Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-09-14


of the members Of churches in all Chris
tendon are women. SO God appoints them
to he the chief agencies for bringing this
world back to God. / may stand here
and say the soul is immortal there is a
man who will deny it. I may stand here
and say we are lost and undone without
Christ; there is n man who will contra
dict it. l may stand here and say there
will be judgment day inter awhile; yon-
der is some one who will dispute it. But
a Christian woman in n Christian house
hold, living in the faith and consistency
of Christs gospei-nobody can refute
that. The greatest sermons are not
preached on celebrated platforms. They
are preached with an audience OF two or
three and in private home life. a con-
sistent. consecrated Christian service is
an unanswerable demonstration of Gods
truth.
"My Mothers Prayer"
A sailor came slipping down the rat
lines one night, as though something had
happened. and the sailors cried, whats
the matter|' He said, my mothers
prayer haunts me like a ghost" Home
influences. consecrated home influences,
are the mightiest of all influences upon
the soul. There are men who have main
tanned their integrity not because they
were any better naturally than some 9th
or people, but because there were home
influences praying for them all the time
They got good start They were launch
ed on the world with the benedictions of
Christian mother. They may track ST.
berian SHOWS they may plunge in African
jungles they may fee to the earths end
they cannot go so far and so fast but
the prayers will keep up with them.
L speak to women who have the ster-
nal salvation of their husbands in their
right hand. On the marriage day you
took an oath before men and angels that
you would be faithful and kind until
death did you part. and believe you are
going to keep that oath, but after that
parting at the grave will it be eternal
separation? Is there any such thing as
an immortal marriage, making the flow
ers that grow on the top OF the sepulcher
/ brighter than the garlands which at the
marriage banquet flooded the air with
aroma? Yes. stand here an ambassador
OF the most high God to proclaim tie
banns of an immortal union for all those
who join hands in the grace of Christ.
o woman, is your husband, your father,
your son, away from God? The Lord de-
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There are prayers for you to offer, there
are celebrations for you to give, there
are exarsples for you to set and / say
now, as Paul said to the Corinthian wom-
an, What knowest thou but thou shalt
save thy husband" A man was dying,
and he said to his wife: "Rebecca. you
wouldn't let me have family prayers; you
laughed about all that, and you got me
away into worldlness, and now I'm 60
ing to die, and my fate is sealed, and you
are the cause OF my ruin! o woman,
what knowest thou but thou canst de-
stroy thy husband?
Are there not some of you who have
| kindly influences at home? Are there
not some who have wandered far away
from God who can remember the Chris
tan influences in their early home? Do
not despise those influences, my brother.
| If you die without Christ, what will you
do with your mothers prayers, with
| your wifSs opportunities, with your SIS
ter's entreaties? 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 Of
sickness? Oh, il there be just one strand
holding you from floating off from that
! dark sea, 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 your mothers God, for
the sake OF your daughters God, for the
sake of your sisters God, come this day
and be saved.
Heaven Her Right.
Lastly l wish to say that one Of the
specific rights OF woman is, through the
grace of Christ, finally to reach heaven.
o what multitude of women in heaven.
Mary, Christ's mother, in heaven; Eliz-
abeth Fry in heaven; Charlotte Eliza
beth in heaven; the mother of Augustine
In heaven; the Countess of Huntington,
who sold her splendid jewels to build
chapels, in heaven, while 4 great many
others, who have never been heard of
on earth or known but little, have gone
into the rest and peace of heaven. What
Il rest, What a change it was from the
small room, with no fire and one window
! (the glass broken OUT and the aching
side and wornout eyes, to the house of
many mansions" No more stitching un
til II o'clock ut night, no more thrusting
OF the thumb by the employer through
the work, to show it was not done quite
right. Plenty of bread at last! Heaven
for aching heads, heaven for broken
hearts, heaven for anguish bitten frames
NO more sitting until midnight for the
coming of staggering steps No more
rough blows across the temples. No
more sharp, keen, bitter curses
Some of you will have no rest in this
world. 1t will he toll and struggle and
suffering all the way up. You will have
to stand at your door fighting back the
wolf with your own hand. red with car
mage. But God has a crown for you.
want you to realize this morning that he
is now making il, and whenever you weep
a tear he sets another gem in that crown
Whenever you have a pang OF body or
soul he puts another gem in thot crown
until after awhile in all the tiara there
will be no room for another splendor, and
God will say to his angel: 1.-THE crown is
done. Let her up, that she may wear it,
And as the Lord of righteousness puts
the crown upon your brow angel will cry
TO angel, "Who is she?" and Christ will
say: 81 will tell you who she is. She is
the one that came up out of great tribu'
lation and had her robeG washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb"
And then God will spread banquet, and
he will invite all the principalities of
heaven to sit at the feast, and the tables
will blush with the best clusters from the
vineyards of God and crimson with the
~ manner of fruits from the tree of life,
and waters from the fountains of the
rock will fash from the golden tankards
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