Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-02-17

Chatsworth Park and the Vanderbilt
mansion were lifted into the celestial
city, they would be looked at as unin-
habitable rookeries, and Lazarus him
self would be ashamed to be seen going
in or out Of them, so great are the pal
aces awaiting all Gods dear children,
and 50 much grander the heavenly ar
chitecture than the earthly. 1t is often
not only the toll of the housekeeping.
but it is the sickness and the sorrow
that 90 along. 1t is simple fact that
one-half of the women of the land are
invaljds. The mountain lass who has
never had an ache or pain may con-
slider household work Of no very great
weariness. and at the eventide may
skip ont to the fields and drive the cat
tie home, and until 10 o'clock at night
may fill the cabin with laughing racket
but. oh. to do the hard work Of the
household with a shattered cOnstitu-
tion-after six weeks whooping cough
has ragged in the household, making the
nights as sleepless as the days-then it
is not so easyl And then this work OF
the house has often to be undertaken
when the nerves are shattered with
some bereavement that has put desola-
tion in every room Of the house and
sent the crib into the garret because its
occupant has been hushed into a slum-
Der that needs no mother lullaby. Oh,
il was n great deal easier for her to brood
the whole flock than TO brood part OF
them now that the rest have gone! You
may tell her that her departed children
are in the bosom Of loving God, but,
motherlike, she will brood both fiocks,
putting one wing Of care over the flock
in the house, putting the other wing Of
care over the flock in the grave. Moth
ing but the old fashioned religion Of
Jesus Christ can take a woman happily
through home trials All these modern
religions amount to nothing. They do
not help They do not comfort when
there is a dead babe il the house. Away
with them and give us the old fashioned
religion Of Jesus Christ. that has com
forted so many in the days of sorrow
and troublel
Romance VIII Not Sunlce.
Romance and novelty may for lit
tie while seem to be a substitute. The
marriage day has only gone by, just
gone By, and al household cares are
atoned for by the JOY Of being together
and by the fact that when it is late at
night it is not necessary to discuss
whether 1t is time to 60 All the mis-
haps Of the newly married couple in
the way Of household affairs are not
matters Of anxiety or reprehension, but
merriment The loaf Of bread turned
into a geological specimen, the slushy
custards and jaundiced and measly bis
cults. Oh, it is very bright sunlight
that falls upon the cutlery and mantel
ornaments Of a new homel Romance
and novelty will do for a little while,
but after awhile the romance is all
| gone and there is q loaf to be made, a
loaf that cannot be sweetened by any
earthly condiments and cannot be fla
vored with any earthly favors and can
not be baked in any ordinary oven. 1t
is the loaf Of domestic happiness. All
the ingredients from heaven. Fruit
from the tree Of life and sweetened with
the new wine of the kingdom and baked
in the oven Of home trial God only
can make that loaf. You can cut it,
but il takes God to make it.
Solomon wrote out Of his own miser-
able experience-he had wratched
home no man can be happy with two
wives. much less with 700. and out Of his
wretched experience he wrote-"Bet-
ter is dinner of herbs where love Is
than stalled OK and hatred there
with. " Oh, the responsibilities Of house
keepersl Kings by their indigestion
have lost empires and generals through
indigestion have lost battles. One OF
the great statisticians says that out OF
900 unmarried men 80 were crimi'
nails, and out Of I, 900 married men only
Is were criminals, showing the power
of home. And oh. the responsibility
resting upon housekeepers BY the fooc
they provide, by the couch they spread
by the books they introduce, by the IN
auence they bring around the home
they are helping to decide the physical
. the intellectual, the moral, the eterna
welfare of the human race. Oh, the re
sponsibility
That woman sits in the house Of GoC
today perhaps entirely unappreciated
, She is the banker of her home, the pres
ident. the cashier. the teller. the dis
count clerk. and ever and anon there i
, a manic. God knows the snxieties an'
the cares. and he knows that this /
= not a useless sermon. but that there ar
multitudes Of hearts waiting for tn
, distillation of the divine mercy AM
, ,olace in their hour Of trials and thei
: home duties and their own fatigues In
! world hears nothing about them. Inc,
d never speak about them. You could no
with the agonies Of an inQuisiton orlnl
the truth out Of them They keep !
O still. They say nothing They endur
: and will until God and the Judgmen
right their wrongs Oh. but says som
sister, Are you not trying to sho'
A that all woman's life at home Is on
\ If self sacrifceg' Yes. my sister, an
Q hat is the only kind Of life worth h'
/ ING That has been the life Of Florenc
a Nightingale; that was the life OF 10
ward Payson that was the life OF tn
e Lord Jesus Christ; that is the life
g every man or woman that is happy
-. life Of self sacrifice. Those people hvin
for themselves-are they happyf Fin
me one. Twill give you all the natior
J; of the earth to find me one. Not happ
} no, not happy.
Self Sacrifice Brings Happiness
e !, Il is the self sacrificing people tn'
u are happy, for God pays so largely
l. gloriously, so magnihcently, in Il
l. deep and eternal satisfactions OF Il
r soul. Self sacrifice We all admire
10 in others How little We exercise OF
n How much would We enduref do
70 much would we risk for othersi A vel
1T rough schoolmaster had poor lad tn
10 had offended the laws OF the schoc