The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-11

and magnitude and eternity OF mean
ing, you would, with strea ming eyes,
hand. write 1T out in those four living
capitals, HOME
When you want to get your grandest
idea OF a queen, you do not think OF
Catherine OF Russia, or of Anne OF
England, or of Marie Theresa of Ger
grandest idea of queen, you think OF
the plain woman who sat opposite your
father at the table, ar walked with him
arm-in-arm down 1ife's pathway.
sometimes to the thanksgiving ban
Quet, sometimes to the grave. but al
ways Notwithstanding your petty /
griefs, correcting your childish way |
wardness, joining in your infantile |
sports, listening to your evening |
prayers. tolling for you with needle
or at the spinning wheel, and on cold |
nights wrapping you up snug and
warm And then at last on that day
when she lay in the back room dying,
and you saw her take those thin hands
with which she had toiled for you so
long. and put them together in a dy-
ing prayer that commended you to the
God whom she had taught you to trust
oh. she was the queen! The chariots
| OF God came down to fetch her; and
| as she went up all heaven rose up
/ You cannot think of her now without a
| rush of tenderness that stirs the deep
| IOunoauOnS or your soul, ana you reel
as much a child again when you
| cried on her. lap; and if you could
| bring her back again to speak Just
| once more your name. as tenderly as
| she used 70 speak it, you would be will
| ing to throw yourself on the ground
and kiss the sod that covers her. cry
ing: Mother! mother!" All, she was
the queen-she was the queen. Now.
can you tell me how many thousand
miles a woman like that would have to
travel down before she got to the bal
lot box? Compared with this work OF
training kings and queens for God and
| eternity, how Insignificant seems all
this work OF voting for alderman and
common cOuncilmen, and Sheriffs, and
constables. and mayors. and presi-
dents! To make one such grand WON
: I have described, how many
thousands would you want of those
| people who go in the round of fashion
and dissipation, going as far TOWARD
: | disgraceful apparel they dare go
SO as not to be arrested by the police
| their behavior sorrow to the goos
, and a carricature to the vicious, AM
= an insult to that God who made then
- women and not gorgons, and trampin,
on, down through a frivolous and dis
sipated life, to temporal and eterna
damnation-
= oh, woman, with the lightning o
your soul, strike dead at your feet al
these allurements to dissipation an
to fashion. Your immortal soul can
. not be fed on such garbage God call
you up to empire and dominion VII
,, you have it? Oh, give God your heart
u give to God all your best energies
{, give to God all your culture; give t
~ God all your refinement; give your
- self to him for this world and tn
&c next Soon all these bright eyes wi
a be quenched. and these voices will b
II hushed. For the last time you wi
is foir rth "a har
d hand, mothers hand, sisters han
i will no longer be in yours. 1t will b
re night, and there will up col
10 wind from the Jordan, and you wi
III start VIII it be a lone woman on
Id trackless moor? All, MOI Jesus wi
at come up in that hour and offer hi
d hand, and he will say: You stood b
er me when you were we'll; I wi
not desert you when you are sick" On
N wave of his hand, and the storm wi
Up and midnight will break into midnoon
is and another wave of his hand and tn
he | cham berlains of God will come dow
Y. from the treasure-hcuses of HEAVIER
ed | with robes lustrous, b1ood-washed an
at heaven-glinted, in which you will ARA
n yourself for the marriage supper
Nv the Lamb And then with Marian
l. who struck the timbrel of the Red sea
ke and with Deborah, who led the Lord
b. host into the fight; and with Hanna
ne | who gave her Samuel to the Lord; an
at with Mary who rocked Jesus to slee
IS while there were angels singing in tt
m | air; and with the sisters of CHART
ar who bound up the battle-wounds
as the Crimea, you will, from the chalIi
n Of God, drink to the souls eternal re
e cue.
e Your dominion is home. Q woma,
q What brave fight for home tt
ds women CT Ohio made some ten Il
r. teen years ago, when they banded t
on gether and in many of the towns al
IS cities of that state marched in proce
"a sion, and by prayer and Christie
Cd songs shut up more places of diss
he patton than were ever counted We
ar they opened again2 Oh, yes But
re 1T not a good thing to shut up Il
s. | gates of hell for two or three month
GU 1t seemed that men engaged in Il
ur business of destroying others did n
tn | know how to cope with this kind
RS warfare. They knew how to fight t
re | Maine liquor law, and they knew he
To to fight the National Temperance S