St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-09-17

sit with embroidered slippers and
write heartles. essays about womans
wages; but that question is made UP
of tears and blood, and there 10 more
blood than tears Oh, give women
free access to all the realms where she
can get q livelihood, from the tele-
graph office to the pulpit! Let mems
wages be cut down before hers are
cut down. Men have iron in their
souls and can stand it. Make the
way free to her of the broken heart
May God put into my hand the
cold, bitter cup Of privation, and
give me nothing but q windowless hut
for shelter for many years, rather than
that after am dead there should 60
out from my home into the pitilcss
world q woman's arm to fight the Get
tysburg, the Austerlitz, the Waterloo
of life for bread! And yet, how many
women there are seated between the
rock of bereavement on the one side
and the rock of destitution on the
other! Bozez and Seneh interlocking
their shadows and dropping them upon
her miserable way. ''There is sharp
rock on the one side. and . sharp rock
on the other side.'
What arc such to do? Somehow, let
them climb up into the heights of the
glorious promise: sLeave thy father
less children-I will preserve them
alive, and let thy widows trust in me.
Or get up into the heights of that other
glosious promise: The Lord pre-
servcth the stranger, and relieveth the
widow and the fatherless." Dye sew
ing women, on starving wages! O ye
widows, turned from the once beautf
full home! Dye female teachers, kept
on niggardly stipendl O ye de.
spairing women, seeking in vain
for work, wandering along the
docks, and thinking TO throw your
selves into the river last night! o ye
women of weak nerves, aud aching
sides, and short breath, and broken
heart, you need something more than
human sympathy; you need the SYM
pathy Of God. Climb up into His arms.
lie knows it all, and lie loves You more
than father, or mother, or husband
ever could or ever did; and, instead OF
sitting down. wringing your hands in
despair, you had better begin to climb.
There are heights of consolation for
you, though now ''there is sharp rock
on one side. and sharp rock on the
other side"
Again, that man is in the crisis oi
the text who has wasted life ON the
one side and an unilluminated eternity
on the other. Though man may all
his life have cultured deli beration aud
self-poise, If he gets into that position,
all his self-possession is gone. There
are all the wrong thoughts of his ex-
istence, all the wrong deeds, all the
wrong words-strata above strata,
granitic. ponderous, overshadowing.
That rock call Bozez On the other
side are all the rctributions OF the
future, the thrones Of Judgment, the
eternal ages; angry with his long de-
fiance. That rock l call Seneh. Be-
tween these two rocxs 10000 times TO-
600 have perished
Oman immortal, man redeemed, man
bloOd-bought, climb up out of those
shadows! Climb up by the way Of the
Cross. Have your wasted life for
given; have your eternal life secured.
This hour just take the look to the
past, and see what it has been;
and take one look to the future,
and see what it threatens to
he. You can afford to lose your health,
you can afford TO lose your property,
you can afford to lose your reputation;
but you can not afford to lose your
soul. That bright, cleaning, glorious,
precious, eternal possession you must
carry aloft in the day when the earth
burns mp and the heavens burst
You see from my subject that when
a man gets into the safety and peace
Of the Gospel, he does not dcmean him
self. There is nothing in religion
that leads to meanncss or un-
manliness. The Gospel OF Jesus
Christ only asks you to climb as
Jonathan did-:limb toward God, climb
toward Heaven, climb into the sun
shine OF Gods favor. To become q
Christian is not to go meanly down; it
is to come gloriously up-up into the
communion Of sain.s; up into the peace
that passeth all understanding; up int0
the companionship Of angels. lie lives
upward; he dies upward.
Oh. then. accept the wholesale invi-
tation which make this day to all the
people! Come up from between your
invalidism and financial embarrass-
mentA Come up from between your
bercavements ami your destitution.
Come up from between a wasted
life and an unillumincd eternity. Like
Jonathan. climb up with all your
might, instead of sitting down to
wiring your hands in the shadow and
in the darkncss-'.a sharp rock on the
one side, and q sharp rock on the other
side.'