The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-03

.o7r,re ana a, the eventfie mas
IN or TO tla fields AMI drive the eat
a.. home. All until ID o'clock at niCht
may I'll the cabin with laughing racket,
hut. OF. to do tho hard work or the house
hold with a shattered conStitution-after
six weeks whOopinE cough has .aSed IN
tho household. making the nights as sleep
less g the davs-then il Is not 50 easy!
And then this work OF the house has often
&c he undertaken when tie nerves are
shatt, red with some bereavement that has
rut desolatiOn in every room OF the house
aud sent the crib into the garrett because
tts occupant has been hushed into q SUM
Der that needs no mothers lullaby. o.. X
VS. Il great deal easier for her to broo!
the whole flock than to brood q part OF
them now that the rest have gone. ACI
may tell her that her departed children re
In the bosom OF a loving God, but, mother
ike, she will brood both tlocks. putting
Dne wing Of care over the flock IN the
house, putting the other wing Of ca4e over
the flock in the grave. Nothing but the
Old fashioned religion OF Jesus Christ can
take q woman happily through home trials.
All these modern --Ii0ions amount tc moth.
Solomon wrote out OF his own miserable
expe-ience-he bad a wretched home; no
man can be happy with two wives, much
less with 700, and out OF his wretched xper-
fence he wrote-"Better is a dinner Of
herbs where love is than a stalled OK and
hatred herewith Oh. the responsibilities
Of housekeepe-s. Kings by their indices-
ton have lost empires and generals
through indigestion have lost battles. OI&
OF the great StatisticianS says that out 4
1000 unmarried men thirty We're criminals,
and out Of 1000 married men only eighteen
were criminals, showing the power of home.
And, oh, the responsibility costing upon
housekeepers BY the food slev provide,
by the couch they spread. BY the books
they Introduce, by theinhuence they bring
around the home. they are hel ping 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 or 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 isa panic. God
knows the aDXieties and the cares. and he
knows that this is not q useless m
but that there are multituIes OF hearts
waiting for the distiilatiCn OF the divine
merry and sOlaco 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 inQui,i-
ton 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.
It is the self sacrificing people that are
happy, for God pays 50 largely, so ylori-
ously, 50 magniticeutly, in the deep and
eternal satisfactions of the soul. Self ,a-
%critice. We all admire it in others. How
little we exercise Of It! How much would
we endure? How much wonlI We risk for
others? \ very rough schoolmaster had g
poor Lad that had offended the laws oftha
school. and he ordered him to come ~.
Now" he said. you take or Your Goa,
instantly and receive this whip The boy
declined, ana more vehementIv the teache
SAID u tell YOU now take off your coat.
Take it off instantly.' The boy again de-
cllned. 1t was not because he was afraid
OF tho lash: he was used to that In his cruel
home. But il was for shame. He had no Jul
derSarments. and when At last he removed
Els coat there went up a sob Of emotion all
through the school as they saw why he did
not wish to remove his coat. ana as they
saw the shoulder blades almost eating
through the skin. As the schOOImaster
lifted bis whip to strike q rose2tc. healthy
boy leaped up a5,3 a:c%. 'II,top school
master; whip me. He is only Il poor chap:
be can't stand it. Whip me-" 'Oh.' said
the teacher, Its going to be a very severe
scourging! But if You want TO take the
position Of a substitute. You can do it."
The boy said: II don't care: whip me.
III take it; he's only a poor chap.
DON'T you see the bones almost come
through the flesh? Whip me-" And
when the blows came down On the bows
shoulders, this healthy. robust lad made
no cutlery: he endured it ailuncompiainins-
~. We all saw 'Bravo.' for that lad.
bravo. That is the spirit Of Christ, SPLEEN
did, How much sroursin-, now much
chaStiseLent, how much anguish Will YOU
and | take for others? Oh, tlat we might
haze something OF that boys spirit, Ave.
that we might have something Of the spirit
OF Jesus Christ: for in all our occuratiOns
ami trades and businesses. and all our
life home life. foreign li.e-we are to re-
member that the sacrifc for others will
soon be over.