The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-15
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: The Queens of Home-The Rights
of Woman Dis~eussed-Her Dominion
is Home, and There She Should Right
Iy RuIe-Comforter OF the Sick.

Subject: The Queens of Hope-The Rights
of Woman Decentralization Dominion
is Home, and There Sho Should Right
ly Ru~le-Comforter OF the Sick.
copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1921
WASHINGTON, D. Gin this discourse tho
opportunities OF usefulness for women are
set forth by DR.. Talmuge, and MANI sym
pathies are stirred and memories recalled.
The text Is Solomon's Songs, vi, 8. There
are three-score queens"
So Solomon by one stroke set forth the
imperial character of a true Christian wom-
an. She Is not n slave. no. n bireling, not
a subordinate, but u queen. In a former
sermon l showed you that crown and court
ly attendants and imperial wardrobe were
not necessary to make q queen, but TINT
graces OF the heart and life will give coro-
nation to n woman. l showed you at
some length that woman's position was
higher in the world thar mans, and that,
although she had often been denied tho
right OF suffrage, she always did vote and
always would vote by her influence, and
that her chief desire ought to be that she
should have grace rightly to rule In the
dom MON which she has already won. l
begun an enumeration Of some of her rights
and now | resume the subject,
In the first place, woman has the special
and the superiative right of blessing and
comforting the sick. What land, what
street, what house has not felt the smittOgs
of disease? Tens of thousands oil sick bedsl
What shall we do with them2 Shall man,
with his rolgh hand and clumsy foot, go
stumbling around the slckroom, trying to
soothe the distracted nerves and alleviate
the pains OF the distressed patient? The
young man at college may scof at the Idea
of being under material influences, but at
the first blast OF typhoid fever on his cheek
he says, "Where is mother"
1t is an awful thing to be Ill away from
home in u strange hotel, once in awhile
men coming in to look at you, holding
their hand over their mouth for fear they
will catch the contagion. How roughly
~theysturn you In bedl How loudly they
talk! How you long for the ministries of
homel l know one u who went away
from one Of the brightest of homes for sew
eral weeks business absence at the west.
A telegram came at midnight that he was
on his deathbed far away from home. BY
express train tie wife and daughters went
westward, but thoy went too late. He
feared not to die, but he was in I'm agony
to live until his family got there. He tried
to bride the doctor to make him live q lit
tie longer. He said, II am willing to die,
but not alone" But the pulses futter d,
the eyes closed and the heart stopped. The
express trains met in the midnight, wife
and daughters going westward. liteiess re-
mains OF husband and father coming east
ward. Oh, 1t was q sad, pitiful, over
whelming spectacle Vhen we are sick,
we want to be sick at home, When the
time comes for us to die, we want to die at
home. The room may be very humble, and
the faces that look into ours may be very
plain, but who cares for that2 Loving
hands to bathe the temples. Loving voices
to speak good cheer. Loving lips to read
the comforting promises OF Jesus.
In our Civil War men east the cannon,
men fashioned the ~musketry, men cried to
the hosts, Forward, marchi'' men hurled
their battalions on the sharp edges OF the
enemy, crying, "Charge, charger but
woman scraped the lint, woman admins
tered the cordials, woman watched by the
dying couch, oma wrote the last mes
snge to the homo circle, woman wept at
the solitary burial, attended by herself
and four men with a spade. We greeted
the generals home with brass bands and
triumphal arches and wild huazas, but the
story is too good to be written anywhere
save In the chronicles OF heaven, of Mrs.
Brady, who came down among the sick in
the swamps OF the C~hickahominy; OF Annie
Ross in the copper shop hospital; OF Mar
garet Breckinridge, who camo to men who
had been for weeks with their wounds I'M
dressed-some OF them frozen TO the
ground, and when she turned them over
tho.e that mad an arm left waved 1t
and filed the air with their s'hurrahl'
OF Mrs. Hodge, who came from Chi
cago with blankets and with pill
lows, until the men shouted: Three
cheers for the Christian commission!
God bless the women at home!" then sit
ting down to take the last message: "Tell
my wife not to fret a out me, but to meet
me in heaven; tell her to train up the boys
whom we nave loved so we'll; tell her we
shalt meet again in the good land; tell her
to bear my loss like the Christian wife OF a
Christian soldier" and of Mrs. SHELTON, in
to whose face the conyalescent soldier
looked and said, "Your grapes and cologne
cured me-" And so 1t was also through all
OF our war with S~pain-women heroic on
the field, Drawing death and wounds to
reach the fallen, watching by their fever
cots in the West Indian hospitals or on the
troopships or In our smitten home camps.
Men did their VOL < with shot and shell! and
carbine and howitzer; women did tleir
work with socks and slippers and bandages
and warm drinks and Scripture texts and
gentle stroking OF the hot temples and
stories of that land where they mover have
any pain. Men knelt down over the
wounded, and said, son which side did you
hghtf" Women knelt Town over the
wounded and said: where are you hurt?
Wnat nice thing can I make for you to eatf
What makes you cry2" Tonight while we
men are sound asleep in our beds there will
be II light in Wonder loft; there will be
grooming down that dark alley; there will
be cries OF distress in that cellar. Men will
sleep, and women will watch.
Again, woman has u special right TO
take care of the poor. There are hun
dreds and thousands OF them all over the
land. There Is a kind of work that men
cannot do for the poor. Here comes q
group of little barefoot children 10 the
door of the Dorcas society. They need 10
be clothed and provided for. Which OF
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many yards 1t would take to make that
little girl q dress2 Which OF these mascu-
line hands could fit a hat to that little
girls head2 Which OF the wiso men would
know how to tie on that new pair of shoesi
Man sometimes gives his charity In a rough
way. and 1t falls like the fruit OF n tree in
the east, which iruit comes down so heavily
that it breaks the skull OF the man who
is trying to gather 1t. But woman glides
so softly into the house OF restitution and
finds out all the sorrows OF the place AMI
puts so quietly the donation on the table
that all the family come out on the front
steps as she departs, expecting that from
under her shawl she will thrust out two
wings and go right up toward heaven
from whence she seems to have some down
Can you tell me why a Christian woman
going down among the haunts Of iniquitN
on Il Christian errand, never meets will
any ~indlgnity2 / stood in the chapel o.
Helen Chalmers, the daughter OF the cele'
brated DR.. Chalmers, In tho most aban'
doned part OF the city OF E%dinhurg. and
said to her rs l looked around upon thu
fearful surroundings OF that place, "DS
you come here nights to hold n service?'
"Oh, yesl'' she said. "Can it be possible
that you never meet with an insult Will
performing this Christian errand?'
Never" she said, "never." That young
woman who has her father by her side
walking down tho street, armed police Al
each corner, Is not so well defended as tina
Christian woman who goes forth on gospe
work into the haunts OF iniquity, carrying
the Bibles and bread. God with the red
right arm OF His wrath omnipotent woult
tenr to pieces any one who should offer in
dignity to her. He would smite him witt
lightnings and drown him with foods ant
swallow him with earthquakes, and damn
him with eternal in1ignations. Some out
sud; II dislike very much to see tina
Christian woman teaching those bad boy
in the mission school. I am afraid to hav'
her instruct them" $50" said anothe
man, 81 am afraid, too" Said the first
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