The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-11

tears and blood, rolling through all
lands and all ages, bearing the wreck
q, families and of communities and OF
empires, foaming, writing, boiling
with the agonies of 5000 years? Etna,
Co'opaxi and Vesuvius have been de.
scribed. but who ever has sketched the
volcano Of suffering retching up FROM
t. depths the lava and scoria and pour
ing them down the sides to whelm na-
tons Oh. If could gather all the heart
strings, the broken heartstrings, into
a harp, would play on it dirge such
as was never sounded! Mythologists
tell us OF gorgon and centaur and Titan
and biologists tell us of extinct species
of monsters, but greater than gorgon
or megatherium and not belonging to
the realm of fable and not of an extinct
species, monster with an iron jaw
and hundred iron hoofs has walked
across the nations, and history and
poetry and sculpture, in their attempt
to sketch it and describe it, have seemed
to sweat great drops of blood. But,
thank God, there are those who can
conquer as this woman of the text con.
quered and say: 1T is we'll, though my
property be gone, though my children
be gone. though my home be broken
W, though my health be sacrificed, IL
is well, it is WE'LL" There is no storm
on the sea but Christ is ready to rise in
the hinder part of the ship and hush it.
There is no darkness but the constella-
ton of Gods eternal love can illumine
it, and, though the winter comes out Of
the northern sky. you have sometimes
seen that northern sky all ablaze with
auroras which seem to say: "Come up
this way; up this way are thrones of
light and seas of sapphire and the splen-
dor Of an eternal heaven. Come up this
way"
Again. this woman Of my text was
great in her application to domestic
duties. Every picture is home pic
ture, whether she is entertaining an
Elisha or whether she is giving careful
attention to her sick boy or whether she
is appealing for the restoration of her
property. Every picture in her case is
one OF domesticity. Those are not dis
ciples Of the Shunemite woman who,
going out to attend to outside chari-
ties, neglect the duty of home-the
duty of wife. of mother, Of daughter.
| No faithfulness in public benefaction
can ever atone for domestic negligence.
There has been many mother who by
indefatigable toll has reared large
family of children, equipping them foI
the duties of life with good manners
and large intelligence and Christian
principle, starting them out who has
done more for the world than many q
woman whose name has sounded
through the centuries. | remember
when Kossuth was in this country there
were sol1e ladies who got honorable
regulations by presenting him very
gracefully with bouquets of flowers on
public occasions. But what was all that
compared with the plain Hungarian
mother who gave to truth and civiliza-
ton and the cause of universal liberty
Kossuth? Yes, this woman Of my
text was great in her simplicity. When
this prophet wanted to reward her for
her hospitality by asking some prefer
ment from the king, what did she say?
She declined it. She said: 81 dwell
among my own people," as much as to
say: II am satisfied with my lot. All
l want is my family and my friends
| m rNrp6 ma | lxya1
people,"
Oh. what rebuke to the strife for
precedence in all ages! How many
there are who want to get great archi-
lecture and homes furnished with all
art, all painting, all statuary, who have
not enough taste to distinguish be-
tween Gothic and Byzantine, and who
could not tell figure in plaster of paris
from Palmer's white Captive" and
would not know boys penciling from
Bierstadt's Yosemite" Men who buy
large Libraries by the square foot, buy
ing these libraries when they havs
scarcely enough education to pick out
the day of the month in the almanac!
| Oh, INV thSiC ulC StiNinS "
have things as well as their neighbors
or better than their neighbors, and in
the struggle vast fortunes are exhaust
ed and business firms thrown into bank
ruptcy and men Of reputed honesty
rush into astounding forgeriesl OF
course say nothing against refinement
or culture. Splendor of abode, sumptu-
BUSINESS of diet, lavishness in art, neat
nessin apparel, there is nothing against
them in the Bible or out of the Bible
God does not want us to prefer mud
howell to English cottage, or untanned
sheepskin to French broadcloth, or
husks to pineapple, or the clumsness Of
boor to the manners of gentleman.
God, who strung the beach with tinted
SHE'LL and the grass of the field with
the dews of the night, and hath ex-
quisitely tinged morning cloud and
robin redbreast, wants us to keep our
eye open to all beautiful sights. and
our ear open to all beautiful cadences,
and our heart open to all elevating SEN
timents.
Sold like cattle on the shambles.
Slave Of all work, and, at last. her body
fuel for the funeral pyre Of her hus-
band. Above the shrek of the fire wor-