The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-01-20

duties. Every picture is a home piG-
ture. whether she is entertaining an
Elisha, or whether she is giving care
full attention to her sick boy, or
whether she is appealing for the rsS-
toration of her property. Every pic
ture 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
home-the duty of wife, OF mother, OF
daughter. No faithfulness in public
benefaction can ever atone for domes-
tic negligence. There has been many
mother who by indefatlgable toll has
reared q large family ct children,
eQuipping them for the duties of life
with good manners and large intelli-
ge2cc and Christian principle, starting
them out, who has done more for the
world than many woman whose
name has sounded through all the
lands and through the centuries. ! re-
member when Kossuth was in this
country, there were some ladies who
got honorable regulations by present.
ing him very gracefully with bouquets
or flowers on public occasions; but
what was all that compared with the
plain 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
10 reward her for her hospitality by
asking some preferment from the king.
what did she say? She declined IL.
She said: II dwell among my own
people" as much as to say. II am sat-
isned with my lot; all / want is my
family and my friends around me; /
dWeil among my own people"
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
10 depreciate this woman of the text,
who, when offered kingly preferment,
responded: II 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
pagan!sm and Mohammedanism Her
very birth considered a misfortune.
Sod like cattle on the shambies. 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. 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 Gauges. There is
not a groan, or dungeon, or an island,
or mountain, or a river, or 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 anectionate daughter. the
gentle wife, the honored mother, the
useful Christian. Oh! If Christianity
has done so much for woman. surely
woman will become its most ardent ad-
vocate and its sublimest exemplifica-
ton.