Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-09-11

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where they never have any pain Men
knelt down over the wounded and said.
''On which side did you fght?" Wom-
en- knelt down over the wounded and
said: Where are you hurt? What nice
thing can 1 make for you to eat? What
makes you cry?" Tonight while we
men are sound asleep in our beds there
will be light in yonder loft; there
will be groaning down that dark alley
there will be cries of distress in that
cellar. Men will sleep, and women will
watch.
Succor the Destitute.
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
a 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 shoesP Man sometimes
gives his charity in a rough way, and
it falls like the fruit of a tree in the
east, which fruit comes down so heavily
that it breaks the skull of the man who
is trying to gather it. But woman
glides so softly into the house of desti-
tuition and finds out all the sorrows of
the place and puts SO quietly the dona-
ton ON the table that all the family
come out on the front steps as she de-
parts, expecting that from under her
shawl she will thrust out two wings
and go right up 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 a 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 a charge,
saying, "Look after that woman can
opy her with wings and shelter her
from all HARM" and while you are
seated in the house of restitution and
suffering the little ones around the
room will whisper, "Who is she?"
''Ain't she beautiful" And if you will
listen right sharply you will hear drip
ping down through the leaky roof and
rolling over the rotten stairs the angel
chant that shook Bethlehem, 'tGlory to
God in the highest, and on earth peace
good will to men. -
The Lords Errand.
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woman, going down among the haunts
of iniquity on Christian Grand, never
meets with any indignity2 l stood in
the chapel Of Helen Chalmers, the
daughter of the celebrated DR.. Chalmers,
in the most abandoned part of the city
Of Edinburgh, and I said to her as I
looked around upon the fearful sur
roundings of that place, ''Do you come
here nights to hold a service?" "Oh,
yesl" she said. "Can it be possible that
you never meet with an insult while
performing this Christian errand? %
"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 any one who should offer indig-
nifty to her. He would smite him with
lightnings and drown him with floods
and swallow him with earthquakes,
and damn him with eternal indigna
lions. Some one said: 81 dislike very
much to see that Christian woman
teaching those bad boys in the mission
school. I am afraid to have her instruct
them. $50 said another man, 81
am afraid too" Said the first, 81 am
afraid they will use vile language be-
fore they leave the place. - "Ah," said
What 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 any
where where God tells you to CO.
1t seems as if the Lord had ordained
woman for an especial work in the So
icitation of charities. Backed up by
barrels in which there is no -four, and
by stoves in which there is no fire, and
by wardrobes in which there are no
clothes, a woman is irresistible. Pass
ing on her Grand, 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
it. 1t is decreed from eternity she
should get it. No need Of your turning
your back and pretending you don't
hear; you do hear. There is no need Of
your saying you are begged to death.
There is no need Of your wasting your