Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-02

onJojn severe economy at nome. Tnat ID
what kills Thousands Of women--the
is amazing how some men dole out money
to the household. II you have not got the
money. say so. If You have, be cheerful
in the expenditure. Your wife will be
reasonable. ''How long does the honey
moon lsst said young Toman eeout THO to
mother answered: 1.-THE honeymoon lasts
until you ask your husband for money"
Chow much do you wantp" "a dollar"
IA dollarl Cant you get along with fifty
cents? You aye always wanting a dollar"
this everlasting attempt to bring the outgo
within the income, has exhausted multi
tudes o; housekeepers. Let me say to
such, 1t Is part of the divine discipline.
If 1t were best for you, all you would have
to do would be just to open the front win
food. and after you had baked fifty times
from the barrel In the pantry, like the
barrel OF Zarephath, the barrel would be-
full, and the children's shoes would last as
lcng as the shoes of the Israelites in the
wilderness-forty years.
Oh, my friends, all these trials and
fatigues OF homo life are to prepare you
for heaven, for they will make that the
brighter in the contrast! A dying soldier
was asked by a friend, "Have you anv
message to send to your father?" EYES,"
said he; 'tell him I have gone home"
"Well," said the friend, shave YOU any
message to send to your wife?" eyes; tell
her have gone lone" "You have other
friends. Would you like to send a message
to them?" eyes; give them the same mes
sage. They will understand it. Tell then,
I have gone home" And that heavenly
home will ompensate, will fully atone, for
all the hardships and the trials and the
annoyances and the veXations Of the
earthly home. In that land they never
hunger, and consequently there will be no
nuisance of catering for appetite. In that
land of the white robes they have no mend
ing to do, and the air OF that hlrly country
makes them all we'll. No rent to pay there.
Every man owns his own house, and a
mansion at that. 1t will not be so great II
change to step into the chariot of the skies
II ON earth you rode. 1t will not be so
great change il on earth you had all
luxuries and satisfactons. 1t will not be
so great a change for you to sit down on
the banks OF the river Of life If on earth
you had a country seat.
But oh, the Joy OF the weary feet when
they step into the celestial equippage, and,
oh, for the Joy Of those to whom home was
a mart yfdoln on earth when they go into
that home where they will never have to
do anything they do not want to do! What
a change from the time she put down the
rolling pin to the time she took up the
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derbilt mansion were fitted into the celes-
tial city, they would be looked at as unin-
habitable rookeries, and Lazarus himself
would be ashamed to be seen going in and
out of them. so great are the palaces
awaiting Gods dear children, and so much
grander the heavenly architecture than
the earthly. 1t is often not only the toll
Of the housekeeping, but it is the sickness
and the sorrow that go along. 1t is sim
pie fact that one-half of the women of the
land are invalids. The mountain lass who
has never had an ache or pain may con-
slider household work OF no very great
WEAKNESS, and at the eventlde may
skip out 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 house
hold with a shattered constitution-after
six weeks whooping cough has ragged in
the household, making the nights as Sleep
less as the days-then 1t is not so easy!
And then this work of the house has often
to be undertaken when the nerves are
shattered with some bereavement that has
put desolation in every room of the house
and sent the crib into the garret because
its occupant has been hushed into q slum-
Der that needs no mothers lullaby. oh, 1t
was a 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 a loving God, but, mother
like, she will brood both flocks, putting
one wing of care over the flock in the
house, putting the other wing OF care over
the flock in the grave. Nothing but the
old fashioned religion Of Jesus Christ can
take woman happily through home trials.
All these modern religions amount to moth
ing. They do not help.
Solomon wrote out OF his own miserable
experience-he had wretched home; no
M n N ha hqnnv yrith fyun Wi MN oh
less with 7OO,and out OF his wretched exper-
ience he wrote-"Better Is dinner of
herbs where love Is than q stalled OK and
hatred Herewith" oh, the responsibilities
OF fhousekeepersl Kings by their indiges-
tion have lost empires and generals
through indigestion have lost battles. One
OF the great statisticians says that out of
1000 unmarried men thirty were criminals,
and out OF 1000 married men only eighteen
were criminals, showing the power of home.
And, oh, the responsibility resting upon
housekeepers By the food they provide,
by the couch they spread, by the books
they Introduce, by the influence they bring
around the home, they are helping to de-
eide the physical, the intellectual, the
moral, the eternal welfare Of the human
race. Oh, the responsibility!
That woman sits in the house OF God to-
day perhaps entirely unappreciated. She
Is the banker OF her home, the president,
the cashier, the teller, the discount clerk,
and ever and anon there is a panic. God
knows the anxieties and the cares and he
knows that this is not a useless sermon,
but that there are multitudes Of hearts
waiting for the distillation of the divine
mercy and solace in their hour of trials
and their home duties and their own ia
tigues. The world hears nothing about
them. They never speak about them. You
could not with the agencies Of an inquisi-
tion bring the truth out OF them. They
keep it still. They say nothing. They en-
dure and will until God and the judgment
right their wrongs.
1t is the self sacrificing people that are
happy, for God pays so largely, so glori-
ously, so magnifcently, in the deep and
eternal satisfactions of the soul. Self sa-
crifce! We all admire it in others. How
little we exercise Of 1t! How much would
we endure? How much would we risk for
others? A very rough schoolmaster had
poor lad that had offended the laws of the
school, and he ordered him to come up,
"Now,' he said, "you take off your coat
instantly and receive this whip" The boy
declined, and more vehementy the teacher
said, II tell you, now, take Off your coat.
Take 1t off instantly" The boy again de.
clined. 1t was not because he was afraid