Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-08-25

suppose she was; never doing him =
kindness until the day she ran away,
So that he wrote in his diary these
words: II did not forsake her; | have
no, dismissed her." Planting one loot
upon outside persecution, and the other
foot on home trouble, John Wesley
climbed up into the heights of Chris
tiau ioy, and after preaching 81, 900 SER
mons and travelling s1o 900 miles,
reached the heights ot Heaven, though
IN This world he had It hard enough
"A sharp rock on the one side, and y
sharp rock on the other"
Again, that woman stands in the
crisis OF the text who has bereavement
and struggle for livelihood at the
same time, Without mentioning
names, speak from observation. All,
it is a hard thing for u woman to make
an honest living, even when her heart
is not troubled, aud she has fair
check, and the magnetism of an en-
quS,te presence. But now the hus-
band, or the father, is dead. The ex-
peuscS OF the obseQuis have absorbed
all that was left in the savtags hank;
and, wan and wasted with weeping
aud watching, she goes forth-a
grave, Il hcarse n coffin behind her
to contend for her existence and the
existence OF her children. When | see
such II battle as that open | shudder ut
the ghasttiness of the spectacle. Men
sit with embroidered slippers and
write hcartleSS essays about woman's
wages; but that question is made up
of tears and blood, and there is more
blood than tears. Oh, give women
free access to all the realms where she
can get livelihood, from the tele-
graph otlice to the pulpit Let meu's
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 tho
cold, bitter cup OF privation, and
give me nothing but Il windowless hut
for shelter for many years, rather than
that after | am dead there should go
out from my home into the pitiless
world II 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! Bozc2 and Seneh intcrloclliug
their shadows and dropping them upon
her miserable way. There is II sharp
rock on the one side, and sharp rock
on the other side"
What are such to do? Somehow, let
them climb up into the heights of the
glorious promise: leave 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-
serveth the stranger, and relieveth the
widow and the fatherless." o We sew
ing women, ON starving waSes o We
widows, turned from the once bcauti-
full home! we female teachers, kept
on niggardly stipend! o We de.
spairing women, seeking in vain
for work, wandering along the
docks, and thinking to throw your
selves into the river last night! O We
women of weak nerves, and aching
heart, YOU need something more than
human sympathy; you need the sym
paLhy of God. Climb mp into His arms.
He knows it all, and lie loves YOU more
than father, or mptNcr, or husband
ever could or ever dad; aud, instead Of
sitting down, win eng your hands in
despair, you mad better h gin 10 climb.
I'.A lI,si I' .lt IyIl i,,,.
you, though NOW there is Il sharp rock
on one side, and a sharp rock on the
other side.
Again, that man is in The crisis of
the text who has wasted life on the
one Side uuI an rniliuminatc eternity
on the other, Though n man may all
his life have cultured delibcralion and
scIf-poisc, ii he gets into that position,
all his scl!-po session is gone. There
are all:the wrong thoughts of his ex-
istencc, all tac wrong Il e Is, all the
wrong words-strita above strata,
granite pon lerous, Ovcrshadowing.
That rock call BplcI. On the other
side are all the rctributiops Of the
future, the thrones OF Judgment, the
eternal ages; angry with his long de-
lance. That roeX | call Sench. Be-
tween these two rocks 10000 times TO-.
900 have persisted.
o man immortal, man redee meJ, 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, aud see what it has been;
and take one look to the future,
and see what it threatens TO
be. 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 up and the heavens burst
lou see from my subject that when
a man gets into the safety and peace
OF the Gospel. he does not demean him
self There is nothing in religion
that leads to meanness or un-
manIiness. The Gospel of Jesus
Christ nuiy uCk n cIi,,