Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-06-27
Women In Emergencies.

Again, I have to tell you that it is wom-
ans specific right to comfort under the
stress of dire disaster. She is called the
weaker vessel, but all profane as well as
sacred history attests that when the crisis
comes she is better prepared than man to
meet the emergency. How often you have
seen a woman who seemed to be disciple
of frivolity and Incidence, who under one
stroke off calamity, changed to heroine!
Oh, what q great mistake those business
men make who never tell their business
troubles to their wivesl There comes
some great loss to the store, or some Of
their companions in business play them
sad trick, and they carry the burden all
alone. He is asked in the household again
and again, "What is the matter?" but he
believes it sort of Christian duty to keep
all that trouble within his own soul. Oh
sir, your first duty was to tell your wife
all about it. She perhaps might not have
disontangled your finances or extended
your credit, but she would have helped
you to bear misfortune. You have no right
to carry on one shoulder that which is in
tended for two There are business men
who know what mean. There comes
crisis in your affairs. You struggle bravely
and long, but after awhile there comes
day when you say, "Here l shall have to
STOP" and you call in your partners, and
you call in the most prominent men in
your employ, 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 affair. What
does she say? Does she play the butterfly?
Does she talk about the silks, and the rib
bons, and tho fashionsp No. She comes up
to the emergency. She quails not under
the stroke. She helps you to begin to plan
right away. She offers to go out of the
comfortable house into smaller one and
| wear the cid cloak another winter. She Is
| one who understands your affairs without
blaming you. You look upon what you
thought was thin, weak woman's arm
holding you up but while you look at that
arm there comes into the feeble muscles Of
| 1t the strength of the eternal God. No
chiding. No fretting No telling you
| about the beautiful house Of her father,
from which you brought her, 10, 90 or 30
years ago. You say: swell, this is the
happiest day of my life. l am glad have
got from under my burden. My wife don't
eare-I don't care" At the moment you
were utterly exhausted God sent De-
borah to meet the host of tho Amalekites
and scatter them like chaff over the plain.
Her Responsive Heart.
There are sometimes women who sit
| +a1 nd hS trTicb Ia
| that they had some grand field in which to
display their Christian powers. Oh, what
grand and glorious things they could do II
they only had an opportunity! My sister,
you need not wait for any such time. A
crisis will come in your affairs. There
| will be ThermopylB in your own house
hold, where God will tell you to stand.
| There are hundreds of households where
| as much courage is demanded of woman
as was exhibited by Grace Darling o.
| Marie Antoinetto or Joan of Arc.
Woman is further endowed to bring US
into the kingdom of heaven. 1t is easter
for woman to be Christian than for a
man. WhyP You say she is weaker. No.
Her heart is more responsive to tho plead
4 ings of divine love. The fact that she can
more easily become Christian prove by
the statement that threc-fourths of the
members of the churches in all Christen-
dom are women. 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
CIR three and in private haane life. A pr
tient, loving, Christian demeanor in the