The Globe-republican., 1899-01-19

duties. Every picture i homo pi>s
ture, whether she IL entertaining u
Elisha, or whether she is giving care
full attention to her sick boy. or
whether she = appealing for the re-
toration Of her property. Every pic
ture in her case is one Of domesticity.
Those are not disciples Of this Shune-
mite woman Who, going out to attend
to outside charities. neglect the duty Of
home-the duty Of wife, Of mother. OF
daughter. No faithfulness in public
benefaction can ever atone for domes-
tic negligence. There has been many
a mother who by indefatigable toll has
reared a large family of children.
equipping them for the duties of life
with good manners and large intelli-
gence and Christian principle. starting
them out, who has done more for the
world than many woman whose
name has sounded through all the
lands and through the centuries. Ire
member when Kossuth was in this
>O~AS, tACIC Wcic SOUe laQiCS WAo
got honorable regulations by present
ing 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 civilization and the cause OF
universal liberty a 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 preferment from the king.
what did she say? She declined il.
She said: Il dwell among my own
people" as much as to say. Il am sat
lsfied with my lot: all l want is my
family and my friends around me:
dwell among my own people,"
What l want to impress upon you.
my hearers, is that you ought not TO
inventory the luxurtes OF life among
the indispensables, and you ought not
to depreciate this woman OF the text.
who. when offered kingly preferment.
responded: Il dwell among my own
people" Yea, this woman of the text
was great in her piety. Just read the
chapter after you go home. Faith IN
God. and she was not ashamed to talk
about it before idolaters All. woman
will never appreciate what she owes to
Christianity until she knows and sees
the degradation of her sex under
paganism and MOhammedanism. Her
very birth considered a misfortune
Sold like cattle on the shambles. Slave
Of all work, and, at last. her body fuel
for the funeral pyre of her husband
Above the shrek of the fire-wOrship-
ers in India, and above the rumbiins
of the Juggernauts, hear the million
voiced groan of wronged. insulted.
broken-hearted, down-trOdden woman.
Her tears have fallen in the Nile and
Tigris. the La Plata, and on tbs
steppes of Tartary. She has been dis
honored in Turkish garden and Per
sian palace and Spanish Alhambra-
Her little ones have been sacrificed in
the Indus and the Ganges. There IS
not groan. or a dungeon, or an island.
or a mountain. or river, or lake. or
sea but could tell story OF the out,
RACES heaped upon her. But thanks 10
God this glorious Christianity comes
forth, and all the chains of this vas
salage are snapped. and she rises from
ignominy to exalted sphere and be-
comes the at1ectionate daughter. the
gentle wife, the honored mother. the
useful Christian. Oh! if Christianity
has done so much for woman. surely
woman will become its most ardent adj
vocate and its sublimest exemplifica
ton.