The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-17

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falcatiOns. Panics. CatastrOphes. Oh. wo-
mani thank God you have a home. and
mat you may be queen IN Il. Better be
l there than wear NictOrias coronet. Bet
ter be there than carry the purse Of a
princess. Your abode may be humble, but
you can. by your faith in God. and your
cheerfulness of demcanor. gild it with
{ splendors such as an upholsterers hand
never yet kindied. There are abodes in
every city-humble, two stories; four
I PLAIN unpapered rooms; undesirable
neighborhOod; and yet there is a
man who would die on the thresh-
hold rather than surrender. Why2 II
is home. Whenever he thinks of
Z it he sees angels OF God lowering around
1 IT, The ladders Of heaven are let down TO
that house. over the chids rough crib
there are the chantings OF angels as those
7 that broke over Bethlehem Il is home.
f These children may come up after a while,
and they may win high positions, and they
may have an afiiuent residence: but they
I viii not until their dying day forget that
humble roof. under which their father rest
I ed, and their mother sang, and their sis
/ tiers played. Oh, If YOU would gather up all
+ tender memories. all the lights and shades
( OF the heart, all banquetings and reunions,
all hlial. fraternai, pateTnal and cOnjugal
affections, and you had only just four let
I tiers with which to spell out that hight and
depth, and length. and breadth. and mag
nitude, and eternity Of meaning. you would
with streaming eyes, and trembling voice,
7 and agitated hand. write It out in those
/ four living capitals. HOME.
What right does woman want that is
I grander than to be queen in such a realm?
( Why, the eagles Of heaven cannot fly
across that dominion. Horses, painting and
+ with lathered tanks are not swift enough
4 to run to the outposts of that realm They
say that the sun never sets upon the Eng
lish empire; but / have TO tell you that on
this realm of woman's influence. eternity
never marks any bounds. Isabella fled
/ from the Spanish throne pursued by the
nations anathema; but she who is queen in
a home Will never lose her throne. and
death itself will only be the annexation of
I heavenly principalities.
When you want 10 get your grandest
I idea of queen, you do not think of
/ Catherine of Russia, or of Anne of Eng
! land, or Marie Theresa of Germany; but
/ when you want 70 get your grandest idea
of queen, you think of the plain woman
who sat opposite your father at the table,
or walked with him arm-in-arm down
/ life's pathway; sometimes to the Thanks
| giving banquet: sometimes to the grave
but always together-soothing your petty
griefs, correcting your childish hayward
ness, joining in your infantile sport lis
tenlng to your evening prayers toiling for
you with needle, or a the spinning wheel
and on cold nights wrapping you up snug
and warm. And then at last on that day
when she lay in the back room dying, and
you saw her take those thin hands, with
which she had toiled for you so long, and
put them together in a dying prayer that
commended you to the God whom she had
taught you to trust-Oh, she was the
queen! The chariots of God came down to
fetch her; and as she went in, all heaven
rose up. You cannot think of her now
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deep foundations of your soul, and you
feel as much a child again as when you
cried on her lap; and if you could bring
her back again to speak just once more
your name, as tenderly as she used TO
speak IT, you would be willing TO throw
yourself on the ground and kiss the sod
that covers her, crying: Mother moth
er" All! she was the queen-she was the
queen. Now, can you tell me how many
thousand miles a woman like that would
have to travel down before she got to the
ballot box. Compared with this work of
training kings and queens for God and
eternity, how insignificant seems all this
work of voting for aldermen and common
councilmen. and sheriffs, and constables,
and mayors, and presidents! To make one
such grand woman as / have described,
how many thousands would you want of
those people who go In the round of fash
ion and dissipation, going as far toward
disgraceful apparel as they dare go, so
as not to be arrested by the police-their
behavior a sorrow to the good and carl
cature of the vicious, and an insult to
that God who made them women, and not
gorgons. and tramping on, down through
frivolous and dissipated life, to tenn
poral and eternal damnation.
oh, woman, with the lightning of your
soul, strike dead at your feet all these al
lurements to dissipation and to fashion
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such garbage. God calls you up to en-
pre and dominion. VIII 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 refine
ment; give yourself 10 him, for this world
and the next. Soon all these bright eyes
will be quenched, and those voices will be
hushed. For the last time you will look
upon this fair earth. Fathers hand, moth
ers hand, sisters hand, childs hand will
no more be in yours. 1t will be night, and
there will come up cold wind from the
Jordan, and you must start. Win il be a
lone woman on a trackless moor? All!
no. Jesus will come up in that hour and
offer his hand and he will say: "You
stood by me when you were we'll; now l
will not desert you when you are sick"
One wave of his hand, and the storm will
drop; and another wave of his hand, and
midnight shall break into midnoon; and
another wave of his hand, and the cham
berlain of God will come down from the
treasure houses of heaven, with robes lus-
trous, blood-washed and heaven glinted, in
which you will array yourself for the mar
riage 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 chaltce of God, drink to the
souls eternal rescue.
Your dominion is home. o woman!
What a brave fight for home the women
of Ohio made some ten or fifteen years
ago, when they banded together and in
many of the towns and cities of that state
marched in procession, and by prayer ana
| Christian songs shut up more places OF
dissipation than were ever counted. Were
they opened again? oh, yes. But is it not
a good thing to shut up the gates of hell
for two or three months? 1t seemed that
men engaged in the business of Destroy
ing others did not know how to cope with
this kind of warfare. They knew how to
! fight the Maine liquor law, and they knew