Arizona republican., 1909-03-08
A SERMON >}O WOMEN
 AT THE A. M. E. CHURCH
Rev. Mr. Brays Address at Tanner Chapel.

CldBtl NdS lllC tSCtlit Ol t very large and enthusiastic meeting yesterday at 3:3O o'clock, at which
 hour the pastor, Rev. H. Franklin
 Bray. delivered a special address to
 women.
 Rev. Mir. Burgess of the Baptist
 church conducted the opening service and followed the pastor in addressing
 the congregation. Judging by the
 hearH amens. there will be much good come of the meeting.
 Among other things MT. Bray said:
 My heart is filled today with a
 message for the mothers, wives and
 daughters of this struggling race of
 ours. If I can help you to see your
 duty to your country. to your race, to
 your family, to your God, and to your self, more clearly than you have here
 tofOre seen it, I shall be amply repaid
 for the time and pains I have spent in
 preparing for this hour. It has been
 said. and with no little emphasis and
 truth, that the hand that rocks the
 cradle rules the world
 ''Dr. Talmage tells the following very
 pathetic and prophetic story: A
 daughter came to a worldly mother and said she was anxious about her
 sins. and she had been praying all
 night. The mother said, ".Oh, stop
 praying. I don't believe in praying
 Get over all these religious notions. and I will give you a dress that will
 cost $500, and you may wear it next
 week to that Party." The daughter took the dress. and she moved in the gay circles, the gayest of the gay. that night. Sure enough all religious inn pressions were gone, and she stopped praying. A few months after this, when she came to die, she said in her closing moments: Mother, I wish you would bring me that dress that cost S500.' The mother thought it a very strange request, but she brought it to please the dying child. Now" said the daughter. mother, hang that dress on the foot of my bed" The dress was hung there. on the foot of the bed. Then the dying girl got up on one elbow and looked at her mother. Pointing to the dress, she said: Moth CT. that dress is the price of my soul" Oh, what a momentous thing it is to be a mother
 Every child is a bundle of tremen- dous possibilities; and whether that child shall come forth to life. its heart 1 attuned to the eternal harmonies, and after a life of usefulness on earth go ! to a life of joy in heaven; or whether | across it shall jar eternal discords | and after life of wrongdoing on earth ! it shall go to home of impenetrable | darkness and an abyss of immeasura- ! ble plunge. is being decided by nur- ! sery song and Sabbath lesson, and | evening prayer, and walk, and ride | and look, and frown and smile. Oh. | howSfnany children in glory. crowding | all the battlements and lifting a mil ! lion voices in hosanna, were brought | to God through Christian parentage
 If there are wives here today whose | married lives have been unhappy and | who feel they have not received the | full measure of protection. support and 1 love which was their due. let me ad- l monish you to deal charitably with the | erring one More than that. examine | yourself. examine all the conditions | with which you are mutually sur | rounded, and you will possibly find | that the cause is not altogether as you iieiN 7NA9BNNN@h ehiAu ppoSiOiF dNNuStu
 If there are young ladies here who | contemplate marriage. let me warn you ! of the danger of expecting to find per | lection, or even looking for it. Do | not set your heart on getting a mar with a bank account. or houses and l lands. These are good and necessary. | but the man Is poor indeed yrko has | nothing but money; the man is ,ich ! and very rich who has established a | well rounded and complete character. The wheel of fortune turns So rapidly | that through some investment all may be gone, and if money is all ne has you are then left a Iankrup. Girls. | marry a man with good tanners. geniality of soul, kindness, inteli- gence, sympathy, courage, perseVer- ance, industry, and whole e-hcartc,lness. Marry such a man and you have mar ried ! fortune. He may have more money one year than another, but his better fortunes never vacii!ate Take your parents into yolu' confidence: they con give your more advice in one hour than you can g't from all the world besiues in five years.
 Wives, carry a joyful life between 'N H' tiAp ANO SBltS GdII Gtu lile GUS ter of Eshcol. They multiplied their joys by sharing them; they lessened their troubles by dividing them This Is fine arithmetic. The wagon can roll | lightly along as they pull together: and when it drags a little heavy. or there is a hitch anywhere. they love each other all the more, and so tighten the labor and reduce Hfes burdens. In the making up of life's joys, see to 1t. my dear wives, mothers and daugh- ters, that you contribute your part. God grant that you all, in whatever sphere you fill in life, may go forth from this service overwhelmed with the consciousness of the fact that the future of our race, to no small degree. depends upon the attitude which you shall assume toward your plain duties and in reference to your God given in fluence"