Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-12-14

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Pity the Foor.-It is Winter! all without
is clad in snowy tunic, and the wild winds
chant in solemn cadence the requiem of de-
parted Autumn! While we sit around our
own bright, cheerful fire-sides. enjoying the
innumerable blessings which kind Provi-
dence has vouchsafed to us, and while in our
CONCENTRATIONS and in our prayers, we rem
der the hearts true thanks to the Great Civ
er Of all, o, let us not forget the poor! In
this garden Valley-this land which God in
His mercy has so smiled upon within the 60
ing year--few of us know what it is to be
poor True the lives of many of us may be
lives of toil-we may often think of hardship
but are we not rewarded with our daily
bread, home and all the necessities of life ?
If so, is it then BETTING in us to complain ?
No no! but, rather, let our hearts be filled
with thankfulness that it is thus well with
US. They alone who unavoidably suffer for
the necessities of life, are the truly poor
Think for moment of the many there are
throughout the land, who, through all these
long and bitter nights Of Winter, shave not
where to lay their heads who know not
where the next morsel of food is to be oh.
tanned; who have no cheerful fire side, no
warm apparel then, as we gather around
the Widespread board to partake of its boun-
ties, or, when the night time shall have drawn
her sable curtains round us, and we retire to
our warm and comfortable couches, let our
hearts, in all their thankfulnsss, lift up the
prayer" God pity the poor!'' But though
our prayers be daily lifted up, and we be
strong in faith,.i is as nothing, unless attend
ed by works.
How many there arc who profess to stand
ready to do good, to visit the sick, feed the
hungry, and clothe the naked, when favor.
able opportunity shall present itself. But
are the professions of their lips the sent.
ments of their hearts? If an opportunity fo1
charity is given them, it is rarely favorable.
1t calls for too great sacrifice of time or
money; it deprives them of some luxury o,
Of some amusement. So it is in every oppor-
tunity, there is ever something to destroy
the adjective Is this the example Christ
sat? Is it the example of any of the eminent
philanthopists the world has ever known p
Surely not. They who in their hearts desire
to assist or benefit their fellows, arc not
cternally waiting, with hands in pockets, the
arrival of some favorable opportunity.
Let us watch with vigilance that Old Win
ter find no victim here to suffer in the exc
cution of his arbitrary government. There
may be those in our own midst, who, ere
another Spring shall chase this hoary headed
ruler from his throne, will need the bcstowal
of some charity. If such there be, out of our
abundance let us supply their wants, and a
happy conscience, at least, shall be our re.
ward. But we can do more than this. We
can do something, though that something be
ever so small, towards alternating the wants
of suffering humanity observation-disclosures OF
Kansas for instance. This we can do, though
our charity, perhaps, can not be made to
reach the poor of Five Points, or those that
crowd the streets of most Of our larger cities.
Do not let us harden our hearts against
the dstresses Of humanity less favored by
the tickle hand of fortune than ourselves.
But let the sufferings Of the poor draw pity
from our hearts and aid from our pockets. -
In this cold and dreary Winter which is now
upon us, pray do not let us forget the poor
Let us remember that by means of the ia
vorablc circumstances which surround us in
life, that though it be Winter without, the
Summer of the heart may still cast its fra
GRANGE and its smiles around within. But,
on, the poor with them there is no Summer
and the wild winds whistle around them
finding an echo down, down in the hearts
deepest reccsses.
Remember all this, and remember too
which is the greatest of Faith, Hone. and
Charity r
M a r. r ED.