The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-06


or Miriam 10 strike rae rmhrel at me
front of a host. OF a Marie Anto.lerte 90
g lrl ErrIel mob. or DrcoEAu 70
stand a- the fron- % an armed battalion
which the Lord VII deliver Sisera into
r-lre hand" And when women are called
TO such outdoor W0rk and 90 such heroic
positions God prepares them for o. ana
rleY have iron iu their souls and light
ming iu rl-ir eye and WhirlWlrls iu rlei-
breath. and the borrowed Strength % tne
Lord ounipotert Oh their ris1t arm T1ey
Walk through furnaces ~ though they
were hedges % wild flowers. and cross
seas as though they we're shimlF ring sap
phires. and all the harp.es 81 bell down 20
AMY in1lEnation- But these are the eNcep-
lions. Generally. Dorras would rather
make garment Tor the poor boy Re
hecca would rather dE ne trough Tor the
camel7. Hannah would rather make
coat for samuel, the Hebrew mad would
rather give a pres -ript!cu FOR Naamln's
leprosy, the woman OF Sarepta would
rather gather few sticks 20 cook a meal
for famished Elijah: Phebe would rather
carry = letter FOR the inspired apostle.
mother Lois would rather educate Tim
othy ~ me scrlp. ures Waen see wo-
man going about her daily duty-W N
cheerful entity presiding az She table.
with kind and gentle. but firm discipline
presiding IN the nursery. gong out into
the world without any blast OF trlmpets
following ia the footsteps OF him who
went about doing good say: This Is
NashI with a veil on" But when j see a
woman OF unbiushlng holiness. loud
voiced with a tongue OF infinite Glitter
ciatter with arrogant look. passing
through the streets with the step Of a
walkng-Deam, gayly arrayed IN a very
hurricane OF millinery, ] cry out. "Nashu
has lost her vellt" When / see a woman
or comedy features. and Of adroitncss OF
intellect. and endowed with all THAI the
schools can do for one. and Of high social
posltpnt yet moving IN society, Win SUI
percillOusness and hauteur, as though she
would have people know their place, and
an undecided combination OF glggle and
strut and rhodomOntade, endowed with
allopathic quantities OF talk, but only
homeopathic innnites.mals Of sense, the
terror Of dry-goods clerks and railroad
conductors, discoveries Of significant
meanings in plain conversation. prodigies
OF badu-age and innuendO-I say: Look.
look! Nashu has lost her veil"
Again, i want you TO consider Nashu
the sacrifice. Who is this l see coming
out Of that palace gate of shushan? 1t
seems to me that / have seen her before
Sne comes homeless, hOuseless, friendless,
trudging along with broken heart. Who
Is shey IT is Nashu the sacrifice. o, what
a change II was from regal position 10 a
Wayfarer's crust A little while ago, ap-
proved and sought for; now, none so poor
as 10 acknowledge her acquaintanceship.
Nashu the saCrincei All you and l have
seen IL many a time. Here is a home en-
palaced with beauty. All that refinement
and books and wealth can do for that
homo has been done; but Ahasuerus. the
husband and the father, is taking hold on
paths OF sin. He is gradually going down
After awhile he will founder and struggle
ike wild beast In the hunters net
further away from God, further away
from the right. Soon the bright apparel
OF the children will turn to rags; soon the
household song will become the sobbing
Of broken heart. The old story over
again. Brutal Centaurs breaking up the
marriage feast Of Lapithae The house full
OF outrage and cruelty and abomina(ion,
while trudging forth from the palace gate
are Nashti and her children. There are
homes that are in danger Of such a break
ing-up. O, Ahasuerus! that you should
stand in home, by a -dissipated life de-
stroying the peace and comfort of that
home. God forbid that your children
should ever have to wiring their hands,
and have people point their finger at them
as they pass down the street. and say,
There goes a drunkard's child" God
forbid that the little feet should ever have
to trudge the path OF poverty and
wretchedness! God, forbid that any evil
spirit born Of the wine-cup or the bran
dy-glaSs should come forth and uproOt
that garden, and with lasting. blistering.
an-consuming curse, shut forever the pal
ace gate against Nashti and the children!
During the war / went to Hagerstown
TO look at the army. and / stood in the
night on a hilltop and looked down upon
them. I saw the camp-fires all through
the valleys and all over the hills. II was
weird spectacle, those camp-fres and
stood and watched them; and the sol
diers who were gathered around them
were, no doubt talking of their homes
and Of the long march they had taken
and of the battles they were TO fight; but
after awhile 1 saw these camp-fres be-
gin to lower; and they continued to lower
until they were all gone out. and the
army slept. It was imposing when l saw
the camp-hres; 1t was imposing in the
darkness when / thought, of that great
host asleep. Well, God looks down from
heaven, and he sees the flresides of Chris
tendon and the loved ones gathered
around these firesides. These are the
the close of the day, and talk over the
battles of life we have fought and the
battles that are yet to come. God grant
that when at last these fires begin to go
out and continue to lower until finally
they are extinguisbed, and the ashes of
consumed hopes strew the hearth of the
old homestead, 1t may be because we have
Gone to sleep that last long sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep.
Now we are an army on the march OF
life. Then, we will be an army bivouack-
ed in the tent of the grave.
Once more; / want you TO look at wash
! Il the silent. You do not hear any out
cry from this woman as she goes forth
from the palace gate. From the very dig
nifty of her nature, you know there will
be no vociferation. Sometimes in life IL is
necessary to make a retort; sometimes in
| life II is necessary to resist: but there are
| SliSC5 WAAtil the must triumphant tnlng TO
| do is to keep silence The philosopher.
| confident in his newly-discovered princi-
| pie waiting for the coming of more intel
| ligent generations. willing that men
/ should laugh at the lightning rod and
| cotton gin and misunderstanding for
| long years through the scot
| fing of philosophical schools.
! in grand and magnificent ST.
/ lence. Gallileo, condemned by mathemati-
| clans and scientists, caricatured everv-
l where yet waiting and watching with his
| telescope to see the coming up of stellar
! reinforcements, when the stars in their
| courses would fight for the Copernican
/ system; then sitting down in complete
/ blindness and deafness to wait for the
! coming on of the generations who would
| build his monument and bow at his
| grave. The Reformer, execrated by
| his contemporaries, fastened in a
! pillory, the slow fires of public
! contempt burning under him, ground un-
| der the cylinders of the printing-press vet
/ calmly waiting for the day when purity of
1 soul and heroism of character will get the
| sanctiticauon of earth and the plaudits of
heaven. Affiiction, enduring without any
| complaint the sharpness of the pang
| and the violence of the storm and the heft
! of the chain and of the darkness of night.
| Waiting, until a divine hand shall be 1)1It
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