Connecticut western news., 1895-06-27

 loaf of bread or a 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 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 whis- per "Who is she? Ain't she beautifpl?" and if you listen right sharply, you will hear dripping down the leaky roof and rolling over the rotten stairs the angel chant that shook Bethlehem, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men.' Can you tell me why a Christian woman, going down among the haunts of iniquity on a Chris tian errand, never meets with any in dignity? I stood in the chapel of Helen Chalmers, the daughter of the celebrated Dr. Chalmers, in the most abandoned part of the city of Edinburgh, and I said to her as looked around upon the fearful surroundings of that place, "Do you come here nights to hold service?"
 
 ble that you never meet with an insult while performing this Christian er- rand?" "Never," she said. "Never.
 That young woman who has her fa- ther by her side walking down the street, an armed policeman at each cor ner of the street, is not so well defended as that Christian who goes forth on gos- pei work into the haunts of iniquity, carrying the Bibles and bread. God, with the right arm of his wrath omnip- otent, would tear to pieces any one who should offer indignity. He would smite him with ightnings and drown him with floods and swallow him with earth quakes and damn him with eternal in dignations. Some one said: "I dislike very much to see that Christian woman teaching those bad boys in the mission school I am afraid to have her instruct them" "So," said another man, 'I am afraid too" Said the first, 1T am afraid they will use vile language before they leave the place." "Ah, :" said the other man, "I am not afraid of that What am afraid of is that, if any of those boys should use a bad word in that presence, the other boys would tear him to pieces and kill him on the spot. That woman is the best sheltered who is sheltered by omnipotence, and it is always safe to go where God tells you to go. It seems as if the Lord had or dained woman for an especial work in the solicitation of charities. Backed up by barrels in which there is no flour, and by stoves in which there is no fire, and wardrobes in which there are no clothes, woman is irresistible. Pass ing on her errand, God says to her, "You go into that bank or store or shop and get the money" She goes in and gets it. The man is hard listed, but she gets it. She could not help but get it. It is decreed from eternity she should get it. No need of your turning your back and pretending you don't hear. You do hear. There is no need of your saying you are begged to death. There is no need of your wasting your time, and you might as we'll submit first as last. You had better right away take down your checkbook, mark the number of the check, fill up the blank, sign your name and hand it to her. There is no need of wasting time. Those poor chil- dren on the back street have been hun gry long enough. That sick man must have some farina- That consumptive must have something to ease his cough. meet this delegate of relief society coming out of the store of such hard listed man, and say, "Did you get the money?" "Of course," she says, 1T got the money. That's what went for. The Lord told me to go in and get it, and he never sends me on a fools er rand"
 woman's Right to Comfort.
 Again, have to tell you that it is woman's specific right to comfort under the stress of dire disaster. She is called the 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 a woman who seem- ed to be disciple of frivolity and indo- lence, who, under one stroke of calamity, changed to heroine Oh, what great mistake those business men make who never tell their business troubles to their wives There comes some great loss to their 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 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 no l right to carry on one shoulder that which is intended for two. There are business men who know what mean. | There comes 8 crisis in your affairs. You struggle bravely and long, but aft CT awhile there comes day when you | say, "Here shall have to stop," and | you call in your partners, and you call in the most prominent men in your em- ! ploy, and you say, "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 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 fortable 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 thin, weak wo- mans 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 chiding No fret ting. No telling you about the beautiful u L H l. e-I c Il i