The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-24

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Martha make under such circumstances |
ali impatient rush on the library or the |
drawing room, be patient, be lenient. Oh, |
sister, though my words may not
arouse in many souls any appreciation
of your toll, let me assure you from the
kfndliness with which Jesus Christ met
Martha that he appreciates all your trials
from garnet to cellar and the God OF De-
borah, and Miriam, and Abigail is the
of the houSekeepSrsi Christ never
married, that he might be the especial
friend and confident of a whole world
of troubled w~omanhood. / ~blundered.
Christ was married. The Bible says the
church is the Bride, the Lambs wife,"
and that makes me know that a woman
has a right to go to Christ with all her
~anoyances and perplexities and fatigues,
for by his oath of conjugal fidelity he
hath sworn to sympathiZe. George Her
bert put the thought in three or four
verses, quaint and peculiar, but strong,
and in one verse saying:
The servant by this clause makes drudg-
cry divine;
Who sweeps a room as for thy laws
makes this and the action fine.
A young woman Of brilliant education
and prosperous surroundings was called
Gown stairs to help in the absence OF
the, servant, and there was a ring at
the bell, and she went to the door and
an admirer entered. He said: Il thought
/ heard music in the house. Was it on
the piano or the harp?" She said:
Neither; it was a frying pan accompani-
ment to a gridiron! In other words, 1
was called down stairs to help. / uppose
some time l shall have TO learn, and l
nave begun now" When Will the world
learn that every kind of work that is
right is honorable?
AS Martha opens the door I look in
and j also see the trial of severe econ
omy. Min hundred and ninety-nine
households out of a thousand are subject
ed to it either under the greater or less
stress of circumstances. 1t is especially
so when a man smokes expensive cigars
and dimes at costly restaurants. He will
be very apt to enjoin severe economy at
home. That is what kills thousands of
Women-the attempt to make s. do the
work of 81. 1t is amazing how some men
dole out money to the household. If you
have not got the money, say so. If you
have, be cheerful in the expenditure.
Your wife will be reasonable. How long
does the honeymoon last?" said a young
woman about to enter the married state
to her mother. The mother answered,
THE honeymoon lasts until you ask your
husband for money! How much do you
want?" "A dollar" "A dollar! Can't you
get along with 80 cents? You are always
wanting a dollar" This 80 years. war
against high prices, this everlasting at
tempt to bring the outgo within the in
come, has exhausted multitudes of house
keepers. Let me say to such, 1t is a part
of the divine discipline. If it were best
for you, all you would have to do would
be just to open the front windows and
the ravens would fly in with food, and
after you had baked fifty times from the
Zarephath, the barrel would be full, and
the children's shoes would last as long
as the shoes of the Israelites in the will
derness-fOrty years.
WILL MAKE THE CONTRAST
BRIGHTER.
Oh, my friends, all these trials and IA
tigueS of home life are to prepare you
for heaven for thew will NAL a that the
brighter in the contract! A dying SOL
der was asked by a friend, Have you
any message to send to your father?"
Yes" said he; tell him I have gone
home WELL" said the friend, "have
you any message to send to your wife?"
Yes; tell her I have gone home "You
h havs 9 other mrsI friends Is tHem yooY like ito to
them the same message. They will I'M
derstand it. Tell them I nave gone
home" And that heavenly home will
compensate, will fully atone, for all the
hardships and the trials and the annoy
ances and the vexations of the earthly
home. In that land they never hunger,
and consequently there will be no nuis-
ance of catering for appetite. In the
land of the white robes they lave no
mending to do, and the air of that hilly
country makes them all well. No rem
to pay there. Every man owns his own
house, and a mansion at that. 1t will not
be so great a change to step into the
chariot of the skies if on earth you rode.
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earth you had all luxuries and satisfac-
tons. 1t will not be so great a change
for you to sit down on the banks of the
river of life if on earth you had a coun-
try seat.
But, oh, the joy for the weary feet
when they step into the celestial equi-
page, and, oh, the joy of those to whom
home was a martyrdom on earth when
they go into that home where they will
never have to do anything they do not
want to do! What a change from the
time she put down the rolling pin to the
time she took up the scepter! If Chats
worth park and the Vanderbilt mansion
were lifted into the celestial city, they
would be looked at as uninhabitable
rookeries, and Lazarus himself would be
ashamed, to be seen going in or out of
them, so great are the palaces awaiting
all Gods dear children, and so much
grander the heavenly architecture than
the earthly. 1t is often not only the toll
of the housekeeping, but it is the sick
ness and the sorrow that go along. 1t is
a simple fact that one-half of the women
OF the land are invalids. The ounta
lass who has never a an ache or a pain
may consider household work Of no very
great WEAKNESS, and at the eventide may
skip out to the fields and drive the cat
| tie home, and until 10 o'clock at night
may fill the cabin with laughing racket;
but, oh, to do the hard work Of the
household with a shattered constitution
after six weeks whooping cough has
ragged in the household, making the nights
as sleepless as the days-then it is not
SO easy! And then this work of the house
has often to be undertaken when the
nerves are shattered with some bereave-
ment that has put deSolation in every
room of the house and sent the crib into
the garnet because it's occupant has been
hushed into a slumber that needs no
mothers lullaby. Oh, it was a great deal
easier for her to brood the whole flock
than to brood a part of them now that
the aest have gone! You may tell her
| that Ter departed children ara in the
bosom of a loving God, but, motherlike,
| she will brood both focks, putting one
wing of care over the flock in the house,
putting the other wing of care over the
flock in the grave. Nothing but the cd
fashioned religion of Jesus Christ car.
take a woman happily through home
trials. All these modern religions amour.
to nothing. They 10 not help They DO
not comfort when there is a dead bs De
in the house. Away with them and give
US the old fashioned religion of JESUS
Christ. that has comfoI. &C so many In
the days of sorrow and trouble!
ROMANCE WILL NOT SUFFICE.
Romance and novelty may for a lit
tie while seem to be a substitute. The
marriage day has only gone by, just gone
by, and all household cares are at ,ned
for by the JOY OF being together and by
1 the fact that when IN Ia late az ni~nr