The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-09-15


and said: where are you hurt? Wha
nice thing can 1 make for you to eat
What makes you cry?" Tonight Will,
we men are sound asleep in our bed
there will be light in yonder loft
there will be groaning down that darl
alley; there will be cries of distress IL
that cellar. Men will sleep, and womer
will watch.
Again, woman has a special right tc
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 and provided for. Which
of these directors of banks would know
how many yards it would take to make
that little girl 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? Man sometimes gives his
charity in a rough way, and it falls like
the fruit of tree in the east, which
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breaks the skull of the man who is try
ing to gather it. But woman glides so
softly into the house of restitution and
finds out all the sorrows of the place
and puts so quietly the donation on the
table that all the family come out on
the front steps as she departs, expect
ing that from under her shawl she will
thrust out two wings and go right uN
toward Heaven, from whence she seems
to have come down.
o Christian 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 load to
carry, but the angels of God will come
out to watch and the Lord Almighty will
give His messenger hosts charge, say
ing: "Look out for that woman; can
opy her with your wings and shelter her
from all HARM" and while you are seat
ed in the house of restitution and suf-
fering the little ones around the room
will whispers: "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 wom-
IN going down among the haunts of
iniquity on a Christian errand never
meets with any indignity? I 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 a service?'
"Oh, yes" she said. "Can it be possible
that you never meet with an insult
while performing this Christian err
randi" Never" she said, never"
That young woman who has her father
by her side walking down the street,
armed police at each corner, is not so
well defended as that Christian woman
who goes forth on Gospel work into the
haunts of iniquity carrying the Bibles
and bread. God, with the red right arm
of His wrath omnipotent, would tear
to pieces anyone who should offer indig |
nifty to her. He would smite him with |
and drown him with floods |
and swallow him with earthquakes and
damn him with eternal indignations.
Some one said: 81 dislike very much |
to see that Christian woman teaching
those bad boys in the mission school. |
am afraid to have her instruct them"
49," said another man, II am afraid
too" Said the first: II am afraid they
will use vile language before they leave
the place" "Ah," said the other man,
Il am not afraid of that. What l am
afraid of is, that if any of those boys
should use bad word in her presence
the other boys would tear him to pieces
and kill him on the spot" That woman
is the best sheltered who is sheltered by
the Lord God Almighty, and you need
never fear going anywhere where God
tells you to 60.
1t seems as If the Lord had ordained
for an especial work in the So
icitation of charities. Backed up by
barrels in which there is no -four, and
oy stoves in which there is no fire, and
oy wardrobes in which there are no
clothes, a woman is irresistible. Pass
ng on her errand, God says to her:
you go into that bank or store or shop
and get the money" She goes in and
gets it. The man is hard listed, but she
gets it. She could not help but get il.
No need of your turning your back and
you don't hear; you do hear.
There is no need of your saying you are
begged to death. There is no need of
-FOUR wasting your time, and you might
is well submit first as last. You had
'etterright away take down your check
book, mark the number of the check,
i'll up the blank, sign your name and
land it to her. There is no need OF
wasting time. Those poor children on
he back street have been hungry Tong
enough. That sick man must have some
arina. That consumptive must have
something to ease his cough. l meet
his delegate of a relief society coming
tut of the store of such hard-fsted
nan, and 1 say: Did you get the
money!" "Of course" she says, II got
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