Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-16

or any mortal. To be so wretched poor,
As to depend on aims fsJm door to door.
He was an honest man, and so he died
AS he had lived. No friend had ever tried
To better his condition, or give him trust,
Till he could pay again. But toll he must
For pittance small, nor that received at night
But at my Lords convenience, 'am short o.
change!
Sure, It's trihing sum, how very strange,
Some people always want their pay,
Almost before their work is done But stay
Horc is shilling. ''Good Heavens and
must fast
Another day twas yesterday We ate the last
And nothing since though all day long
I've toiled and is there none to help my
wrong?"
l saw him as he ncarcd his humble cot
With heavy step, and sad so little got
For all his toll and that with five divide,
And they so gaunt. In vain he tried
70 stay his tears, as he his hungry children
fed
Twas all he had-a shilling's worth of bread!
Twas quick devourod as quick they asl; for
more,
For they were famished. Draw now the cur
tain DER,
For they are starving, and ere tho morning
light
Shall break, some will be clothed in white
For Mercy pleads " their ease, and sends
the Angel death
TO their relief, and takes away their breath,
That they might eat "Ambrosial food"
Now who shall say "Death is not good?
l see him next, not much is changed the
scene,
Save that his locks are white; and on his
brow is seen
deep burrows which time and grief hath
male,
For since his loved ones in the grave are
laid,
No matter how so they are meath the sod,
His steps have grown more feeble, and soon
the clod,
Will cover him; not long he'll live by &c aims"
Nor does he wish to live !; his greatest gain,
Will be to die: that he might live again
That will lie life with Christ in heaven to
reign,
This man need not have suffered so; twas
not
Because there was "lack," but twas his lot
To be afflicted; and from the first was poor,
very great mishap; but as said before,
Twas not his fault his Parents they did sin,
And died disgraced, just at his birth; and in
A Fclon's grave were laid. But need this
man,
Have suffered for his parents sin; know he
OF Gods just Laws; That generations three
and four,
Shall feel tho effects of Parents Sins. But
more
Than that; that to the flesh pertains,
Is not declared; for it is very plain,
"The just shall live by faith, although they
may
Be sore diseased in body, and their flesh a
prey
To all tho ills of life, transmitted by THEN
sires,
For which the children suffer These are the
fires
That in the body burn; the soul is spirit form
That comes from God Its mission doth per
form,
Goes back to God, from whence il came
1t never dies for so the word of God is plain
Could he have helped his being BON?
And did he choose this hapless lot forlorn?
And was he guilty of his parents ways?
That he should suffer all his days?
Oh It's not so. He answers for his own,
And to his God. He stands and falls alone
But this is true That whatsoever draws
On nature, will find that natures laws
Are stern and unrelenting, and most exact
To punish to the full extent. This fact
IL well sustained, that to abuse
One single law of nature, is to Dose
To make Il fearful debt that must be paid
With heavy interest. For this the law hath
laid
That nature she must have her way, on OIL
before
The lapse Of generations, citherthr or four
Till she is satisfied. 'Iis this that holds
The world enthrallcd in vice and sin, and
moulds
The future yet to come. All that we disobe,
Or foster any evil habits. Or may
| Against our bodies SIN, or set aside
The laws Of God know this, We must abide
The guilt, and answer make for all
The woes entailcd. E'cn now on us the fall
Hath it. effects. Do not we suffer pain
And anguish? Is it not in store? Again
We live the same, nor try to mend
Our lives and habits that to the end
We might impart a joy and bliss
t. our doscendents by our pure lives, bu
this
IT followed up by all, would surely bring
The great Millenial time, which prophets
sing
We pay the debt our fathers made too true
Aud interest all besides Twas this know
That made this poor man suffer, and none
10 pity him; part" cause the man, whose
Iierl lot, was to be poor; and then "part
Because he was diseased although at heart