Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-01-20
Home Duties.

On perilous deeps, but cannot be lost.
Though satan enrage the wind and the tide,
The promise ssures US the Lord viii provide
Home Duties.
Again. this woman Of my text was
great in her application to domestic
duties Every picture is a home picture
whether she is entertaining an Elisha
or whether she is giving careful atten-
ton 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 disci-
pies of this Shunemite woman Who
going out TO attend to outside charities,
neglect the duty Of home-the duty of
wife, of mother, Of daughter No faith
fulness in public benefaction can ever
atone fof domestic negligence. There
has been many a mother who by indie
fatigable toll has reared large family
Of children, equipping them for the du-
ties 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 all
the lands and through the centuries" /
remember when Kossuth WAS in this
country there were some ladies who got
honorable regulations by presenting
him very gracefully with bouquets Of
flowers. public occasions but what
was all that compared with the plain
Hungarian mother who gave to truth
and civilization and the cause Of uni
versal liberty a Kossuthl Yes. this wo-
man Of my text was great in her sim
plcity. When this prophet wanted to
reward her for her hospitality by ask
ing some preferment from the king.
what did she sayl She declined it. She
said, 81 dwell among my own people,
as much as TO say. II am satisfied with
nv lot; all | want is my family and
NV friends around me; dwell among
my own people.
Oh what a rebuke to the strife for
precedence in all agesi How many there
are who want to get great architecture
and homes furnished with all art, all
painting. all statuary, who have not
enough taste to distinguish between
Gothic and Byzantine and who could
not tell a figure in plaster Of paris from
Palmer's white Captive, and would
not know a boys penciling from Bier
stadt's Yosemite Men who buy
large Libraries by the square foot, buy
iu5 these libraries when they have
scarcely enough education topick out
the day Of the month in the almanac
Oh how many there are striving to
have things as we'll as their neighbors
or better than their neighbors, and IN
the struggle vast fortunes are exhausted
and business firms thrown into bank
ruptcv and mer of reputed honesty
rush into astounding forgeriesl j u
course. say nothing against refine
ment or culture. Splendor Of abode.
sumptuousness Of diet lavishness IN
art. neatness in apparel-there Is noth-
ing against them in the Bible or out OF
the Bible. God does not want rs tc
prefer mud hovel to English cottage OF
untanned sheepskin to French broad
cloth or husks to pineapple or the clum
siness of o 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 anc
hath exauisitely tinged morning clouC
and robin redbreast, wants us to keel
our eye open to all beautiful sights anC
our ear open to all beautiful cadence'
and our heart open to all eleyating sen
timents
Great In Piety.
But what | want to impress upor
YOU. my hearers. is that you ought no
to inventory. the luxuries Of life amons
i.the Indispensable. and you ought no
to depreciate this woman OF the text
who. when offered. kingly preferment
responded. II dwell among my owl
\ people' Yes this woman Of the tex
was great In her piety. just read tn
chapter after you go home Faith Il
God. and she was not ashamed to tall
about il before idolaters All. womal
viii never appreciate what she owes t
Christianity until she knows and see
the degradation of her sex under pagan
ism and Mohammedanisml Her yer.
birth considered a misfortune. Sold lik
cattle on the shambles. Slave OF al
work. and at last her body fuel for th
funeral pyre Of her husband Above tn
shrek of the fire worshipers in India
and above the rumbling Of the Jugger
hauts hear the million voiced groa
Of wronged. insulted. broken hearted
downtrodden woman. Her tears hay