The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-03

that we might receive the adoption
of sons
The Christian age, in its broadest
sense, is the age of the world from
the beginning, until the end of
time. Then cometh the end, when
he shall have delivered up the
Kingdom to God, even the Father,
when he shall put down all rule,
and all authority and power" A
CLEAN Of the Son of Righteousness
was seen amid the gloom of Eden's
darkening bowers, and it shone on
above the thick clouds, and through
an occasional rift along the ages,
until the clouds broke away for a
moment, and it shone in radiant
splendor over Calvary. Since then
the Christian age in special sense
began and continued. The Christian
age, as it now appears, is woman's
age. She was the mother of Christ
in an extraordinary sense. She
bore him, nursed him and trained
him for his divine work of redemp-
ton. She stood sponsor for him at
the cradle. He was her sponsor on
the cross. In his crucial agony,
beholding her and his beloved dis
ciple standing by, he said, ''Woman
behold thy son! and to the dis
ciple, Behold thy mother! And
from that hour that disciple took
her unto his own house"
There was something in woman's
heart which responded confidently
to the character, mission and teach
ings of the Messiah. Women of
all classes hocked to him, and gave
him their trust and love- These
felt the power of renewed revelation
of divine love made by him, and
they rejoiced in the liberty with
which Christ would make them
free. "Accordingly the purest and
richest human light that lies on the
pages of the New Testament comes
from the band of high minded, faith
full and afectionate women, who
were found in connection with
Christ from the cradle to the cross,
his tomb and his resurrection.
These embalming influences have
operated on society with equal bene-
fit and power. Woman in the bet
ter portion of society is now a re-
| newed being. And yet her angelic
career is only just begun. She sees
| what she may be, and what under
the gospel she might BE-"
The gospel records tell of Eliza
beth, the Marys, Anna, Joanna,
Martha and of the many women,
which followed from Galilee minis
tering unto him. They were his
truest, most unselfsh friend They
were true to him amid cruel scorn
and battling hate. Through blind
ing teas they followed him on his
way to Calvary; with breaking
hearts they witnessed his agony and
gave him all their moral support by
their sympathetic presence. They
beheld his limp body taken from
the cross, and, following, saw where
and how they laid him in the sepul-
chre. Dark was the day and darker
the night when the Prince Of Glory
died, and was laid in Joseph's tomb,
that was hewn in stone wherein
never man was laid. There was
literal darkness over all the land,
and denser the darkness fell upon
the people of his choice. The light
of hope had gone from the hearts
of the bravest apostles. Peter thirty
years after wrote: BLESSED be the
| God and Father of Our Lord Jesus
Christ, which according to his
abundant mercy hath begotten US
again unto a lively hope by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from
the dead - All the faith then ex-
tant in the world was in true faith
full woman's heart. She kept the
faith when all had fed. She was
mindful of the body in the tomb,
as if there was something still to
hope for, and she was intent that
the holy one should not see corrup-