The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-06-09

Ter than the stroke of fist, unkir
words; staggering home at midnigl
and constant maltreatment, whic
have left her only wreck of whit
she was on that day when in tn
midst of brilliant assemblage tl
VOWS were taken, and full organ playc
the wedding march, and the carriag
=, rolled away with the benediction Q
. the people. What was the burnin
= of Latimer and Ridley at the stak
!, compared with this? Those men 500
became unconscious in the fire. blu
there is a 30 years martyrdom. S
years putting to death, yet uncom
planning. No bitter words when tn
rollicking companions at two o'clocl
in the morning pitch the HUSBAND
dead drunk into the front entry. NJ
bitter words when wiping from the
swollen brow the blood struck out in
a midnight carousal. Bending over
the battered and bruised form of him
who when he took her from her
fathers home promised love and kind.
ness and protection, yet nothing but
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ness before they are asked for. No
bitter words when the family Bible
goes for rum and the pawnbroker'
shop gets the last decent dress. Some
day, desiring to evoke the story of
her sorrows, you say: well, how
are you getting along now?" and,
rallying her trembling voice and
quoting her quivering lip, she says:
Pretty well, l thank you; pretty
we'll" She never will tell you. In the
delirium of her last sickness she may
tell all the other secrets of her life
time, but she will not tell that. Not
until the books of eternity are opened
on the throne of judgment will ever
be known what she has suffered. Oh,
We who are twisting garland for the
victor, put it on that pale brow!
When she is dead the neighbors will
beg linen to make her a shroud, and
she will be carried out in a plain box.
with no silver plate to tell her years,
for she has lived a thousand years of
trial and anguish. The gamblers and
swindlers who destroyed her husband
will not come to the funeral One car
riage will be enough for that funeral
-one carriage to carry the orphans
and the two Christian women who
presided over the obsequies.
But there is a flash, and the opening
of a Celestial door and a shout: Lift |
up your head, We everlasting gate, and |
let her come in" And Christ will |
step forth and say: Come in. Ye
suffered for me on earth; be glorified
with me in Heaven" What is the
highest throne in Heaven? You say:
THE throne of the Lord God Almighty
and the Lamb" No doubt about it.
What is the next highest throne in
Heaven? While speak it seems to
me it will be the throne of the drunk
ards wife, if she with cheerful pa
tience endured all her earthly torture.
Heroes and heroines!
l find also in this roll the heroes of
Christian charity. We all admire the
George Peabodys and the James Len
,xes of the earth, who give tens and
hundreds of thousands of dollars to
,OOo ODJNSlos lDuG hlh uO" |
# those who out of their pinched pow
rty help others-of such men as those
christian missionaries at the west
Who proclaim Christ to the people, one
# them, writing to the secretary in
New York, saying: 81 thank you for
hat $25. Until yesterday we have
lad no meat in our house for three
months. We have suffered terribly.
ly children have no shoes this win
err" And of those people who have
My half loaf of bread but give a
iece of it to others who are hungrier,
nd of those who have only a scuttle
f coal, but help others to fuel, and
f those who have only dollar in
heir pocket and give rs cents to some
ody else, and of that father who.
ears shabby coat, and of that moth
r who wears faded dress, that their
hildren may be well appareled. You
all them paupers or ragamuffins or =
migrants. l call them heroes and :
eroines. You and l may not know !,
here they live or what their name is.
cd knows, and they have more angels =
overing over them than you and I
ave, and they will have higher seat i.
| Heaven. They may have only
lpful of cold water to give poor d
'aveler or may have only picked q >
'linter from under the nail of a
lids finger or have put only two "
ties into the treasury, but the Lord >
nows them. Considering what they 7
I'D, they did more than we have ever II
me, and their faded dress will be- p
me white robe, and the small room IN
i'll be an eternal mansion, and the n
d hat will be exchanged for coronet 81
victory, and all the applause of "
nth and all the shouting OF Heaven a.
i'll be drowned out when God rises u
} to give His reward to those humble "a
orkers in His Kingdom, and say to to
EN-: well done, good and faithful sc
rvant" az
You have all seen or heard of the y"
ms of Melrose abbey. l suppose in OF
me respects they are the most ex- ID
isite ruins on earth. And yet, look y'
g at it l was not SO impressed-you &C
ny set it down to bad taste-but [ 10
Is not so deeply stirred as 1 was at tn
tombstone at the foot of that abbey, pl
e tombstone placed by Walter Scott Tn
er the grave of an old man who had an
wed him for good many years in 90
j house-the inscription most insig- III
icant, and l defy any man to stand Tn
ere and read it without tears COM an
! into his eyes-the epitaph: "Well Sc
ne, good and faithful servant" Oh, SCI
en- our work is over, will it be found OF
at, because of anything we have So
no for God or the churcb ~, s,,ffa- an