The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-12-31

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Sermon
by Rev.
Frank De Witt Ialn,ase, D. D.

J sermon the preacher enthrones the
Christian mother as the queen OF home.
the true htlpmeet and the bright ex-
emplaf OF purity ana benz Toleuce The
| text is Psalm xviii. IL az. W. The
Lord giveth the Wolt-the women that
publish the tidings are Il great host"
We are APT - associate the idea Of
publishing gospel tidingS exclusively
with the pulpit That is the place
from which the tidinss are usually
and chiefly published But it is not
of publishing the tidings than by
preaching, and one of these is indcat-
ed by the psalmist in my tcXt Who
can ever estimate how much good We
men have done in that way: The
world will never know how much the
publication of the gospel tiGings by
had to 90 with the usefulness of their
sons and husbands
| pity that man who, having been in
daily compani0nShip for years with a
mother, a sister, a wife and daugh-
ter, has not grace enough i'll his heart
to appreciate the nobility OF woman.
When l stood by the deathled of that
great apostle Of temperance, Francis
Murphy. his youngest child said to me:
'The other day | was alone with my
father. lie took my hand and said
Daughter ever since was privileged
to associate with YOUR mother | have
never lest my faith in the purity Of
womanhood.' When Thomas De
Witt. the great New York pastor. was
on his deathhe,l lie continually talked
to the girls about the noble, sweet and
gentle wife who had preceded him into
the land Of everlasting roses" and
he babe them never to forget her and
always 10 pattern their lives after her
life. During the last walk Dr. Joseph
Parker took en- earth lie turned to his
companion and with Il PARKWAY look
as though he was trying to pierce the
clouds and see to the foot of the great
white throne where his beloved wife
was then singing the song Of the re-
deemed in heaven, he said, Ever
since she left me 1 have always tried
to do as she wished, and l feel that
she has directed my steps, SO with
most of us. When we think of what
we owe to woman we are surrounded
at once by a great number of women.
both living and dead, whose gentle
self sacrificing lives have nodded us
and purified us and made us what we
are.
Some time ago there came into my
possession a suggestive epitaph. which
was chiSeled upon a New England
tombstone. Let me read it to you
sketched the life work of q good wom-
an as God had given it to her to do.
step by step: a Sarah to her hus-
band q Eunice to her children, a Lois
to her grandchildren, a Lydia to Gods
ministers. Il Martha to her guests. q
Dorcas to the poor and an Anna to her
God Was not that a beautiful teSti-
LIoiS " utllH we'll uole !. Dlu not
that epitaph in Scriptural combina-
ton round out Il Woman'S perfect life?
Most Of us have been surrounded by
our Sarahs and cur Eunices and our
Losses and our LydiaS and our Mar
thaS and GER Decreases. Have they
not been to Us true eyangelists, leading
us along the paths of truth and purity
and by the power of the holy spirit
purifying and ennobling our spiritual
lives? Can you not thank God for
your Christian wives and mothers and
grandmothers, your Lydias. Marthas,
Decreases and Annas? Have not the |
women whom ycu have seen puhlie h |
Ing Gods tiaings been great host?
Giving Thanks For Good Wives.
First let rs thank God for the Sa- |
rahs-the Christian wives who are now
by our sides. How many men have |
reason to thank God for the women
who. as young girls. gave them their
hands and larts il marriage when |
they too were young and had nothing
and who with them haze fought the |
battle of life? We ought to thank God |
for the wives who in more senses than |
one have merged their lives in our |
lives and yet are never so happy as
when the werld praises us for the |
work which they to Il great extent en-
abled us to achieve ] once knew q |
man who declared III the presence OF a |
party ST friends that his wife had
nothing to Go with his success He /
boastfully said. u have made my sue
cess entirely independent of my wife"
But l do not believe there is one man |
among US all who can honestly make
a statement like that.
We know, deep down in our hearts.
that what we achieve in life is due to |
4 great extent to the wives who have |
abored faithfully By oar side Happy |
IS the poor man who has Il good Wife
She may be the foundation of his she