Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-02-16
BURLINGTON FREE PRESS THURSDAY FEBRUARY l6

that falls upon the cutlery and mantol
ornaments OF new home! Romance and
novelty will do for little while, but after
awhile the romance is all gone, and there
Ia a loaf TO be made, u loaf that cannot
be s~yeetencd by any earthly condiments,
and cannot he navqrd with any earthly
navors and cannofhn baked in any ordi
nary oven 1t is the loaf of domestic happi-
ness. All the ingredients from heaven.
Fruit from the tree of life and swectened
with the new wine of the kingdom and
baked in the oven of home trial. God
only can make that loaf You can cut it,
but it takes God to make 1t.
Solomon wrote out of his own miserable
expericnce--be had wretched home; no
man can BE- happy with two wives, much
less with 700, and out Of his wretched
experience he wrote" Better is dinner
of herbs where love is than stalled OK
and hatred Herewith. Oh the RESPONSE
bilities of housckcepcrs! Kings by their
indigestion have lost empires, and gen
erals through indigestion have lost battles
One of the great statisticians says that
out of 1000 unmarried men 30 were Grim
inals and out of 200 married men only
1S were criminals, showing the power Of
home. And, oh, the responsibility resting
provide, by the couch they spread by tho
books they introduce, by the influence
they bring around the home, they are
helping to decide the physical, the intel
lcctual, the moral, the eternal, welfare of
the human race. Oh, the responsibility
True Happiness.
That woman sits in the house of God
today perhaps entirely unapprcciated. She
is the banker of her home, tho president,
the cashier, the teller, the discount clerk,
and ever and anon there is panic God
knows the anxieties and the cares and he
knows that this Is not n 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
fatigues The world hears nothing about
them. They never speak about them.
You could not with the agonies of an in.
QUESTION bring the truth ont of them.
They keep IL still They say nothing.
They endure and will until God and the
judgment right their wrongs. "Oh, says
sonc sister, ARE you not trying to show
that all n woman ; life at home is one of
| self sacri llcc2' Yes, my sister, and that
| Is the only kind Of life worth living. That
| has been the life of Florence Nightingale;
! that was the life of Edward payson; that
was the life of The Lord Jesus Christ
| that Is the life of every man or woman
that is happy--a life Of self sacrifice.
| Those people living for thcmselves-arl
| they happy? Find me one. | will giy,
| you all the nations of the earth to find me
one Not happy-no, not happy. 1t is
| the self sacrificing people that are happy,
for God pays SO largely, so Gloriously, &c
magnificontly, i'll the deep and eternal sat
| iSfactious Of the soul. Self sacrifice. We
all admire it in others. How little we OK
ercise of it How much would we endure
how much would we risk--for others:
A very rough schoolmastcr had pocl
| lad that had offended the laws of thu
school, and he ordered him to como up
Now" he said, you take off your coGi
instantly and receive this whip!" Tn
boy declined, and more vchcmently IL,
teacher said, Il tell you, now, take of yOui
, coat-take it off instantly The boy
again declined. 1t was not because he Wa
| afraid Of the lash--he was used to that il
| his cruel home but it was for shame. II,
| had no undergarments, and when at las
| he removed his coat there went up sol
of emotion al through the school as T. y
saw why he did not wish to remove hi
coat and as they saw the shoulder blaGt
almost cutting through the skin. As N,
schoolmaster lifted his whip TO strike
roseatc healthy boy leapcd up ana said
"Stop, schoolmastcr; whip mel He i
only poor chap he can't stand it; Will
me-" "Oh," said the teacher, Its go
ing to be a very severe scourging! But i
you want to take the position of a substi
tutc you can do it" The boy said: 3"
don't care. Whip me. III take it. He
only a poor chap. Don't you see tn,
bones almost come through the flesh
Whip me" And when the blows came
down on the boys shoulders this healthy
robust lad made no cutlery. He endure'
it all uncomplainingly. We all sa.
bravo" for that lad. Bravo! That i
the spirit of Christ Splendid! How
much scourging, how much chastisement
how much anguish, will you and take fu
Othersf Oh, that We might have some
thing of that boys spirit Aye, that W
might have something Of the spirit o
Jesus Christ, for in all our occupation
and trades and businesses, and all our life
home life, foreign life, we are to rcmembo
that the sacrifice for others will soon b
over.