The age-herald., 1901-03-10
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.

memory he treasured for her whom he first welded, and teasingly this young one demanded of him that he should swear he loved her better than he loved the wife that was gone. No, by Allah!'' he gwore in violence, 'I will not forswear Khadijah. She was my friend when oth- CT friend I had not. She was faithful when all others turned from me- She was my love, my life, my fortune Thou, O thou, art not first before my Khadi- jahi"
 One could love Mahomet for that.
 
 The Three Graces typify the supreme truth that love is Lord and King, for these maidens in changing form and un- changing sweetness and truth and purity and transcendent loveliness, exalt the ideals of the only purely human joy we may know whilst life runs it's course.
 Hope, in her everyday name beloved of multitude, wide-eyed, radiant, bound ing Hope, makes for womanhood with startling swiftness, and along her laugh ing way springs every flower that is pure and beautiful.
 Faith, ever lovelier, and the name of her pious christening ever widening to the knowledge of all those who love the true, the beautiful, and the pure in maid en life, the superlative charm that lies in sinless maiden speech and the soft and dreamful glory of maiden bushes grow ing ever of diviner significance, she too hears the boundary line beyond which true womanhood reigns to the gfsry of the Father.
 Charity otherwise of saintly name and saintly virtues, the good. patient, faith full. sunny-spirited and aboundingly hap py Charity, who finds her chiefest joys in others joys, and who with the laughter and the happy tears of one pure of heart and unspotted of the world--handmaiden of justice and sweetness and love and laughter, upon whom tears and smiles at tend in sweetest comradery-Charity makes for the fuller life and the fuller joys,
 These three, and the greatest of these are Hope Faith. and Charity, three maid ems rapidly making for womanhood with dli us lONtS, US ueNOtiOliSy US SpleIlulu mysteries! The world-our world of sun bright days and gladstone laughter-is come to know them\ and adore them They are without offense before God and before us all are little saints of dancing of merriment, of laughter and of joy; and none may know them and not be the worthier for such knowledge; for prouder than an emperor of his militant glory may be he who calls their names as his faithful friends as he tells the beads in the rosary of his faith,
 God has given us maidens like these as types of His beneficence in teaching us truth and love and sinlessness, joys upon the earth and hope of the long af- terwhiles of lives that may be troubled today and yet have hope that sunlight may come on the morrow!
 There is no. good woman in the world who Is not better than the best man of us all
 All our yesterdays have not lighted to dusty death any man who knew and loved good women. One man in a glad yesterday stood face to face with many good and beautiful women in the strong hold of their own association, their own communion and society of comradeship. and he felt himself doubly blessed in q proud privilege. In all his wide and va ried experiences, sometimes troubled and sometimes rejoicing, he had been accord ed no honor equal to that of talking what he believedsto be truth to divine women who were searching for the higher truths of the worlds mighty sweep of human affairs. The presence of purity in it's most enlightened form lent him some thing of the gift of prophecy, though he was so powerless to utter the things !, taught him by communion with spirits so transcendently higher and better than his own that he was humbled to the bending of the knee in fidelity that faith might come to him in fuller measure.
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