The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-14

with the beauty and song of Paradise. But
she rebelled against Gods government,
and with the same hand with which she
p,ucked the fruit she launched upon the
world the crimes, the wars, the tumults
that have set the universe a wailng.
terrible offset to all her attractive
ness. We are not surprised when we find
pen and women naturally vulgar going in
to transgression. We expect that people
who live in the ditch shall have the man
ners of the ditch; but how shocking when
we find sin appended to superior educa-
ton and to the refnements of social life!
The accomplishments of Mary Queen of
Scots make her patronage of Darnley, the
prohigate, the more appalling. The gen
ius of Catherine IL of Russia only sets
forth In more powerful contrast her UNI
appeasable ambition. The translations
from the Greek and The Latin by Eliza
beth, and Der wonderful qualifications for
a queen, make the more disgusting her
capriciousness of affection and her holiness
of temper. The greatness of Byron's mind
makes the more alarming Byron's SEN
suality.
Let no one think that refinement of
manner or exquisiteness of taste or supe-
riority of education can in any wise apollo
gize for ill-temper. for an oppressive spirit,
for unkindness. for any kind of sin. Dis
obedience Godward and transgression
MAYNARD can give no excuse. Accom-
plishment heaven-high is no apology for
vice hel-deep.
My subject also impresses me with the
regal influence of woman. When / see
Eve with this powerful influence over
Adam and over the generations that have
followed it suggests to me the great
power all womep have for good or for
evil. / have no sympathy nor have you,
with the hollow batteries showered upon
woman from the platform and the stage.
They mean nothing; they are accepted as
nothing. Woman's nobility consists in
the exercise of a Christian influence; and
when ! see this powerful influence of Eve
upon her husband and upon the whole
human race, l make up my mind that the
frail arm of woman can strike a blow
which will resOund through all eternity
down among the dungeons or up among
the thrones.
OF course, I am not speaking of repre-
sentative 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 stopped a host
by her own beautiful prowess; of Mary.
who nursed the worlds Saviour; of
Grandmother Lois immortalized in her
grandson Timothy; of Charlotte Corday,
who drove the dagger through the heart
of the assassin of her lover; or of Marie
Antoinette, who by one look from the
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own scaffold the throne of forgiveness and
womanly courage. l speak not of these
extraordinary persons, but of those who,
unambitious 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 of nations,
it will be found that the mightiest and
grandest influence came from home,
where the wife cheered up dependency
and fatigue and sorrow by her own SYM
patty, and the mother trained her child
for heaven, starting the little feet on the
path to the Celestial City; and the sisters
by their gentleness refined the manners
of the brother; and the daughters were
diligent in their kindness to the aged,
throwing wreaths of blessing on the road
that leads father and mother down the
steep of years. God bless our homes! And
may the home on earth be the vestibule of
our home in heaven, in which place may
we all meet-father mother, son, daugh-
ter brother, sister, grandfather and
grandchild and the entire group of pre-
cious ones, of whom we must say in the
words of transporting Charles Wesley:
One family we dwell in him,
One Church above, beneath;o1aal .
Though now divided by the stream
The narrow stream of DEATH
One army of the living God, sr
To his command we bow;
Part of the host have crossed the flood
And part are crossing now.