Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-09-16
THE WORK OF WOMAN
REV. DR.. TALMAee'S STIRRING SER
MON ON THE QUEENS OF HOME"


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sire shoald he.
copyright. Louis Klopsoh. 1891
WASHINGTON. Sept. 10. this dis
course the opportunities II usefulness for
women are set forth 10y Dr. Talmage.
and many sympnthics are stirred and
memories recalled. The text is Solomon's
Song vi. = There are threescore
queens.
80 solomon. by one stroke. set forth
the imperial character Of true Chris
iian woman. She is not n slave. not a
hircling. not a subordinate. but n queen.
In former sermon | showed you that
crown and courily attendants and inn
pcrial wardrobe were not necessary TO
make queen. but that graces OF the
heart and life will give coronation TO
any woman. ] showed you at once at
some length that woman's position was
higher in the world than mans. and that
although sue had often been denied the
right of suffrage, she always did vote and
always would vote by her influence. and
that her chief desire ought TO be that
she should have grace rightly TO rule In
the dominion which she has already won.
! began an enumeration Of some OF her
rights. and now ! resume the subject.
AIn the first place woman has the special
and the supcrlativc right Of blessing and
comforting the sick. What land. what
street. whnt house. has not felt the smit-
inss of disease? items of thousands Of
sickbeds. What shall we do with them?
Shall man, with his rough hand and
clumsy foot go stumbling around the
sickroom. trying to soothe the distracted
nerves and alleviate the pains Of the dis
trcsscd patient! The young man at col
lcgc may scof at the idea OF being under
maternal Influences. but NJ the first blast
Of typhoid fever on his cheek he says.
Where j. motherT' Walter Scott wrote
partly in satire and partly in compliment:
on. woman. in our hours Of ease.
Uncertain. COY and hard % please.
When pain and anguish wiring the brow,
A minisiering angel thou.
thin, the most pathetic passage in all
the Bible is the description of the lad
who went ont To the harvest field OF Shu-
mem and got sunsiruck-prcssing his
hands ON his temples and crying out:
''Oh. my head. My head" And they
said. Garry him 10 his mother" And
then the record is. ''Ile sat On her knees
till noon and then died"
Woman an the battlefield.
II is an awful thing to be i'll away from
home Ia a strange hotel. once in awhile
men coming in 10 look at you. holding
their hand over their mouth for fear they
will catch the coniagion. How roughly
they turn you Ia bed. How loudly they
talk. How yea long for the ministries Of
home. ! know one such who went away
from one OF the brightest of homes for
several weeks business absence nj the
west. \ telegram came Mt midnight that
he was on his deathbcd far away from
home. by express train the wife and
daughters went westward. but they went
too late. lie feared not to die, but he
was in an agony 10 live until his family
got there lie tried 60 bride the doctor
"a make him live little while longer.
lie said. II am willing 60 die. but not
alone" But the pulses tuttercd. the
eyes closed. and the heart stopped. The
express trains met In the midnight. wife
aud daughters going westward. lifeless
remains ~ husband and father coming
eastward. oh. IL was sad. pitiful. over
whelming spectacle. When We are sick
we want 10 be- sick at home. When the
time comes for Ms 90 die. we want to die
at home. The room may Ice very hum
BILE. and TIE faces that look into ours
may be- very plain. In, who cares for
thatf Loving hands "a battle the tenn
pies. Loving voices 20 speak good cheer.
Loving lips To read the comforting prom
Uses of Jesus.
In our civil war men east the cannon.
men fashioned muskctry. men cried 20
l...rl
eel their baitalions on the sharp edges Of
the enemy. crying. Charge. CHARGE"
But woman scrapcd the lint. woman ad
ministercd the cofdials. woman watched
by the dying couch. woman wrote the
last message Co the home circle. woman
wepi AZ the solitary burial attended
by herself and four men with a spade.
We greeted the generals home with
brass bands and triumphal arches and
wild huzzas: but the story Is tno good
60 be written anywhere. save in the
chronicles Of heaven. Of Mrs Brady. who
came down among the sick IN the
swamps 81 the Chickahominy: Of Annie
Ross in the cooper shop hospital: Of Mar
garct Breckenridge. who came TO men
who had been for weeks with their
wounds undresscd. some of them frozen
e. the ground. and when she turned them
over those that had an arm left waved
II and filled the air with their 'hurrah."
% Mrs. Hodge. who came from Chi
cago with blankets and with pillows un-
Ill the men shouted: Three cheers for
the Christian commission God bless
the women at home" then sitting down
20 take the last message. '"rcl my wife
not To fret about me. but Ia meet me In
heaven: tell her Ca train up tue boys
whom we have loved So we'll: tell her
we shall meet again IN the good land:
tell her 10 hear my loss like the Christian
wife of Christian soldier" aud Of Mrs.
Shelton. into whose face the GONZALES
cent soldier looked and said. your
grapes and cologne cured me"
The women Who watch.
And 50 IL 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
troopshps 81 in our smitten home camps.
Men did their work with shot and shell
and carbinc and howitzer: women did
their work with socks and slippers and
bandagcs and warm drinks and Scrip
ture texts and gentle stockings Of the
hot temples and stories 81 that land
where they never have any pain Men
knelt down over the wounded and said.
"On which side did you fghiF' Women
kn,lf down over the wounded and said:
"Where are you hurt! What nice thing
can ! make for you 20 enif What makes
Don cryg' Tonight while we men are
sound asleep in our beds there will be- n
light i'm yon1cr loft: there will he groan-
ing down that dark alley: there will bc
cries OF distress in that cellar. Men will
sleep. and women will watch.
Again. woman has n special right 20
take care OF the poor. There are hun
dre'ls and thousands Of them all over the
land. There is kind Of work that men
cannot do for the poor. Here comes n
group Of little barefoot children Ia the