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JtrirrirAirs daughter.
DR. TALMAGE'S THIRD SERMON TO
TH WOMEN OF AMERICA.
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.Art ,-i Sil-imi Tliat to llmik It In an
lAil lit .! in-4 W roii;;.
:;:(. .i.v;, .bin. 22. The I.Vv. T. Do
V.'i! i Tel :i I ). I .. pri :n ( liis morji-
i:;;; th-- thiol of his m rii of '-Sermons to
the V.'oi.ji !i of America, with Important
1 1 ini lo Men." 1 1 is Mibj ct va;;, "lir
ken I'll ::: ,(! i f .Marriage," and his text
from .Jii'!-; ". i. :;.': have opened my
month ti:ii. i he l.ord, and I cannot go
bar!.'- lb-said:
-n. .((;,! 1 1 : i ! i , 1 1n - commander in
chief of t!i'- i raelhish forces, is buckling
on ill.- s..ord i'l.riiw extermination of
llv pes" if. Tm is N iiijao.nif .-;, airl looking
nil l th si.y !: promises that if (Jixl
v ill ;:iv" 1 1 1 1 1 1 th'- victory he will put
t' d-.ith and rn-riiiri- as si burnt
ofiVr (!i lir.-.t thing that conies
o:il fr. .s the door o;' l.'s home
Head wlf.-i I 'it goes bar!;. Toe hurrah
ing of li iii-Mj.Ii i) i:i runs a'oug tilt! lino
C'l' -.iiji -ini' i. rv,i;::enlri and ni-
vi.-i'i".; i f ,1. halt's army. A wor n
b.a!i:i i-,: 1 !;::! t!i:sn Ammonites
jk vi-r st r. w e. i any j -I
'a-'..t e-e. .hi hi!
ii ioiy. i . i: v on hi
Cullies over lli.f li::!
with their car
Ire.h from l i.s
;:y home. As ho
; a.ii.l t!.'on;rh tho
VaiSfVS I in: ' 1 1' i
his i.,' a i . a eh. .-r
m.:n ii i'tcnev. anl for
h:;t i"r him a .vat
Ji!i.ii-;, for h" r. -lenders liis vow to
f.lny anil i .' ' the ilr. i thing that comes
forth i'r..'n lii-i h. i.-.e to greet liim after
his vi'-l.i :'.
Tri liae.-. it :r;:y I e tho old watch lopj
that shall ihst roee- or.;, and who could
g-l heart ! I (:: t -i:t t U" 1 1 1 - of a faithful
crealiue liia.- ih:.', a-;hi conies fawnint;
ami I .:r!.in:,- a!: ! 'risking anil jmttinjj up
Lis pa' a ;.iin -t hi ; inat.T in merry wrl
coni' r'l'Ier Imi. absence? I-ro; iL was not
that whie'i eiine I'orih to meet Jcphthah.
l'ei h:: s li may be a voting dove, let out
from its ra in r-ent'ial's home.
liie!i.
m;!i i!s i.l.i.rty. may fccm to
rejoic; in t:;i- puiii;c i-;ialaosf? ami milter
on ihe shonl L-r of the familiar head of
t!:',' household, lint who conkl have tho
li'arl to :;!.:;- sifh a winded inniK'cnt?
No; it wr.s not iha.t whi-!i camo forth to
mr-et Japl-.thal. Or ii. may Ik? somo jood
nei;;h!i ! tiiat will inli oat to jrcet hiiu
nfier having 1 i:st Ix.en in to tell the fam
ily of tilt-near aj'proai li (' tho general,
lj-it wini con!.! : lay a neighbor who had
co:i!e on the eene jo rejoice over the re
united household .' ."so; it was not that
v. hirh :;:: e forth to meet Jephthah.
