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not dismissed her," Planting one foot
upon outside persecution, and the other
foot ON home trouble, John Wesley
climbed up into the heights of Chris
tian Joy, and after preaching 40, 900 SER
mons and travelling 10000 miles
reached the heights Of Heaven, though
in this world he had it hard enough
"a sharp rock on the one side, and h
sharp rock on the other"
Again, that woman stands in the
crisis of the text who has bereavement
and struggle for livelihood at the
same time. Without mentioning
names, | speak from observation. All,
it is hard thing for woman to make
an honest living, even when her heart
is not troubled, and she has n fair
cheek, and the magnetism of an cx-
quisite presence. But now the hus-
band, or the father, is dead, The cx-
penscs of the obsequis have absorbed
| all that was left in the saviags bank;
and, wan and wasted with weeping
| and watching, she goes forth-a
grave, hearse, coffin behind her
to contend for her existence and the
existence of her children, When | see
| such battle as that open | shudder at
| the ghastliness of the spectacle. Men
sit with embroidered slippers and
| write heartless ESSAYS about womans
wages; but that question is made up
of tears and blood, and there is more
blood than tears. Oh, give women
! free access to all the realms where she
can get livelihood, from the tele-
graph 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 windowless hut
for shelter for many years, rather than
that after | am dead there should go
out from my home into the pitiless
world woman's arm to fight the Get
tysburg, the Austerlitz, the Waterloo
of life for bread! And yet, how many
women there are seated between the
rock of bereavement on the one side
and the rock of restitution on the
other! Bozez and Seneh intcrlocking
their shadows and dropping them upon
her miserable way. "There is a sharp
rock on the. one side, and 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 wi preserve them
alive, ands ~ idoa trust in me. :"
Or get upl. Weights OF that other
glosious p THE Lord pre-.
serveth the s. :, and relieveth the
wido-v aud ~ .ashS.less." o we sew
] ing ,soma.s, SC. starving wagesl o ye
widows, turned from the once beauti-
full home! o. c female teachers, kept
on niggardly Stipend o ye de.
spairing women, seeking in vain
for work, wandering along the
docks, and thinking to throw your
selves into the river last night! o ye
women of weak nerves, and aching
sides, and short breath, and broken
heart, you need something more than
human sympathy; you need the SYM
pathy of God. Climb up into His arms.
lie knows it all, and lie loves you more
than father. or mother, or husband
ever could or ever did; and, instead Of
sitting down, wfinging your hands in
despair, you had better begin to climb.
There are heights of consolation for
you, though now there is sharp rock
on one side, and sharp rock on the
other side"
Again, that man is in the crisis OF
the text who has wasted life on the
one side and an unilluminated eternity
on the other. Though a man may all
his life have cultured deli bcration and
sclf-pose if he gets into that position,
all his self-possession is gone. There
are all the wrong thoughts of his ex-
istence, all the wrong deeds, all the
wrong words-strata above strata
granite, ponderous, overshadowing
That rock call Bozez On the other
side are all the retributions of the
future, the thrones OF judgment, the
eternal ages; angry with his long de-
fiance. That rock | call Seneh. BE.
tween these two rocks 10, 900 times 10,
900 have persisted.
Oman immortal, man redeemed, man
blood bought, climb up out OF those
shadows! Climb up by the way of the
Cross. Have your wasted life for
L given; have your eternal life secured.
This hour just take the look to the
! past and see what it has been;
y and take one look TO the future,
: and see what it threatens tc
, be. You can afford to lose your health
:. you can afford to lose your property
you can afford to lose your reputation
but you can not afford TO lose your
!. soul. That bright, cleaning, glorious
precious, eternal possession you must
!. carry aloft in the day when the eartl
u burns up and the heavens burst.
= You see from my subject that wher
a man gets into the safety and peac,
of the Gospel, he does not demean him
!, self. There is nothing in religion
n that leads to meanness or un
a manliness. The Gospel of JeSu
!. Christ only asks you to climb a
g Jonathan dd--climb toward God, climI
a toward Heaven, climb into the sun
a shine of Gods favor. 10 become
q Christian is not to go meanly down; il
is to come gloriously up-up into tn
= communion of saints; up into the peac
G that passeLh all understanding; up int
@ the companonship of angels He live
=. upward; he dies Upward.
= Oh, then, accept the wholesale invi
n tation which make this day TO all th'
l. people! Come up from between YOU
e invalidism and financial embarrass
Vt ments. Come up from between YOU
d bcreavements AMI your restitution
S Come up from between wastcl
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