever you weep tear d
sets another gem in that crown;
lenever you have pang of body or b
al he puts another gem in that crown,
til, after awhile, in all the tiara there g
II be no room for another splendor, p
d God will say to his angel, 1.-THE g
'wn is done; let her up that she may n
ar 1t. " And as the Lord of righteous
IS puts the crown upon your brow an I
will cry to angel, "Who is she?"
d Christ will say: 81 will tell you
10 she is. She is the one that came up
of great tribulation and had her Il
Ne washed and made white in the a.
'od of the lamb" And then God will
cad banquet, and he will invite all il
} municipalities of heaven to sit at the Sc
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