DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. The Queens of Home. “There are throe-score queens.” Solomon's Song, 6: 8, So Solomon, by one stroke, set forth the imperial character of a true Chris- tian woman. She is not a slave, not a hireling. not a subordinate, but a queen, In a former sermon I showed you that crown and courtly attendants, and im- perial wardrobe were not necessary to make a queen; but that graces of the heart and life will give coronation to any woman. I showed you at some length that woman's position was high- er in the world than man’s, and that although she had often been denied the right of suffrage, she always did vote and always would vote by her influence; and that her chief desire ought to be that she should have grace rightly to rule in the dominion which she has al- ready won. 1 began an enumeration of some of her rights, and this morning I resume the subject, I. In the first place, woman has the special and the superlative right wain going back to what I have ly sud—woman has the special ‘emedd ai t of blessing and not 1 i= COMFORTING THE SICK, hat street, smitings nig Pp tek} 1s (iS 01 SICK-DEU shall I me y sharp e “Charge! charge!’ lint, woman : ordials, woman watch h. woman wrote the he he he solitary burial, atl nd four with 1 § generals | I triumph he story an scraped the ie ire! me CcCircis men onersho anit Breckinridge, who came sn for weeks with their al; of tO some of them frozen and when she turned + it and filled the air of Mrs. Hodge, who came cago, with blankets and with until the men shouted, “Three yr the Christian Commission! with then GOD BLESS THE WOMEN then sittingddown to take last message: “Tell my wife not to about me, but to meet me in hea- tell her to train up the boys whom we have loved so well; tell her we shall meet again in the good land; tell her to i loss like the Christian wife of at mes"? the fred yen, OAL DY 4 Christian soldier” ton, int hose face the convalescent soldier 1% ked, and said: “Your grapes and cologne cured me.’’ Men did their work with shot and shell and carbine and howitzer; women did their work with socks and slippers and bandages and warm drinks and Scripture texts and gentle stockings of the hot temples and stories of that land where they never have any pain, Men knelt down! over the wounded and said, **On which side did you fight?’ Women knelt down over the wounded and said, “Where are you hurt? What nice thing can I make for you to eat? What makes you cry?” To-night, while we men are sound asleep in our beds, there will be a fight in yonder loft; there will be groaning down that dark alley; there will be cries of distress in that cellar, Men will sleep, and women will watch, If, Again: woman has a special right to take CARE OF THE POOR, There are hundreds and thousands of thei a lover the land, There Is a kind of work that men cannot do for the poor. Iere comes a group of little barefoot ehldren to the door of the Dorcas society, They need to be cloth- ed and provided for. Which of these directors of banks would know how many vards it would take to make that little girl a dress? culine hands could fit a hat to that lit- tle girl’s head? Which of the wise men would know how to tie on that new pair of shoes? Man Sometimes gives his charity in a rough way, and it falls like the fruit of a tree in the Fast, which fruit comes down 80 heav- ily that it breaks the skull of the man who is trying to gather it. jut wo- man glides so softly into the house of destitution, and finds out all the rows of the place, and puts so quietly the donation on the table, that all the she departs, expecting that from under whence she seems to have come down. , Christian young women! if you win the blessing of Christ, go out AMONG THE DESTITUTE. A Joaf of bread may make a hot oY yf cour se’ ! noney; tha y Lord told me to go in ' never ends me on a t's what s errand,” I1I. Again: I have t it is a woman's specific y tell that you RIGHT TO COMFORT he stress of dire dizaster, called the weaker but all She is pro- Vessel: ency. How often you have seen a Oh, what a great mistake those business men make who never tell their business troubles to their wives! There comes some great losss to thelr store, play them a sad trick, and they carry the burden all alone, He is asked in the household again and again: What is the matter? But he believes it a sort of Christian duty to keep all that trouble within his own soul. Oh, sir! your first duty was to tell your wife all about it, She, perhaps might not have distangled your finances, or extended your credit, but she would have helped you to bear misfortune. You have no right to carry on one shoulder that which is lntended for twee, There are business men here who know what I mean. There came A CRISIS IN YOUR AFFAIRS. You struggled bravely and Jong ; but after a while there came a day when you said, “Here I shall have to stop ;"’ vou called in your partner profinent and vou said; n Y ou left tho most en in your employ, the street You felt and You, pass through over on the ferry-boat, denouncing You told vour wife What did she say? Did she play the butterfly? Did she ribbons and No, She came up to the She quailed not under the She offered to go out of the into a smaller one, another winter. was one who understood your af- You looked 3a thin, weak up: and You hasten home, youl, house upon what you tho ynan's arm you holding looked at that feeble he eternal God, No tell 1 INUSCies » i ; band; “What knowest » thy | Man 1 [ELE he aa id io wouldn't let Vii got was dying; and “Rebecca, you family prayers | that, and you have 4 me all me away 0 woman what knowest thon canst destroy thy husband? who have KINDLY INFLUENCES at home? Are there not some who have wandered far away from God, who can remember the Christian influence in their early home? Do not despise those influences, my brother, If you die without Christ what will vou do with your mother's prayers, your wife's importunities, with your sis- ter's entreaties? What will you do with the letters they used to write to you, with the memory of those days when they attended you so kindly in time of sickness? Oh, if there be just one strand holding you from floating off on that dark sea, I would just like this morning to take hold of that strand and pull you to the beach! For the sake of your wife's God, for the sake of your mother's God, for the sake of your danghter's God, for the sake of your sister's God, come this day and be saved, V. Lastly: 1 wish to say that one of but thou the specific rights of woman is, through grace of « finally to heaven, 4) what a multit } hirist, reach ude of WOMAN IN II Mary, Christ’s mother, Lieaven, Eliz Fry in heaven, Charlotte Eliza beth in heaven, the mother of August who sold her splendid t in heaven, many others, who while a great have been heard of into the rest and What a rest! from the small room, 1 one window (the the side, the peace of heaven, 1 no fire (en out vit Vit elnss and many until WO wornout eves, ts mansions . aching Yhouse of stitching o'clocl the tin the Work, welve 1 no more thrusting of by the employer through was not done quite right, Heaven for for broken Matt, Vii. THE John 1 Vii, JESUS AND THE 1 Think not that I am come to destroy AW, the law, or the prophets: 1 am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.—Matt, 5 : 17. IX. PIETY WITHOUT DISPLAY. but the Lord 1 Sam. 16 : 7. ance, looketh on the X. TRUST IN OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. Casting all your care upon kim; for he careth for you,~1 Pet, 5 : 7. XI. GOLDEN PRECEPTS, Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so te them, Matt. 7: 12, XII SOLEMN WARNINGS, Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire-—Matt, 7: 19, Lrssox 1.—Superintendent: And they, having heard the king, went their way ; and lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was, And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And they came into the house and saw the young child with Mary his mother ; and they fell down and wor. shipped him ; and opening their treas. ures, they offered unto him gifts, gold and inyrrh (Matt, 2: Thou shall rn to you HY he Lord (Luke s by vio hrist t £11). All » 12 : 21 1.1 SR ON when they the Lord appeareth 1 a dream, saying, Arise and child and his mother, and be thou there for Herod will seek t nim, And took the young child and Superintendent : depart i Were ad, behold, an to Joseph take and to de stroy ihisn 1 departed into Egypt | an the 4 ¢ th ol y+ €} 2 ue “3, BESSON 5, i cart! One 1 Pass away, in no wis shall till ull 14% AS law, Who of thes Kiss a 5 things be nl 11 teacd and shall teach Jeast commandments but whosoever sh in the kingdom of heaven (Matt, 5 : 18, 19). Scholars : Think to destroy the law, or the prophets : come not to destroy, but to fulfil b: 1%). Teachers : Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all (Jas, 2:10.) All : Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities (51 : 0). L.essox 9 Superintendent : Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them : else ye have no reward with your Father which i$ in heaven, When therefore thou doest alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrités do in the syna- gogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men, Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward, And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites : for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corns of the streets, that they may be I am Matt, And ng raiment? how they do Lhey rrayed like doeth » the field, which to- ¢ ; ’ 4 $ hii 1134 ino ifs othe to poison by be dropped on a will kill all wh ] 1s as their vel 1514 we find famous and told had de- and its re- two or send in the re- ts along with his new poisons, Vil andrino produced a poisoned walber; but when this came to be tried on a cer. tain Mustafa, he was none the worse for it. The Ten ordered a second dose; and after waiting eight days with no more satisfactory results they conclude in disgust that Vilandrino’s water 18 worth nothing, and send him back te Padua. + most for alace and must —— I ——————" Parental Love of the Spider. The parental love of the spider it very strong. The female carries, sus pended on her legs, a small bag contain. ing the eggs, which resemble white glass beads, If the bag is pushed away with a straw or stick, the creature will make the most desperate efforts to re- cover it. A spider was once found whose back appeared to have » granu lated surface, hut closer examination showed that she was entirely covered with her young. On tying to shake them off they attached themselves to their mother by a thread and, on throw ing her to the ground, she remained perfectly quiet until they had all pulled themselves back by means of thei extemporized cable, and spread thems solves over her body as before,
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