The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-02-03

Is Well" There is 70 st2rH Oh tue sea guy
Christ & ready 10 rise II the :tinCer part OF
the snip and hush i. There is no darN2eSS
but the constellation o. God eternal icVe
ear iuumine. and. t~hooShtle WINTER comes
ONT Of the Northern sky, you hay: some
times seen that Northerl >ky 81 abiaze
with aurOras which seem . say: Come up
this Vav. Up this way are thrones or light
and seas OF sapphire and the spiondor OK
an eternal heaven. Come up this way.
Again. this woman OF ny text was great
in her application to domestic Cutleo.
Every picture is a home picture, whether
she = entertaining an Elisha or whether
she is giving careful attention to her sick
bow or whether sac is appealing Tor tho
restoration OF her property. Every picture
in her case is one or domesticity. Those are
not disciples Of this Shuuemlte woman VINO,
going out to attend to outside charities.
neglect the duty OF hone-the duty OF
wife. Of mother, of daughter. No faith
fulness in public benefaction can ever
atone for domestic negligence. There
has been many a mother who by lnde-
fati.aGIe toll has reared a large family
OF children. equipping them for the du-
ties Of life with good manners and large
intelligence and Christian principle.
starting them out. WAC has lone more
for the world than many a woman
whose name has sounded through all
the lands and through :he centuries. l
remember when Kossuth was III this
country there were some ladies who got
honorable regulations by presenting
him very gracefully with bouquets OF
flowers on public occasions, but what
was all that compared with the plain
Hungarian mother who gave to truth
and civilization and the cause Of uni
versal liberty a Kossuth? Yes, this wom-
an Of my text was great in her SIM
plicity. Wnen this prophet wanted to re-
ward her for her hospitality by asking some
preferment from the king, what did she
say? She declined it. She said, 81 dwell
among my own people" as much as to say,
- am satisfied with my lot; all l van is my
family and my friends around me; l dwell
among my own people"
Oh, what a rebuke to the strife for pre-
cedence in all ages! How many there are
who want to get great architecture and
homes furnished with all art, all painting,
all statuary, who have not enough taste to
distinguish between Gothic and Byzantine,
and who could not tell a figure in plaster Of
paris from White Captive" and
would not know a boys penciling from
Bierstadt's Yosemite" Men who buy
large libraries by the square foot, buy
enough education to pick out the day Of
the month in the almanac! Oh, how many
there are striving to have things as we'll as
their neiShbors or better than their neigh
bors, and in the struggle vast fortunes ara
exhausted and business firms thrown into
bankruptcy and men Of reputed honesty
rush into astounding forgeries!
Bat what l want to impress upon you,
my hearers, is that you ought not to in
ventory the luxuries OF life among the in-
dispeGSables, and you ought not to depre-
clate this woman of the text, who, when
offered kinSly preferment, responded. Il
dwell among my own people," Yes.
this woman of tho tpyt wac praaf
in her piety. Just read the chap
ter after you go home. Faith in
God. and she was not ashamed to talk
about it before idolaters. All, woman will
never appreciate what she owes to
Christianity until she knows and sees
the degradation of her sex under pagan
ism and NOhammedanism! Her very
birth considered a misfortune. Sold like
cattle on the shambles. Slave Of all
work, and at last her body fuel for the
funeral pyre OF her husband. Above tho
shrek OF the fire wOrshipers in India. and
above the rumbling cf the Jugsernauts I
hear the million voiced groan of wronged,
lnSulted, broken-heartel, downtrodden
woman. Her tears haye fallen in the Nile
and Ilgris, the La Plata and on the steppes
or Iartary. She has been dishonOred in
Turkish garden and Persian palace aud
Spanish Alhambra. Her little ones have been
sacrificed in the Inius and the Gauges.
Inere IS not 4 Sroan, or a dungeon, or
an island, or a mountain, or a river, or
n lake. or a sea but could tell a story OF
the outrages heaped upon her. But.
thanks to God, this glorious Christianity
cones forth, anc all the claims Of this
vassa!aSe are snapped. and She rises
from lSnomlny to exalted sphere and be-
comes the aiectionate daughter, the gentle
vile, the onorei mother, the useful Chris
tlan. On, il Christianity has done so much
lor woman. surely woman Will become it,
most ardent advocate and its sublipaeSt tx.
emplifcation.