Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-03-01

"a dollari Can't you get along with fifty
cents? You are always wanting dollar"
This thirty years war against high prices,
this everlasting attempt to bring the outgo
within the income, has exhausted multi
tudes OF housekeepers. Let me say to
such, 1t Is a part of the divine discipline.
II it were best for you, all you would have
to do would be just to open the front win
dows and the ravens would fly in with
food. and after you had baked fifty times
from the barrel in the pantry like the
barrel OF Zarephath, the barrel would be
full, and the children's shoes would last as
lcng as the shoes of the Israelites in the
wilderness-forty years.
oh, my friends, all these trials and
| fatigues OF home life are to prepare you
for heaven, for they will make that the
brighter in the contrast! dying soldier
| was asked by friend, "Have you any
message to send to your father?" "Yes,f
said he; "tell him 1 have gone home"
''Weli," said the friend, "have you any
message to send to your wife?" eyes; tell
her have gone lone" "You have other
friends. Would you like to send a message
! to them?" ''Yes; give them the same mes
! sage. They will understand it. Tell them
I have gone home" And that heavenly
| home will compensate, will fully atone, for
! all the hardships and the trials and the
! annoyances and the vexations OF the
| earthly home In that land they never
! hunger and consequently there will be nc
nuisance of catering !or appetite. In that
land OF the white robes they have no mend
! ing to do and the air of that hilly country
! makes them all well. No rent to pay there
1 Every man owns his own house, and
mansion at that. 1t will not be so great
change to step into the chariot OF the skies
IL on earth you rode. 1t will not be sc
great a change IL on earth you had al
luxuries and satisfactions. 1t will not be
so great a change for you to sit down OF
the banks of the river of life il on eartt
| you had a country seat.
But oh, the Joy of the weary feet wher
they step into the celestial equippage, and,
oh, for the Joy of those to whom home was
a martyrdom on earth when they go into
that home where they will never have to
do anything they do not want to do! What
a change from the time she put down the
rolling pin to the time she took up the
scepter If Chatsworth Park and the Van
lderbilt mansion were fitted into the celes-
tial city, they would be looked at as unin-
habtable rookeries, and Lazarus himself
would be ashamed to be seen going In and
out of them. so great are the palaces
awaiting Gods dear children, and so muct
grander the heavenly architecture thar
the earthly. 1t is often not only the toi
Of the housekeeping, but 1t Is the sickness
, and the sorrow that go along. 1t is a sim
pie fact that one -ha OF the women OF the
land are invalids. The mountain lass who
has never had an ache or pain may con,
Z slider household work OF no very great
: weariness aud at the eventide may
y skip out to the fields and drive the cat
tie home and until 10 o'clock at night
: may fill the cabin with laughing racket
u but oh, to do the hard work OF the house
u hold with a shattered constitution-aftei
:, six weeks whooping cough has ragged in
the household, making the nights as sleep
less as the days-then it is not so easy
: And then this work Of the house has otter
D to be undertaken when the nerves art
{ shattered with some bereavement that has
y put desolation in every room of the house
c and sent the crib into the garret because
i its occupant has been hushed into slum.
4 Der that needs no mothers lullaby. Oh, II
was a great deal easier for her to brood
?: the whole flock than to brood a part o
1t them now that the rest have gonel You
IT may tell her that her departed children are
W in the bosom of loving God, but, mother
II like, she will brood both flocks, putting
one wing of care over the flock in the
II house. putting the other wing of care oveI
9 the flock in the grave. Nothing but the
!. old fashioned reiigiS-s-ef aeesns Christ ear
81 take a woman happily through home trials
n All these modern religions amount to moth.
e. ing. They do not help.
y Solomon wrote out of his own miserable
= experience-he had a wretched home; nc
=, man can be happy with two wives, much
:. M. less with 700 and out OF his wretched exper.
l fence he wrote-sBetter is a dinner oi
Ut herbs where love is than a stalled OK and
\, hatred Herewith" oh, the responsibilities
=, OF housekeepersi Kings by their indiges-
- tion have lost empires and generals
through Indigestion nave lOsI DdItlt-. O0t
- Of the great statisticians says that out OF
~ 1000 unmarried men thirty were criminals,
., and out of 1000 married men only eighteen
n were criminals, showing the power of home.
n, And, oh, the responsibility resting upon
" housekeepers! By the food tley provide,
= y by the couch they spread, by the books
= they introduce, by the influence they bring
n. around the home, they are helping to de-
=; eide the physical, the intellectual, the
a moral, the eternal welfare OF the human
=, race. Oh, the responsibility
:. That woman sits in the house of God to-
=. day perhaps entirely unappreciated. She
y, Is the banker of her home, the president,
" the cashier the teller, the discount clerk
=. and ever and anon there is panic. God
knows the anxieties and the cares, and he
knows that this Is not useless sermon,
III but that there are multitudes OF hearts
~ waiting for the distilation of the divine
~ mercy and solace in their hour of trials
:, and their home duties and their own ia
=, tigues. The world hears nothing about
as them. They never speak about them. You
-, | could not with the agencies of an inquisi-
-, tion bring the truth out of them. They
:, - keep it still. They say nothing. They en-
~ ~ dure and will until God and the judgment
~ right their wrongs.
rt 1t is the self sacrificing people that are
e happy, for God pays so largely, so glori
is ously, so magnificently, in the deep and
es eternal satisfactions of the soul. Self sa
Q. criicel We all admire it in others. How
as little we exercise OF itl How much would
"a we endure? How much would we risk fol
nd others? A very rough schoolmaster had 6
or poor lad that had offended the laws OF the
he school, and he ordered him to come up
he "Now," he said, "you take off your Goa
he instantly and receive this whip The bo,
nd declined, and more yehemently the teacher
he said, 81 tell you, now, take off your coat
re Take 1t off Instantly" The boy again de
oh clined 1t was not because he was atraio
IT. Of the lash; he was used to that in his crue
tb home. But 1t WAS for shame. He had no un
a dergarments, and when at last he removed
his coat there went up a sob of emotion al
IT, through the school as they saw why he die
st | not wish to remove his coat, and as the,
II saw the shoulder blades almost cutting
OK through the skin. As the schoolmaste
en- lifted his whip to strike a roseate, healthy
DIV boy leaped up and said: stop school
IL master; whip me. He is only poor chap
mt he can't stand it. Whip me-" "Oh,' SAT-
il the teacher, 'it's going to be very sever
IL scourgingl But il you want to take tn
be position of a substitute, you can do it.
". rhe boy said: Il don't care; whip me
ut I'll take it; he's only poor chap
IT, Don't you see the bones almost com
ur through the flesh? Whip me-" An
he when ca, ,Rsws came down on the boy
ee shouldeA,sHfs healthy, robust lad mad
H. no outcry; he endured it all accomplishing
% ly. We all say 'Bravoi' for that Lao
be Bravo. That is the spirit of Christ! Splen
did! How much scourging, how muc
ion chastisement how much anguish will yo
led and take Tor otnerst On, tnat we mI4l
the have something of that boys spiritl Ay'
ell, that we might have something OF the sp1r
rer Of Jesus Christ; for in all our occupation
.rd and trades and businesses, and all ou
mo life-home life, foreign life-we are to r.
9 n member that the sacrifice for others wi
on, soon be over.
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