A.-; In- a'ia?:ces uxn his home tho
door oim ns. i.ml ontof it eomiv. one whose
ai'i)ear..:;-.'e under other circumstances
would have been :'iil indescribal.-le joy,
but under the pled ire of a s: crilice Ie
conn s a horror which blanches his cheek
:;:id p:!:-a!yz's his form and almost liurla
him il.it to t!e earth. His child, his
only child, his daughter comes skipping
out to -;rei t him. lu r step keeping time
to .1 timbre!, which she shakes and smites.
Did ever a ecu junior's cheer end in such
a bitter groan? Xo wonder Dor?, in two
of his ma--!e!p!"ces, presents the scene.
,::d Handel made it the last and climac
teric work of his life to put this pathetic
uud overpowering circumstance in an or
atorio, seven months toiling amid its ma
j"otic haiinonies until his eyesight gave
out: a:;d. as though the sad scene
of Jeph;hahs daughter's sacrilice v.-ero
tout:vc!i for mortal vision, the grand old
musieian was led blind into the orchestra
for the tirst rendering of Jephthah. AH
the glori--.: of viciorions war are blotted
;tt from Jephthah's memory, and his
banner is folded in grief, and his sword
goes back into the sea bburd with dolorous
r'ang, and tii- muiiied drum takes the
-.lace -f the cymbals aa'.I the "tremolo,"
the place of tho trumpet, ar.d he cries
out : Alas,, my daughter, thou hast
brought we very low and thou art one
of tlaiu that trouble me; for I have
ojiened my inouihto the Lord, audi can
i!Ot giiback." During two mcnth.s amid
the nio;:ntaini without shelter, the
maid'-ns av ! io won'.d latve been at her
v. i i ii I i : ":g ra : ig -i ! wit i i . ej -i it 1 :;i ! is daughter
up a::'! down, bowaiiing lier coming sacri
iice. .-.m::ier.;aiois and theologians are in
dispute as to whether that girl was slain
or !iOi. and as to whether if she were
slain it was right or wrong in Jephthah
to bo the executioner, a t!:-cus.ion into
which 1 .shall not be diverted from the
overmastering cnM-Ieration that we had
batter h o'c out what we promv.o, better
lh.-cautii.ias what emragemeiit we make,
better that in ivgard lo all matters of
botrolh.it and lighted vow we feel the
resjion.-ibillty. le.-t we liavo tidier to
wicthlce ih: truih or sacrilic?an immortal
lu ing. m-d we be k d to cry out with the
parorivsm t f ;i .Tephihah: ! have opened
my mouth unto tho Lord, and I cannot
go back."
There i ; one w ard in almost all the
insane asykmis and a largo region in al
most every cemetery that you need to
vi-ir. They are occupied by the men
;i-id women who are the victims of
i)i-ik en promises of marrinjro. Tli3
women in those wards and in those mor
fuary rerepiaeles are in. the majority,. Ikv
-;ii!Si" won;:!n liveo m re in her allections
than tV.'is i".ai:. and laceration of them
in lit r case is mere nrt to be- a dementia
ar.d a fatality. In some regions of this
Jand the pro: n is ; of marriage is consid
ered to have i;o solemnity or binding
force, ll v.a.i only made in fun. They
iJJay cn.iiige their mind. Tlie engage
ment ;nav t-tanti until .some one more ct-jra:-tivi-"
i-i ;"r-on or opule-nt in estate
nppc.u-s en th vene; then the rings are
fclurned and th-j ?i-natory letters
.:: 1 all relationship ceasi:-o. And so
j hero ;ire ten thousand Jephthah's
daughters saci-iliee-,! as buriit offerings.
The whi.lt subject needs to lo taken out
of t'ae realm of comedy into tragedy, and
tncii and women need to understand that,
n Jiile there are exceptions to Hut ru)e,
oiice i.ving Boloiunly jiledgetl to each
MlitT J.eai f nd hand, the forfeiture and
t.ban.Ionment of that pledge makes the
transgressor in the .sight of God a. per
hif errand so the day of judgment will
weal it. The one has 3ie.l to the other;
find all liars fikajl have their place in th3
lake that burnetii, with, lire and Lrimr
stone.
