The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-03

II you would make yourself happy
and win the blessing Of Christ, 60 out
among the destitute \ loaf of bread
or 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 mes
senger 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
whisper: ''Who is she: Amt she
beautiful" 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
Christian errand, never meets with
any indignity: 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 l said to her as
looked around upon the fearful sur
roundings of that place, ''Do you
come here nights to hold service"
"Oh, yes, she said. Can it be pos
sible that you never meet with an in
suit while performing this Christian
errand:" Never she said. Never"
That young woman who has her
father by her side walking down the
street, an armed policeman at each
corner Of the street, is not so well de-
Tended as that Christian who goes
forth on gospel work into the haunts
of iniquity, carrying the Bibles and
bread. God, with the right arm of
his wrath omnipotent, would tear to
pieces any one who should offer in
dignity. He would smite him with
lightnings, and drown him with
floods, and swallow him with earth
quakes, and damn him with eternal
indignations. Some one said: Il dis
like very much too see that Christian
woman teaching these bad boys in the
mission school. I am afraid to have
her instruct them. 80" said anoth-
er man, Il am afraid too" Said the
first, Il am afraid they will use vile
language before they leave the place"
"Ah, " said the other man, I am not
afraid of that. What I am afraid of
is that if any of those boys should use
8 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 ON
impotence, and it is always safe to 60
where God tells you 10 60. 1t seems
as if the Lord had ordained woman
for an especial work in the solicita
ton of charities. Backed up by bar
rels in which there is no flour, and by
stoves ia which there is no fire, and
wardrobes in which there is no
clothes, a woman is irresistible. Pass
ing on her errand, God says to her,
'You 60 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 but
help get it. 1t 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 ofyou saying you are begged
to death. There is no need of you
wasting your time, and you might as
we'll submit first as last. You had
better right away take down your
checkboolS, 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
children on the back street have been
hungry long enough. That sick man
must have some farina. That con-
sumptive must have something to
ease his cough. I meet this delegate
of a relief society coming out of the
store of such hard isted man, and
1 say, did you get the money" "Of
course" she says, II got the money;
that's what I went for. The Lord told
me to 60 in and get it, and he never
sends me on fools errand."
Again, I have to tell you that it is
woman's specific right to comfort un-
der the stress of dire disaster. She is
called the weaker vessel, but all pro-
fame as well as sacred history attests
that when the crisis comes she is bet
ter prepared than man to meet the
emergency. How often you have seen
a woman who seemed to be disciple
of frivolity and incidence, who, un-
der one stroke of calamity, changed
to a heroine. Oh, what a great mis-
take those business men make who
never tell their business to their wives.
There comes some great loss to the
store, or some of their companions in
business play them a sad trick, and
they carry the burden all alone. He
is asked in the household again and
again, ''What is the natter" but he
believes it a sort Of Christian duty to
keep all that trouble within his own
soul. Oh, sir, your first duty was to
tell your wife all abou: it. She per
laps might not have disentangled
your finances or extended your credit,
but she would have helped you to
bear misfortune. You have no right
to carry on one shoulder that which is
intended for two. There are business
men who know what I mean. There
comes crisis in your affairs. You
struggle bravely and long, but after
awhile there comes a 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 employ, and you say, I'VE have
to stop" You leave the store sudden
ly. You can scarcely make up your
mind to pass through the street and
over on bridge or on the ferryboat.
You feel every body will be looking at
you and blaming you and denouncing
you. You hasten home. You tell
your wife all about the affair. What
does she say? Does she play the but
terhy2 Does she talk about the silks,
and the ribbons, and the fashions.
No. She comes up to the emergency.