The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-30
A SERMON BY MRS. HOWE.


 an illustration from the early life oi
 Lucy Stone. The text was taken from
 II Corinthians, fourth chapter and part
 of the sixth verse, "The glory of God
 in the face of Jesus Christ" We are
 permitted to print part of her sermon
 Mrs. Howe said:
 This text flashed upon my mind one
 day, as texts sometimes will, with a
 new and sudden feeling of its signiti-
 canoe. It seemed to light up all the memories and experiences of my past
 life with the vision of a steadfast glory which, emanating from the great source of life and light, is given to men in the brightness of some human countenance which reflects a glory eternal and un- changeable.
 said to myself: "The glory which l apprehend in this moments thought is that which has gone with me through my lifes journey. I saw it in the lov- ing faces which looked upon me in my cradle. I was led by 1t to ascend the easy slope of my early years. l saw it on the page of my school-day lessons, in the stories of leaders and champions of men, lawgivers prophets, warriors, priests and priestesses of the higher life" And this brightness, eliminating in the star of the blessed Nativity, ap- peared to me to point with awful mean ing the steps and periods of individual and of national life. But this light does not merely shine Like the light of the blessed sun on this earth, it causes fruit to spring forth Let us follow here and there some of the grains which have ripened beneath its influence.
 A company of devout souls, gathered together in the name of Christ, hear stories of lands dark with the ignorance and cruelty of heathenism These people may neither be very rich, very learned nor very powerful in any way; but what they have heard of the need of others has struck in their bosoms chord to which their whole soul re- spends. They cry, These distant dark people are our brothers. These women, sacrificed from their birth, and finally immolated on the altar of ancient superstition, are our sisters. We must go forth and preach to them the gospel of mans new deliverance" And from their midst some man springs up, strong and brave, and some woman true and tender takes her stand beside him. The ancient prophecy is read again: "The wilderness and the soli- tary place shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose" And the sails of the mis- sion ship open like the wings of a dove, which bears above the waters the olive branch of peace.
 n,11 1o+ o1J fields of our own south. Tn strange contrast of the mission ship, the slave ship has rifled a continent Of its help less children. and has brought them, sad, unwilling exiles, to our shores. The dark figures stand in the furrows, urged to labor by the overseer's threat, by the whip of the driver. The eyes of the laborers are almost like the eyes of cattle, patient. unintelligent, wonder ing. By and by, a seed of divine pity ripens in some human breast. A voice exclaims in protest: "They are not cat tle to be stolen and bought and sold! They as we. belong to Gods human family!" And another voice, and still another arises, until the brave chorus of freedom resounds, and it's phalanx forms and drills. And suddenly the hosts are gathered, the banner is rais- ed, and, with great outpourings of blood and treasure, the chains are unrivetted the captves are free.
 Let us contemplate still another pie .ure. A mother holds in her arms her newborn babe She is a farmers wife. and her faithful hands milked many 'ows on the very night preceding the l oaby's birth. She sighs as she says, T | nm sorry it is a girl-the lot of a woman | s so hard!"
 When this girl has grown old enough | o reason and to question she sits on fer little stool at her mothers side, and | lsks why the position of women in the world is so different from that of men Ter mother replies that this is the ordinance of God as revealed In the Bible The child dares to wonder whether such is the true interpretation f scripture language. Grown to wo- mans estate, she cannot rest until by | 'reat exertion, she makes her way to western college and learns to read the acred volume in it's original tongues. he does not find in the New Testament ny ordinance of the perpetual subor-
  crying that the moral law is equally finding upon both, she infers that they hould stand on equal ground before he statutes of the state To the ad- ocacy of this conviction she devotes CT life. Many earnest people are rais- q up to join her, and her solitary bought becomes one of the pressing uestions of the day. Years pass, and |, ring to the elucidation of this problem lany porkers after many kinds Three weeks ago the women through ut this vast continent were to be seen adhered in bands and traversing it's road expanse in order to attend a conversation on the Pacific ope. No one derides or questions 1em now. They cross the continent in ; Il peace and security, and their course l
 marked by the most friendly atten- 1 ons. They hold their convention, full { weighty considerations of human elfare, and returns, as peacefully as { ley went Where did this new free- ( 1m come from? Who first divned and I the secret of this womanlv z 1wer to help every laudable device of , ems minds? The lonely dreamer and { orker, once ridiculed and set at i aught, now crowned in the crowning 1
 her aspirations In this also. I see r of the glory of God in a hu- ( an faCe.-From the Woman's Journal q