The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-11-11
TALMAGE SERMON.
lsRlEF SYNOPSIS OF THE oIvINF's SUM-
eaY DISCOURSE.
.hiect: The Queens OF Hoine-The Rights
Of woman Discdssed--Her Dominion
IL Home, and There She Should Right
y Rule-Comforter of the Sick.

az woman Discdssed-Her Dominion
IA Home, and There She Sh6nld Right |
IL Rule-Comforter of the Sick.
copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1891
W.sH1yaroN. D, C.-In this discourse the |
puortu mites OF usefulness for women are |
ct forth by DR.. falmage, and many sym. |
athies are stirred and memories RECALLED: |
he text ia Solomon's Songs, VII. 3. Thsre |
70 three-score queens"
So Solomon by one stroke set forth the
imperial character OF true Christian wom-
n. She 10 not slave, no. hireling, not
,subordinate, but queen. In former
err, on showed you that crown and SQUIRT
attendants aud imperial wardUbe wore
lot necessary to make q queen, but that
races OF the heart and life will give coros
lation to any woman: showed you at
ONE length that woman's POSITION was
higher in the world than mans, and that;
although she had often been denied the
light OF suffrage, she always did vote and
lways would vote by her influence, and
hat her chief desire ought to be that she
ihould have grace rightly to rule In the
lomlnion which tbe has already won.
,ecan an enumeration OF some cf her rights
md now resume the subject.
In the first place, woman has the special
md the superlativs right OF blessing ana
comforting the sick. What land. what
treet, what house has not felt the sc1itfngs
Il dIseasef Tens Of thousands,of sick bedsl
What shall we do with themf Shall man,
NTH his rough hand and clumsy foot. &c
tumbling around the sickroom, trying TO
Ioothe the distracted nerves and alleviate
he pains Of the distressed patientr The
roung man at college may soon at the idea
| II being under material Influences bur at
he ret blast Of typhoid fever on his cheek
| ie says, "Where is mother"
II Is an awful thing to be III away from
| ZONE in a strange hotel, once In awhile
| men coming in to look at you, holding
! heir band over their mouth for fear they
will catch the contagion. How roughly
| :hey turn you in bedl How loudly they
| alkl How you long for the ministries OF
| ,omeI / know one such who wentNaway
| rom one of the brightest OF homes for sew
| ,ral weeks' business absence at the west.
/ Telegram came at midnight that he was
IN his deathbed far away from home. by
express train tie wife and daughters went
| westward. but they went too late. he
cared not to die, but he was In an agony
20 live until his family got there. He tried
| % bride the doctor to make him live 1T
| lie longer. He said, 81 am willing to die,
out not alone" But the pulses fluttered,
he eyes closed and the heart stopped. The
express trains met in the midnight, vile
md daughters going westward. llieiess re-
| mains OF husband and father coming east
| yard. Oh, It was sad, pftlluis over
whelming spectaclel When we are sick.
We want to be sick at home. When the
lime comes for us to die, We want to die at
nome. The room may be very humble, and
The faces that look into ours may be very
plain. but who cares for thate Loving
lands to battle the temples. Loving voices
20 speak good cheer. Loving lips to read
the comforting promises OK Jesus.
In our Civil War men cast the cannon,
men fashioned the musketry, men cried to
he hosts, Forward; marchp men hurled
their battalions on the sharp edges OF the
enemy, crying, "Charge, charged! but
MONA scraped the lint, woman admits
tered the cordials, woman watched by the
diving couch, woman wrote the last mes
,ape to the home circle, woman wept at
the solitary burial, attended by herself
and four men with a spade. We greeted
the generals home with brass bands and
triumphal arches and wild huzzas, put the
story Is too good to be written anywhere
rave In the chronicles OF heaven, OF Mrs
Brady, who eame down among the sick II
the swamps OF the ChickahoIniny; OF Annie
Ross in the copper shop hospital; OF Mar
paret Breckinridge, who came to men who
had been for weeks with their wounds un
dressed-some of them frozen to INT
ground, and when she turned them owe
those that had an arm lett waved !,
and filed the air with their "hurrahl'
of Mrs. Hodge, who came from Chi
cago with blankets and with Pill
|, lows. until the men shouted: Tnre
cheers for the Christian commission
God bless the women at homel' then sit
! ting down to take the last message: Tel
. nv wife not to fret about me, but 70 NEE
me In heaven; tell her 10 TRAIN W Tug ooy
whom we have loved SO well; tell her W
J shall meet again in the good land; tell be
| to bear my loss like the Christian wife OF
, Cifrlstian soldier" and of Mrs. Shelton, In
: to whose face the convaleseent soldie
looked and said, Your grapes and cologn
: cured me-" And so 1t was also through a
D Of our war with Spain-women heroic o
the field, Drawing death and wounds t
reach the fallen, watching by their feve
cots In the West Indian hospitals or on til
troopsbIps or In our smitten homo camp:
n Men did their work with shot and she'll an
;, carbine and howitZer; women did thei
work with socks and slippers and bandage
j. and warm drinks and Scripture texts an
II gentle stroking OF the hot temples an
! stories of that land where they never hav
apv pain. Men knelt down over til
a woundec.and said, ION which side did yo
|. fighr?u Women knelt down over tn
|. wounded and said: where are you hurt
n What nice thing can make for you to ea
Y What makes you cry?" Tonight while
D. men are sound asleep In our beds there WI
h be a light in yonder loft; there Will
~ grooming down that dark alley; there wi
be cries OF distress in that cellar. Men wi
.. hleep. and women will watch.
a Again, woman has a special right
W take care of the poor. There are hui
<, dreds and thousands OF them all over II
y land. There is kind OF work that me
~ cannot do for the poor. Here comes
le group Of little barefoot children to Il
n door OF the Dorcas society. They need
be- clothed and provided for. Which
ie these directors OF banks would know no
MANY Yards 1t would take to make tn
little girl dress2 Which OF these masc'
line hands could fit hatst that lit
girls head? Which Of the wise mea wou
Ia know how to tie on that new pair OF shoe
er Man sometimes gives his charity In roue
m way. and 1t falls like the fruit OF tree
The east. which fruit comes down so heavi
ID That IL breaks the skull OF the man wi
e. Is trying to gather 1t. But woman GID
NJ 10 softly into the house OF restitution al
!, finds out all the SORROWS OF the place a.
NC puts so quietly the donation on the tar
8. that all the family come out on the fro
O. steps as she departs, expecting that fro
40 under her shawl she will thrust out t.
wings and go right up toward heave
u from whence she seems to have come dow
~ Can you tell me why Christian wona
III going down among the haunts OF iniqul
4 on a Christian errand, never meets wi
any fndignfty7 / stood In the chapel
IN Helen Chalmers, the daughter OF the CO
u brated DR.. Chalmers, In the most aba
doned part of the city OF Edinburg, AM
said to her as looked around upon
fearful surroundings OF that place. 81
Won come here nights to hold service
RI aOh vesis she said "Can 1t be possil