The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-02-02

"iho Lord IS very pitifuI, and OF tend
or mercy" I said.
"Will he SEQ they don't die Of want p
lie asked, with a great and earnest
effort.
81 am sure he will" replied; "and
l will be his servant to do his will"
He closed his eyes and murmured, as
it were in a sleep,-
"Tery pitiful, and of tender mercy p
And when he opened them again in
spirit, it was where they shall hunger
no more. neither thirst any more, and
where God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes.
The night was past, and it was day.
break, aud the sun shone in upon the
room, as left them alone with their
dead.
buried him. And they did not want.
My wealthy parishioners are always
ready to give money to a thrilling case
of aggravated distress, but sadly lax to
prevent the occurrence of such cases by
lack Of personal knowledge of the poor
Monetary help in plenty poured in from
oil sources in answer to newspaper ap-
peals. "Rc!icf" is tho honcster word !;
for 1T rclie7es the conscicnces Of the
givcrs by dcluding them that thereby
they escape their duty to their kind.
The mother never thoroughly re-
covered that time of suffering but, in
spite Of care aud sympathy, faded out of
life within three months of her hus-
bands death. Then arose the question,
what to do with Nelly, u gentle, good.
looking girl Of sixteen. tried success
sivcly to get her admitted to Orphan
Schools and various Industrial and Be
nevolcnt Homes, honestly stating her
history as | have told it. But the doors
Of these excellent institutions were all
shut against her. At last, with some
trouble, got Nelly received into a
country village school, where she made
herself useful, aud received an educa-
tion at tho same time.
Nelly grew up to be a gentle, good,
ChriStian woman, ,-as much lady in
heart and gcntlcness as any in the land.
And when the poor parson needed
hcl p meet for him in word and deed, to
help him bind together in one common
chord of sympathy the very roh and the
fixed is grown so wide as only just to be
sponncd by kind words now and when
that thread oucc breaks, fire aud sword
will leap across it instcal when, say,
the poor parson needed such gentle
help, he asked Nelly to be his wife
And ull the parish knows that the par.
sons wife is Nelly, thut was the outcast,
and arc glad !; for she is the tcndcrcr to
the strayel aud the fallen, and them
that are out Of the way Tor it. Aye, my
darling and all the world is welcome to
know it, too.
| have talked Of the poor and their
long suffering an'l their patient poverty;
but think ofthc poverty Of the rich,
aud of their privations. DO you know
that all the real pleasures which
healthy mind can enjoy come from
sources free to all, without money aud
without price,-a treehold forever, to
the poorest Of US, which can neither be
bought nor sold, nor taken away? Like
the mir NC breathe, and like the wild
flowers God sows for US, it is very easy
to mistake for valuclcss things which
are only priceless. And this it is that
makes rich people SO poor, and often
times SO cross and ill-tcmpcred; they
expect too much from money
expect it to buy pleasure, which is just
what money can't buy 1t will buy ex-
citemcnts and comforts and position in
society, and a whole host of things to
while away the slipping hours before
Judgment. Good, honest money, which
represents mans own labor and toll,
with head OF hands, for the benefit OF
his fellows, brings with it zcst and
piquancy which idle accumulators and
inhcritors Of storcd,np wealth would
give heavy price to experience. But
no miscr has wealth enough to buy such
cheap things as love and charity, and
gopd> >naturc, and real. earnest fellowship
and friendship with bis kind for wealth
sears the mind and affections, and blunts
the senses to the sweetest and most
delicate chords of heavens music which
vibrato on earth for him that hath ears
to ear. Doth not wealth eat as doth
cankcr? Does the gold never burn
when it comes to man hot With tho
tears Of the poor and needy, from whom
IL IuS UCCu WIGS SOiuc vi LDUSP
gigantic swinllcs onr laws don't touch
DO no mans groans nor woman's tears
80 with the gold to gnaw his heart into
u torcboding Of the sure judgement Of
The Almighty? Who says gold is
trcasuc that doth not rust? The diff.
ference between ho,rding iron aud boar
ding gold is only this,-tl,cy both rust,
tho rust Of the iron ab,lcs in the iron,
but the rust of the gold-cycn honest
gold-cntcrs tho soul of the man and
cakes over that it isn't the gold gets
the injury if it were, it wouldn't mat.
ter about being rich man. James
would never have cried, 500 to, now,
ye rich men, weep and howl for the
miscries which shall come upon you :"
nor would he, who came as a poor man,
have said, "A rich man shall hardly en-
ter the Kingdom"
SEVERE WINTERS.
Tho New York papers publish re.
cord made up from dia,ics OF the wealth.
er during the winters which elapsed be.