The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-01-26

duties. Every picture Is q home pic
8tllre, whether she Is entertaining an II
Elisha or whe ther she Is giving care
8ful attention to her sick boy ,85s or &
ether she is appealing for the res
storation Of her pr perty Every pic
sture in. her case is one OF domesticity.
Those are not disciples Of this Shune-
mite woman who, going out to attend
to outside charities, neglect the duty OF
S;home--the duty Of wife, Of mother, OF
daughter. No faithfulness in public
fbenefaction can ever atone for domes-
tic negligence. There has been many
mother who by interchangeable toll has
reared large family of ildren,
eqlnpplng them for the duties Of life
with good manners and large intelli-
gencc ICE and Christian principle. starting
them out, who has done more for the
world world than many woman whose
name 's has sounded through all the
lands '11 and through the centuries. III re-
member when Kossuth was in this
country, there we're some ladies who
got honorable regulations by present
Ing MIN very gracefully with bouquets
or flowers on public occasions; but
what was all that compared with the
pam hungarian mother who gave to
truth and civilization and the cause OF
universal liberty a Kossuth? Yes, this
woman OF my text was great in her
simplicity. When this prophet wanted
70 reward her for her hospitality by
asking some preferment from the king,
what did she say? She declined it..
one said: II dwell among my own
people," as much as to say, II am sat
lshed with my lot; all I want is my
family and my friends around me; I
o"ell among my own people, "+&**
Wnat l want, to impress upon you,
my hearers, is that you ought not to
inventory the luxuries of life among
the 1ndlspensables, and you ought not
TO depreciate this woman of the text,
VINO, when offered kingly preferment,
responded: Il dwell among my own
people Yea, 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 husband.
Above the shrek Of the fire-worship-
ers in India, and above the rumbling
Of the Juggernauts, I hear the million
voiced groan of wronged, insulted,
broken-hearted, down-trodden woman.
Her tears have fallen in the Nile and
Tigris, the La Plata, and on the
| steppes of Tartary. She has been dis
honored in Turkish garden and Per-
sian palace and Spanish Alhambra.
Her little ones have been sacrificed in
the Indus and the Ganges. There is
not groan, or a dungeon, or an island,
or mountain, or river, or a lake, or
a sea but could tell story of the out
RACES heaped upon her. But thanks to
God this glorious Christianity comes
! forth, and all the chains of this vas
salage are snapped, and she rises from
ignominy to exalted sphere and be-
comes the attectionate daughter, the
gentle wife, the honored mother, the
useful Christian. Oh! if Christianity
has done so much for woman, surely
woman will become it's most ardent adj
vocate and it's sublimest exemplifica>
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