It a man or woman maie a promise in
the business vorld, is there any olliga-
. " . H 1 1 1 111 1 C n t- rm o F" f
lion lU 1UIU11 U 11 it llAOii ni,ii J. uo
for SaOO. ourut he to rav it? If a con- I
tract bo signet! involving the building of
a bouse or the furnishing of a bill of
gxds, ought they stand by that contract?
-Oh. yts," utway.s answered. Then I
ask the further question: Is the heart,
Hit; happiness, the welfare, the temporal
and eternal destiny of a man or woman
worth as much as the house, worth $500,
worth anything? The realm of profligacy
i; lilhtl with men and women as a result
of tho wrong answer to that question.
The most aggravating, stujieridous and
(!td defying lie is a ho in tho shajiu of
broken csjiouhal.
Jiut suppose a man changes his mind,
ought he not back out? Not once in ten
thousand times. What if I change my
mind aljout a promissory note and de
cline to pay it, and suddenly put my
proerty in such shape that you could
not collect your note? How would vou
like that? That, you say, would bo a
fraud. So is tho other a fraud, and nir.
ish it Clod will certainly a3 you live and
just a3 certainly if you do not live. I
have known men betrothed to loving
and good womanhood resigning
their engagement and tho victim
vent down in hasty consumption,
v. hile suddenly tho recreant miui would
go ut) the aisle of a church in brilliant
bridal party, and tho two promised "I
will' with a. tolcmnily that cec-mcd in
surance of a lifetime happiness. But the
simple fact was, that was tho first r.ct of
a Shakespearean play entitled, Tamin-y
the shrew." He found out, when too
late, that ho had not married into the
family of the 'Graces," rit into tho
family of the "Furies." To tho day of
his death tho murder of his first betrothal
i'oiioweil him.
The Biblo extob ono who "swearoth
to bis own hurt and changcth not."
That is, when you make a promise keep
it at all hazards. There may bo cases
w -hero deception has been used nt the
time of engagement, and extraordinary
circumstances where tho promise is not
binding, but in nino hundred and ninety
nine cases out of a thousand engage
ment is as binding as marriage. Iloliert
linrns, with all his faults, well knew tho
force of a marital engagement. In
o!odience to some rustic idea he, stand
ing tm one side the brook Ayr, and Mary
Campbell on tho other, they bathed their
bauds in tho water and then put them on
the lioards of a Bible, making their
pledge of fidelity. On the cover of tho
Old Testament of that liook to this day,
in Ro'iert Burns' handwriting, may
lx found the words: "Leviticus xix,
12: Ye shall not swear by my name
falsely; I am the Lord." And on the
cover of the New Testament in his own
handwriting: "Matthew v, 33: Thou
shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt per
forin unto the Lord thine oaths."
Suppose a ship captain offers his ser
vices to take a ship out to sea. After he
gets a little way he comes alongside of a
vessel with a more beautiful flag, and
which has perhaps a richer cargo and is
liound for a more attractive port. Sup
pose he rings a bell for tho engineer to
slow up and the wheel stops. Now I see
the captain being lowered over the side
of the vessel into a small boat, and he
crosses to the gayer and wealthier
craft, and climbs up the sides, and
is seen walking tho bridge of tho
other ship. I pick up his resigned
speaking trumpet and 1 shout through it:
"Captain, what does this mean? Did you
not promise to take this ship to South
ampton, England?" "Yes," says the
captain, "but I have changed my mind,
and I have found I can do betttr, and I
am going to take charge here. I shall
send back to you all the letters I got
while managing that ship and everything
L got from your ship, and it will bo all
right." You tell me that the worst fate
for such a captain as that is too good for
him. But it is just what a man or wo
man does who promises to take one
through the voyage of life, across the
ocean of earthly existence, and then
breaks the promise. The sending back
of all the letters, and rings, and necklaces,
and keepsakes cannot make that right
which is in tho sight of God, and ought
to lie in the sight of man, an everlasting
wrong. hat American society needs
to be taught is that letrothal is an act so
solemn and tremendous that all men and
women must stand back from it until
they are euro that it is rigid, and sure
that it is best, and sure that no retreat
will !x desired. Before that promise ef
lifetime companionship any amount of
romance that you may wish, any ardor
of friendship, any coining and going.
