St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-14
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hundreds of households to-day wheysr
as much bravery and courage are de-
manded of women as was exhibited BIZ
Grace Darling or Marie Antoinette OF
Joan Of Arc.
Again. remark it is woman's right
to bring to us the kingdom of Heaven
1t is easier for a woman to be Chris
tan than for a man. Why? You say
she is weaker. No. Her heart Is more
responsive to the pleadings of Divine
love. She is in vast majority. The fac,
that she can more easily become Chris
tan prove by the statement that
three-fourths of the members OF
churches in all Christendom are wom-
en-. So God appoints them to he the
chief agencies for bringing this world
back to God. may. stand here snd say
the soul is immortal: there is nah
who will deny it. may stand here and
saw we are lost and undone without
Christ; there is man who will contra.
dict it. l may stand here and say there
will be a Judgment day after awhile:
yonder is some one who will dispute il.
But a Christian woman in a Christian
household, living in the faith and con.
sistency of Christ's Gospel-nobody can
refute that. The greatest sermons are
not preached on celebrated platforms
They are preached with an audience of
two or three, and in private home life.
A sailor came slipping down the
ratlines one night. as though something
had happened, and the sailors cried:
whats the NATTER" He said: "My
mothers prayer haunts me like q
ghost" Home influences, concentrated
home influences. are the mightiest of all
influences upon the soul. There are men
who have maintained their integrity.
not because they were any better nat
urally than some other people. but be-
cause there were home influences pray.
ing for them all the time. They got
good start. They were launched on
the world with the benedictions of a
Christian mother. They may track
Siberian SHOWS, they may plunge in
African jungles, they may flee to the
earth's end-they cannot go so far and
so fast but the prayers will keep up
with them.
speak to women who have the eter-
nal salvation of their husbands in
their right hantl. On the marriage day
YOU took an oath before men and an
gels that you would be faithful and
kind until death did you part, and be-
lieve you are going to keep that oath.
but after that parting at the grave will
it be eternal separation? Is there any
such thing as an immortal marriage.
making the flowers that grow on the
top of the sepulcher brighter than Tho
quet flooded the air with aroma? Yes.
l stand here an ambassador of the most
high God to proclaim the banns of an
immortal union for all those who join
hands in the grace of Christ. o woman,
is your husband, your father, your son,
away from God? The Lord demands
their redemption at your hands. There
are prayers for you to offer, there are
celebrations for you to give. there arc
examples for you to set. and I say now,
as Paul said to the Corinthian woman:
"What knowest thou but thou shalt
save thy husbsnd?" A man was dy-
ing. and he said to his wife: ''Rebecca.
you wouldn't let me have family pray
ers; you laughed about all that. and
you got me away into worldliness. and
now I'm going to die, and my fate IS
sealed, and you are the cause of my
RUM" o woman, what knowest thou
but thou canst destroy thy husband?
Are there not some OF you who have
kindly influences at home? Are there
not some who have wandered far away
from God who can remember the Chris
tian influences in their early home?
Do not despise those influences, my
brother. If you die without Christ.
what will you do with your mothers
prayers, with your wife's importuni-
ties, with your sisters entreaties?
What will you do with the letters they
used to write to you, with the memory
Of those days when they attended you
SO kindly in times of sickness? Oh. If
there be just one strand holding you
from floating off upon that dark sea, I
would Just like to take hold of that
strand now and pull you to the beach!
For the sake of your wife's God. for the
sake of your mothers God. for the sake
of your daughters God, for the sake OF
your sisters God, come this day and be
saved.
Lastly, I wish to say that pne of the
specific rights of woman is, through the
grace of Christ, finally to reach Heaven.
oh, what multitude of women in
Heaven! Mary, Christ's mother, in
Heaven; Elizabeth Fry in Heaven;
Charlotte Elizabeth in Heaven; the
mother of Augustine in Heaven; the
countess of Huntington, who sold her
splendid jewels to build chapels. in
Heaven, while great many others. who
have never been heard of on earth or
known but little, have gone into the
rest and peace of Heaven. What rest!
What a change it was from the small
room. with no fire and one window 1.-THE
glass broken out) and the aching side
and WORKOUT eyes, to the "house OF
many mansions!" No more stitching
uuth AS OSiOCA dt AiSAt. hc "cA
thrusting of the thumb by the employer
through the work, to show it was not
done quite right. Plenty of bread Mt
lastl Heaven for aching heads, Heaven
for broken hearts. Heaven for anguish
bitten frames! No more sitting until
midnight for the coming of staggering
steps! No more rough blows across tho
temples! No more sharp, keen, bitter
curses!
Some of you win have no rest in this
world. 1t will be toll and struggle and
suffering all the way up. You will have
to stand at your door fightiang back the
wolf with your own hand. red with car
mage. But God has n crown fer you.
want you 10 realize this morning that
He is now making it, and whenever you
weep tear He sets another gem in that
crown. Whenever you have papg Of
body or soul He puts another gem in
that crown, until after awhile in all
the tiara there will be no room for an
other splepdor, and God will say to His
angel: 'The crown is done. Let her
up, that she may wear it," And rs the
Lord of righteousness puts the crown