Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-02-24
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land. and all ages, bearing the wreck
| g., families and of communities ami OF
empires, foamng, writhing, boiling
with the agonies of 5000 years? Elna.
Co'opaM and vesuvius have been de
scrbed, but who ever has sketehed the
volcano OF suffering retching up from
y depths the lava and scora and pour
| ing them down the sides TO whem ma
,ons Oh, IL could gather all the he9rt-
strings. the broken heartstrings, into
a harp, would play on II dirge such
as was Lever 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, q monster with an iron jaw
and hundred iron hoofs has walked
across the nations, and history and
poetry and sculpture, in their attempt
10 sketch II and describe II, 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 well, though my
property be gone, though my children
be gone, though my home be broken
", though my health be sacrificed, it
is we'll, II is well!" There is no storm
on the sea but Christ is ready TO rise in
the hinder part OF the ship and hush IL.
There is no darkness but the constella.
ton of Gods eternal love can illumine
II, 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 spen-
dor OF an eternal heaven. Come up this
way"
Again, this woman Of my text was
great in her application 10 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 domesticiiy. Those are not dis
ciplcs of the Shunemite woman who,
going out to attend to outside cbsri-
ties, neglect the duty OF home-the
duty OF wife. of mother, Of daughter.
No faithfuness in public benefacton
can ever atone for domestic negligence.
There has been many mother who by
indefatigable toll has reared q large
family of children, equipping them fou
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 a
woman whose name has sounded
through the centuries. remember
when Kossuth was in this country there
were some ladies who got honorabIs
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-
tion and the cause of universal liberty
a Kossuih? 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 il. She said: 81 dwell
among my own people, as much as 10
say: II am satisfied with my lot. All
I want is my family and my friends
around me. dwell among my own
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 "Whte Captive" and
would not know boys penciing from
| Bierstadts 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, how many there are striving 10
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
Gcd docs not want us TO prefer mud
hove 10 English cottage, or untanned
sheepskin 10 French broadcloth, or
husks to pineapple, or the clumsness OF
a boor TO the manners Of gentleman.
God, who strung The beach with tinted
shell, and the grass Of the field with
the dews Of the night, and hath en-
qusitely 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 eleyating SEN
timents.
Sold like cattle on the sbambles.
Slave OF all work, and, at last, her body
fuel for the funeral pyre of her bus
band. Above the shrek Of the fire wor-
Slippers in India, and above the rumbling
of the juggernauts, hear the million
voiced groan of wronged insulted,
hearted, down-trodden woman.
Her tears have fallen in the Nile and
Tigris. the La Plata, and on The steppes
Of Tartary. She has been dishonored
in Turkish garden and Persian palace
and Spanish Alhambra. Her little ones
have been sacrificed in the Indus and
the Ganges. There is not groan, or u
dungeon, or an island, or a mountain,
or river, or lake, or sea, but could
tell story o: the outrages heaped upon
her. But, thanks TO God, this glorious
Christianity comes forth, and all the
chains of this vassalcge are snapped,
and she rises from gnomiDy 10 exalted