But espousal is a gate, a golden gate,
which one should not pass unless be or
she expects never to return. Engage
ment is the j orch of which ma mage is
the castle, ami you have no right in the
porch if you elo not mean to pass into the
castle.
The trouble has always lxen that this
whole subject of alliance has been rele
gated to the realm of frivelit- and joke,
and considered not worth a sermon or
even a serious paragraph. And so the
massacre of human lives has gone on and
Hie devil has had it his own cruel way,
and what is mightily needed is that
piilpit, and platform, antl printing press
all speak a word of unmistakable and
thunderous protest on this subject of
infinite importance. We put clear out
into thin poesy and light reading the
marital engagements of Fetrarch and
l is Laura, Dante and his Beatrice,
Chaucer and his Philippa, Lorenzo tie
Medici and his Lucretia, S;enser and his
Rosalind, Waller and hisSaccharissa, not
realizing that t was the style of their
engagement that decided their happiness
or wretchedness, their virtue or their
profligacy. All the literary and military
and religious glory of Queen Elizabeth's
reign cannot blot out from one of the
most conspicuous pages of history her in
famous behavior toward Seymour and
Philip and Melville and Leicester and
others. All the ecclesiastical rtibes that
Dean Swift ever rustled through conse
crated places pannot hide from intelli
gent people of all ages the fact that, by
promises of marriage which lie never
fulfilled, he broke the heart of Jane
Waring after an engagepient of 6even
years and tho heart of Stella after an en
gagement of fourteen years, and the
poetic stanzas he dedicated their ex
cellences only make the more immortal
his own perfidy.
?But suppose I should make a mis
late," says some man p- wopian, "end
I find it put after the engagement and
before marriage?" My answer is, you
have no excuse for making a mistake on
this subject. There are so many ways
of linding out all about the character and
preferences and dislikes and habits of a
man or woman, that if you have not
brain enough to form a right judgment
in regard to him or her, you an not so
lit a candidate for the matrimonial altar
as you are for an idiot asylum. Notice
what society your especial friend prefers,
whether he is industrious or lazy. v hether
blie is neat or slatternly, what lmoks are
read, what was the style of ancestry,
noble or depraved, and if there l any
unsolved mystery alxiutthe person under
consideration jcsrpo:ie all promise- until
the mystery is solved.
Jackson's hollow, Bronklj'n, v.-..-: a part
of the city not built on for many years,
and every time I crn.--.sod it I said to my
r.rlf or toothers, why is not this land
built cn? I found out afterward thai: the
title to the land was in controversy, and
no one wanted to build there until that
question was decided. Afterward I un
derstood tho title was ct tied, and row
buildings are going no all over it. Do
nn'j baik! your happiness for this world
o:i n chcvr.?tev. mnseruino er feminine,
thai Las ret a Edtlrxl and um:: pitted
title to honor and truth and sobriety and
Lindners end righteousness.
Oh woman, yet have raoiv r.rc-d to
pr.ue before making r-:r.rh an important
prorniro (hnn man, lc-'ai:?o if you make
a. mlf-'talre it :s wors? for you. If a man
blunder ahcv.i promi- o of marriage or go
on to art v.r.fcrtv.nato rnr.rrlege. he can
rper.d his cver.ing.-i away, and ca:i go to
thn club or the ItcpuV.ie:!-! or LVn; c ratio
headquarters ami nbsorh his ml:-..! ia
city or state or i:ati'.nal elect ir:;.i, or
smoko himself stuv.id or drink hi;.ielf
drunk. lZ.it there is n- plp.ee f regular
retreat for you, cii woman, and you could
no; tako narcotics or intoxicants and keep
your respectability. Before you promise,
pray and liiink and study and advise.
