Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-09-11

changed to a heroine Oh, what a great
mistake those business men make who
never tell their business troubles to
their wives! There comes some great
loss to their store or some of their COM
panions in business play them sad
trick, and they carry the burden all
alone He is asked in the household
again and again, ''What is the mat
ter?'' But he believes it sort of Chris
tian duty to keep all that trouble with
in his own soul Oh, sir, your first duty
was to tell your wife all about It'll She
perhaps might not have disentangled
your finances or extended your credit,
but she would have helped you to bear
misfortune. You have no right to carry
on one shoulder that which is intended
for two Business men know what I
mean. There came a crisis in your af
fairs. You struggled bravely and long
but after awhile there came day when
you said. ''Here I shall have to STOP"
and you called in your partners, and
you called in the most prominent men
in your employ, and you said, eve
have got to STOP" You left the store
suddenly You could hardly make up
your mind to pass through the street
and over on the ferryboat You felt ev-
erybody would be looking at you and
blaming you and denouncing you. You
fastened home. You told your wife all
about the affair What did she say?
Did she play the butterfly? Did she
talk about the silks and the ribbons
and the fashions2 No She came up to
the emergency. She quailed not under
the stroke. She offered to go out of the
comfortable house into a smaller one
and wear the old cloak another winter
She was the one who understood your
affairs without blaming you.
You looked upon what you thought
was a thin, weak woman's arm holding
you up, but while you looked at that
arm there came into the feeble muscles
of it the strength of the eternal God
you about the beautiful house of her
father from which you brought her TO-
30 or 80 years ago. You said: "Wen,
this is the happiest day of my life. l
am glad I have got from under my bur
den. My wife don't care; 1 don't care
At the moment you were exhausted
God sent Deborah to meet the host Of
Amalekites and scatter them like chaH
over the plain. There are sometimes
women who sit reading sentimental
novels, and who wish that they had
some grand field in which to display
their Christian powers. What grand
and glorious things they could do If
they only had an opportunity My sis
ter, you need not wait for any such
time A crisis will come in your affairs
There will be a Thermopylae in your
own household where God will tell you
to stand. There are scores and hun
dreds of households today where as
much bravery and courage are demand
ed of women as was exhibited by Grace
Darling or Marie Antoinette or Joan of
Arc.
Christian Women.
Again, I remark it is woman's right
to bring to us the kingdom of heaven.
It is easier for a woman to be Chris
tian than for man. Why? You say
she is weaker No. Her heart is more
responsive to the pleadings of divine
love. She is in vast majority. The fact
that she can more easily become
Christian prove by the statement that
-fourths of the membersOf churches
in all Christendom are women. So God
appoints them to be the chief agencies
for bringing this world back to God. I
may stand here and say the soul Is i'm
mortal There is man who will deny
it. I may stand here and say we are
lost and undOne without Christ. There
is man who will contradict it. l may
stand here and say there will be a judg-
ment day after awhile. Yonder is some
one who will dispute it. But Chris
tan woman in a Christian household,
living in the faith and the consistency
of Christ's gospel-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
consistent, consecrated Christian service
is an unanswerable demonstration Of
Cod truth.
A sailor came slipping down the rat
lines one night, as though something
had happened, and the sailors cried,
'What's the matter?'' He said, my
mothers prayer haunts me like
ghost" Home influences, consecrated
home influences, are the mightiest OF
all influences upon the soul. There are
men who have maintained their integ-
rity not because they were any better
naturally than some other people, but
because there were home influences
praying for them all the time They
got good start. They were launched
on the world with the benedictions of
Christian mother. They may track ST.
berian SHOWS, they may plunge in Afri-
can jungles, they may flee to the earth's
end-they cannot go SO far and so fast
but the prayers will keep up with
them.
Power For Good.