Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-06-24

which is intended for two. There are
business men who know what I mean.
There comes a crisis in your affairs.
You struggle bravely and long. but aft
er awhile there comes a day when you
say, 'Here I shall have to STOP" and
you call in your partners, and you call
in the most prominent men in your en-
plov. 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
Portable house into a 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 Gliding No fret
ting. No telling 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. [ am glad [ lave got
from under my burden. My wife don t
care-I don It care. ;" At the moment you
were utterly exhausted God sent De
borah to meet the host of the Amalekites
and scatter them like chaff over the
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 things
they could do if they only had an OPP
portunity My sister, you need not wait
for any such time. A crisis will come
in your affairs. There will be u Their
mopyl@ in your own household, where
God will teal you to stand. There are
hundreds of households where as much
courage is demanded of woman as was
exhibited by Grace Darling or Marie
Antoinette or Joan of Arc.
Woman is further endowed to bring
us into the kingdom of heaven. 1t is
easier for woman to be a Christian
than for a man. Why? You say she is
weaker. No. Her heart is more respon-
sive to the pleadings of divine love. The
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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 a great many
others who have never been heard Of on
earth OF known but little have gone to
the rest and peace of heaven. What a
rest! What 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 'thouse
of many mansions!" No more stitching
until - o'clock at night, no more
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
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 it, 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 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 angea "Who is she?''