Songs 6:8 There are three score queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. So Solomon, by one stroke, sets forth the imperial character of a true Christian woman. She is not a slave, not a hireling, not a subordinate; but a queen: and in my text Solomon sees sixty of these helping to make up the royal pageant of Jesus. I. WOMAN HAS THE SPECIAL AND SUPERLATIVE RIGHT OF BLESSING AND COMFORTING THE SICK. The Lord God who sent Miss Dix into the Virginia hospitals, and Florence Nightingale into the Crimea, and the Maid of Saragossa to appease the wounds of the battlefield, has equipped wife, mother, and daughter, for this delicate but tremendous mission. II. WOMAN HAS A SUPERLATIVE RIGHT TO TAKE CARE OF THE POOR. III. IT IS WOMAN'S SPECIFIC RIGHT TO COMFORT UNDER THE STRESS OF DIRE DISASTER. IV. IT IS WOMAN'S RIGHT TO BRING TO US THE KINGDOM OF HEARTEN. V. ONE OF THE SPECIFIC RIGHTS OF WOMEN IS, THROUGH THE GRACE OF CHRIST, FINALLY TO REACH HEAVEN. O, what a multitude of women in heaven I Mary, Christ's mother, in heaven; Elizabeth Fry in heaven; Charlotte Elizabeth in heaven; the mother of Augustine in heaven; the Countess of Huntingdon — who sold her splendid jewels to build chapels — in heaven; while a great many others who have never been heard of on earth, or known but little, have gone into the rest and peace of heaven. What a rest! (T. De Witt Talmage.) Parallel Verses KJV: There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.WEB: There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number. |
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