The age-herald., 1901-11-10
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to love. In Geraint and Enid the Master has given us the noblest and most world embracing lesson yet given us to know, and to such of us as hold the cackle of our daily lives to be the murmur of the world it comes with all the force and power and beauty and heavenly sweet ness of inspiration.
 To every man there is a trumpet call to duty as soft as angels whisper, and yet it beats aginst the gates of paradise a prayer that can never be .siienceds and never denied. It is wonn.a,. sntreaty, unuttered or expressed, the language or her love speaking from eyes, lips, soul. and seen in frail white hand pointing the way to victory over self and over the world, that victory which makes for joy upon the earth and makes for the unslumpering joys of the long after whiles.
 That man makes for destruction whose life In the essentials is not fashioned, guided and guarded by woman's wisdom and love, whether given in the boundless measure of womanhoods heavenly good ness upon the earth, or bestowed as from one loyal heart loving and adoring "her lord, her own, the first of men,
 Given womans wisdom, mothers wit, maiden's mission in the world, and it Is not needful to consider what man may do. 7 sss,s
 In the Providence of God woman is come to be the sovereign enthroned In every home, whence she rules the world; the high priestess at the altar of the fire side with power alone to grant remis- sion of those .nameless sins that violate the social covenant and elude the reach of our Holy Church, to the uttermost to forgive as only woman may forgive, the granting of pardon that carries with it an obligation to sin no more which no worthy man can ever deny.
 It is from her throne in the home that woman is come to rule the world; and It is her benign sway which has made the home the antechamber to the sanctuary,
 It is the power of womans love and woman's prayer, in the fullness of wo- mans wisdom of intuition, that are mak- ing for the regeneration of mankind and transforming a world of scoffing into
 
 altar life, love, maidenly and motherly purity and righteousness. More and ever more men are coming to adore the Holy Mother of faith, and it is because of the saintly virtues of the mothers of this world. The world rings with Hail, Mary, whilst all the Marys make for saintli- ness. He prays not wohtily, strives not, hopes not dreams not, aims not worthily who bears not ever in his heart woman in her goodness and nobility of soul; and the little Saint Agneses of this life are ever blessed inspirations!
 Let us hear these lessons constantly in our hearts, alike in seasons of penance and in seasons of merriment and rejoic- ing, resting or laboring. hoping or real izing, my beloved. Believe me, without these there is no worthy life in all the sphere of worldliness, in the offices and affairs cS all those who labor to be good outside the blessed circle of holiness in teaching holy things. As fell the spar row-hawk for denying the viruous Enid so also shall fall every one who wanders from the narrow paths of worthy i'm pulses given over to strivings after nobler, purposes.
 The mother is the figure around which all men and women may rally in the ness, righteousness. Hail blessed Mother!l
 Though low subject to the empire of pain tonight, I cry my beloved joyi
 THE MIJRMIJRER