Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-12

sports, listening to your evening
prayers. toiling for you with needle
or at the spinning wheel, and on coid
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 dy-
ing prayer that commended you TO the
God whom she had taught you to trust
oh. she was the queen! The charlots
of God came down to fetch her; ana
as she went up all heaven rose up.
You cannot think of her now without
rush of tenderness that stlrs the ueep
foundations Of your soul. and you leei
as much a child again as when you
cried on her lap; and if you could
bring her back again to speak just
once more your name, as tenderly DIS
she used TO 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 uueen-she was the queen. Now.
miles 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 GOO ana
eternity, how insignificant seems all
this work of voting for alderman and
common courcilmen. and sherlhs, ana
constables. and mayors. and presl-
dents. To make one such grand woM-
an as | 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 as they dare go,
so as not to be arrested by the police
their behavior sorrow to the Soou
and a carrcature to the vicious, ana
an insult to that God who made them
women and not gorgonS. and tramplng
on. down through a frivolous and dis
sipated life, to temporal and eternal
damnation.
Oh, woman. with the lightning OF
your soul. strike dead at your feet all
these allurements to dissipation and
to fashion Your immortal soul can
not be fed on such garbage. Coo calls
you up to empire and dominion. VIII
| you have it? Oh, give God your heart,
give to God all your best energies;
! give to God all your culture; give 10
tod all your refinement; give your
self to him for this world and the
next Soon all these bright eyes VIII
be quenched. and these voices VIII be
hushed For the last time you VIII
look upon this fair earth. Father
| hand. mothers hand. sisters hand
Will no longer be in yours. 1t VIII DE
night. and there will come up colo
wind from the Jordan, and you VII
start. Will it be lone woman On q
trackless moor? All. no. Jesus vii
come up in that hour and offer his
hand, and he will say: you stood by
me when you were we'll; now | vii
not desert you when you are sick Ont
wave of his hand, and the storm viii
drop; and another wave of his hant
and midnight will break into midnoon
and another wave of his hand and tn
chamberlains of God will come dow
with robes lustrOus. bloodwashed ant
heaven-g linted. in which you will ARA.
yourself for the marriage supper o
the Lamb And then with Marian
who struck the timbrel of the Red sea
and with Deborah. who led the Lord
host into the fight; and with Hannah
who gave ner Samuel to the Lord; an
IN CT
while there were angels singing in tn
air: and with the sisters of charity
who bound up the battle-wOunds G
the Crimca. you will. from the challic
OF God, drink to the souls eternal res
cue.
Your dominion is home, o woman
What brave fight for home III
women of Ohio made some ten Or hi
teen years ago, when they banded &c
gether ard in many of the towns an
cities of that state marched in prOces
sion. and by prayer and Christia
songs shut up more places OF dlss
patton than were ever counted. WeI
. they opened again? Oh. yes. But
! it not a good thing to shut up tn
+, gates of hell for two or three months
;, 1t seemed that men engaged in III
, business OF destroying others did M
know how TO cope with this kind
warfare They knew how to fight Il
Maine liquor law. and they knew no
to fight the National Temperance 81
c ciety. and they knew how to fight II
: Sons of Temperance and Good SaEar
n tans: but when Deborah appeare
. upon the scene. Sisera took
= his feet and got TO the mOIl
d tains. IL seems that they q
q not know how 10 contend again
r Coronation" and Old hundred al
@ "Brattle Street" and Bethany" tn
:. were so very intangible. These M
u found they could not accomplish mus
r. against that kind of warfare. and
II one Of the cities regiment w
s brought out all armed to disperse {
e women. They came down in bait
o array: but oh. what poor success. I
): that regiment was made up of genti
Il men, and gentlemen DO not like
.e shoot women with hymn books in thu
/. hands. Oh they found that gunni
IS for female prayer-meetings was We
Ig poor business, No real damage W
re done. although there was threat
lie violence after threat of violence
t over the land. | really think If I
b. women OF the east had as much fai
n in God as their sisters of the west M
~ and the same recklesSness OF hum
~ criticism, l really believe that in o
ey month hree-fOurtns OF the grog ShO
ct of our cities would be closed and the