There will never again in your earthly
history bo a time when j ou so much r eed
God.
It seems tome that tho world crr-rht to
cast out from business credits ami from
good neighborhood those who boast of the
number of hearts they have won, as the
Intk'an boasts of tho number of scalps he
has taken. If a man will lie to a woman
and a woman will lio to a man about so
important a matter as that of a lifetime's
welfare, they will lie about a bill of
gomls, and lie about finances, and lio
about anything. Society today is b:;m
full of gallants, and man miiiineiv, and
carpet knights, and coquettes, and those
most Gtxl forsaken cf all wretches
flirts. And they go about drawing
rooms and tho parlors of water
ing places, simpering, and bowing, and
scraping, antl whispering, and then re
turn to the club rooms if they be men, or
to their special gatherings if they bo wo
men, to chatter and giggle over what
was said to them in confidence. Condign
punishment is apt to come upon them
and they get paid in their own coin. I
could point you to a score whom society
has let drop very hard in return for their
base traffic in human hearts. As to such
men they walk around in their celibacy,
after their hair is streaked with gray,
and pretending they are naturally short
sighted when their eyes are so old in .in
that they need the spectacles of a sep
tuagenarian, an ej'eglass about No. 8,
and think they are bewitching in the ir
stride and overpowering in their glances,
although they are simply laughing stocks
for all mankind. And if these base
dealers in human hea:ls be females,
they are left after awhile severely alone,
striving in a very desperation of agony of
cosmetics to get back to the attractive
ness they bad when they used to brag
how many masculine affections they had
slaughtered. Forsaken of God and 1 onet
men and good wcnuon, are sure to be all
such masculine and feminine trl tiers with
human and yet immortal affections. Ob,
man! Olu woman! having plighted your
troth stick to it !
Antl here my idea widens and I have
to say not only to those who have mad
a mistake in solemn promise of marriau'c-,
but lo those who have already at the
altar been pronounced one when they
are two. or in diversity of tastes and likes
and dislikes are neither one nor two, but
a dozen make the best you can an
awful mistake. And here let me r.:i -v. er
letters that come from every atate of the
American Union, and front acr:.-.s the
sea, ami are coining year niter year
from men and women who urn ter
rifically alliuiiced and tied teccd:-,-r
in a hard knot, a very hard knot.
The letters run something like
this: '-What ought I to do? My hus
band is a drunkard." "My wife is a
gadabout and will not stay at home."
"My companion is ignorant ar.d bat
hooks and I revel in them.' "I like
music, and a piano sets my husband
crazy." "I am fond of social life and
my companion is a recluse."" "I am try
ing to do good anl my life'ong associate
is very bad. What shall I do? ' My
answer is, thereare certain good reasons
for divorcement. The Bible recognizes
them. Good society recognises them.
But it must be the very hist re
sort, antl only after all reason
able attempts at reclamation and adjust
ment have proved a dead failure. "When
such attempts fail it is generally because
of medtllesome outsiders, and women
tell the wronged wife how she omrht to
stand on her rights, and men tell the
wronged husband how he ought to stand
on his rights. And let husband and
wife in an unhappy marriage relation
stand punctiliously on their rights, and
there will be no readjustment, and t.niy
one thing will be sure to them and that is
a hell on earth.
If you are unhappily married, in most
cases I advise you make the best you can
of an awfully bad bargain. Do not pro
ject your peculiarities more than is nec
essary. Perhaps you may have sc.me
faults of your own which the other party
in the marital alliance may have to suffer.
You are in the same yoke'. If you pull
aside the yoke will only twist your neck.
