O woman, what knowest thou but thou canst destroy thy husband? Are
there not some here who have kindly influences at home--are there not
some here who have wandered far away from God, who can remember the
Christian influences in their early home? Do not despise those
influences, my brother. If you die without Christ, what will you do
with your mother's prayers, with your wife's importunities, with your
sister'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 times of sickness? Oh, if there be but 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 daughter's God, for the sake of your sister's
God, come this day and be saved.
V. Lastly, I wish to say that one of the specific rights of women is,
through the grace of Christ, finally