Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-06-18

terror. You are past the Narrows aud
almost outside tho Hook, and if the At
lantic take thee, frail mortal, thou shalt
never gc. to shore again. Put back; row
swiftly, swiiter. swifter! Jesus from
the shore castoth a rope Clasp it quick
/ ly, now or never. Oh, are there not
some Of you who are freighting all your
loves and joys and hopes upon a vessel
which shall never reach the port Of
| heaven? Thou nearest the breakers,
cne heave upon the rocks Oh, what an
awful crash was that! Another lunge
may crush thee beneath the spaTs OF
grind thy bones to powder amid the
torn timbers. Overheard for your life,
overheard Trust not that loose plank
nor attempt the wave, but quickly clasp
the feet Of Jesus walking on the watery
pavement, shouting until be hear thee,
Lord, save me or perish" Sin beau
tiful at the staTt-oh, how sad, how
distressful, at the last The ground over
which it leads you j. hollow. The fruit
it offers to youc taste is poison. The
promise it makes to you is lie. Over
that ungodly banquet the keen sword Of
Gods Judgment hangs, and there are
ominous handwritings On the walls.
Observe also in this subject how re-
pelling sin Is when appended TO great
attractiyeness. Since Ewes death there
has been 10 such perfection Of woman
hood. You could not suggest an attract
iyouegs 10 the body OF suggest any re-
fncment to the manner. You could add
no gTacefulness 10 the gait, 10 luster to
the eve, 10 sweetness 10 the voice. A
perfect God made her perfect woman,
! to be the companion Of perfect man
in a perfect home, and her entire ma
! tune yibratod in accord with the beauty
and song Of paradise. But she rcbellod
apaiult God government, and 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 awaiting.
Fatal Attractions.
A terrible offset to all her attractive
ness We are not surprised when we
| find men and women naturally vulgar
/ going into transgression. We expect
that people who live in the ditch shall
/ have the manners Of the ditch, out how
shocking when we find sin appended
to superior education and to the refine
ments Of social life The accomplish
meuts Of Mary, queen Of Scots, make
her patronage Of Darnloy, the proiigate,
the more appalling. The genius Of Cath
crime II Of Russia only sets forth IN
more powerful contrast her unapIeasa-
/ bic ambition The translations from
/ the Greek and the Latin by Elizabeth,
and her wonderful qualifications for a
queen, make the more disgusting her
/ capriciousness Of affection and her hot
ness Of temper The greatness Of By
rons mind makes the more alarming
+ Byron's sensuality.
Let no one think that refinement Ct
manner or exQuisitenoss Of taste or su-
periority cf education can IN any wise
/ apologize for i'll temper, for an oppres-
sive spirit, fer unkindness, for any kind
of sin. Disobedience Godward and trans
gression manward can give 10 excuse.
Accomplishment heaven high Is no apol-
ogy for vice hell deep
My subject also impresses me with
the regal influence Of woman. When l
see Eve with this powerful influence
over Adam and over the generations
that have followed, it suggests to me
the great power all women have for
good or for evil. l have no sympathy.
nor have you, with the hollow batteries
showered upon woman from the plat
form and the stage. They mean moth
ing; they are accepted as nothing.
Woman's nobility consists in the exer-
else Of Christian influence, and when
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 resound through all eternity
down among the dungeons or up among
the thrones.
Sweet Home.
OF course | am not speaking Of rep
resentative women-of Eve, who ruined
the race by one fruit picking; Of Jael,
who drove a spike through the head Of
Sisera. the warrior; Of Esther, who
overcame royalty; Of Abigail, who stop
ped host by her own beautiful Prov
ess: Of Mary, who nursed the world 5
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
bv one lock from the balcony Of her
castle quieted a mob, her own scaifold
the throne Of forgiveness and womanly
courage. 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
the forces that decided the destiny ol
nations. it will be found that the
miQhtiest and grandest influence came
from home, where the wife cheered up
dependency 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 oeles'
tial city, and the sisters by their gen
tleness refined the manners Of the broth
or. and the daughters were diligent II
their kindness to the aged, throwing
wreaths Of blessing on the road tha'
led father and mother down the steel
of years. God bless our homes. AnC
NAV the home on earth be the yestioui'
Of our home in heaven, in which place
NAV we all meet-father, mother, son
daughter, brother, sister, grandfathe
and grandmother and grandcbild, an'
the entire group Of precious ones, o
whom we must say, in the words
transporting Charles Wesley;
One family. we dwell in him;
? One church above, beneath.
a Though now divided by the stream
The narrow stream Of death
> One army Of the living God,
: To his command we bow.
> Part Of the host have crossed the fooc
= And part are crossing now.