Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-08-31

.ould como down to such scurrflity, what
nav you not expect from less elevated OPP
ponents?
-ouses n mans defiance. stirs his blood for
magnificent battle, and makes him fifty
Zines more man than he would have been
without the persecution. So 1t was with
the great Reformer when he said, II Will
not be put down, I will be heard" And so
II was with Millard. the preacher In the
time OF Louis XI. When Louis XI. sent
word to him that unless he stopped preach
Ing in that style he would throw him into
the river he replied, "Tell the Ring that
will reach Heaven sooner by water than he
will reach 1t by fast horses" certain
amount of persecution Is a tonic and In
spiration, but too much OF 1t, and too long
continued, becomes the rock Bozez throw
ing dark shadow over mans life. What
Is he to do then2 Go home, you say. Good
advice that That is just the place for
man to go when the world abuses him.
There are many homes In which there Is
no sympathy. and no happiness, and no
good cheer. The clamor OF the battle
may not have been heard outside; but
God knows, notwithstanains .lw.. Mar.h AL the e
and ali the odor Of the orange blossoms,
and the benediction OF the officiating pas
tor, there has been no marriage. so
sometimes men have awakened to find on
one side of them the rock of persecution,
domestic infelicity. What shall such one
do? Doas Jonathan did-climb. Get up
the heights Of Gods consolation, from
which you may look down In triumph upon
outside persecution and home trouble.
While good and great John Wesley was be-
ing silenced by the magistrates, and hav.
Ing his name written on the board
fences OF London in doggerel at that
very time his wife was making him as mis-
erable as she could-acting as though she
l1,fh I
she was; never doing him n kindness until
the day she ran away. so that he wrote In
his diary these words: 81 did not forsake
her; have not dismissed her; will not re-
call her." Planting one foot upon outside
persecution, and the other foot on home
trouble, John Wesley climbed up into the
heights OF Christian joy. and after preach
ing forty thousand sermons, and traveiing
two hundred and seventy thousand miles,
reached the heights OF Heaven, though in
this world he had 1t hard enough-''a sharp
rock on the one side. and sharp rock on
the other"
Again. that woman stands in the crisis OF
the text who has bereavement and n strug-
gle for a livelihood at the same time. With
out mentioning names / speak from obser-
yation. Ah 1t is a hard thing for woman
to make an honest living, even when her
heart Is not troubled, and she has a fair
cheek and the magnetism OF an exquisite
presence. But now the husband, or the
father, Is dead. The expenses OF the obse-
,uuhss have absorbed all that was left in the
savings bank; and, wan and wasted with
weeping and watching, she goes forth-a
grG"e, g hearse, coffin behind her-to
! contend for her existence and the existence
of her children, When see such a battle
as that open, 1 shudder at the ghastliness
OF the spectacle. Men sit with embroidered
slippers and write heartless essays about
women's wages; but that question Is made
up Of tears and blood, and there is more
| blood than tears. oh, give woman free ac-
! cess to all the realms where she can get a
livelihood, from the telegraph office to the
/ pulpit L.t mems wages be cut down be-
! fore 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
| windowiess hut for shelter for many years,
rather than that after l am dead there
| should go out from my home into the pitt
less world woman's arm to fight the Get
! tysburg, the Austerlitz, the Waterloo OF life
| for breadi And yet, how many women
there are seated between the rock of be.
reavement on the one side and the rock of
! destitution on the otherI Bozez and Seneh
| interlocking their shadows and dropping
| them upon their miserable way. There Is
a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp
rock on the other side"
What are such to do? Somehow, let
them climb up into the heights OF the
glorious promise: "Leave the fatherless
| children, I will preserve them alive, and
let thy widows trust In Me-" Or get up
! into the heights Of that other glorious
promise: "The Lord preseryeth 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,
female teachers, kept on niggardly stipendi
| oh, We despairing women, seeking In vain
for work. wandering along the docks, and
thinking to throw yourselves into the river
last night! Oh, ye women of weak nerves,
and aching sides, and short breath, and
broken heart, you need something more
| than human sympathy; you heed the SYM
! pathy of God. Climb up into His arms.
| lie knows 1t all, and He loves you more
| than father, or mother, or husband eyer
| could or ever did; and, instead OF sitting
| down. wringine your hands In despair, you
| had better begin to climb. There are
heights of consolation for you, though now
"there Is a sharp rock on the one side, and
a sharp rock on the other side"
| Oh, then, accept the wholesale invitation
which l make this day to all the peoplel
| Come up from between your invalldism aud
| financial embarrassments. Come up from
between your bereavements ard your des-
| life and an unillumined eternity. Like
| Jonathan, climb up with all your might.
| inst cad of sitting down to wiring your hands
| in the shadow and in the darkness IA
! sharp rock on the one side, and sharp
| rock on the other side.'