The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-12-06
WOMAN'S WORK
IN MISSIONS
THEME or MR. CLEMENTS SER
MON AT FIRST N. {.
CHURCH.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE WOMEN
Greatest Throne Of Power Is In Her
Home And Hearts Of its
Inmates.

at the Sunday morning services. He
took for his text Mark fourteenth
chapter and eighth verse. In the
course of his address Mr.. Clement
maid an eloquent tribute 20 woman's
work. He said in part;
IT was six days before the Passover
that Jesus was found dining in Beth
any at the home of Simon, who had
been a leper. While reclining at the
supper made in his honor, Lazarus
Martha. and Mary being guests, Mary,
true to her devotion to the Master
having an alabaster box OF spikenard'
very precious broke it and poured us
contents upon his head
aIn disclosing to the disciples MS
approaching death, he perhaps had
spoken of it to her. At least, she
must have gathered the ract from his
own lips or from the disciples. Ana,
no doubt. she knew better than the
disciples even the dangers awaiting
him from the Sanhedrin. The words
of Jesus implied that she had compre
hended its larger meaning and at the
appropriate moment had poured upon
his head the rich perfume as modest
token of her devotion and confidence.
Immediately there was complaint
raised from mercenary quarters by
Judas, the treasurer of the company,
that such a waste of the perfume
should have been made, it being worth
three hundred pence, when there were
So many poor needing help The COM
plaint was made, not that he cared so
much for the poor, but because ne
loved the money. His character
among the unsuspecting disciples as
shrewd financier was sufficient to gain
support for his disapproval.
1.-THE Masters rebuke of their COW
etousness was gentle, but strengthened
by his commentator of the deed OF
love preparatory for his death. While
he commended their interest in the
poor whom he was leaving behind as
their constant care, his own heart,
lonely in those dark hours before his
death. craved the faith and love this
act implied. No wonder, therefore,
his thankful heart burst forth in I'M
qualified praise of her deed in saying.
She hath done what she could" and
that his prohphecy in the context has
been carried through the succeeding
centuries to the present In accelerating
commentator of her act of love.
"A woman's quick grasp OF truth
and fidelity to cause seemingly nope
less and her love to Christ has not
lost any of its former strength. They
are lust as ready today TO give them
selves to him and their means to the
alienation of his sufferings as Mary.
The marked devotion of womanhood
has ever placed her near the Master.
She was last at the sepulcher and first
there on the resurrection morning.
She was the first to believe in his
resurrection and the first missionary
to bear the good news to the doubling
disheartened disciples.
And we of modern days are not
surprised at her devotion to Christ
when we remember what the Master
has done for the sex, ana no doubt
gratitude sprang into Mary's heart
from a similar appreciation OF his
tenderness and sympathy with the sur
fering womanhood of his day, as well
as that of humanity in general. To-
day in all heather lands woman 10
merely beast of burden and female
children are looked upon as a burden
to the parents. She is IN those lands
kept In ignorance and superstition.
But wherever the name and power OF
Christ has gone she has been elevated
to her proper place as the queen OF the
home and mans equal In every re-
spect.
Some would hold woman inferior
to man in Christian work, and that
relic of heathendom stimulates them
to misinterpret st. Paul in writing to
the Corinthian Church and to Timothy
concerning woman's relations TO the
church's work, as denying to them
their rights in public service to Christ.
Such croakers should remember that
st. Paul himself in writing to those
same Corinthians and in that same
letter calls attention as to how they
should wear their head-dress while
prophesying (preaching) and praying
in the public congregation Il Cor.
1850. ST. Paul does NOT contradict
himself, but instead, calls attention to
the fact throughout that man is to
have control Of the affairs OF the
ohuroh &c also hp has Of the business