Better pull ahead. The world" is full of
people hp made mistakes about' many
things, and among other things aliout
betrothal and marriage, and yit have
been tolerably happy and very useful in
tho strength of God and by the grace
promised in every time of" need, if
those who seek it conquer the dis
advantageous circumstances. I .am ac
quainted with lovely women married to
contemptible men, and genial men voknl
with termagants inspired, of tbn dovii. j
And yet under these disadvantages my t
friends are useful and happy. God heirs; !
people in other kind3 ef martyrdom and
to suig in the flame, and he will help you
i'your lifelong misfortune.
nememlicr the patience of Job. What
n wife ho had ! At . t imp when ho wan
one great blotch tif eruptions, and h!-.
property was destroyed by a tornado, and.
more than all, licreavement bad n.i
and the mhu- man needed all wise coun
sel, idie aiTvisi-s bint to Co to r-ur.-ii-g a:;d
swearing. She wauled him to i.i:!:ie.
bis boils with hhisphetiiy. But be hc .1
light on through i.is marital di -adv m
tages. ivi'ivtivd hiski-allh and h' ;
turn; and raised a splendid fumdv, a a i
the elosji-g pai-.-igr.-'h of the Ikk!: . -
l.a-i such a jubilance that I wonder pi ' '
do not oftener read it :
"So the Lord ble ed "ho latf r
Job i. lore than hi let;ianing. for I
fourteen thousand thee), and i :
sand came!;--, ami :. thcu.-nnd :
oon, and a thousand she a-i"i. '
a!.:o seven r.ons and i'nree d. night " -.
he called the jle.mo of the lirsl, .Via
and the name of theKeco-.al, IC : ia
tho name tf 1i:e third, ian".!::;' '
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bivilirer. Af.er thl.: il
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1; ;t yi.a.r prayers, your sympathies, y..:;r
hand, your needle, your voice. ( ' i
your heart on lire with l.ve V God. an d
X he . ciithrallmnt ti' the human ia.ee.
!i:id tile lr:;al!es of your homo wiU be
blotted out in the glory of your come-e-atvd
life. I cry out to you, oh woman,
as Paul e::claii.:s in his letter to the
! Corinthians: --Yv'iKil knowt-st thou, oh
wife, whether thou shalt save thy hu:-
ba.nd.'" And if you cannot save him .ton
can help in the grander, mightier enter
prise of helping save the world. Out. of
iheawfnl mistake-of your marriage rise
into the sublimest life of self sacritiee
for God and suffering humanity. In
stead, of settling down to mope over your
domestic wties. enlist your energies for
the world's redemption.
Home parts of Holland keep out. the
ocean oniy by d I.es. or walls of stoat
masonry. The engineer having these
dykes in charge was soon to Lt married
to a maiden living in one of the villages,
the existence of which depended on the
strength of these d kes. And there was
to be a great feast in one of the villages
that approaching evening in honor of 1 he
coining bridegroom. That day a great
storm threatened the destruction of the
dykes, and hence the destruction of
thousands of lives in the villages shel
t'.ra I by that stone wad. The ocean as
in fu'.l wrath, beating against the dyla-s.
and the tides and the terror were mi!!
risirrg. "Shall I go i the feast'.-"' .- i; a,
tne engineer, '"or snail I eo and he!
il
workmen take care of the
"Take earo of the th. kes,"he a' i 1 i,
iiunsc:; : ! mus
pearctl on the wail the men v.e.I
ll.'. re were exhausted ar.d shouted: )
c-.:u-s th--' engineer. Thank G"d! Th
God!" Ti:: wail was giving wav. :
;'one, an
lie eiiglni f-r had
d around hij bod v. and so
t..e vorkme;
n had ropes fa-
tent-
1
th'.'h '-(,;:
V.ii 1 Siirg:
was g i-. In
the men.
le.-
and
k
i i town
hat In
eat
ilw-wall. Mvea.a
way. ?.hav stones! " !
