Connecticut western news., 1897-06-17

=.a---.--@sA<...-..zaz>- ---.~ss-<.-~--~>--~----- against Gcd x poVerhment, aud with the same hand with which she plucked the fruit she launched upon the world the crimes,~the wars, the tumults that have set>the universe awailing.
 Fatsl Attractions.
 A terrible offset to all her attractive ness. We are not surprised when we hnd men and women naturally vulgar going into trmsgression. We expect that people who live in the ditch shall have the manners of the ditch, but how shocking when we find sin appended to superior education and to the refine ments of social life. The accomplish ments of Mary, queen of Scots, make her patronage of Darnley, the profigate, the more appalling. The genius of Cath crime II of Russia only sets forth in more powerful contrast her unappeasa- ble ambition. The translations from the Greek and the Latin by Elizabeth, and her wonderful qualifications for queen, make thu more disgusting her capriciousness of affection and her hot ness of temper. The greatness of By ron's mind makes the more alarming Byron's sensuality.
 Let no one think that refinement of manner or exquisiteness of taste or su- periority of education can in any wise apologize for ill temper, for an oppres- sive spirit, for unkindness, for any kind of sin. Disobedience Godward and trans gression manward can give no excuse. Accomplishment heaven high is no apol- ogy for vice he'll deep.
 My subject also impresses me with the regal influence of woman. When I see Eve with this powerful influence over Adam and over the generations that have followed, 1t suggests to me the great power all women have for good or for evil. have no sympathy, nor have you, with the hollow f1atteries showered upon woman from the plat form and the stage. They mean noth- ing; they are accepted as nothing. Woman's nobility consists in the exer- else of a Christian influence, and when I see this powerful influence of Eve up- on her husband and upon the whole hu- man race make up my mind that the frail arm of woman can strike blow which will reseund through all eternity down among the dungeons or up among the thrones.
 Sweet Home.
 Of course l am not speaking of rep resentative women-of Eve, who ruined the race by cne fruit picking; of Jael, who drove 8 spike through the head of Sisera, the warrior; of Esther, who overeame royalty; of Abigail, who stop ped host by her own beautiful prow- ess; of Mary, who nursed the worlds Saviour; of Grandmother Lois, immor- talized in her grandson Timothy; of Charlotte Corday, who drove the dag ger through the heart of the assassin of her lover, or of Marie Antoinette, who by one look from the balcony of her castle quieted mob, her own scaffold the throne of forgiveness and womanly courage. I speak not of these extraor- dinary persons, but of these who, unam- bilious for political power, as wives and mothers and sisters and daughters, attend to the thousand sweet offices of home.
 When at last we come to calculate
  nations, it will be found that the mightiest and grandest influence came from home. where the wife 'cheered up despondency and fatigue and sorrow by her own sympathy, and the mother trained her child for heaven, starting the little feet on the path to the celes- tial city, and the sisters by their gen. tleness refined the manners of the broth- r, and the daughters were diligent in their kindness to the aged, throwing wreaths of blessing on the road that led father and mother down the steep of years. God bless our homes. And may the home on earth be the vestibule of cur home in heaven, in which place may we all meet-father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, grandfather and grandmother and grandchild, and the entire group of precious ones, of whom we must say, in the words of transporting Charles Wesley:
 One family, we dwell in him;
 One church above, beneath
 Though now divided by the stream
 The narrow stream of death
 One army of the living God,
 To his co mmand we bow.
 Part of tn 0 host have crossed the food,
 And pa Tt are crossing now.