St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-02-18

There has been many Z mother who BY
indefatigable toll has reared . large
family Of children, equipping them for
the duties Of life with good manners
and large intelligence and Christian
principle, starting them ont. who has
done more for the world than many .
woman whose name has sounded
through the centuries. l remember
when Kossuth was in this country there
were some ladies who got honorable
regulations by presenting him very
gracefully with bouquets Of flowers on
public occasions. But what WINS oil that
compared with the plain Hungarian
mother who gave to truth and civiliza-
tion and the cause of universal liberty
Kossuth: Yes. this woman of my
text wns great in her simplicity. When
this prophet wanted to reward her for
her hospitality by asking some prefer
ment from the king. what did she say?
She declined 1t. She said: Il dwell
among my own people" as much as 10
say: II am satisfied with my lot. All
l want is my family and my friends
around me. dwell among my own
people," .sks ttEH 81
Oh. what = rebuke TO the strife for
precedence in all ages! How many
there are who want to get great archi-
lecture and homes furnished with all
art, all painting, all statuary. who have
not enough taste to distinguish be-
tween Gothic and Byzantine. and who
could not tell figure in plaster of paris
from Palmer's white Captive" and
would not know boys penciling from
Bierstadt's Yosemite" Men who buy
large libraries by the square foot, buy
ing these libraries when they have
scarcely enough education 10 pick out
the day Of the month in the almanac!
Oh, how many there are striving TO
have things as well as their neighbors
or better than their neighbors, and in
the struggle vast fortunes are exhaust
ed and business firms thrown into bank
ruptcy and men OF reputed honesty
rush into astounding forgeries! OF
course say nothing against refinement
or culture. Spiendor Of abode, sumptu-
business Of diet, lavishness in art, neat.
ness in apparel, there is nothing against
them in the Bible or out OF the Bible.
God does not want US to prefer mud
hovel 10 English cottage, or Unframed
sheepskin 10 French broadcloth, or
husks 10 pineapple. or the clumsiness of
boor 10 the manners Of a gentleman
God. who strung the beach with tinted
shell. and The grass of the field with
the dews Of the night, and hath ex-
quisiteH tinged morning cloud and
robin redbreast, wants US to keep our
eye open to all beautiful sights. and
our ear open 10 all beautiful cadences,
and our heart open to all elevating SEN
timents.
But what l want to impress upon
you, my hearers, is that you ought not |
to inventory the luxuries Of life among
the indispensables, and You ought not
to depreciate this woman Of the text,
who. when offered kingly preferment.
II dwell among my own
people," Yen, this woman OF the text
was great in her piety. Just read the |
chapter after you go home. Faith in
God, and she was not ashamed to talk |
about it before idolaters. All, woman
will never appreciate what she owes
to Christianity until she knows and |
sees the degradation of her sex under
paganism and Mohammedanism. Her
very birth considered a misfortune.
Sold like cattle on the shambles.
Slave Of all work. and, at last, her body
fuel for the funeral pyre OF her hus-
band. Above the shrek Of the fire wor-
in India, and above the rumbling
Of the juggernauts, hear the million
voiced groan OF wronged, insulted,
down-trodden woman.
Her tears have fallen in the Nile and
Tigris, the In Plata, and on the steppes
Of Tartary. She has been dishonored
in Turkish garden and Persian palace
and Spanish Alhambra. Her little ones
have been sacrificed in the Indus and
the Gauges. There is not groan, or a
dungeon, or an island. or a mountain,
or q river, or lake, or sea, but could
tell story of the outrages heaped upon
her. But. thanks to God, this glorious
comes forth, and all the
chains OF this vassalage are snapped,
md she rises from ignominy to exalted
sphere and becomes the affectionata
laughter, the gentle wife, the honored
the useful Christian. Oh. II
has done SO much for won,-
IN. surely woman will become its most
lrdent advocate and its sublimest exem-