Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-04-10
In Heathsn lands.

as In Heather Lands.
g. Would you find those happy homes
We down by the burning CHATS Of India
'e There man looks upon woman as the
Oi slave of her husband There in former
g. days the widow had to ascend the fu-
ie neral pyre OF her dead husband. There
d the little child was OF such infinitesi-
y NAL value that the crOcOdiles used to
le fatten their young upon them, and
IS there infanticide was so common that
o some mothers could not tell how many
Z of their babies they had fed to the
D scaly. loathsome reptiles. Would you
) look for those happy homes In licen-
J. tiOus Rome, where marriage was con-
D sidered a spiders web and where viz
. 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
upon as a beast OF burden? Tell me. I'm
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-
vered and where tine domestic life is
so happy as among the firesldes of
Christian homes Oh, cam you ever
cease to thank God for the light that
was sOwn for you under the domestic
roof?
! Your mother was not a great woman |
as the world looks upon greatness. She !
was not a famous authOress, like |
George Eliot or Alice Cary or Eliza |
beth Stuart Phelps. She was not a |
great refOrmer. like Susan B. Anthony, |
or a great leader Of armies, like the
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-
ters do. But from the very moment of
her 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 iov
when she was born. Then during all
the days of her girhood she was treat
ed with the tenderest protecting care.
Then your father came to court her.
He was her lover to the last Then +
her children arose to call her blessed. I
And when ut 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 You 4
find such honor paid to womanhood ?
except in a Christian land filled 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. a
But as the home is only one Of the q
lnits of society we must study how a
iod blesses the governments of the q
christian lands as well as the individ- r.
lal firesides. Here we also find the II
,reat tidal waves of gladstone light n,
lowing everywhither. Here we find n,
he governments not run for a few. q,
'ut for the many. Here the rulers E,
re the servants of the people, Here ri
he governments are "Of the people a,
nd for the people and by the people" a.
his fact was not true in Olden times, 81
efore the Christ love was acknowledge M
d in the hearts of men. Then it was II
he governmental doctrine Of the "di- N
Inc rights of kings" Now It is the y,
octrine of the divine rights Of the se
eOple." -,
We look with amazement upon some m
the stupendOus buildings which the
reat potentates Of the east have erect m
!. All! There were giants In those on
lys," giants so big that the earth IN
Ill never produce their like again. ",
nd the trouble about those old giants 90
as that they grew so great by op- IN
'essing the people whom they ruled.
Id you know that the rulers Of Egypt oh
order to build the great canal which bu
rs made the present city Of Cairo ac
)ssible took thousands Of men from tio
eir labOrs in the fields and forcibly 70,
owe them to the bitches? And as a FOR
SUIT "a mat consumption @ugOOU men
rished. Some people may find gran
,ur in that, but / only see brutal
ranny. ~.
What Egyptian traveller has not stud
] the famous citadel built by the =
eat Saladin? 1t is a wonderful struc- bo,
re. But did you ever hear how he ;no
lit it? l will tell you. He built It by c c1T
Shaving all the captured crusaders Le4
d compelling them to labor there for v,It
e rest Of their lives. Aye, there were dsr
ants in those days, but thank God boT
. did not live in them, for in all prob al
ility we should have had our lives ne,
lshed out Of US by some tyrant as ne
or foot might crush an insect in a 6nd
lntry path. Eut now all the injus- life
es Of the feldal system are gone. mar
w every mal's home is his castle,
W man mutt respect the rights Of
IN. One mans liberty ends where Fear
equal rights Of another man begin. Sign