Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-13

tne existence OF ner children. When
see such battle as that open, shud-
der at the ghastliness Of the spectacle
Men sit with embroidered slippers and
write heartless essays about women's
wages, hut that question is made up of
tears and blood, and there is more blood
than tears. Oh, give woman free access
to all the realms where she can get a
livelihood, from the telegraph Office to
the pulpit Let mems wages be cut
down before hers are cut down. Men
have iron in their souls and can stand
1t. 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 windowless
hut for shelter for many years rather
than that after am dead there should
go out from my home into the pitiless
world 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 restitution on the 9TH
er. 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 are such to do? Somehow let
them climb up into the heights of the
glorious promise, leave thy fatherless
children, will preserve them alive and
let thy widows trust IN me. " Or get up
into the heights Of that other glorious
promise, 1.-The Lord preserveth the
stranger and relieveth the widow and
the fatherless. Oh, ye sewing women,
on starving wages Oh, ye widows,
turned out from the once beautiful
home! Oh, ye female teachers, kept on
niggardly stipendl Oh, ye despairing
women, seeking in vain for work, wan
dering along the docks and thinking to
throw yourselves into the river last
night! Oh, We women of weak nerves,
and aching sides, and short breath, and
broken heart, you need something more
than human sympathy, you need the
sympathy of God. Climb up into his
arms. He knows it all, and he loves
you more than father or mother or hus-
band 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
Oh one side, and sharp rock on the
| other side"
An Invitation.
Again, that man is in the crisis of
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 deliberation and
self poise, if he gets into that position,
all his self possession is gone. There
are all the wrong thoughts of his exist
ence, all the wrong deeds, all the wrong
words-strata above strata, granite,
ponderous, overshadowing. That rock
call Bozez On the other side are all
the retributions of the future, the
thrones of Judgment the eternal ages,
angry with his long defiance. That
rock call Seneh Between these two
rocks 1000 times 10000 have per.
ished
o man 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 one look to the pas
and see what it has been, and take one
look to the future and see what II
threatens to be. You can afford to lost
your health, you can afford to lose YOU
property, you can afford to lose YOU
reputation, but you cannot afford to los'
your soul. That bright, cleaning, glori
Gus, precious, eternal possession yo1
must carry aloft in the day when thu
earth burns up and the heavens burst.
You see from my subject that whel
q man gets into the safety and peace o
the gospel he does not demean himself
There is nothing in religion that lead
to meanness or unmanliness. The gos
mel of Jesus Christ only asks you =
climb as Jonathan did-climb TOWARD
God, climb toward heaven, climb int
the sunshine of Gods favor. TO becom
q Christian is not to go meanly down
it is to come gloriously up-up into tn
communion of saints; up into the peac
that passeth all understanding; up int
the companionship of angels. He live
upward; he dies upward.
Oh, then, accept the wholesale inv'
tation which make this day to all tn
people Come up from between you
inyalidism and financial embarrass
ments. Come up from between you
3 bereavements and your destitution
Come up from between wasted III
= md All unillumined eternity. Like Jol
3 athan, climb up with all your might
instead of sitting down to wiring you
1 hands in the shadow and in the DARK
ness-"a sharp rock on the one side all
l a sharp rock ON the other side y