The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-01-09
TA.LMAGE'S SERMON.
aHoUsEHoLD cAREs.a LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
~Lord. Doss Thou Not Care That Ny
sister Has Lest Ne to Serve AIOnes"
Luke; Chapter X. Verse 40.

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premises. This is the widow. Martha |
of Bethany. Yes, will show you also !
the pet of the household. This is |
Mary, the younger sister, with a book |
under her arm, and her face having no |
appearance of anxiety or care. Com |
pany has come. Christ stands outside |
the door. and, of course, there is
good deal OF excitement inside the
door. The disarranged furniture is
hastily put aside, and the hair Is
brushed back, and the dresses are ad-
Justed as well as, in SO short a time,
Mary and Martha can attend to these
matters. They did not keep Christ
standing at the door until they were
newly apparelled, or until they had
elaborately arranged their tresses, then
coming out with their affected sur
prise as though they had not heard the
two or three previous knockings, say
tng: Why, is that your No. They
were ladies, and were always presenta-
Ole, although they may not have al
ways had on their best, for none OF us
always has on our best; if we did, our
best would not be worth having on.
They throw open the door, and greet
Christ. They say: "Good-morning,
Master; come in and be seated" Christ
did not come alone; He had group OF
friends with him, and such an influx
OF city visitors would throw any coun-
try home into perturbation. suppose
also the walk from the city had been
a good appetizer The kitchen depart
ment that day was a very important
department, and I suppose that Mar
tha lad no sooner greeted the guests
than SIZE fed to that room. Mary had
no worriment about household affairs
She had full confidence that Martha
could get up the best dinner In Beth
any. She seems to say: Now let us
have division OF labor, Martha, you
cook, and I'll sit down and be good.
So you have often seen a great dif-
ference between two sisters.
There is Martha, hard-working,
painstaking. good manager, ever in
Fentive of some new pastry, or discov-
ering something in the art of cookery
and housekeeping. There is Mary, al
so fond of conversation, literary, so
engaged in deep questions of ethics
she has no time to attend to the ques-
tions of household welfare 1t is noon.
Mary is in the parlor with Christ.
Martha is in the kitchen. 1t would
have been better if they had divided
the work. and then they could have
divided the opportunity of listening to
Jesus; but Mary monopolizes Christ,
while Martha swelters at the fire. 1t
was very important thing that they
should have good dinner that day.
Christ was hungry. and he did not
often have a luxurious entertainment.
Alas me! II the duty had devolved upon
Mary, what a repast that would have
been! But something went wrong in
the kitchen. Perhaps the fire would
not burn, or the bread would not bake,
or Martha scalded her hand, or some
thing was burned black that ought to
have been made brown; and Martha
lost her patience, and forgetting the
proprieties of the occasion, with be-
6weated brow, and perhaps with
pitcher in one hand and tongs in the
other, she rushes out of the kitchen IN
to the presence of Christ, saying:
lord, dost Thou not care that my sis
ter hath left me to serve alone?''
Christ scolded not a word. II ii were
ecolding, / should rather have his
scolding than anybody else's blessing
There was nothing acerb. He knew
Martha had almost worked herself to
death to get him something to eat, and
so he throws world of tenderness in
to his intonation as he seems to say
: my dear woman, do not worry; let the
dinner go; sit down On this ottoman
beside Mary. your younger sister
Martha, Martha, thou art careful and
troubled about many things, but one
thing is needful." AS Martha throw:
open that kitchen door / look in and
see a great many household perplexi.
ties and anxieties.
First. there is the trial of non-ap
probation. That is what made Marths
so mad with Mary. The younger sistel
had no estimate of her older sister.
fatigueE AS now, men bothered will
the anxieties of the store, and Office
and shop, or coming from the StockEx
change, say when they get home: "Oh
you ought to be in our factory a littl,
while; you ought to have to manage
eight, or ten. or twenty subordinates
and then you would know what troubl,
and anxiety arer' Oh, sir. the wifi,
and the mother has to conduct at tn
same time university, clothing es
tablIshment. restaurant, a laundry
a library, while she Is health officer
police and president of her realm! Sh
must do thousand things, and d,
them well, in order to keep thing
going smoothly: and so her brain ant
her nerves are taxed to the utmost
know there are housekeepers VIII
are SO fortunate that they can sit in al
armchair in thte library, or lie on tn
belated pillow. and throw or all tn
care upon snb0rdinates who, havin
large wages and great experience. ca
aete.id to all the affairs OF the house