Connecticut western news., 1895-06-27

fact that she can more easily become Christian prove by the statement that three-fourths of the members of the churches in all Christendom are wom- en. So God appoints them to be the 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 in private home life. A patient, loving, Christian demeanor in the presence of transgression, in the presence of hardness, in 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 of woman is, through the grace of Christ, finally to reach heaven. Oh, what multitude of women in heavenl Mary, Christ's mother, in heaven; Elizabeth Fry in heaven, Charlotte Elizabeth in heaven, the mother of Augustine in heaven, the Countess of Huntingdon, who sold her splendid jewels to build chapels, in heaven, while great many
 
 earth or known but little have gone to the rest and peace of heaven. What rest What a change it was from the small room, with no fire and one win dow, the glass broken out, and the ach ing side and wornout eyes, to the "house of many mansions l" No more stitching until 12 o'clock at night, no more thrusting of the thumb by the employer through the work to show that 1t 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. It 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. I want you to realize that he is now mak- he sets another gem in that crown i; whenever you have pang of body or soul he puts another gem in that crown, until, after awhile, in all the tiara there will be no room for another splendor, and God will say to his angel, "The crown is done; let her up that she may wear it. :" 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. "I will tell yOu who she is. She is the one that came up out of great tribulation and had her robe washed and made white in the blood of the lamb. !" 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 12 manner of fruits from the tree of life, and wa ters from the fountain of the rock will flash from the golden tankards, and the old harpers of heaven will sit there, making music with their harps, and Christ will point you out amid the ce- lebrities of heaven, saying She suffered with me on earth. Now we are going to be glorifed together. ]" And the banquet CTS, no longer able to hold their peace, will break forth with congratulation : "Hm1i Hailp' And there will be hand writings on the wall-not such as struck the Persian noblemen with horror, but with fire tipped fingers, writing in blaz- ing capitals of light and love and victo- ry, "God has wiped away all tears from all faces ''