Panama City pilot., 1908-05-07

gentle ministrations, even to the
rudest and least worthy. Though
wounded, its natural elasticity of per-
petual youto causes a rebound in
which lies recuperative powers for
self and life giving qualities for
others
In considering a wifes privilege as
a wife, one can but think of the ideal
woman, one willing, able, energizing,
for the development Of the greatest
possibilities wrapped up within her
self. What are these? What are they
when wrought out in the hearts own
crucible for any and every woman?
The morning dawn brings to the
husband the changing face of the
multitude; the day introduces him to
ways and means for WOOing and Win
ming dame fortune. NightfaIl de-
mands again his return into the san
ctuary called home. He enters hun
CRY, needy, and helpless. One per-
ceives that not only the hem of his
garment, but his head and his heart
have been touched, and that "virtue
had gone out of him."
Mutely, silently, unconsciously, he
seeks the exercising of the spirits of
the world, of his world of cares. Is
our high priestess ready for her high
calling?
If the wife, sheltered in this holy
retreat called home, has spent these
passing hours in communion with the
divine self, the needed strength for
the herculean task has been gained.
The work is done not by many words,
or any one act, but by the endless
power of the life of love. Here is the
reliable, unchanging, and permanent
elements for which man longs when
his heart cries out so, where shall
rest be fOund?" Ever the same with
the passing of the years, no matter
how the crows feet may have been
drawn upon the brow, or the temples
striped with grey, nor the mouth it
self lined.
The un:hangeablenes of God is
here. 1t is revealed by him who SIS
the same yestNday, to-day, and for
ever" and man must find that one
attribute of divinity in the woman
who has been given to be with him.
But she in her turn has not found
it by seeking unto others, by mourn
ing over failures, defects, and defci-
encies, nor by conjuring the spirits
of vapOrOus, brafHless gossipy women,
neither by ia ling a blind devotee at
! he>-hr1na~f thc2e6ddess 81 fashion,
nor by playit g the butterfly and co
quettc to another than her own
husband
Nor on the other hand does it come
to her who faints by the way when
unappreciated, misunderstood, and
misjudged, nor to the woman who loses
faith in her mission, herself, or her
husband, when harrassed and ragged
and her life even refused as a prey
unto her. 1t is her privilege to be
the same, to hold undisplayed, I'M
Haunted, q reserve force within, that
shall overcome all obstacles to the
making of a beautiful, restful, per
manenCe in the home in which hus-
band, and all who draw near, may
rejoice with JOY unspeakable, and to
whom it shall be as the shadow of a
great rock in a weary land, refresh
ing, invigOrating, encouraging, saw
ing and redeeming in its nature
Finally we may define the Wifes
privilege as available life, and divine
inspiration, supplying to the one man
all things needful outside of himself.
She makes him to be king and con
querOr of the whole world. and in
cites him to discoveries of the most
/ hidden secrets of nature, and leads
him at last to bow in willing submits
sion to the Goa Jehovah who ruleth
over all, humbling His own, that they
may be exalted in ways that this
world knows not of.