St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-10
DAUGHTERS PRAISED BY REV.
e. C. MITCHELL.
They. TEACH MANY LESSONS,
ESPECIALLY THOSE OF SELF
SACRIFICE AND GENEROSITY,
WITH ESPECIAL FORCE.
~NEw WOMAN" A REAL BLESSING
If She EmbOdfes in Her the Spirit
and Graces Of a "King's
Daughter"

1.-THE Kings Daughters and their
highly commendable work in che cause
f the church were recipients of spe-
cial attention in the sermon delivered
by Rev. b c. Mitchell at the New Je-
rrsalem church yesterday morning. A
number of young women who wore
the Maltese cross were present.
Mr.. Mitchell spoke from the text:
And the kings servant said unto the king,
Behold thy servants are ready to do what
over my Lord the king shall appoint H.
Samuel, Ky, 10.
The following is a synopsis of the
sermon:
Your work is good and beautiful,
placing your minds in touch with the
Divine Providence, which is the adj
ministrat ton of the divine love. 1t
opens your hearts and intellects. so
that the Divine King may fill them
with love and truth.
Your useful work reacts upon your
own character. In doing good you are
receiving good, which elevates and
strengthens your character. Your du
ties become the providential means of
developing your spiritual life.
+. Our Lord never gives US unnecessary
work, for every useful activity is
means to a good end. And if we love
the end in view, the means will become
will cease to be,a hardship.
Work for others lifts US above self
thinking 1t makes even our trials
stepping stones to better life. 1t en-
ables us to say with Jesus, But for
this cause came | unto this hour"
It is one Of the blessings Of your
work that it teaches you the wisdom
of cooperation. Although Of different
churches, parties and nationalities, you
recognize your practical unity in
common love for humanity. You can
not look unkindly upon those with
whom you have joined in the works
of love in the name of the great King.
Unity of spirit does not compel uni
formity of methods. The more you
feel that you are all daughters Of the
King, the more you will recognize your
mutual sisterhoOd.
Loving hearts are working for Chris
tan unity, and every such society as
yours is helping to bring about this
Christian unity along practical lines.
The Hebrew word "badaar," here
translated appoint" means choose"
1t involves not merely an arbitrary
command, but rather an intelligent
choice, with judgment. And this is one
. of the key notes. to intelligent action,
that it is from a well-defined princi-
pie, a thoughtful selection, adapted to
the case. TIE Divine King never calls
us to ANY work in a merely transient
outburst of superficial emotion, but in
the constant and answering devotion
to good principles. 1t is not the guSn-
ing sentimentalism of revivals which
builds UP the inner Christian life, but
the steady and daily resistance to our
own evil inclinations.
The true sons and daughters of the
King are not those who merely Stand
in public places and shout as the KING
passes by, but those who, in their own
hearts and lives, conquer the enemies
of the great King.
The Bible, like a man, has an out
ward body and an inward soul, a let
ter and a spirit. In the spiritual
meaning the scene is always laid in
the human mind.
In this symbolic sense a king repre-
sents the truth, ruling in the mind.
Spiritual royalty is in the truth, as
principle And our spiritual loyalty
must be to the Lords truth, which is
the word of the Divine King. To do
what the King appoints, spiritually, is
to wait upon the Lord, in love-, TO
know His will, to understand His
principles, and to carry out these
principles in our own daily life. And
this involves giving up of our own
selfish ways.
Standing ready to do whatsoever the
King appoints, you keep yourself in
position, mentally, to receive intelli-
gence.
In symbolic language, the man rep
resents intelligence, and the woman
represents affection; not that women
are without intelligence, or men with
out affection; but that the feminine
mind is dominated by its affections,
and the masculine more especially by
thought. Men and women are equal,
but different. A daughter represents
a new affection, derived from a former
Ind thn don O11f FOR of 10
King represents the new love of truth.
1t is the mission Of woman to do the
works of love; to stand before the
Lord. ever ready to do whatsoever the
King may appoint. And the more dis
tinctly feminine she is, the more sure
ly viii she hear and understand what
the King appoints for her work.
If "the new woman" is coming to
take her place in the world, we will
ask of her to remember that her
strength, her loneliness and her use
fulness are in her womanhood; in her
open heart, her quick and sympa-
thetic perception of all things from the
standpoint of a dominant love, which
stands ever ready to do whatsoever
the Divine King may appoint. And
then loving all that is good and avoid
ing all that is evil, she will be fit to
lead the rising generation to better
things. 1.-THE new woman" will be a
pleSSrnS 10 the World only IN the meas
ure in which she is the worthy daugh-
ter of the Great King.
Of such it is said: '"The kings daugh-
ter is all glorious Within And this
Is the glory of a good woman's dominant
love, devoted self-sacrificing, ALIEN
bracing love, which brings down into
our common life on earth, the spirit of
our Divine King; and which is a noble
reflex of His infinite love-
This is the characteristic wornapI,,
quality, in the exercise of which your
society Of "The Kings Daughters was
formed, and in which it is to do its noble
work.
With such a love you fix your mortal