Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-06-17
frivolous and dissipated life, to tenn
pora1 and eternal damnat1on.
destinations of Fashions.


destinations of Fashions.
| o woman. with the lightning of
your soul, strike dead at your feet all
these a1lurements 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 it? Oh, give to God your heart;
give to God all your best energies; give
to God all your culture; give to God
all your refinement; give yourself to
him. for this world and the next. Soon
all these bright eyes will be quenched
and these voices will be hushed For
the last time you will look upon this
fair earth. Fathers hand, mothers
hand. sisters hand, child's hand will
no more be in yours. 1t will be night,
and there will come up a cold wind
from the Jordan and you must start.
Will it be a lone woman on a traczless
moor? All, no! Jesus will come up in
that hour and offer his hand, and he
Will say, 'tYou stood by me when you
were well; now I will not desert YOU
when you are sick. ;" One wave of his
hand and the storm will drop, and an
other wave of his hand and midnight
shall break into midnOOn, and another
wave of his hand and the chamberlains
Of God will come down from the treas
ure houses of heaven with robes lus-
trous, blood washed and heaven glinted,
in which you will array yourself for the
marriage supper of the Lamb And then
with Miriam, who struck the timbrel Of
the Red sea, and with Deborah, who
led the Lords host into the fight, and
with Hannah, who gave her Samuel to
the Lord, and with Mary, who rocked
Jesus to sleep while there were angels
singing in the air, and with sisters of
charity, who bound up the battle wounds
of the Crimea, you will, from the chal-
ice of God, drink to the souls eternal
rescue.
Your dominion is home, o wom-
an! What a brave fight for home the
women of Ohio made some 10 or 15
years ago, when they banded together
and in many of the towns and cities Of
that state marched in procession, and
by prayer and Christian songs shut up
more places of dissipation than were
ever countedl Were they opened again?
Oh, yes. But is it not good thing to
shut up the gates of hell for two or
three months? 1t seemed that men en-
gagged in the business of destroying 9th
ers did not know how to cope with this
kind of warfare. They knew how to
fight the Maine liquor law, and they
knew how to fight the National Temper
ance society, and they knew how to
fight the Sons of Temperance and Good
Samaritans, but when Deborah appeared
upon the scene Sisera took to his feet
and got to the mountains. Tt seems that
they did not know how to contend
against Coronation and cold Hun
bred" and ''Brattle Street" and "Beth-
any," they were SO very intangible.
These men found that they could not
accomplish much against that kind of
warfare, and in one of the cities q regi-
ment was brought out all armed to dis
perse the women. They came down in
battle array, blb5, oh, what poor success!
for that regiment was made up of gen
tlemen, and gentlemen do not like to
shoot women with hymnbOoks in their
hands. Oh, they found that cunning
for female prayer meetings was very
poor business. No real damage was
done, although there was threat Of vio-
lence after threat of violence all over
the land I really think if the women
of the east had as much faith in God
as their sisters of the west had and the
same recklessness of human criticism, I
really believe that in one month three
fourths Of the grogshops of our cities
would be closed and there would be
running through the cutters of the
streets burgundy and cOgnac and held
sick and old port and schiedam schnapps
and lager beer, and you would save
your fathers and your husbands and
your sons first from a drunkard's grave
and secondly from a drunkard's hell.
To this battle for home let all women
rouse themselves. Thank God for our
early home. Thank God for our present
home Thank God for the coming home
in heaven.
An Allegory.
One twilight, after I had been play
ing with the children for some time, [
lay down on the lounge to rest The
children said play more. Children al
ways want to play more. And, half
asleep and half awake, | seemed to
dream this dream: 1t seemed to me that
[ was in far distant land-nOt Persia,
although more than oriental luxuri-
ance crowned the cities; nor the tropics,
although more than tropical fruitful
ness filled the gardens; nor Italy, al
though more than italian softness filed
the air And wandered around looking
for thorns and nettles, but I found none
of them grew there. And walked forth,
and I saw the sun rise, and I said,
"When will it set again?" and the sun
sank not. And I saw all the people in
holiday apparel, and said, tWhen do
they put on workingman' garb again
and delve in the mine and swelter at
the forge?'' But neither the garments