The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-01-07

body we'll. There are no rents to pay
Every man owns his own house, and a
mansion at that. 1t will not be so great
a change for you to have chariot in
heaven if you have been in the habit of
riding in this world. 1t will not be so
great change for you to sit down on
the banks of the river of life if in this
world you had a country seat but if you
have walked with tired feet IN this
world what a glorious change to mount
celestial equipagel And if your life on
earth was domestic martyrdom, oh, the
joy of an eternity in which you shall
have nothing to do except what you
choose to do! Martha has had no drudg-
cry for 1S centuries. quarrel with the
theologians who want to distri butte all
the thrones of heaven among the John
Knoxes and the Hugh Latimers and
the Theban legion. Some of the bright
est thrones of heaven will be kept for
Christian housekeepers. Oh, what a
change from here to there-from the
time when they put down the rolling
pin to when they take up the scepter
If Chatsworth park and the Vanderbilt
mansion were to be lifted into the &C.
lestial city, they would be considered
uninhabitable rookeries, and glorified
Lazarus would be ashamed to be going
in and out of either of them.
God Is Taking Care.
There are many housekeepers who
could get along with their tolls if it
were not for sickness and trouble. The
fact is, one-half of the women of the
land are more or less invalids. The
mountain lass, who has never had an
ache or a pain, may consider household
toll inconsiderable, and toward evening
she may skip away miles to the fields
and drive home the cattle, and she may
until 10 o'clock at night fill the house
with laughing racket but, oh, to do
the work of life with wornout constitu-
ton, when whooping cough has been
raging for six weeks in the household,
making the night as sleepless as the
day-that is not so easy Perhaps this
comes after the nerves have been shat
tered by some bereavement that has left
desOlation in every room of the house
and set the crib in the garnet because
the occupant has been hushed into
slumber which needs no mothers lula
by. Oh she could provide for the whole
group great deal better than she can
for part of the group, now the rest are
gonel Though you may tell her God is
taking care of those who are gone, it is
motherlike to brood both fiocks, and one
wing she puts over the flock in the
house, the other wing she puts over the
flock in the grave
There is nothing but the old fashioned
religion of Jesus Christ that will take
woman happily through the trials of
home life At first there may be a ro-
nance or novelty that will do for
substitute. The marriage hour has just
passed, and the perpleXities of the house
hold are more than atoned by the joy of
being together and by the fact that when
it is late they do not have to discuss the
question as to whether it is time to 60
The mishaps of the household, instead
of being matter of anxiety and repre-
hensiOn, are a matter of merrimen.Sp. |
the loaf of bread turned into geologic |
al specimen, the slushy custards, the
jaundiced or measly biscuits. 1t is
very bright sunlight that falls on the
cutlery and the mantel ornaments of a
new home.
"Better Is a Dinner of Herbs"
But after awhile the romance is all .
gone, and then there is something to be .
prepared for the table that the book .
called Cookery Taught In Twelve Les
sons" will not teach. The recipe for
making it is not handful of this, a
cup Of that and spoonful Of something
else. 1t is not something sweetened with
ordinary condiments or favored with
ordinary t1avors or baked in ordinary
ovens. 1t is the loaf of domestic happi-
ness, and all the ingredients come
down from heaven, and the fruits are
plucked from the tree of life, and it is
sweetened with the new wine of the
kingdom, and it is baked in the oven of
home trial. Solomon wrote out of his
own experience. He had a wretched
home. A man cannot be happy with two
wives, much less 600 and he says, writ
ing out of his own experience, Better
is dinner of herbs where love is than
a stalled OK and hatred Herewith. "
How great are the responsibilities of
housekeepers! Sometimes an indigest-
ible article of food, by its effect upon
king, has overthrown an empire. A dis
statistician says Of 1000 I'M
married men there are 80 criminals, and
Of l, 600 married men only 8 are GRIM
mails. What suggestion Of home infiu-
ences! Let the most be made of them.
by the food they provide,
by the couches they spread, by the books
they introduce, by the influences they
bring around their home, are deciding
the physical, intellectual, moral, eternal
destiny Of the race. You say your life
is one of sacrifice. l know it, But, my
sisters, that is the only life worth liv- ,,
ing. That was Florence Nightingale's
life; that was Payson's life; that was
Jhrist's life. We admire it in others, I
out how very hard it is for us to exer- !
Use it ourselves When, in Brooklyn, d
7oung DR.. Hutchinson, having spent I
whole night in diphtheritic room for ;
he relief of patient, became saturated !
with the poison and died. we all felt as