The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-01-11

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toll inconssderable. and toward evening
b may skip away miles to the fields
and drive home the cattle, and she may
until 10 O'Clock Al night I'LL the house
with laughing racket. Bnt, oh. to do
the work OF life with WORKOUT constitu-
ton. when whooping cough has been
raging for six weeks In the household,
making b night as sleepless as the
day! That Is not SO easy. Perhaps this
comes after the nerves have been that
tered by some bereavement that has left
~desolatson in every OF the house
n set the crib in the garnet because
the occupant has been huShed into
slumoer which needs no mothers lul-
laby. Oh. h could provide for the
whole group a great deal better than
she can for a par of the group. now
the rest are gone. Though you may
tell her God Is taking care OF those
who are gone. it is motherlike to brood
both hocks. and one wing She puts
over the flock in the house; the other
wing she puts over the flock in the
grave.
There is nothing but the old fash
Toned religion Of Jesus Christ that will
take a woman happily through the
trials OF home life. At first there may
be a romance or a novelty that will
do for a substitute. The marriage
hour has just passed. and the perplex-
itaes or the household are more than
atoned by the joy of being together
and by the fact that when it is late
they do not have to discuss the cues
ton as to whether it is time to go. The
mishaps OF the household, instead OF
being a matter of anxiety and repre-
hension, are a matter of merriment-
the loaf of bread urned into a geo.
logical SnApiman tina S1t,Sh,- .,-.a-l,
the 1aundiced or measley biscuits 1t
is a very bright sunlight that falls on
the cutlery and the mantel
Of a new home.
But after awhile the romance is all
gone, n then there is something to
be prepared for the table that the
book called Cookery Taught in
Twelve Lessons" will not teach. This
receipt for making ii is not a handful
of this, a cup of hat and a spoonful
Of something else. 1t is not something
SWeetened with the ordinary condiments
or favored with ordinary fiavors or
baked IN ordinary ovens. 1t is the
loaf of domestic happiness, and all the
ingredients come down from heaven,
and the fruits are plucked from the
tree of life, and it is sweetende with
the new wine Of the kingdom, and it
is baked in the oven of home trial.
solomon wrote out Of his own exper-
fence. He had a wretched home. A
man cannot be happy with two wives,
much less 600, and he says, writing
out of his own experience, better is a
dinner Of herbs where love is tina a
stalled OK and hatred Herewith"
HOME INFLUENCE.
How great are the responsibilities Of
housekeeperS! Sometimes an indiges-
fihlp article Of food nv itS affpet tlnnn
a king has overthrow an empire. A
distinguished StatiStician says of 1000
unmarried men there are So criminals,
n Of 1000 married men only Is are
criminals. What a suggestion of home
intiuences! Let the most he made OF
them. Housekeepers by the food they
provide, by the coucheS they spread,
by the books they introduce, by the in
fiuences they bring around their home,
are deciding the physical intellectual,
moral, eternal destiny of the race.
You say your life is one of sacrifice.
l know 1t, but, my sisters, hat is the
only life worth living. That was Flor
ence Nightingale's life; that was Pay
sons lite; that was ChriSt'S life. We
admire it in others, but how very hard
it is for US to exercise it ourselves!
When in Brooklyn young Mr.. Hutch
lnSon having spent a whole night in
a diptheric room for the relief of a pa
tient became saturated with the poison
and died, We all felt as if We would like
to put garlands on his grave; every
body appreciates that. When in the
burning hotel at ST. Louis a young man
on the fifth story broke open the door
Of the room where his mother was
sleeping and plunged in amid smoke
and fire, crying, Mother, where are
u and never came out, our hearts
applauded that young a But how
few of US have the Christlike spirit
a Willingness to suffer for others.
"A rough teacher in a school called
upon a poor, half starved lad who had
offended against the laws Of the school
n said, take off your coat directly,
sir!"The boy refused to take il off,
whereupon the teacher said again,
take off your coat, sir!" as he swung
the whip throug the air. The boy re-
fused. 1t vas not because he was
afraid of the laSh-he was used to that
at home-but it was from shame-he
had no undergarments-and as at the
third command he pulled slowly off his
coat there went a sob through the
school They saw then why he did not
want to remove his coat, and they saw
the shoulder blades had almost cut
through the skin, and a stout, healthy
boy rose up and went to the teacher Of
the school and said: Oh, sir, please don't
hurt this poor fellow! Whip me-"
Well" said the teacher. cts going to
be a severe whipping. / am willing to
take you as a substitute" Well"
said the boy, II don care. You whip
me, if If o will let this poor fellow
CO." The stout, healthy boy took the
scouraging without an outcry
"Bravo." says every man. Bravo"
How many of us are willing to take
the scourging, and the suffering, and
the toll, and the anxiety for other peo-
pie? Beautiful things to admire, but
how little We ave Of the spirit! God
give us that self denying spirit, SO that
whether we are in humble spheres or
in CONSPICUOUS spheres We may perform
our whole duty, for this struggle viii
soon be over.
THE CHRISTIAN HOUSEKEEPER.
One of the most affecting reminis-
cences of my mother is my remember
ance OF her as a Christian housekeeper
She worked very hard, and when We
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