The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-09-27


begged to death. There Is no need OF your
wasting your time. and you migbk as we'll
submit first as last. You had bettax right
away take down your checkbook, mark
the number OF the check, fill up the blank,
sisn your name and hand 1t to her. There
is no need OF wasting time. Those poor
children on the back street have been
hungry long enough. That sick man
must have sono farlna. That consump.
tive must have something to ease MS
cough. I meet this delegate OF n relief So
cicty coming out Of the store OF such
hard-nsted man, and say, "Dld you set
the money?" "Ot COURSE" she says, 81
got the moner; that's what went ia for.
The Lord told me to 20 In and get it, and
He never sends me on FOOLS errand."
Again, have to tell you that 1t is a
womans specific right to comfort under
the stress OF dire disaster. She t5 called
the weaker vessel, but NIL profane as we'll
as sacred history attests that when the
crisis comes she Is better prepared than
man to meet the emergency. How often
you have seen a woman, who seemed to be
disciple OF frlvollty and Incidence, under
one stroke OF calamity changed to hero
inc. Oh, what great mistake those busi-
ness men make who never tell their bHsi-
ness troubles to their. wives! There comes
some great loss to their store or some OF
sud trick, and they carry the burden all
alone. He is asked in the household again
and again, "What Is the matter?" But he
believes 1t sort of Christian duty to keep
all that trouble within his soul. Oh,
sir, your first duty was to tell your wife oil
about It! ~
Again, I remark It Is woman's right to
bring to us the kingdom OF heaven. 1t Is
easier for woman to be Christian tha
for nun. Why? You say she is weaker.
No. Her heart is more responsive to the
pleadlngs OF divine love. She Is IN vast
majority. The fact that she can more cas-
lily become a Christian I prove by the
statement that three-fourths Of the mem
bers Of churches In all Christendom are
women. So God appoints them to be the
Chief agencies for bringing this world back
to God. may stand here and say the soul
is immortal. There Is man who will deny
it. I.may stand here and say we are lost
and undone without Christ. Thereis is man
who will contradict it. I may stand here
and say there will be judgment day after
awhile. Yonder Is some one who Will dis
ptlte IT, But Christian woman in
Christian household, living 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 IN audience OF two or
three and In private home life. A consis-
tent, consecrated Christian service Is an
unanswerable demonstration OF Gods
truth.
A sailor came slipping down tho rat.
lines one night, as though something had
happened, and the sailors cried, "What's
the matter?" He said, "My mothers
prayer haunts me like ghost" Home
Influences, consecrated home influences.
are the mlghtiest Of all influences upon
the soul. There are men who have main
tanned their integrity not because they
were any better naturally than some otner
people, but because there were home In
They got u good start: They were
launched on the world with the benedic-
tlons OF Christian mother. They may
track Siberian SHOWS, they may plunge IN
| African iungles, they may flee to the earth's
end-they cannot 90 80 far and so fast but
the prayers will keep up with them.
There are prayers for you to offer, there
are eIhortations for you to give, there are
examples for you to set, and say now US
Paul said to the Corlnthiau woman, what
knowest thou but that thou shalt save thy
husband?" A man was dying and he said
to his wife. "Rebecca, you wouldn't let
me have family prayers, you langhed
about NIL that and you got me away into
worldllness, and now I'm going to die, and
my fate Is sealed, and you are the cause OF
my ruinl" woman, what 'knowest thou
but thou canst destroy thy husband?
Are there not some Of you who have kind
ly influences Mt home? Are there not some
Who have wandered far away from God
who can remem Der the Christian influences
IN their early home: Do not despise those
influences, my brother. II you die without
Christ, what will you do with your moth
er's prayers, with your wifes importunities,
with your sisters eptreaties2 What will
YOU do with the letters they used to write
to you, with the memory OF those days
when they attended you's so kindly IN times
Of sickness? Oh, II there be just one strand
holding you from floating off from that
dark sea, would just like to take hold OF
| that strand now and pull you to the Deacnl
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 one OF the
specific rights OF woman Is, through the
grace OF Christ, finally to reach heaven.
Oh, what multitude OF women In heaven!
Mary, Chrlst's mother, In heaven, Eliza
beth Fry In heaven, Charlotte Eiizaoetn IN
heaven, the m other OF Augustine In heaven,
the Countess Of Huntington, who sold her
splendid Jewels to build chapels, 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 rest! What
change 1t was from the small room,
with no fire and one window Cthe glass
broken out), and the aching side, and
wornout eyes, to the ''house OF many man
sions!" No more stitching until II 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 q. last! Heaven for aching heads!
Heaven for broken heartsl Heaven Tor
anguish bitten frames! No more sitting
until midnight for the coming OF stagger-
ing steps! No moro rough blows across
the temple! No more sharp, keen, oitter
curses. Ar.
Some OF you will have no rest In this
world. II will be toll and struggle and
suffering all the way up. You viii nave
to stand ut your door fighting back the
wolf with your own hand red with
carnage. But God has n crown for you.
7 want yen to renllze this morning tnat
he is now making 1t, and whenever
YOU weep tear He sets another gem IN
thnt crown, whenever you have panS
OF body or soul He puts another gem 10
that crown, until after awhile IN al!
the tiara there will be no room Tor an
other splendor. 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 tho crown upon your
brow, angel will cry to angel, VINO IS
she?" and Christ will say: 81 Will tell you
who she Is. She Is the one that came up
out OF great trlbulation and had her robe
washed and made white in the blood OF the
Lamb" And then God will spread ban
quet, 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
the Tree OF Lie, and waters from the
fountains O, the rock will flash from tho
golden tankards, and tho old harpers OF