The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-01-12

Them That They Ars ctGias IAs Eier'
nal Ee.tlas octhe Eace.
DR.. Talmaee's sarmon tccaE gees
through home life with the :re&9 O.
one who has seen alI It's Departments
and sympashi2es with 81 he Sess &na
has words Of chser tor aii wives,
mothers, daughters aL6 sisters; tsxE.
Luke x, 40: 'Lcrd, Gost tbcU oct care
that my sister hatn left me t2 serve
alone2 Bid her, thsraicEe, tbs. she
help me"
Yorder is s beautiful yiI!Sga hcrce
stesd. TIE nan Of the house is dead,
and his widow is taxing charge OF the
premises. This IS tEG wi&ow Martha
of Bethany. Yes, VIII sho| you alSc
the pet of the household. THIS IS Nary
the younger sister, wila book undsE
her arm anG her face having 60 aP
pearance Of anxiety CT care. Company
has come. Christ stands cu:sid9 ths
door, and Of course theIe is gocd
deal OF excitement insiQe the door.
The 6isarranged fuGpitura IS hastily
put aside, and the hsir is oIUshe@
back, and the dresses sSe adjusted as
well SIS in sc short s. tina Aary and
Marths can attend 10 tEese matters,
They did no: keep Christ Standing g.
the door until they were newly ap-
pareled Or until they had elabcrstsiy
arranged their dresses, ths2 coming
out with their afecsed surprise as
though they had rot heard tha two or
three previous krcckinss, saying,
'sWby, is that you2" No. They were
ladies and were aiways p-esentab.e,
although they may not have &lways
had on their best, fer Hoce CT US 81,
ways hiss on cur best, Il We did cur
best would rot be worth having on.
They throw opsn the Goor and greet
Christ. They say: "Good morning,
Master. Come IN an0 be seated. .
Christ did not come alone. E6 lad
group of friends with him, and such
an influx Of city visitors would throw
any country home into perturbation.
! suppose also the walk from the city
had been a good appetizer. Tie kitch-
en- department that day was q very
important department, and I suppose
thar Martins hso no sooner Sree;eo the
guests than she fad to taat room
Mary had no worrimen3 about house.
hold affairs. She had full confidence
that Martha could get up the best din
ner in Bethany. She seems to say !:
snow let US have division OF labor.
Martha, you cock, and III sit down
and be good" So you have often seen
q great difference between two sisters.
There is Martha, hard working,
painstaking, good manager, ever II.
ventlve OF some new pastry Or clscoy-
ing something IN the art Of cookery
and housekeeping. There IS Mary,
also fond OF conversation, literary, SO
engaged in deep questions Of ethics
she has 70 time 10 attend to the qles
tons Of household welfare. It is
noon. Mary Is in the parloc with
Christ. Marths is in the kitchen. Il
would have been better if they had
divided the Work,a26 then they could
have divided the opportunity Of list
ening to Jesus, but Mary moropo-
Lies Christ while Martha sTelters st
the fire. Il was very important thing
that they should have good dinner
that day. Christ wSs hungry, and he
did not often have a luxurious enter
tainment. Alas me, if the duty had
6evolved upon Mary, what cepast
that would have been! But something
went wrong IN the kitchen. Perhaps
the fire would not burn, or the bread
would not bake, cr Martha scalGeG
her hand, or something was burned
black that ought only TO have been
made brown, and Martha lost her pa
tience and forgetting the proprieties
Of the occasion, with pesWeate0 brow,
and, perhaps, with pitcher in one
hand and tongs IN the other, she
rushes out of the kitchen Into the pres
ence of Christ, saying, Lord, dost
thou not care that my sister hath left
me to serve alone2" Christ scol6e6
not a word. If It were scolding, I
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 est, and SO he
throws q world Of tenderness into his
Intooation as ne seems to say: My
dear woman, 90 not worry. Let the
dinner go. Sit down cn this ottoman
beside Mary, your younger sister.
Martha, thou srt careful snd troubled
about many things, but one thing IS
needful'" ;" As Martha throws open that
kitchen door, ! look into and see 8
great many household perplexities and
alxieties.
First there is the trial OF nonappra-
citation. That is what made Martha
so mad with Mary. The younger sis
ter had no estimate Of her older SIS
ter's fatigues. As now, men bothered
with the anxieries OF the store and Of
6ce and shop, or, coming from the
Stock Exchange, they say when they
get home: ''Oh, you ought to be II
our factory little while. You ought
to have to manage S or 10 Or 20 suoor-
dinates, and then you would know
what trouble and anxiety are" On,
sir, the wife and the mother has to
conduct at the same time university,
g clothing establishment, restaurant,
q laundry, a ibrary, while she IS
health officer, police and president OF
her realm. She must Go 3 thousand
things and do them well il order to
keep things going smoothly, and so
her brain and her nerves are taxed TO
the utmost. ! know there are house
keepers who are so fortunate that thsy
can sit in an armchair IN the library
or lie on the oelated pillow and throw
off all the care upon subordinates
who, having large wages and great
experience, can attend to all OF the
affairs of the household. Those are
the exceptions. am speaking now
of the great mass Of houSekeepers-
the women TO whom life IS a struggle,
and who st 80 years OF age look IS
though they we're 10, sno st 40 lock
SIS though they were so, anu 81 50 l0ok