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|DR, TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: The Queens of Home-The Rights
of Woman Dlscussed-Her Dominion
is Home, and There She Should Right
ly yRule-Co1nforter OF the Sick.
rCopyriaht, Louis Klopsch, 1891

ly Rule-Conforter OF the Sick.
rCopyright, Louis Klopsch, 1891
WASHINGTON, D. Gin this discourse the
opportunities OF usefulness for women are
set forth by DR.. Talmage, and many sym
puthies are stirred and memories recalled.
The text is Solomon's Songs, w., s. "Tlere
ure three-score queens"
So Solomon by one stroke set forth the
imperial character Of a true Christian wom-
IN. She Is not slave, no. birellng, not
a subordinate, but queen. In n former
sermon I showed you that crown and court
ly attendants and imperial wardrobe were
not necessary to make queen, but tnat
craces OF the heart and life will give coro-
nation to any woman. showed you at
some length thut woman's position WIS
higher in the world than mans, and that,
although she had often been denied the
right Of suffrage, she always did vote and
always would voto by her influence, and
that her chief desire ought to be that she
should have grace rightly to rule IN the
dominion which she has already won. 1
began an enumeration OF some OF her rights
and now resume the subject.
In the first place, woman has the specia!
and the superlativs right OF blessing and
comforting the sick. What land, what
street, what house has not felt the smittpgs
OF disease? Tens OF thousands. OF sick beds!
What shall we do with them2 Shal! man,
with bis rolgh hand and clumsy foot, 30
stumbling around the 5lckroom, trying to
soothe the distracted nerves and alleviate
the pains OF the distressed patient? The
Young man Mt college may scof at the idea
of being under material influences, but at
the first blast Of typhoid fever on his cheek
lie says, "Where Is mother"
It is nm awful thing to be Ill away from
al In
men coming in to look at you, holding
their hand over their mouth for fear they
will catch the contaglon. How roughly
they turn you In bed! How loudly they
talkl How you long for the ministries OF
home! l know one such 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 fur away from home. By
express train tie wife and daughters went
westward, but they went too late. He
feared not to die, but he was in IN agony
to live until his family got there. Hetrled
to brlbe the doctor to make him live JIG :
tie longer. He snid, "I am willing to die,
but not alone" But the pulses futtered,
tho eyes closed and the heart stopped. The
express trains met in the midnight, wife
and daughters going westward. lifeless re-
mains OF husband and father coming east
ward. Oh, 1t was q sad, pitiful, over
whelming spectacle! When we are sick,
We want to be sick ut 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. Loyipg lips to read
the comforting promises OF Jesus.
tu1 cannon.
men fashioned the musketry, men cried to
the hosts, Forward, march," men hurled
their battallons on the sharp edges OF the
enemy, crying, "Charge, charged" but
woman scraped the lint, woman admins
tered the cordials, woman watched by the
dying couch, woman wrote the last mes
sage to the home circle, woman weps at
the solitary burial, attended by hersell
and four men with u spade. We greeted
tue generals home with bruss bands and
trium phal arches and Wild huZzas, 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 Chickahominy; OF Annie
Ross In the copper shop hospital; OF Mar
garet Preckinrldge, who came to men who
had been for weeks with their wounds un-
drassed-some OF them frozen to the
ground, and when she turned them over
those thut had an arm loft waved 1t
and filed the mir with their 'hurran!'
of Mrs. Hodge, who camo from Cbi-
cago with blankets and with pill
lows, until the men shouted: Three
cheers for the Christian commission!
God bless the women at homen' then sit
ting down to take the last message: "Tall
nv wife not to fret atout me, but to meet
me In heaven; tell her to train up tho boys
whom We have loved so well; tell her we
shnil meet again in the good land; tell her
TO bear nv loss like the Christian wife OF
Christian soldier" and Of Mrs. Suction, in.
TO whose face the conralescent soldier
looked and said, "Your grapes and cologne
cured me-" And 80 1t was also through all
OF our war with Spain-women heroic on
the field Drawing death and wounds to
reach the fallen, watching by their 1eVer
cots in the West Indian hospitals or on tue
troopsbips or In our smltten nome camps;
Men did their worx with shot and she'll aud
carbine and howitzer; women did their
work with socks and slippers and bandnges
and warm drinks and Scripture texts and
gentle strokins OF the hot temples and
stories Of that land where they mover have
any pain. Men knelt down over the
wounded and said, "On whic side did you
nghr?" Women knelt down over the
wounded and said: where are you hurt!
Wrat nice thing can make for you to eat!
What makes you cry?" Tonight while we
men are sound asleep In our beds there VIII
be a light In yonder loft; there will be
proauine down that dark alley; there Will
be cries OF distress In that cellar. Men Will
sleep, and women will watch.
Avntp. woman has special right to
take caro- Of the poor. There are hun
dreds and thousands OF them all over the
land. There Is Il kind OF work that men
cannot do for the poor. Here comts Il
group OF little barefoot children TO the
door OF the Dorca5 society. They need To
be clothed and provided for. Which OF
these directors OF banks would know how
many yards 1t would take to make that
little girl q dress? Which OF these mascu-
line hands could fit hat to that little
GIRLS head? Which OF the wise men would
know how to tie on that new pair OF shoesi
Man sometimes gives his charity In rough
way, and 1t falls like the fruit OF tree IN
the east. which fruit comes down so heavily
that It breaks the skull OF the man who
is irving to gather Il. But woman Glldess
SO softly into the house OF restitution and
finds out all the sorrows OF the place and
puts 80 quietly the donation on the table
that all the family come out on the IRON!
stems us she departs, expecting that from
under her shawl she will thrust out two
wings and 90 right up toward heaven
from whence she seems to have come down
Can you tell me whya Christian woman
going down among the haunts OF 1nlqulty
on Il Christian errnnd, never meets VIII
any indignlty? 1 stood In the chapel o
Helen Chalmers. tho daughter OF tho cele,
brated Dr.. Chalmers, In tho most aban.
doned part OF the city Of EdinhurG, and
snid to her as I looked around upon the
fearful surroundings OF that place. DC
YOU come here nights to hold servicer
"Oh, yes!" she said. "Can 1t Dc possiDie
nerformIpc this Christian errand?'
Never" she sald "never." That young
woman who has her iuther by hnr side
walking down the street, armed pollce, at
cach corner, Ia not 80 we'll defended as that
Christian woman who gors forth on gospel