Milford chronicle., 1895-06-21

L., FRIDAY, JUNE d. ]
I princess. Your abode may be humble, bu
you can, by your faith in God and you
cheerfulness Of demeanOr, gid it witt
splendOrs such as an upholsterer's han'
never yet kindled
There are abodes in every city-hum
BILE, two stories, four plain unpapereS
rooms, undesirable neighborhood, and ye
there Is a man who would die on tn,
threshold rather than surrender. Why
Il is home. Whenever he thinks Of 1t, HI
sees angels Of God lowering around it
The ladders Of heaven are let down t.
that house. Over the child's rough crit
there arc the chantings OF angels as those
that broke over Bethlehem. 1t is home
These children may como up after awhile,
and they may win high position, and they
may have an afliuent residence, but they
will not until their dying day forget that
humble roof under which their father rest
cd, and their mother sang, and their
sisters played. Oh, if you would gather up
all tender memories, all tho lights and
shades of the heart, all banquetings and
reunions, all fllial, fraternal, paternal and
cOnjugal affections and you had only just
four letters with which TO spell out that
height and depth and length and breadth
and magnitude and eternity Of meaning
you would with streaming eyes, and
trembling voice, and agitated hand, write
it out in those four living capitals,
HOME.
What right does woman want that is
grnnder than to be queen in such a realm2
Why, the eagles of heaven cannot fly across
that dominion. Horses, painting and with
lathored TANKS, arc not swift enough TO
run to the outpost Of that realm. They
say. that the sun never sets upon the Eng
fish empire, but have to tell yoH that on
this realm of woman's influence eternity
never marks any bound. Isabella fed from
tho Spanish throne, pursued by tho ma
tons anathema, but she who is queen in
a home will never lose her throne and
death itself will only he tho annexation Of
heavenly municipalities
The Grandest Woman.
When you want to get your grandest
idea Of queen, you do not think of Cath
crime of Russia or of Anne of England, or
Marie Theresa Of Germany, but when You
want to get your grandest idea Of queen
you think Of the plain woman who sat OPP
posite your father at the table or walked
with him arm in arm down life pathway;
sometimes to the Thanksgiving banquet,
sometimes TO the grave but always to-
gether-soothing your petty griofs, cor
recting your childish waywardness join
ing in your infantile sports, listening tC
your evening prayers, tOiling for you with
needle or at 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 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
without rush of tenderness that stirs
the deep foundations of your soul, and
you feel as much 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: "Motherl Moth
erl" All, she was the queenl She was
the quepnl Now, can you tell ME how
many thousand miles 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 councilnen and sheriffs and con-
stables 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 fashion and dissipation, going as
far toward disgraceful apparel as they |
dare CO. so as not to be arrested by the po- /
lice-their behavior a SORROW to the good /
and caricature 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 1
temporal and eternal damnatiOn?
o woman, with the lightning of your /
soul, strike dead at your feet all these al /
lurements 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 itP 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 tho last time you will look
upon this fair earth Fathers hand, moth
er's hand, sisters hand, child's hand,
will no moro be in yours. 1t will be
night, and there will come up n cold wind
from the Jordan, and you must start.
Will it DO a lone woman on 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;
ill Of vsf rrThn ION
sick" One wave of his hand, and the
storm will drop and another wave of his
hand, and midnight shall break into mid
noon, and another wave Of bis hand, and
the chamberlains Of God will come down
from tho treasure houses of heaven, with
robes lustrous blood washed and heaven
glinted, in which you will array yourself
for the marriage supper Of the Lamb, And
hen with Miriam, who struck the timbrel
lf the Red sea- and with Deborah, who
ed 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 chalice Of God, drink
10 the souls eternal rescue.
Woman's Dominion.
Your dominion is home o womanl
What brave fight for home the women Of
Ohio made some 10 or is years ago, when
hey handed together and in many Of the
owns and cities Of that state marched in
and by prayer and Christian
songs shut up more places Of dissipation
than were ever counted. We're they opened
again2 Oh, yes. But is it not good thing
10 shut up the gates of hell for two or three
monthsP II seemed that men engaged in
the business Of destroying others did not
know how to cope with this kind Of war
fare They knew how to fight the Maine
liquor law, and they knew how to fight the
National Temperance society, and they
knew how to fight the Sons of Temperance
md GnnaeSnlnaritans hut when Debnrah