Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-04-18

.NtNtOn anu fufHuuN uHu EtI anu
Edison aud Hewitt aud all the other
lllustriois inventors Of the centuries
because God has enabled them to tring
honor on the lands that could clnim
them Us citizens
But God has fulfilled the blessing OF
my text IN still another way lie has
innde the home a scene 81 light Wher-
ever his name il hoHored among the
people OF the earth he has let great
tidal waves OF gladstone light roll
through the homes of these people and
ill the vestihulcs aud the parlors and
the sitting rooms and the bedrooms
and the Kitchens Ms among no other
people On curtn. II you ARE looking for
The highest types of domestic peace
aud happiness. do YOU seek them IN the
pagan honest Where do the heather
lands offer domestic refinement aud
purity like those found 10y our own do
nestle hresidet Answer me. We who
call the cross chimera
In Heather Lands.
Would you tnd those happy homes
down by the burning CHATS ~ India
There man looks upon woman as the
slave OF her husband There In former
;inys the widow had TO ascend the fu-
neral pyre or her dead husband. There
The little child was Of such iniinltesl-
maj value that the crocodles used 10
fatten their young upon them, and
there infanticidc was 50 common that
some mothers could not tell how many
OF their babies they had fed 70 the
scaly. loathsome reptiles Would you
look for those happy homes IN iIeen-
tious Rome where marriage was con
sidered a spiders web and where vir
tue could not he found In the Roman
lexicon aud where some women had
been married aud remarked SO fire.
quently thut they had difficulty IN re-
menbering their allances7 Would you
find those happy homes among the
African jungles. where cannlbals ban
quoted upon the flesh 81 men or among
the nomsd tribes OF North American
Indians. whore a woman was looked
upon as Il beast uf burden: Tell me. IN
NIL the history Of the world II you can
where motherhood and childhood are
SO houored and the names Of wife and
sister and daughter aud mother so re
vered and where the domestic life *
so happy ~ among the tiresldes of
Christian homes Oh can YOU ever
cease TO thank Cod for the Hight that
was sown for you under the domestic
roof
Your mother was not great woman
as The world looks upon greatness She
was moi famous authoreSs. IKE
George Eliot or Alice cary or Eliza
beth Stuart Phelps She was not a
great reformer. like Susan y Anthony
Maid OF Orleans She was not an art.
list. like Rosa Bonheur. She was an ex.
pert In washing dishes but she had
never cultivated the magnificent art Of
decorating china as some of her daugh-
tiers do. But from the very moment OF
her advent into the world she was an
| honured iuenber OF the community 10
which she lived FIRST the home OF her
mother WAS filled with sacred Joy
when she was born Then during all
the days OF her sirIhood she was treat
ed with The tenderest protecting care
Then your father came 10 court her
He was her lover 10 the last Then
her children arose 10 call her blessed
And when 1T last her poor tired body
was laid 10 rest by her dead husband
hundreds OF her friends whom her life
had blessed stood about her open grave
TO Weep there Tel me where can you
find such honor paid 10 womanhood
except In n Christian land filled with
Christian homes: Am wrong when
state that the great tidal waves "
gladstone light roll through the rooms
Of the Christian homef Has not God
blessed the Christian nations with the
highest type Of domestic felicity?
Christian Governments
| But as the home Is only one " the
units ~ society We must study how