Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-06-20

height and depth and length and breadth
and magnitude and eternity Of meaning
you would, with streaming eyes, and
trembling voice, and agitated hand, write
it out in those four living capitals.
HOME
What right does woman want that Is
grander than. to be queen in such a realmf
Why, the eagles Of heaven cannot fly across
that dominion. Horses, painting and with
lathered flanks, are not swift enough to
run to the outpost Of that realm. They
say that the sun never sets upon the Eng
lish empire, but have TO tell you that on
this realm Of woman's influence eternity
never marks any bound. Isabella fed from
the Spanish throne, pursued by the ma \
tion's anathema, but she who Is queen in
home will never lose her throne, and
death itself viii only be the annexation of
heavenly principalities.
The Grandest Woman.
When you want to get your grandest
Idea of q que IN, you do not think of Cath
crime of Russia, or of Anne of England, or
Marie Thercsn of Germany, but when you
want to get your grandest idea Of a queen
you think of she plain woman who sat op-
posite your father ut the table or walked
with him arm in arm down life's pathway;
sometimes to the Thanksgiving banquet,
sometimes to the grave, but always to-
gether-soothing your petty griefs, cor
recting your childish waywardness, join
ing in your infantile sports, listening to
your evening prayers, toiling for you with
needle or at the spinning wheel and on
cold nights wrapping you up snug and
nd fhar, ak OF thaf nv
when she lay in the back room dying,
and you saw her take those thin hands
with which sac had toiled for you so long,
and put them together in dying prayer
that commended you to the God whom she
had taught you to trust-oh, she was the
queenl The chariots Of God came down
to fetch her, and as she went In all heaven
rose up. You cannot think of her now
without a rush of tenderness that stirs
the deep foundations of your soul, and
you feel as much a child again as when
you cried on her lap, and If you could
bring her back again to speak just once
more your name as tenderly as she used
to speak it, you would be willing to throw
yourself on the ground and kiss the sod
that covers her, crying: "Motherl Moth
erW All, she was the queen She was
the queenl Now, can you tell me how
many thousand miles woman like that
would have to travel down before she got
to the ballot box. Compared with this
work of training kings and queens for
God and eternity, how insignificant seems
all this work of voting for aldermen and
common councillnen and sheriffs and con-
stables and mayors and presidents? To
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described, how many thousands would
you want of those people who go in the
round of fashion and dissipation, going as
far toward disgraceful apparel rs they
dare go, SO as not to be arrested by the po-
lice-their behavior sorrow to the good
and caricature Of the vicious, and an
insult to that God who made them women
and not gorRons, and tramping on down
through frivolous and dissipated life to
temporal and eternal damnation9
o woman, with the lightning of your
soul, strike dead at your feet all these al
lurements to dissipation and to fashion
Your immortal soul cannot be fed upon
such garbage God calls you up to empire
and dominion. Will you have itP Oh,
give to God your heart; give to God al
your best energies; give to God all you1
culture; give to God all your refinement
give yourself to him, for this world ant
the next. Soon all those bright eyes vii
be ouenched, and these voices will b
hushed. For the last time you will lool
upon this fair earth. Father hand, moth
, er's hand, sisters hand, child's hand
will no more be in yours. 1t will b
night, and there will come up cold VIM
:, I'm the Jordan, and you must start
w,i, = be a lone woman on trackles
Ss Az mol Jesus will come up In tina
% bonr and ofYer h.. : hand, and he will say
you stood by me wbs.N you were well
now VIII hos uesero you VIII, th
sick" One wave of his hand, ali.-
storm will drop, and another wave Of hi
hand, and midnight shall break into mid
noon, and another wave of his hand, ant
the chamberlains of God will come dowI
from the treasure houses of heaven, witt
robes lustrous, blood washed and HEAVIER
glinted, in which you will array yourself
for the marriage supper Of the Lamb. AND
then with Miriam, who struck the timbre
of the Red sea, and with Deborah, wht
led the Lords host into the fight, and will
Hannah, who gave her Samuel to the
Lord, and with Mary, who rocked Jesus tt
sleep while there were angels singing IL
the air, and with sisters of charity who
bound up the battle wounds of the Crimea
you will, from the chalice of God, drinl
to the souls eternal rescue.
woman's Dominion.
J Your dominion Is home, o woman
What brave fight for home the women o
I Ohio made some 10 or Is years ago, wheI
they banded together and in many Of th,
towns and cities Of that state marched il
procession and by prayer and Christian
songs shut up more places Of dissipation
than were ever counted. We're they opene,
againp oh, yes. But is it not good thins
to shut up the gates of hell for two or thr Z