O.b
Th.en
'.-nnvwoi'iiir Jtut tliea:;--v
came
cried
;.; no mere!'" '';.. :
engineer.
ra!:e .- tf your ; :
th- hoi- in the . a
and d:---:-::esn:-.d
;!!ot!i.' :
:-:!! t!.- ti : r.
. ..: d v.. i if for : ..
ir the1 iiverwiie'ie;
and wlthth
in f ii e;
ao in
'!
wa
a.vl
! .
-Vl'e.
an
i
th---
t;f tiiot.a.nds of live.; in the vii ';
-NOV
the ci
!!V-;i.
on t!i'
we have done ;1J we can.
;:ne
o..'.vn : your fine
v I o C. id ! or halo. "
t! i
I t:
lei.
in.;
;:;ai ; a
id chai
villag
of the
. mi
ll:
( i
-1-
:1 the v.-i
and th;
nota:: g
act
nal I!
S7ii.isi,
l.llvi.'.
( 'f r
I.eVw. x
w. .
: !.;:.:ii: .-.
ar.d
ga --raiu.-'iy
N 1 1 v, v.
wahh.g bi
drtuili'-nn
aved.
:at we. want ill thi
k t he oee.-nif; of i r
antt i:in."ioy an i sa ;
wtiinanl v : i ; 1 manl v la
Oh how the
surge t f ; i -rrt
1e
ai.e in:
Aiiamie
t i.
: i te
Li-ov. and the I'-nu i-.-ts of human
arm latamc fa.rv are
ftIl
wt.:!au of many troubles, what a
the feasts of v. oridiy delight, if they
oiVered yen. compared v.iiu the
t:'.i..ty ti he!p
riers w;deh
v.-ji- tlirouiji
th--" world's
i:g build and
in
iji: 'i :
man
es si em ; a .
treacln ry a
vi.ni. jn eoiiiaii.
1 y
tr.
the dyko! Ia.i
bring c bet ri sag
jiraver.a, bring Va
tirds! Help! He
And. having dune all, kneel with us on
the .t:aking wall until the God of the
wind and the sea shall hu.-h the one and
silence tha other. To the dykes, f-isters,
mothers, wives, daughters of America,
to the dyked Tho mightiest cathoiicon
for all the wounds and wrongs of woman
or man incomplete absorption in the work
to rescue others. Save some man, some
woman, some child!
In that tuort you -. ill forget or
hciMl tes liear yeur trials, and in a little
while God will take you up out of your
disturbed and harrowing conjugal rela
tion of earth into a heaven all the hap
pier because of preceding distress. When
(Jueen Elizabeth of England was expir
ing it was arranged that the exact mo
ment of her death should lie signnh-d to
the people by the dropping ct a sapphire
ling from a window into the hands of an
oiiieer. who carried it at tho top of his
spept! to King James of Setitland. ltut
your departure front the scene of your
earthly woes, if you are ready to go. will
not le the dropping of a sapphire to the
ground, but the setting of a jewel in a
Ling's coronc-t. I'lessed la liis trtoriou
name forever!
i cait rr'.isi "vou with
California - Evaporated - Silver - Prunes
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FRES-! FINNAN HADDIES,
Apple Butter and Sweet Cider.
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Plattsmouth Herald
Is o 23. joying- ci
EDITIOiN B.
Year
lie
Will bo one during wliicli tlie subject., d'
national intontst titnl iiu jor! ttice will Ic
strongly agitated and tin- election of si
President will take j.lace. 'J ho 'ic.ijile of
Cass ("ounfy who would like to learn of
Political, Commercial
and Social Transactions
of this year and woi.M keep apace, wilh
the times (dioiild
i i: 'i -
Daily or Weekly Herald.
aow while we have' the .--u b jc't. lielbrethe
Ieo)e we will venture to spettk ol our
li i i-4
i. LA U
AVhieh is lir.-i-e'tis.s j n :.l 1 respects and
from which our job printers- are ttirnino:
out much satisfactory work.
PLATTSMOUTH,
TBoom. in. "both, it:
m WMM2
1888
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