The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-09-15

| said: 'thn which SIGe GId you ngnt
| Women kneii down over the wounded
| and said: "Whcre arc you hurt? What
nice thing can | make for you TO eat?
What makes you cry?' Tonight while
we men are sound asleep in our beds
+; there will be a 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.
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 a 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 shoes? Man sometimes gives his
charity in a rough way, and it falls like
the fruit of tree in the east, which
| fruit comes down so heavily that it
breaks the skull of the man who is try
ing to gather it. But woman glides so
softly into the house of destitution 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 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, 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 destitutiOn and suf
| fering the little ones around the room
will whisper: "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-
an going down among the haunts of
| iniquity on a Christian errand never
| meets with any indignity? ] 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 | said to her as
[ looked around upon the fearful sur
roundings of that place: ''Do you
come here nights to hold service?'
'Oh, yes she said "Can it be possible
that you never meet with an insult
while performing this Christian err
rand 2" 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
lightnings 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"
So" said another man, 81 am afraid
too" Said the first: Il 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 a 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 go.
It seems as if the Lord had ordained
woman for an especial work in the So
licitation of charities. Backed up by
barrels in which there is no flour, 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 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 fisted, but she
gets it. She could not help but pet 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 time, and you might
as well submit first as last. You had
betterright away take down your check
book, mark the number of the check,
fill up the blank, sign your name and
hand it 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 some
farina. That consumptive must have
something to ease his cough. / meet |
this delegate of a relief society coming
out of the store of such a hard-fisted |
man, and I say: did you get the /
money!" 'Of course" she says, Il got |
the money; that's what L went in for.
The Lord told me to go in and get it,
and He never sends me on a fools er-
rand"
Again, 1 remark it is woman's right !
TO bring to us the kingdom of Heaven. !
It is easier for woman to be Chris |
tian than for a man. Why? You say |
she is weaker. No. Her heart is more |
responsive to the pleadings of Divine
love. She is in vast ajority. The fact |
that she can more easily become Chris !
tian I prove by the statement that !
three-fourths of the members Of |
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