The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-06-27
m. qALMAGE'S SERMON.
HERoIsM OF WOMEN.
sNovn whenever Trouble or Mis-
~ fortune Befalls Man.

n
k,b in reciting woman's opportunities. |
E.,s 10 say that woman has the special and
-,s,latiye right OF blessing and comforting
~ sick. What land, what street. what
s,nsp. has not felt the smitings OF disease?
70 Of thousands OF sickbedsl What shall
.sdo with them2 Shall man. with his rough
ri and heavy foot and impatient bearing,
,inister? No. he cannot soothe the pain. He
.,not quiet the nerves. He knows not
.bere 60 set the light. His hand is not
.saly enough TO pour out the drops. He Is
y, wakcful enough to be watcher. The
Eorl God sent Miss Dix into the Virginia
b,snitals. and the Maid of Saragossa 20 an
- the wounds OF the battlefield, and has
I.mippei wife. mother and daughter for this
I,srate but tremendous mission. You have
Known men who have despised women. but
,be moment disease fell upon them thoy did
~, send for their friends at the bank, or
I,hsir partner In business, or their worldly
,s.,ciates. Their ilrst cry was, Take me TO
my wife, The dissipated young man at the
solege SCOTS Mt the idea OF bel.y under
nome Influences, but Mt tho first blast OF the
,vphod fever ON his cheek he SAYS, "Where
!. motherY' Walter Scott wrote partly In
aure AMI partly In compliment when he
ud:
o woman, in our hour OF ease. '.t
Uncertain. coy and hard TO please;
when pain and anguish wiring the brow,
Administering angel thou!
Think the most pathetic passage In all the
Btle Is the description OF the lad who went
sut 10 the harvest field OF Shunem and got
mnstruck-throwing his hands on his tenn
4 slas and CRYING out; "Oh. my headl NY
| headw And they said, Garry him 20 his
mother" And then the record Is, "He sat
| on her knees till noon, and then died" II
| an awful thing. to be Ill away from home
| N strange hotel, once In awhile men COM
| ine to look at you, holding their hand over
I nelr mouth for fear that they will catch the
| contagion. How roughly they turn you In
| bed! How loudly they talk How you long
| for the ministries OF home! knew one such
who went away from one of the brightest OF
I homes for several weeks business absence at
I the West. A telegram came at midnight that
| he was on his deathbed far away from home.
. By express train tho wife and daughters
vent westward, but they went too late. He
| feared rot TO die. but he was in an agony to
i've until his family got there. He tried TO
| brihe the doctor to make him live little
[ while longer. He said, II am willing TO die,
/ but not alone" But the pulses futtered,
/ the eyes closed and the heart stopped. The
express trains met in the emidnight-wife and
daughters going westward, lifcless remains
| o. husband and father coming eastward. Oh
Il waga sad. pitiful. overwhelming spectacle!
When we are sick. we want to be sick at
home. When the time comes for US to die,
We want 20 die at home. The room may be
very humble. and the faces that look into
ours may be very plain, but who cares for
that Loving hands TO bathe the temples.
Loving voices to speak good cheer. Loving
lirs g. read the comforting promises Of
Jesus
In our last dreadful war mon cast the can
non mrn fashioned the muskctry; mon cried
10 the hosts, Forward. march" men hurled
their battalions ON the sharp edges of the
enemy crying, "Charge. churgen but
woman srraped the lint; woman admins
tered the cordials; woman watched by the
dying couch; woman wrote the last message
to the home circle; woman wept at tho soli-
tary burial attended by herself and four men
with spade. We greeted the general home
with lrass bands and triumphal arches and
wild huzzas but the story Is too good to be
written anywhere. save in the chronicles OF
heaven. OF Mrs. Brady. who came down
among the sick in the swamps ofthe Chicka.
hOminy; Of Annie Ross, in the cooper shop
hospital OF Margaret Brec.dnridge, who
came to men who had been for weeks with
their wounds undressed, some OF them frozen
10 the ground. and when she turned them
over those that had an arm left waved il and
flled the air with their "Hurrah. Of Mrs.
Hodge, who came from Chicago with blan-
kets and with pillows, until the men shouted:
Three cheers for the Christian commission,
God bless the women at home :" then, sit
ting down TO take tho last message: "rall
my wife not 10 fret about me. but to meet me
in heaven. Toll her 10 train up tho boys
whom we have loved so well. Tell her we
shall meet again in the good land. Tell her
70 bear my loss like tine Christian wito OF n
Christian soldier and OF Mrs. Shelton, into
laA Hnl IL.
and said, Your grapes and cologne cured
me-, Men did their work with shot and
shell and carbine and howtZer, women did
their work with socks and slippers and
bandages, and warm drinks. and Scripture
texts, aud gentle strokings OF the hot tenn pies
and stories Of that lald where they never
have any pain. Men knelt down over the
wounded aud said, ION which side did you
hghtF. Women knelt down over the wound.
ed and said; where are you hurt? What
nice thing can make for you to eat? What
makes you cry?' Tonight. while we mer
are sound asleep in our beds there will be a
ighl IN yonder loft; there will be groaninc
III that dark alley; there will be cries OF dis.
tre'' IN that cellar. Men will sleep, and
women will watch.
Again, woman has superlatiye right Go
tase cGte OF the poor. There are hundred.
and thousands of them in all our cities
iuere Is KIND OF work that men Caunot dC
Tor the poor. Here comes group OF little
barefoot children to the door OF the Dorca,
society. They need TO be clothed and pro-
Ndrd Tor. Which of these directors ot
banks would know how many yards it would
axe to make that little girl dress? Which
v' these masculine hands could tit n hat 70
lhht little girls healy Which OF the wise
men would know how 10 tie on that new
pA" OF shoes! Man sometimes gives his
Shafily in rough way, and 1t falls like the
run Oh tree IN the East, which fruit comes
uO"h 80 heavily that IT breaks the skull OF
ILo man who is trying 10 gather IT, But
woman glldes 30 softly into the house OF
restitution, and finds out all the sorrows OF
luf place. and puts so quietly tho donation
Vh lne table, that all the family come out on
,np np 'front.' steps rs she departs. expecting that
rom under her shawl she will thrust out two
M,ngs ana go right up toward heaven, from
mhrhce she seems to have come down. q
Nut'Iian Young woman. II you would make
yourself happy and win the blessing ol
NnLlat' 80 out among the destitute. loaI
" dread or n bundle Of socks may make n
nGmnileiy load TO carry, but the angels OF God
nIl come out 10 watch, and the Lord
AlulIShty will give His messenger hosts a
SCuaFse, saying; Look after that woman.
t,ahopy her with your wings and shelter her
from all harm" and while you are seated in
iue iiue mouse OF destitution and suffering the
ntle ones around the room will WhisI or,