The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-09-22

that three-fourths OF the members OF
churches in all Christendom are wom-
en-. So God appoints them to be the
chief agents for bringing this world
back to God l may stand here and
say the soul is immortal. There is a
man who will deny 1t. 1 may stand
here and say we are lost and undone
without Christ. There is a man who
will contradict 1t. l may stand here
and say there will be judgment day
after a while. Yonder is some one
who will dispute it, But Christian
woman in a Christian household, liv-
ing in the faith and the consistency 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
consistent, consecrated Christian serv-
ice Is an unanswerable demonstration
OF Gods truth.
Lastly, I wish to say that one of the
specific rights of woman is, through
the grace OF Christ, finally to reach
heaven. Oh, what multitude of wom-
en- 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 chapes-in
heaven While a 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 a rest! What a change it was
from the small room. with no fire and
one window 0he glass broken QUIT,
and the aching side, and WORKOUT
eyes, to the house OF many man
s!ons"! No more stitching until twelve
o'clock at night; no more thrusting
Of the thumb by the employer through
the work, to show it was not done
quite right. Plenty of bread at last!
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
the temples! No more sharp, keen,
bitter cursesi
Some OF you will have no rest in
this world. 1t will be toll and strug-
gle and suffering all the way up. You
will have to stand at your door, fight
ing back the wolf with your own hand,
red with carnage. But God has a crown
for you. / want you to realize this
morning that he is now making il,
and whenever you weep a tear he sets
another gem in that crown; whenever
you have pang OF body or soul he
puts another gem in that crown, until,
after a while in all the tiara there will
be no room for another splendor, and
God will say to his angel: THE
crown is done; let her up, that she
may wear it," And as the Lord OF
Righteousness puts the crown upon
your brow. angel will cry to angel,
Who Is she?" and Christ will say, II
will tell you who she is. She is the
one that came up out of great tribula-
bAOh, VIM hdu nCA lOUG WdouCu anu
made white in the blood of the Lamb. "
And then God will spread a banquet
and he will invite all the prlncipali-
ties OF heaven to sit at the feast, and
the tables will blush with the best
clusters from the vineyards of God
and crimson with the twelve manner
of fruits from the Tree of Life, and wa
tiers from the fountains OF the rock
will flash from the golden tankards,
and the old harpers OF heaven will sit
there, making music with their harps,
and Christ will point you out, amid
the celebrities of heaven, saying, "She
suffered with me on earth; now we
are going to be glorifed together. ="
And the banqueters, no longer able to
hold their peace, will break forth with
congratulation, Hail, hail!" And
there will be handwritings on the wall
not such as struck the Babylonian
noblemen with horror-but fire-tipped
fingers, writing in blazing capitals OF
light and love, God hath wiped away
all tears from all facesl"