The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-08-27

so that he wrote In his diary thes
words; ~ did not forsalse her; hav
not dismissed her." Planting one foo
, upon outside persecution, and the othel
, foot on home trouble, John Wesley
climbed up into the heights OF Chris
tian Joy, and after preaching 10000 ser
mons and travelling 10000 miles
reached the heights of Heaven, though
in this world he had II hard enough
"a sharp rock on the one side, and Q
sharp rock on the other"
Again, that woman stands in thu
crisis of the text who has bereavement
and q struggle for livelihood ut tn,
same time. Without mentioning
names, speak from observation. All
1t Is hard thing for a woman to make
an honest living, even when her heart
is not troubled, and she has fair
cheek, and the magnetism of an ex'
quisite presence. But now the hus
band, or the father, is dead. The ex.
penses Of the obsequis have absorbed
all that was left in the savings bank;
and, wan and wasted with weeping
and watching, she goes forth-a
grave, hearse, a coffin behind her
to contend for her existence and the
Lexistence OF her children. When see
such a battle as that open shudder at
the ghastliness OF the spectacle. Men
sit with embroidered slippers and
write heartless 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 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 prvation, and
give me nothing but u windowless hut
for shelter for many years, rather thar
that after l am dead there should go
out from my home into the pitiless
world a woman's arm to fight the Get
tysburg, the Austcrlitz, 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 interlockinp
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 are such to do? Somehow. let
them climb up into the heights of the
glorious promises: 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 fatherlcss" q We sew
ing women, on starving wagesl o We
widows, turned from the once beauti-
full home! Dye 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
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 rocl,
on one side, and sharp rock on the |
other side"
Again, that man is in the crisis of
Ia f..xst l..,1 ,n Al 4
one side and an rnilluminated eternity
on the other. Though man may all
his life have cultured deliberation and
self-poise, II he gets into that position,
all his self-possession is gone. There
are all the wrong thoughts of his ex-
lstence, all the wrong deeds, all the
wrong words-strata above strata,
granite, ponderous, overshadowing.
That rock L call Bozez. On the other
side are all the retributions of the
future, the thrones OF Judgment, the
eternal ages; angry with his long de-
lance. That rock | call Scneh. Be-
tween these two rocks TO- 900 times TO-
)00 have perished.
. man immortal, man redeemed, man
lood-bought, climb up out of those
'hadows! Climb up by the way of the
ross. Have your wasted life for
,iven; have your eternal life secured.
This hour just take the look to the
'ast, and see what it has been;
md take one look to the future,
md see what it threatens to ,
re. You can afford to lose your health,
'ou can afford to lose your property,
'ou can afford to lose your reputation;
nut you can not afford to lose your
oul. That bright, cleaning, glorious,
recious, eternal possession you must
AIRY aloft in the day when the earth
urns up and the heavens burst
You see from my subject that when
man gets into the safety and peace I
I the Gospel, he does not dcmean him. Q
ELF. There is nothing in religion q
hat leads to meanness or un- c
lanliness. The Gospel of Jesus I
hrist only asks you to climb as O
onathan did--climb toward God, climb S
oward Heaven, climb into the sun. I
hine OF Gods favor. To become a +
hristian is not to go meanly down; it 4
to come gloriously up-up into the
ommunion OF saints; up into the peace Il
lat Dasseth nil Understanding. m into |