The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-03
WoMAN'S WORK AND WORRIES
TALMAGE DRAWS LESSONS FRoyJ
hot SEHOLD CARES.

MANY IhsuES Whereas Christ Told
Martha That But One Thing I>
NeedfuI OId-FashiOned Religion
Of Jesus Christ the Only Thin
That Win Take Woman Happu,
Through the Trials of Homo Life.
Washington. Jan. 2.-Dr. Talmage's SOLE
mon to-day goes through home-llfc a.-a
the tread of one who has seen all its dee
partments and sympathizes with an re-
sees. and has words of cheer for all WV.
mothers, daughters and sisters. T.
Like 1910: Lord, dost thou not care tt.
my sister hath left me 70 serve aIo.
BID her, therefore. that she help ne.
Yonder is a beautiful village homcst.ld
Tho man of the house is dead and LOS
widow is taking charge of the premeo-.
This is the widow. Martha of Bch5He
Yes, l will show you also the pet of
household. This is Mary, the youneer .,s-
ter, with book under her arm, and Her
face having no appearance. of anxiety OF
care. Company has come. Christ sau.s
outside the door, and, of course, There is
a good deal of excitement in5i
the door. The disarranged fuuure
is hastily put aside, and the hair is brasA-
ed back, and the dresses are adjusted as
well as, in so short time, Mary ana A1r-
tina can attend to these matters. They Dad
not keep Christ standing at the door until
they we're newly apparelled, or unli they
had deliberately arranged their uesse@
then coming out with their affected SUR
prise as though they had not heard the
two or three previous knockinss say.n.
why, is that your No. They were
ladies, and were always presentab.c. ale
though they may not have always had ON
their best, for none of us always hIs on
our best; if we did, our best would not he
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 a
group of friends with Him. and such an
influx of city visitors would throw any
country home into perturbation. l sup
pose also the walk from the city had been
a good appetizer. The kitchen depart
ment that day was a very important de
partment and / suppose that Martha had
no sooner greeted the guests than she fed
to that room Mary had no worriment
about household affairs She had fun
confidence that Martha could gel up the
best dinner in Bethany. She seems to
say: Now let us have a division of labor.
Martha you cook, and I'll sit down and
difference between two sisters.
There is Martha, hard-working, pains
taking. good manager, ever inventive of
some new pastry, or discovering some
thing in the art of cookery and housekeep-
ing There is Mary, also fond of CONVEX
sation literary, so engaged in deep ques-
tons of ethics she has no time to attend
10 the questions of household welfare. II
is noon Mary is In the parlor with Christ
Martha is in the kitchen. 1t would have
been better if they had divided thu work,
and then they could have divided the OPP
portunity of listening to Jesus; but Mary
nonopollzes Christ while Martha swelters
at the fire. 1t was very important thing
that they should have a good dinner that
day. Christ was hungry and he did not
often have a luxurious entertainment. Alas
me! il the duty had devolved upon Mary
what repast that would have been! But
something went wrong in the kitchen. Per-
haps the fire would not burn, or the bread
would not bake, or Martha scalded her
hand or something was burned black That
ought only to have been made brown
and Martha lost her patience, and forget
ting the proprieties of the occasion, with
besweated brow, and perhaps, with pitcher
in one hand and tongs in the other, she
rushes out of the kitchen into the presence
of Christ, saying: Lord, dost Ihou not
care that my sister hath left me TO serve
alone?", Christ scolded not a word. If il
scolding than anybody else's blessing
There was nothing acerb. He knew Mar
tina had almost worked herself to death to
get him something to eat and so
he throws a world of tenderness
into his intonation as he seems
to saw: ''My dear woman, do
not worry; let the dinner go; sit down on
this ottoman beside Mary, your youngest
sister Martha, Martha, thou art careful
and troubled about many things, but one
thing is needful" AS Martha throws open
that kitchen door 1 look in and see a great
many household perple&lues ana ankle
ties.
First. there is the trial of non-apprecia-
ton That is what made Martha so mad
with Mary. The younger sister had no
estimate of her older sisters fatigues. As
now men bothered with the anXieties of
the store and office, and shop. or coming
from the stock exchange, they say when
they get home: "Oh, you ought to be in
our factory a little while you ought to
have TO manage eight, or ten, or twenty
subordinates, and then you would know
what trouble and anxiety areH Oh, sir,
The wife and the mother has to conduct at
the same time a university, d clothing
establishment, a restaurant, a laundry,
library while she is health officer. police
and president of her realmi She must do
a thousand things, and do them wel, in
order to keep things going smoothly, and
so her brain and her nerves are taxed to
the utmost. l know there are house
keepers who are so fortunate that they can
sit in an armchair in their library or
lie on the belated pillow, and throw off
all the care upon subordinates, who, hav-
ing large wages and great experience, can
attend 10 all of the affairs OF the house
hold. These are the exceptions am
speaking now of the great mass Of house
keepers-the women to whom life is a
struggle, aud who, at thirty years of age,
look as though they were forty, and at
forty look as though they were nifty. and
at fifty look as though they We're sixty.
The fallen at Chalons, and Austerlitz. and
Gettysburg and Waterloo are "a small
number compared with the slain in the
great Armageddon of the kitchen. You
20 out to the cemetery and you will see
that the tombstones all read beautifully
poeuc; hut If those tombstones would
speak the truth, thousands OF them would
gay: Here lies a woman killed by too
much mending, aud sewing and baking
and scrubbing, and securing; the weapon
with which she was slain was broom
or a sewing machine, or lade." You
think, 0 man OF the world! tina, you have
oil the cares and anXieties. If the cares
and auxeties of the household should