Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-09-16
A WORK FOR WOMEN.
DR.. Talmage's Stirring Sermon on
"The Queens of Home"
Hero,n~. OF tee rire.ide snd the Bat
tieGeId - Mirtstertna Angels
what Her Chief Desire
should ne-
rcOpyrIsh,. Louis KiOpsch. iS's.l

r.efuloess for women are set forth by
DR.. Talmage. and many sympathies are
stirred and memories recalled. lhe
text is Solomon's Song 6, S: There are
threcscore queens"
So Solomon. by one stroke, set torth
the imperial character of true Chris-
tian woman. She is not a slave, not
hireling. not n subordinate. but queen
In former sermon l showed you that
crown and courtly attendants and I'M
perial wardrobe were not necessary 70
male a queen. but that graces OF the
heart and life will give coronation TO
nnv woman I showed you at once AT
some length that woman's position was
HIGHER in the world than mans, and
that although she had often been oe-
MED the right Of suffrage. she always
did vote. and always would vote oy heE
snauence. and that her chief desire
ouVht to be that she should have grace
rightly TO rule in the dominion when
she has already won. ! began an emu
meration OF some OF her rights, and now
resume the subject.
In the first place woman has tae SPe-
cial and the superlative right OF oless-
ing and comforting the sick. nav
land. what street. what house. has not
felt the smitings Of disease2 Tens OF
,housands OF sickbedsl What shall we
40 with them? Shall man. with his
rough hand and clumsy foot. go STUN
lfinr around the sickroOm, trying 10
.ooshe the distracted nerves and si-
leriate The pains OF the distressed pa
ti~rf7 The Young man az college may
.ror "a the idea Of being under mater
NJ fr.Huenccs. but at the FIRST blast OF
.r-tata fever on his cheek he says;
.Vsh~-~ is nother1~ Walter Scott
~~-ts partiy In satire and partly In
r1ur,. eaeut.
~ wcu.zr. m cur hours Of ease.
f,r-~rtnlr. coy and hard 20 please,
uter pai- as Anguish ~ring toe or0"'
"A r.s-rrlrs argei thou
salnk the most pathetic passage II
al rt~ uhlr is the description OF IN
- 49,. .s~nt out 10 the harvest iel'
rs ~tru~m and got sunstruck-press
49, ~. kaHls on his temples and cryin
-1t nv head Ny head" And the
49,. -ca~rt him 10 his mother" An
rher the record IL. He sat on he
lr~4s tIIl uoon and then died
la ~ An awful thing TO be III ava
f--- home in a strange hotel. once
.whne men coming in 20 look at yo
sesr thrv will catch the contagion. no
r.u~hfv they turn YOU in bed. Ho
loudlv they talk. How YOU long Tor u
x,i,i~,ries Of home. ! know one sue
Who went away from one OF the origh
=. homes for several weeks busine
absence az the west. = telegram car
=, midnight that he was on his deaf
bed far away from home. BY expire
q. HrnNhfPT<
westward. but they went too late.
feared not 10 die. but he was in
a0onv 10 live until his family got the
He tried TO bribe the doctor 20 ma
him live a little while longer. He sa
"I am willing TO die. but not alon
But the pulses huttered. the ewes clos
and the heart stopped. The expr
trains met in the midnight. wife q
daughters going westward. hfeiess
mains of husband and father com
eastward. oh. IL was sad. piu
overwhelming spectaciei When
are sick. we want TO be sick at no
When the time comes 10 die, we w
20 die at home. The room may oe
humble. and the faces that look
ours may be very plain. but who Ct
for that? Loving hands 20 bathe
. temples. Loving voices 70 speak 3
cheer. Loving lips 10 read the cons
ing promises of Jesus.
In our civil war men cast the can
men fashioned musketry, men erie
the hosts: Forward, march,!
hurled their battalions on the 81
edges of the enemy, crying; cha
charge!' But woman scraped the
woman administered the cordials, Y
An watched the dying couch, wo
wrote the last message 10 the hom'
Gle. woman wept at the solitary o'
attended by herself and four men
a spade. We greeted the generals
with brass bands and triumphai Al
and wild huzzns; bur the story !
good 10 be written anywhere 50
the chronicles of Heaven. of Mrs Is
who came down among the sick
swamps Of the Chickahominy; OF
Ross In the cooper shop hospital
Margaret Breckenridge. who car
men who had been for weeks with
wounds undressed, some of them I
60 the ground. and when she Z
them over those that had an arr
waved II and filled the air with
.hurrah." of Mrs. Hodge. who
from Chicago with blankets and
pillows until the men shouted;
cheers for the Christian eommi
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