Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-04-02
How Women May Help chrisrs Kingdom.
[By DR.. Herrick Johnson. I

BY DIR. Herrlck Johnson.
/ stand amazed before the revela-
tions of the last decade of years as
to how woman may help Christ's
kingdom to come. What unused and
unguessed resources have been lying
hid that thi. "woman's work for
women" has called out Of their secret
places and sent on missionary errands
around the world 1t is the dawn
of new day; and there has scarcely
been a brighter day since the angels
made the Judean air thick with
melody when Jesus was born. 1t
looks, after all, as if the strategic
/: points in warfare for this worlds
supremacy were the heart of a
woman. That won, the family is
won; and when cup goes the family,
down goes heathenism." To secure
a change of levels like this, to bring
about the uplifting of womanly
hearts, woman, surely, has peculiar
adaptations. In this business, there
are paths where her feet are already
shown to be the swiftest; needs, she,
by all odds, is the fttest to meet
ministries it has already been her
abysmal joy to share. For this busi-
ness, the Marthas and Marys, the
Tryphenas and Tryphosas, the Phebes
aid Dorcases must be multiplied as
the dew drops of the morning.
The world waits for such women.
The field opens, the hour strikes.
Women of America, 'beneath the
cross or neverp' There only can
you be crowned and welded. First,
your hearts to Christ; then, Christ
born in them, and constant dweller
there, then forth upon your mission
to find room for the gift of God in
the great heart of the world. You
can do nothing? You can do every
thing; you can give, and serve and
pray. You can give self-denyingly,
you can serve lovingly, you can pray
conqueringly.
The best example of self-denying
liberality in the Bible is recorded of
woman. The best example of loving
service in the Bible is recorded of
woman. The best example Of con-
quering prayer in the Bible is re-
corded of woman. 1t was no great
gift, no great service, no great prayer.
The gift was widows mite the
service was the amounting of Jesus
with box of ointment; the prayer
was mothers prayer for daughter
possessed with devil. But the gift
and service and prayer were III self
denial, and love, and faith and so,
in the sight of God, they were of
great price. Jesus never let fall such
words of royal commentator as con-
cerning these three women. Of the
poor widow, he said, "She has cast
in more than they all" OF Mary,
with her alabaster box of ointment,
he said, "She hath done what she
could" And to the praying Canaan
itish mother, he said, 90 woman,
great is thy faith; be it even unto
thee even as thou wilt" The human
suppliant had power with God; the
Creator said to the creature, "Thy
will be DONE" Surely, such giving,
such service, such prayer, is possible
to every woman. 1t is not the great
ness of it, but the spirit of it that
tells. o ye women, whether of af-
fluence or poverty, whether of high
place or low place, whether old or
young, 60 at the call of Christianity
and do your woman's work. There
are treasures of the Lord that wait
your mites there are alabaster boxes
you may break for Jesus, if not upon
him. There are daughters, o how
many, this wide world over, in Christ
endom and heathendom, with evil
possessions, whom you, by faith, may
bring to Christ for healing.
A Walhalla lady adds: "And we
do urge more of our women to attend
the Woman's Union prayer meeting.
1t is food for the soul"