The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-09-20
W0NAN'S WORK.
TaImage's Stirring Sermon on
the Queens Of Home
HERolNES OF THE FIREslDE.
Ministering Angels. In the Sick.
room. What Her Chief
Desire Should Be.

room. What Her Chief
Desire Should Be.
IN this discourse the opportunities
Of usefulness for women are set forth by
DR.. Talmage, and many sympathles are
stirred and memories recalled. The
text is Solomon's Song VI, 5, There
are threescore queens.
So Solomon, by one stroke, set forth
the imperial character Of true Chris
tian woman. She is not slave, not
hireling, not subordinate, but queen.
In a former sermon l showed you that
crown and courtly attendants and I'M
perial wardrobe were not necessary to
make a queen, out that graces OF the
heart and life will give coronation to
any woman. l showed you at once at
some length that woman's position was
higher in tAe world than mans, and that
although she had often been denied the
right of suffrage, she always did vote ana
always would vote by her influence, ana
that her chief desire ought to be that
she should have grace rightly to ruIe IN
the dominion which she has aIread won.
began an enumeration OF some OF her
rights. and now resume the subject.
In the first place woman has the spe-
cial and the superlative right Of bless
ing and comforting the sick. What
land. what street, what house, has not
felt the smitings of disease? Tens Of
thousands of sickbeds. What shall we
do with them? Shall man, with his
rough hand and clumsy foot, go stumbl-
ing around the sickroom, trying to
soothe the distracted nerves and allevi-
ate the pains of the distressed patient?
The young man at college may scoH at
the idea Of being under maternal IN,
auences, but at the first blast Of typhoid
fever on his cheek he says, Where IS
mother?" Walter Scott wrote partly
in satire and partly in compliment:
Oh, woman, in our hours OF ease,
Uncertain, coy and hard to please,
When pain an anguish wiring the brow,
A ministering angel thou.
I think the most pathetic passage in
all the Bible is the description Of the
lad who went out to the harvest field
of Shunem and got sunstruck-pressing
his hands on his temples and crying
out: 'Oh, my head My head" And
they said, Cary him to his mother. J"
And then the record is, He sat on her
knees till noon and then died"
And SO it 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
fever cots in the West Indian hospitals
or on the troopships or in our smitten
home camps. Men did their work
with shot and shell and carbine and
howitzer; women did their work with
socks and slippers and bandages and
warm drinks and Scripture texts and
gentle strokings Of the hot temples and
stories of that land where they never
have any pain. Men knelt down over
the wounded and said, ''On which side
did you fght?" Women knelt down
over the wounded and said: Where
are you hurt? What nice thing can l
make fer you to eat? What makes
you cry?" Tonight while we men are
sound asleep in our beds there will be
a light in yonder loft; there will be
groaning down that dark alley; there
will be cries of distress in that cellar.
Men will sleep, andlwomen will watch.
Again, woman has special right to
take care of the poor. There are hun
dreds and thousands Of them all over
the land. There is kind Of work that
men cannot do for the poor. Here
comes group Of little barefoot children
to the door of the Dorcas society. They
need to be clothed aud provided for.
Which ofthese directors Of banks would
know how many yards it would take to
make that little girl a dress? Which
Of these masculine hands could fit
hat to that little girls head? Which
Of the wise men would know how to
tie on that new pair Of shoes?
OChristion young woman, If you
would make yourself happy and win the
blessing of Christ, go out among the
destitute. A loaf Of bread or bundle
of socks may make homely l2sf 70
carry, but the angels o. God wi. a2me
out to watch and the Lord a.? shty
will give his messenger hosts ,rye,
saying, Look out for that Y man,
canopy her with your wings and Aelter
her from all harm, and while You are
seated in the house Of destitution and
suffering the little ones around the
room Will whisper: ''Who is she? Amt
she beautiful" And if you will listen
right sharply you will hear dripping
down through the leaky roof and rolling
over the rotten stairs the angel chant
that shook Bethlehem, "Glory to God
in the highest, and on earth peace, good
will to men,"
Can you tell me why christian wo-
man going down among the haunts Of
iniquity on christian errand never
meets with any indignity? l stood in
the chapel of Helen Chalmers, the
daughter Of the celebrated DR.. Chal-
mers, in the most abandoned part Of the
city Of Edinburgh, and l said to her as
! looked around upon the fearful sur
roundings Of that place, ''Do you come
here nights to hold service?' ''Oh,
yes," she said. Can it be possible
that you never meet with an insult
while performing this christian errand?
''Never," she said, 'never." 3" That
young woman who has her father by
her side walking down the street, armed
police at each corner is not SO well de-
Tended as that christian woman who
goes forth on gospel work into the
haunts Of iniqulty carrying the bibles
and bread. God, with the red right
arm of his wrath omnipotent, would |