Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-06-29

you to bear misfortune You have no
right to carry on one shoulder that
! which is intended for two. There arc
| business men who know what mean
/ There comes a crisis in your affairs
You struggle bravely and long, but aft
er awhile there comes day when yea
say, Here shall have to stop, !" and
you call in your partners, ard you cali
III the most prominent men IN yoslr eni-
ploy, and You say, "We have TO stop. :
/ You leave the store suddenly. You can
scarcely make up your mind TO PISS
through the street and over on bridge o.
on the ferTyboat. Yon feel every body
will be looking at you, and blaming
you, and denouncing you. You hasten
home. You tell your wife all about tito
affairs. What does she say? Does sho
! play the butterfly? Does she talk about
the silks, and the ribbons, aud the fash
ions? No. She comes up to the en1er-
gency. She quails not under the stroke
She helps you to begin to plan right
away. Sho offers to go out of the COM
fMtable house into a smaller one and
wear the old cloak another winter. Sho
is one who understands your affairs
without blaming yen. You look upon
/ what you thought was 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. Modelling 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 happiest
day of my life. I am glad have get
from under my burden. My wife don t
care-I don care. " At the moment YOU
were utterly exhausted God sent a De-
borah to meet the host of the Amalekitet;
and scatter them like chaff over tho
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 thing;
they could do if they only had an OPP
portunity My sister, you need lot watt
for any such time. A crisis viii como
in your affairs There will be a Their
ropyie III your own household, where
| Gcd will tell you to stand. There arc
| hundreds Of households where as much
| courage is demanded Of woman az was
exhibited by Grace Darling or Marie
| Antoirctte CT Joan Of Arc.
Woman is further endowed to brig,
us into the kingdom Of heaven. It is
easier for woman to be a Christian
than for man. Why? You say she is
weaker. No. Her heart is more respon-
sive to the pleadings of divine love- Tho
fact that she can more easily become IL
Christian prove by the statement thai
three-fourths of the members Of the
churches i'll all Christendom arc woA-
Ell. So God appoints them to lie tho
chief. agencies for bringing this world
back to God. The greatest sermons are
not preached on celebrated platforms.
They are preached with an audience of
two or three and i'll private home life.
A patient, loving, Christian demeanor
IN the presence of transgression, in the
presence of hardness, i'll the presence of
obduracy and crime, is an argument
from the force of which no man can es-
cape.
A Glorious Right.
| Lastly, one Of the specific rights ce
woman is, through the grace Of Christ,
| finally to reach heaven. Oh, what d
multitude Of women in heaven. Mary,
Christ's mother, III heaven. Elizabeth
Fry in heaven, Charlotte Elizabeth i'll
heaven, the mother Of Augustine in
heaven, the Countess Of Huntingdon,
who sold her splendid jewels to build
chapels, i'll heaven, while great many
| others who have never been heard CT ca
earth or known but little have gone to
the rest ard peace Of heaven. What .
rest What q change it was from the
small room, with no fire and ore win
dow, the glass broken out, and tie aeh-
| ing side and wornout eyes, to the "hoase
Ct many mansions!" No more stitching
until IL O'Clock at night, no moro
| thrusting Of the thumb by the employer
through the work TO show that it was
not done quite right. Plenty of bread at
last Heaven for aching heads. Heaven
for broken hearts. Heaven for anguish
bitten frames. No more sitting up until
midnight for the coming of staggering
steps. No more rough blows across the
temples. No more sharp, keen, bitter
curses
Some Of you will have no rest in this
world. 1t will be toll and struggle and
suffering all the way up You will have
to stand at your door fighting back the
wolf with your own hand, red with car
mage. But God has a crown for YOU
want you to realize that he is now max
ing 1t, and whenever you weep tear
he sets another gem in that crown:
whenever You have pang of body or
soul he puts another gem in that crown.
until, after awhile, in all the tara there
will be no room for another splendor,
and God will say to his angel, stThe
crown is done; let her up that she may
wear it y And as the Lord Of righteous
ness puts the crown upon your brow an
gel will cry to angel, "Who is she?',
and Christ will say: 81 will tell you
who she is. She is the one that came M
out of great tribulation aud had her
robe washed and made white in the
blood of the lamb. y And then God will
spread banquet, and he will invite all
the municipalities of heaven to sit at the
feast, and the tables will blush with
the best clusters from the vineyards of
God, and crimson with the IL manner
of fruits from the tree of life, and wa
tiers from the fountain of the rock will
flash from the golden tankards, and tbs
old harpers of heaven will sit there,
making music with their harms and