Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-09-20
SERMONS Of The DAY.
Preached by Rev. DR.. Talmage.

subject: Tho Queens of Home-The Rights
of Woman Discussed-Her Dominion
is Home, and There She Should Right
ly Kule-Comforter Of the Sick.
Copyright, Louis KIopsch, 1891
WASHINGTON, D. C.-In this discourse the
opportunities OF usefulness for women are
set forth by DR.. Talmage, and many SYM
pathies are stirred and memories recalled.
are three-score queens"
So Solomon by one stroke set forth the
imperial character of a true Christian wom-
an. She is not a slave, no. a hireling, not
sermon showed you that crown and court
ly attendants and imperial wardrobe were
not necessary to make a queen, but that
graces OF the heart and life will give coro-
nation to any woman. l showed you at
some length that woman's position was
higher in the world than mans, and that,
although she had often been denied the
right OF suffrage, she always did vote and
always would vote by her influence, and
that her chief desire ought to be that she
dominion which she has already won. l
began An enumeration Of some OF her rights
ANA now resume the subject.
In the first place, woman has the special
and the superlativs right of blessing aud
comforting the sick. What land, what
street, what house has not felt the smitings
Of disease? Tens Of thousands.of sick beds!
What shall we do with them? Shall man,
with his rolgh hand and clumsy foot, go
stumbling around the sickroom, trying to
soothe the distracted nerves and alleviate
the pains of the distressed patient2 The
young man at college may scoff ut the idea
Of being under material influences, bur at
the first blast Of typhoid fever on his cheek
he says, "Where is mother"
1t Is an awful thing to be i'll away from
In fol In,
men coming in to look at you, holding
their hand over their mouth for fear they
will catch the contagion. How roughly
they turn you in bedl How loudly they
talki How you long for the ministries OF
homei 1 know one such who went away
ftom one of the brightest OF homes for sew
sral weeks business absence at the west.
i telegram came at midnight that he was
on his deathbed far away from home. By
express train tie wife and daughters went
westward, but they went too late. He
feared not to die, but he was in an agony
to live until his family got there. He tried
to bribe the doctor to make him live a lit
tie longer. He said, 81 am willing to die,
but not alone" But the pulses fluttered,
the eyes closed and the heart stopped. The
express trains met in the midnight, wife
and daughters going westward, lifeless re-
mains of husband and father coming east
ward. Oh, 1t was sad, pitifui, over
whelming spectacle! When we are sick.
time comes for US to die, we want to die at
home. The room may be very humble, and
| the faces that look into ours may be very
plain, but who cares for that2 Loving
hands to bathe the temples. Loving voices
to speak good cheer. Loving lips to read
| the comforting promises OF Jesus.
In our Civil War men cast the cannon,
| men fashioned the musketry, men cried to
| the hosts, Forward, march!' men hurled
their battalions on the sharp edges Of the
enemy, crying, charge. ehargep' but
| tered the cordials, woman watched by the
| dying couch, woman wrote the last mas
sage to the homo circle, woman wept at
the solitary burial, attended by hsrs11f
and four men with gp6d6. We 1ero0tssf
triumphal arches and wild huzzas, but the
story Is too good to be written anywhere
save In the chronicles OF heaven, OF Mrs.
Brady, who came down among the sick In
the swamps OF the Chickahominy; Of Annie
] Ross In the copper shop hospital; of Mar
4 garet Breckinridge, who came to men who
had been for weeks with their wounds un-
| drassed-some OF them frozen to the
ground, and when she turned them over
those that had an arm left waved it
| and filed the air with their "hurrah!'
! of Mrs. Hodge, who came from Chi
cago with blankets and with pill
lows. until the men shouted: "Three
| cheers for the Christian commission!
God bless the women at homep' then sit
| ting down to take the last message: "Tell
] my wife not to fret al out me, but to meet
me in heaven; tell her to train up the boys
| whom We have loved so we'll; tell her We
shall meet again in the good land; tell her
to bear my loss like the Christian wife OF a
Christian soldier" and of Mrs. shelton, in
| to whose face the convalescent soldier
| looked and said, "Your grapes and cologne
cured me-" And 80 1t was also through all
of our war with Spain-women heroic on
| the field, Drawing death and wounds to
reach the fallen, watching by their fever
cots In the West Indian hospitals or on the
troopships or In our smitten home camps.
Men did their work with shot and shell and
| carbine and howitzer; women did their
work with socks and slippers and bandages
and warm drinks and Scripture texts and
gentle stroking Of the hot temples and
stories of that land where they never have
any pain. Men knelt down over the
wounded.and said, "On which side did you
fghr?" Women knelt down over the
wounded and said: "where are you hurt?
What makes you cry2" Tonight while We
I men are sound asleep in our beds there will
be light in yonder loft; there will be
groaning down that dark alley; there will
be cries Of distress in that cellar. Men will
| sleep, and women will watch.
Again, woman has a special right to
take care Of the poor. There are hun
dreds and thousands OF them all over the
land. There Is kind OF work that men
cannot do for the poor. Here comes a
group Of little barefoot children to the
door Of the Dorcas society. They need to
be clothed and provided for. Which of
these directors Of banks would know how
many yards 1t would take to make that
little girl dress? Which OF these mascu-
line hands could ht hat to that little
girls head? Which OF the wise men would
know how to tie on that new pair OF shoesf
Man sometimes gives his charity In rough
way, and 1t falls like the fruit OF n tree in
the east, which fruit comes down so heavily
that It breaks the skull OF the man who
Is trying to gather 1t. But woman glides
| 80 softly into the house OF destitution and
finds out all the sorrows OF the place and
puts so quietly the donation on the table
that all the family come out on the front
steps as she departs, expecting that from
under her shawl she will thrust out two
wings and go right up toward heaven,
from whence she seems to have come down.
Can you tell me why a Christian woman,
going down among the haunts OF iniquity
on u Christian errand, never meets with
any indignity? I stood in the chapel OF
Helen Chalmers. the daughter of the cele-
brated DIR. Chalmers, in the most aban-
doned part Of the city Of Edinburg, and l
said to her as I looked around upon the
fearful surroundings OF that place, "Do
"Oh, yesl' she said. "Can 1t be possible
that you never meet with an insult while
performing this Christian errand?"
''Never," she said, ''never." That young
woman who has her father by her side,
walking down the street, armed police at
each corner, is not so well defended as that
Christian woman who goes forth on gospel
work into the haunts of iniquity, carrying
the Bibles and bread. God with the red
right arm of His wrath omnipotent would
tear to pieces any one who should offer In
dignity to her. He would smite him with
Iightnipgs and drown him with floods and
swallow him with earthquakes, and damn
him with eternal in indignations. Some one
said: 81 dislike very much to see that
Christian woman teachi rg those bad boys
! In the mission school. am afraid to have
her instruct them." ''So." said another
man, ST am afraid, too" sniI the first
s.I nm afraid they will use bad laDguag;
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