Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-04-09

! people on earth. If you are looking for
the highest types of domestic peace
md happiness, do you seek them in the
| pagan homes? Where do the heather
| lands offer domestic refinement aud
purity like those found by our own do
nestle Preside? Answer me. ye who
| call the cross chimera.
In Heather Lands.
Would you find those happy homes
! down by the burning CHATS of India
| There man looks upon woman as the
slave of her husband. There in former
| days the widow had to ascend the fu-
neral pyre of her dead husband. There
the little child was of such inlnitesi-
nal value that the crocodiles used to
| fattcn their young upon them, and
| there infantcidc was so common that
some mothers could not tell how many
/ OF their babies they had fed to the
scaly, loathsome reptiles. Would YOU
look for those happy homes in licen-
| tous Rome, where marriage was con
sidcred n spiders web and where viz
I tue could not be found in the Roman
/ lexicon and where some women had
| been married and remarked so fire.
/ quently that they had difficulty in re-
membering their alliances? Would You
! find those happy homes among the
( African jungles, where cannibals ban
/ quoted upon the flesh OF men or among
/ the nomad tribes Of North American
/ Indians, where a woman was looked
| upo a as II beast of burden? Tell me, In
! all the history of the world, if you can.
| where motherhood and childhood are
so honored and the names of wife and
sister and daughter and mother so re
yered and where the domestic life is
! so happy as among the tiresides Of
/ Christian homes. oh, can YOU ever
cease to thank God for the light that
was sown for you under the domestic
| roof?
Your mother was not great woman
as the world looks upon greatness She
was not famous authoress. like
George Eliot or Alice Cary or Eliza
/ both Stuart Phelps. She was not
great rcforiner. like Susan b. Anthony,
or a great leader of armies. like the
[ Maid of orleans. She was not an art
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| pert in washing dishes. but she had
| never cultivated the magnificent art of
| decorating china as some of her daugh-
| ters do. But from the very moment OF
Ter advent into the world she was an
/ honored member OF the community in
which she lived. First the home of her
mother was filled with sacred Joy
/ when she wss born. Then during III
the days OF her girlhood she was treat
ell with the tcnderest protecting care.
Then your father came to court her
/ lie was her lover to the last. Then
her children arose to call her blessed
And when at last her poor tired body
was laid to rest by her dead husband
hundreds of her friends whom her life
had blessed stood about her open grave
to weep there Tell me, where can yon
find such honor paid to womanhood
except in a Christian land filed with
Christian homes? Am wrong when
state that the great tidal waves Of
gladstone light roll through the rooms
of the Christian home? Has not God
blessed the Christian nations with the
highest type Of domestic felicity?
Christian Governments.
But as the home is only one Of the
units OF society we must study how
| God blesses the governments of the
/ Christian lands as we'll as the indiyid-
ual firesides. Here we also find the
great tida waves of gladstone light
flowing everywhither. Here we find
the governments not run for few,
but for the many. Here the rulers
are the servants of the people. Here
the governments are "of the people
and for the people and by the people"
This fact was not true In olden times,
before the Christ love was acknowleds-
ed in the hearts Of men. Then 1t was
the governmental doctrine of the "di-
vine rights of kings Now it is the
doctrine Of the divine rights Of the
people"
We look with ainazement upon some
of the stupendous buildings which the
great potentates of the east have erect.
ed. All. There We're giants in those
days" giants so big that the earth
viii never produce their like again
And the trouble about those old giants
was that they grew so great by OPP
pressing the people whom they ruled
Did you know that the rulers of Egypt
in order to build the great canal which
has made the present city of Cairo
possible took thousands of men from
their labors In the fields and forcibly
drove them to the bitches? And as a
result OF that conscription 10000 mer
Vcrished. Some people may find gran
dcur in that. but only see bruta
tyranny
What Egyptian traveller has not stud
led the famous citadel built by the
great Saladin: 1t is a wonderful struc
ture. But did you ever hear how he
built it? ] will tell you. He built it by
enslaving all the captured crusader;
, and compelling them to labor there fol
, the rest of their lives. Aye, there Were
, giants In those days. but thank Goo
we did not live Ia them, for In all prob
ability we should have had our lives
crushed out of us by some tyrant as
, your foot might crush an insect in {
. country path But now all the injus
tees OF the feudal system are gon
Now every mans home is his caste
, Now man must respect the rights OF
, man. One mans liberty ends where
, the equal rights of another man begin