The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15

wasting your tune, ana you might as well
submit first ms last. You had better right
the NUMBER OF the check, I'LL up the blank,
sign your name and hand 1t to her. There
Is no need OF wasting time. Those poor
children on the back street have bsan
hungry long enough. That sick man
must have some farina, That consump-
tive must have something to ease his
cough. / meet this delegate OF u relief So
cicty coming out OF the store OF such a
hard listed man, and l say, "Dld you get
the money!" "0f COURSE she says, 81
got the mono, that's what 1 went In for.
The Lord told me to 20 In and get it, and
He never sends me on n FOOLS GRAND"
Again, I have to tell you that 1t is q
woman's specific right to comfort under
the stress of dire disaster. She Is called
the weaker vessel, but all p~rofane as we'll
"a sacred history attests that when the
crisis comes she is better prepared than
man to meet the emergency. How often
you have seen a woman, who seemed to be
a d disciple of frlvolity and Incidence, under
one stroke of calamity changed to n hero
inc. Oh, what n great mistake those busi-
ness men make who never tell their bust
ness troubles to their wivesl There comes
some great loss to their store or some OF
their companions 10 business play than a
sad trick, and they carry the burden all
alone. He Is asked 10 the household again
and again. "Wnat Is the matter?" But he
believes 1t a sort Of Christian duty to keep
oil that trouble within his own soul. Oh,
sir, your first duty was to tell your wife all
about I'll <.
Again, l remark 1t is woman's right to
bring TO US the kingdom Of heaven. 1t is
easier for q woman to be n Christian tha n
for a man. Whyp You say she Is weaker.
No. Her heart is more responsive to the
pleadings OF divine love. She is in vast
majority. The fact hat she can more cas-
lily become Il Christian | prove by the
statement that three-fourths OF the mem-
bers OF churches 10 nil Christendom are
women. So God appoints them to be the
chief agencies for bringing this world back
to God. may stand here and say the soul
Is INN There Is a man who will deny
1t. / may stand here and say we are lost
and undone without Christ. There is a man
who will contradict 1t. l may stand here
and say there will be II judgment day after
awhile. Yonder Is some one who will dis
pute It,. But n Christian woman in a
Christian household, living In the faith and
the consistency OF Chrlst's ~gospel-nobody
can refuto that. The greatest rmo ARE
not preached on celebrated platforms;th
are preached with nj audience OF two or
three and In private home life. A consis-
tent, consecrated Christian service is an
unansweruble demonstration OF Gods
truth.
A sailor came slipping down the rat
lines one night, as though something had
happened, and the sailors cried, whats
the natter" He said, "My mothers
prayer haunts me like a ghost" Home
influences, consecrated home influences,
are the mightlest OF all influences upon
the soul. There are men who have main
tained their integrity not because they
were any better naturally than some other
people, but because there were home In
fiuences praying for them all the time.
They got a good start. They were
launched on the world with the oenedic-
tions OF a Christian mother. They may
track Siberian SHOWS, they may plunge iu
African jungles, they may flee to the earth's
end-they cannot go so fur aud so Est but
the prayers will keep up with thou.
There are prayers for you to offer, there
are exhortations for you to give, there are
examples for YOU to set, and | say now as
Paul said to the Corinthian woman, what
knowest thou but that thou shalt save thy
.husbandl' man was dying and ne SAID
to his wife, "Rebecca, you wouldn't let
me nave family prayers, You la ghed
about all that and you got me away Into
worldliness, and now I'm going to die, and
my fate Is sealed, and you are the cause OF
my ruini' o woman, What knowest thou
but thou canst destroy thy husband?
Are there not some OF you who have kind
~ Influences at nOHlt! hrc lucfe Hpt soiuo
who have wandered far away from God
who can remember he Christian influences
IN their early home? Do not despise those
influences, my brother. II you die without
Christ, what will you do with your moth
er's prayers, with your wlfe's opportunities.
with your sisters eDtreaties2 What Will
you do with the letters they used to write
to you, with the memory OF those days
when they attended you so kindly In times
~ ctaHpoc.2 III IN tharp he mat one strand
holding you from floating off from that
dark sea, l would just like to take hold OF
that strand now and pull you to the beach!
For the sake of your wife's God, for the
sake of yonr mothers God, for the sake OF
your daughters God, for the sake oil your
sisters God come this day and be saved:
Lastly. / wish to say that one OF tho
specific rights OF woman Is, through the
grace OF Christ, finally to reach heaven:
Oh, what a multitude OF women In heaveni
Mary, Cbrist's mother, In heaven, Eliza
beth Fry In heaven, Charlotte Elizabeth In
heaven, the mother of Augustine In heaven,
the Countess OF Huntington, WHO sold her
splendid Jewels to build chapels, In heaven,
while a great many others who have
never been heard of on earth or known
but little have gone Into tho rest and
peace OF heaven. What q restl What n
change it was from the small room,
with no fire and one window (the glass
broken out), and the aching side, ana
wornout eyes, to the "house OF many man
sionsl' No more stitching until IL o'clock
at night, no more thrusting OF the thumb
bv the employer through the work to show
1t was not done quite right. Plenty OF
bread at lastl Heaven for aching heaisl
Heaven for broken hearts, Heaven Tor
anguish bitten frames! No more sitting
until midnight for the coming OF e
ing stepsl No more rough blows across
the temple, No more sharp, keen, bitter
curses.
Some Of you will have no rest in this
world. 1t will be toll and struggle and
suffering all the way up You Will nave
to stand at your door lighting back the
wolf with your own hand red with
carnage. But God has a crown for you.
| want you to realize this morning that
He is now making 1t, and whenever
you weep a tear He sets another gem IN
that crown, whenever you have q pang
of BODY or soul He puts another gem IN
that crown, until after awhile In all
the tiara there will be no room Tor an
other splendor. and God will say TO HIS
angel, 'The crown is done; let her up
that she may wear it," Ana as tue Loru
OF righteousness puts the crown upon your
brow, angel will cry to angel, VINO is
she?" and Christ will say; 81 viii tell you
who she is. She is the one that came up
out OF great tribulntion and had her robe
washed and made white In the blood Oh the
Lamb" And then God will spread a BAN
ouet, and He will invite all the principals
ties OF heaven to sit at the feast, and the
tables will blush with tho best clusters
from the vineyards OF God and crimson
with the twelve manner OF fruits from
the Tree OF Lite, and waters from the
fountains of tho rock will fash from tho
golden tankards, and the old harpers oi
heaven will sit there, making music with
their harps, and Christ will point you out
amid the celebrities of heaven, sayingl
"she suffered with Me OF earth; now VIC
are going 10 be glorihed together. And
the %banuueters. no longer able to hold thefi
peace, will break forth with congratuia-
lion. "Hail! haill' And there Will ba
handwritings on the wnll-not such as
| struck The Babylonian noblemen with hor'
ror, but nre-tipped fingers. writing 10
blazing capitals OF Hight and love, Goo
hath wiped away all tears from an races!
The Endeavorers in England.
Tn England the Baptists lead In numbers