The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-11-30

neuralgia and exhaustion and an abbre.
waited lifetime.
There is more splendid womanhood sac.
rihced IN that way in our cities than IN
any other way. The Judgment day can
only reveal the awful holocaust oi tangled
nerves and the suicidal habits of much of
our social life. The obituary OF such reads
well, for the story Is suppressed about how
they got their death while standing in at.
tire OF gauTe waiting for the carriage on
a raw night on the front steps.
While in their lifetime they possessed
an the ability for the relief OF pain and
impoverishment. yet they have no time
for visitation ot the poor or TO win the
blessing of such as comes upon those who
administer To those who are ready 20 per.
lsh Enough flowers m their dining halls
10 hewitch a prince, but not one tuft of
hehotrope 20 perfume the room of that
rheumatic on the back street, 90 whom
the breath OF one flower would be like
the opening OF the front door of heaven
Find me one man or one woman who IN
all the rounds OF pleasure and sclhshness
has found a piece of happiness as large as
that hall dollar which the benevolent and
Christllke soul puts into the palm of the
hand of that mothc- whose children are
crying for bread. Queen Victoria, riding
IN triumph through London at her lubi-
lee. was not 50 sublime figure as Queen
Victoria In hut near Balmoral Castle
reading the New Testament 10 a poor dy'
ing man.
Let III the gadabounts Tor happiness
know that IN kindness and usefulness and
self abnegatlon are 10 be found satlsiac.
tion which all the gayetles of the world
aggregated cannot afford.
Among the race of gadahouts are those
who np,,l,gt thar hnp,p. in orIpp IL Lat
they may attend TO institutions that are
really excellent and do not so much ask
for help as demand II.
| am acquainted, as YOU are, with WON.
en- who are members of so many boards OF
direction of benevolent institutions and
have 10 stand at booth IN So many fairs
and must collect funds for 80 many orphan
ages and preside at So many phllanthrop-
ic meetings and are expected 10 bo IN so
many different places at the same time
that their children are left To the care of
irresponsible servants. and II the little
ones waited to say their prayers at their
mothers knee they would never say their
evening prayers at all Such woman
makes her own home SO unattractive that
the husband spends his evening at the
clubhouse or the tavern. The children OF
that house are a. thoroughly orphan as
any of the lathcrlcss aud motherlcss lt.
tie ones gathered IN the orphanage for
which that gadabout woman is toiling SO
industrlously
by all mcars let Christian women fos-
ter charitable institutions and give them
as much of their time ~ they can spare.
but the first duty of that mother is the
duty she owes TO her home.
The book of Samuel gives a photograph
of Mcphiboshcth lame m both feet. When
we see any one lame m one foot or lame
IN both feet, we alW.ys wonder 10y what
accident he was lamcd Perhaps II may
have bees IN battle for his country, or
he may have been run over 10y some rccl.
less dsi"gr or some explosion did the dam.
age. 30 you wonder how Mcphiboshcth
became lame IN both feet The Bible for
a good reason gives Us the particulars. IL
tells us that when hc was child his
nurse dropped him She must have
dropped him yc. hard. for he never again
got over the effect OF that fall Long af.
ter the accident We find him at King
Duvid's table. but still our attention IN
called 10 the fact that his feet were Grip.
pied though 50 long before his nurse
dropped him. And mark you that to-day
IN all departments OF life there are those
crippled IN habits crippled IA morals Grip.
Piled for all time The accident happened
IN this way: Their mothers were gada.
bouts and neglected their homes. and the
work of training them was given over TO
Incompetent nurses, and the nurses let
them fall into bad habits, told them de-
pravlng stories and gave them wrong no.
tions OF life and practically ruined them
But no one can take n mothers place,
and II Is an awful mistake that that moth.
or makes who sacrifices home duties for
any church meeting, however important.
or any hospital. however mcrciful, or any
80. l.. A
grand. Not understanding this, we mis-.
take when we try To give statistics aa TO
how many Christians there are IN our
churches and IN the world We under.
state the facts We look over our church
audiences on the Sabbath or our week
night service and conclude that they rep.
resent the amount OF plety in that neigh.
borhood. Oh, no, There are mnny most
consccratod souls that are not found m
churches. Look into those houses with
large families of children and little or no
hired help For much Of the year there
Is some one III, and a special. guardian care
Is requisite. How much time can that
mother give TO churches and prayer meet.
ings when most OF the family are down
with scarlet fever or have colds that
threaten now one kind of disease and
now another That mother watching at
home as much picascs the Lord a. the
mother who at church takes the sacra.
mcnt or IN the mission school tells the
waits OF the stree. how they uay be-.
come sons and daughters OF the Lord Al.
mighty. That mother at home IL decid.
ing the destiny 81 the State by the way
she leads that boy into right thinking
and acting and u deciding the welfare of
some future home by the example she
b. setting that girl, and though the world
docs not appreciate the unobscrved work
heaven watches and rewards
Bot McphibOshoth was taken by King
David into the palace and seated % the
royal table, 40 by the gra's Df the hcav.
ouIy King these unfortunate ones may yet
be- seated al the Kings table in the Kings
palace, though the nurses did drop them
so that morally they were lame IN both
feet
Now, what ia the practical use Of the
present discourse This: Whereas 30
many have ruined themselves and ruined
others by becoming gadabouts among oc.
,upations among religious theories. among
churches, among neighborhoods therefore
resolve, that we viii concentrate upon
what b. right thought and right behavior
and waste no tim" in varIiiatiDns and in
decisions and uncrriainties running about
Iu places where We have no business 30
be-. Life is ~ short we have no time 10
play with II the spnudthrift Find out
whether the Bible b. true and whether
your nature b. Immortal and whether
Christ is the divine and only Saviour. and
whether you must have Him or be- dis.
cDmfted and whether there will probably
ever be- a more ausp'cous moment Tor
your becoming IIs adherent. and then
make this j. O'Clock 90 uOoa of November
p. the most luxurious minute that you
will ever have passed since the dnv ~
yOur birth NTH IN. ten miliOnth cycle ~
the coming eternity. because by complete
surrender % thought and will and anec.
g.. 40. III