Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

ann ia arm down life's pathway; some
times TO the Thanksgiving banquet. some
times o. the grave. but always together
--authiue YOUR retty grirf~, correcting
Your childish WaywArines~. Joining In
Vaur iufautilr sports listening to Your even
ing praysr-. t1ilins Tor YOU with needle or
at the spinning wheel. AMI on cold nights
wrapIing YOU NO snug and warm. Aud thea
at last 0n that day when she lay In the back
room dv.ur. aud you saw her takethu-e thin
hands with which she had toiled for You So
lona. aui Tut them together In dying
praser that commrniri YOU 10 me Tod
wnum Sne MAJ lau-nt Won 70 truSt-on, sne
was the qureni The chariots oi God came
down 10 fetch her. and ~ she went In all
heaven rose ZAP. You cannot think oi her
now without rush % tenderness that -tlrS
the deep foundations az Your soul, and You
feelas much a child ,ain n Wien Won cried
ON her lap, and Il YOU could bring her back
again to speak lust once more your name ~
tenierlyn- she used o. speak IL You would be
willin. 10 throw yourself on the ground AMI
is the sod that covers her. crying,
Mother mother" All she WAS the queen
She WAS the queer. Now, can You
tell me how many thousand niles
woman like that would have TO
travel down .hefore she got 10 the
ballot hoN? Compared with this
work oi training kings and queens. for God
amt tA'lNllNs NOW llt~ikhlll'dhN stNAA9 az
this work nf voting for aldermen and COM
mon c0uurilmcn and -herilS and cOnstahles
and mayors aul presidents! To make one
such grand woman aS have described how
many Thousands would you want OF those
peope who 70 in the round Of fashion and
dissipation, going As far toward disgraceiul
apparel a. they dare 90, 50 as not to be
arrested by the police behavior sor-
row t. the good and n caricature OF the
vicious and an Insult To that God who made
them women ana not gorgons, aud tramping
on, down through a frivolous and dissipated
life. To temporal and eternal damnation.
q woman. with the lightning of your soul,
strike dead at your feet all these allurements
t0dis-ipatiun ami t. fashion. Your immor-
;al soul cannot be- fed upon such garbage.
God cails YOU up to empire aud dominion.
viii you have il? Oh. give to God your
heart: give to God all your best energies;
give to God all your culture; give 10 God all
YOUR refinement. give Yourself To Him, Tor
ths world and the next. Soon all these
bright eyes will Ice Vupuched and these voices
! will be huShed. For the last time YOU will
! look upon this fair earth. Fathers hand,
| mothers hand, sisters hand, childs 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 he a lone
| woman on trackess moor? Ali, no. Jesus
! will come up in that hour and offer His
| hand, and He will say, You stood by Me
! when yuu We're well: now | 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 rhamberains of God will come down
| from the treasure houses Of heaven with
robes ustrous. 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 timbel 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 III the air, and with
sisters OF charity, who bound up the battle
| wounds of the Crimea. YOU will. from the
chalice Of God. drink To- the souls eternal
rescue.
Your dominion is home, o woman! What
a brave fight Tor 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 and Christian
songs shut upmore places ofdssipation thar
We're ever counted. We're they opened
again? On. yes. But is it not Il good thinG
to shut up the gates Of he'll for two orthret
months? 1t seemed that men engaged in the
business OF destroying others did not know
how 10 cope with this kind Of warfare. They
knew how to ilgh. the Maine liquor law, ant
! they knew how to- fight the National Temper
an2e Society and they knew how to fight tn,
/ Sons OF Temperance and Good Samar
itans, but when Deborah appeared upon
the scene Ssera took to his feet an,
got To the mountains. 1t seems tina
they did not know how to contend againS
coronation and "Old Hundred anC
"Brattlc Street aud "Bpthany,' they wer,
50 very intangible. These men found 'ha
they could not accomplish much agains
that kind Of warfare, and in one OF the elite
Il regiment was brought out all armed t.
disperse the women. They came down il
battle array but oh. what poor success TO
that regiment was made up Of gentlemen
and gentlemen dc not like to shoot wOmeI
with hymnbooks in their hands. On, the
found that cunning for female prayer meet
ing was very poor business. No rea
damage was done, although there was thrca
of violence after threat OF violence ali OYe
the land. really think if the wome
Of the East had aS much faith in God rs thei
sisters OF the West had and the same reck
lessneSs Of human criticism, | really heliev
that in one month three-fourths of tn
grOgshops Of our cities would be- closed, an
, there would he running through the gutter
OF the streets Burgundy and cOgnac, an
Heidsick and old port and SchiedaT
Srhnapps and lager beer, and you woul
save your fathers and your husbands an
your sons first from 4 drunkard'e grave an
secondly from a drunkard's hell. To tn
! battle for home let all women rouse them
selves. Thank God for our early home
Thank God for our present home. Than
. God for the coming home in heaven.
One twilight, after had been playing witt
the children for some time, / lay down o
! the lounge to rest The children said pla
more. Children always want to play more
And, half asleep and half awake, l seemed t
dream this dream: 1t seemed to me that
was in far distant land-not Persia, a
E though more than Oriental nXurianc
. crowned the cities; nor the tropics, althoug
+ more than tropical fruitfulness filled tn
t gardens; nor Italy, although more tina
Italian softness filled the air. And wal
tered around looking for thOrns and nettle,
but | found none OF them grew there An
, | walked forth, and | saw the sun rise, an
+ l said, "When will it set AGAIN. and tn
sun sank not And | saw all the people /
4 holiday apparel, and | said "When
they put on workinsman's garb Rgai
D and delve in the mine and swelter at TIL
, forge?' But neither the garments nor tn
, robes did they put of. And | wandered i
: the suburbs, and | said, Where do the
= bury the dead Of this great city," And
. looked along by the hills where ii would /
e most beautiful for the dead to sleep, ana
t saw castles and towns and battements, br
+. not mansOleum nor monument nor whit
slab could | see. And went into the greI
Z chapel Of the town. and | said: Where d
). the poor worship? Where are the bench
Y on which they sit?" And u voice answere,
ave have no poor in this great cityI"
/, And wandered out, seeking to find thu
: place where were the novels Of the destitute
5 and found mansions of amber and iyor
!. and gold, but no tear did l see or sigh hear
D was bewiIdered. and sat under the shade
: of Il great tree and said, What am | an
a whence comes all ths?' And at that momel
Il there came from among the leaves, skippin
+ up the flowery paths and across the sparl