Milford chronicle., 1905-04-07

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door means that we must bend to God.
1t is a narrow door. The narrow door
means that we must be just and true to
those with whom we come in contact
in the walks of daily life.
The Spoiled Child.
Let me digress here a moment and
speak a few words in reference to
spoiled women. do not believe there
are as many spoiled men as spoiled
women. Men, as a rule, have not as
great a chance to be spoiled down at
the store as some women have to be
spoiled in the home. They would be-
come Just as spoiled If they had the
chance. But the womenl Oh, how
many Of them are spoiled in the home!
Did you ever stop to think that great
deal Of the so called nervous troubles
of this world among women are simply
due to fits Of temperY The young girl
grows up as a spoiled child in her ia
TIERS house. Then she marries. She
boasts that no one has ever been able
to govern her. She is right. She will
not even govern herself. Then, when
something goes wrong in the home, as
a married woman she scOlds and sulks
and refuses to eat and to sleep. She
cries and goes on until she works up
few spasms of hysteria and physically
becomes as rigid as a beard. l have
been in many homes as pastor and
friend. / have seen there many wom-
en- said to be nervous wrecks who were
not nervous as you or 1 might become
nervous from OverwOrk. They were
nervous simply because they let their
tempers as spoiled children get the
better Of them. Many nervous women
could be cured of their hySteria II
some one could give them good
wholesome rebuke and put them to
bed, as mothers punish their children
and then put them to bed if they did
wrong. The symbol of the camel as
applied to the rich man in reference
to his meannesses toward his fellow
men might also be applied to many so
called nervous women who let their
tempers get the better of them merely
because they are spoiled children. or
I
course in making this sweeping state
ment am not saying that all nervous
people are evil tempered, but some or
them and many Of them certainly are.
But as 1 see these richly laden cam
els coming over the hillsides toward
the shut gates of the Jerusalem walls
1 see skulking in the distance other
forms. They are the robbers and the
thieves and the highwaymen. They are
] the murderers who for one roll of cloth
would be willing to cut mans throat
They are the same kind Of blOOdthirsty
| human demons as were those pirates
who were supposed to have captured
/ the sailing vessels in which the beauti-
full TheOdosia, wife Of Governor Aston
of South Carolina and daughter Of the
famous Aaron Burr, sailed to meet her
father in New York. RumOr tells us
that this beautiful woman, with her
hands tied behind her back, was com
PEELED to walk the plank that her cap
| tors might possess her wardrobe. So
these dark figures skulking behind on
/ the oriental hillsides are the robbers "
ing in wait for their prey. If these mer-
chantmen hesitate one hour in unload
ing their camels and in making them
go through the eye Of the needle. down
these miscreants will swoOp. They will
slay the owners and carry away the
goods as rich spoils.
A Dangerous Road.
If these two merchants had been only
humble peasants, if they had been go
ing afoot or astride a cheap four foot
ed beast Of burden, such as Mary, the
4lother Of Jesus, rode when Joseph, the
carpenter, was taking her down to
bethlehem the night before the most
memorable Of all Christmas days, no
attention would have been paid them,
but there they are this evening riding
camels. Each camel is worth large
sum of money. Each one Of these cam
els was heavily laden with the richest
Of merchandise. DO you wonder that
those robbers skulking upon the hill
sides are on the alert? And do you also
wonder that rich men always have the
robbers lowering around them, ready
to steal their morals, their good names,
their souls as well as their gold? The
weather. a man becomes, the higher
I'D the ladder Of fame he climbs, the
more awful are the destroying mon
sters who hover above him and flank