The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-08-20

open I shndder at the ghast-
illness Of the spectacle. Men sit with
embroidered slippers and write heart
less essays about women's wages; bat
that question is made up Of tears and
blood, and there is more blood than
tears On, give women 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
it 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 a windowless
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 q woman's arm 10 hght
the Gettysburg, the Austerlitz,
the Waterloo of life for bread! And
yet how many ONE there are seated
between the rock Of bereavement on
the n side and the rock of destitu-
ton on the otherl Bozez and Seneh
i~nterlocking their shadows and drop
ping them upon her 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 thy father
less 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, AMI re-
lieyeth the widow and the father
less" o ye sewing women, on
starving wagesl o We widows,
turned from the once beautiful homel
D ye female teachers, kept on mig.
gardly stipendl o ye despairinR wom-
en-. seeking in vain for work, wander
ing along the docks, and thinking TO
throw yourselves into the river last
night! o ye women Of weak nerves.
and aching sides, and short breath,
and broken heart, you need something
than human sympathy; you need
the sympathy Of God. Climb up into
His arms. He knows 1t all, and He
loves you more than father, or mother,
or husband ever could or ever did; and.
instead of sitting down, wrinRing
your hands in dispair, you had better
begin &c climb. There are heights NJ
consolation for you, though now "there
Is a sharp rock on one side, and a sharp
rock on the other side"
Again, that man Is in the crisis Of
the text who has a wasted life ON the
one side and an unilluminated eternity
on the other. Though a man NAV ali
his life have cultured elaboration and
s~elf-poise, II he gets into that position,
all his self-possession is gone. There
are all the wrong though s OF his OK.
i%stence, all the wrong deeds, all tho
wrong words-strata above strata.
granite, %ponderous, overshadowinp.
That rock call Bozez. On the other
side are oil the r~etributions Of the fu.
ture, the thrones of Judgment, the
eternal ages, angry with his long def.
ance. That rock / call seneh. Be.
tween these two rocks 0 1000 times TO-.
900 have persisted.
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
forgiven; have your eternal life So
cured. This hour just take one look
TO the past and see what II has been;
and take one look 70 the future and
see what II threatens 10 be-. You can
afford 10 lose your health, you can
afford TO lose your property. you can
afford to lose your reputation; but you
cannot afford to lose your soul That
bright cleaning, glorious, precious,
eternal possession you must carry
aloft In the day when the earth burns
up and the heavens burst.
You see from my subject that when
. man gets into the safety and peaoo
OF the gospel, he does not demean him.
self There Is nothing In religion that
leads TO or unmanlinoss.
The gospel Of Jesus Christ only asks
you 70 climb rs Jonathan dld-climb
toward God, climb toward Heaven.
climb into the sunshine Of Gods favor
To become a Christian is not 10 90
meanly down. II is to come glorlously
up-up into the communion Of saints;
up into the peace that passeth all IN.
derstanding; up into the companion
ship OF angels. He lives upward; he
dies upward.
Oh. then, accept the wholesale In.