The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-08-25

st with embroidered slippers and
write hearliesa essays about womans
wages bus that question IS made bp
Of tears and blood. and there Is more
blood than tears Oh. give Homen
free access 10 all che realms where She
can get a livelihood. from the te.e-
graph 3aiee % tbe palPiE Let men
wages b. cut down before hers are
cut down Meu have iron In their
souls ANA can stand H. Make TIE
sway free 20 her Of the broken heart
May God put into my hand The
cold. bitter cup Of priyation, and
give me nothing but q w~iBdJwless hut
for shelter iOr maHy years rather than
that after ! am dead there should 60
out from ny home into the pitlless
world a woman arm 20 fight the Get
tysbnrR, tile Austerlitzi the Waterloo
Of life for beeads And yet, how many
women there are seated between the
rock OF bereavement on the q side
and the rock Of destituti0n on the
other. Bozez and seueh i~nteFlocking
their shadows and dropping them upon
her miserable way There is a sharp
rock on the one side, and a sharp roek
on the other side.
What are such to do? somehow, let
them climb Zip into the heights Of the
glorious promises 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
glosious promise. THE Lord pre-
serveth the stranger, and rctleyeth the
widow and the fatherless. o ye sew
ing women, on starving wages. @ ye
widows, turned from the once OeautI-
ful homel o ye female teachers, kept
on niggardly Stipend 0 We de-
spairlng women, seeking 10 vain
for work, wandering along the
docks, and thinking 10 throw your
selves into the river last night o ye
women Of weak nerves, and aching
sides, aud short breath, and broken
heart, you need something more than
human sympathyi You need the sym
pathy OF God. Climb up into His arms.
lie knows It Gil, aud lie loves you 0
than father, or mother, or husband
ever could or ever did and, instead Of
sitting down, wringing your hands In
despair you had better begin to climb.
There are heights Of consolation for
you, though now there lisa sharp rock
on IA 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 upilIumtnated eternity
on the other. Though a man may all
his life have cultured Elaboration and
self-poIse, il he gets into that position,
all his self-possession IS gone, There
are all the wrong thoughts Of his eX"
istence, an the wrong deeds, all the
wrong wOrds-strata above strata,
granite, ponderous, oyershadowing.
That rock / call Boze2. On the other
side are OH the retribulions Of the
future, the thrones of Judgment, tue
eternal ages ANGRY with his long de-
6ance. That rock | call Seueh Be-
tween these two rocks 10000 times TO-,
/ 600 have persisted
Oman immortal man redeemed, man
blood bought, climb up out Of those
shadows! Climb up by the way Of the
Cross. HIVE your wasted life for
given, have your eternal life secured.
This hour just take the look TO the
D past, aud see what il has been.
ana take one look TO the future.
and see what IL threatens tC
be, You can afford to lose your health
you can afford TO lose your property
YOU can aBagd o. Lose yY8nU5 I6st your
soul That bright, cleaning, glorious,
precious, eternal possession you must
carry aioft in the day when The earth
+, burns MP and the heavens burst,
You see FROM my subject that when
q man gets into The safety and peac,
Of the Gospel, he does not demean him.
SELF There is nothing in religion
p that leads to meauness or un-
mNnliness. The Gospel Of Jesu.
= Christ only asks you to climb a..
Jonathan did-elimb toward God, clint
toward Heaven, climb into the sun.
shine Of Gods favor 10 become a
Christian is not TO go meauly down; it
Is to come g]lortously up-up into the
communion of saints; up into the peace
that passeth all Understanding; up into
the compantonship of angels. He lives
upward he dies upward.
Oh, then, accept the wholesale invt-
tation which / make this day TO an the
people! Come up from between your
invalidism and financial embarrass-
ments. Come up from between your
bereavements and your restitution.
Come up from between q wasted
life and au uuillumlned eternity. Like
Jonathan, climb up with all your
might, instead Of sitting down tc
wiring your hands Ia the shadow and
IN the darGuess-''a sharp rock on the
one side, aud a sharp rock on the other
side.