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
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COMFORTING THE SICK,
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smitings
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“Charge! charge!’
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an scraped the
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men
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Breckinridge, who came
sn for weeks with their
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some of them frozen
and when she turned
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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
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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
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band;
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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how they
do Lhey
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the field, which to-
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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.
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for
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and must
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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,