The Placer herald., 1870-10-15
"PUT YOURSELF in HIS PLACE."

The following touching and noble senti-
ments we transfer to our columns from the
Banner Of the South They are from the
pen of the pure-minded Christain-hearted
Rev. Father A. j. Ryan, the editor. They
must reach and leave their impress on every
heart not wholly calloused by sin and selfish
ness. ED. HERALD.
&C Out in the cold world, there in the great
Cities and even in the small hamlets, whcr-
ever human nature finds an abiding place,
there is want and suffering. Beside, the
lordly monarch of immense palace, and
broad acres strives the lonely laborer, with
scarcely sufficient means to support himself
and family Put yourself in his place, -
lord of the Palace; ego feel as he has felt, %
and lift the unhappy sufferer out of the mire
of poverty and pain. You will feel all the
better for it. Your palace will grow all the
stronger and more beautiful and your broad
acres all the more extensive for it. The sun
will shine brighter, the birds will sing sweet
er, and Nature will smile all the more pleas
antly for it. Beside the Queen of Fashion,
Haunting along the City's streets, creeps a
once fallen sster-but now penitent and suf-
fering She asks for help; for sympathy
does she get it =? Oh! naughty Queen, 'put
yourself in her place. Give her your dain-
ty hand to lift her from the sea of sin and
shame to the safe shore of Penitence and
Virtue. Lend her your shapely and jeweled
arm to lean upon, to guide her steps Alright
You will be all the happier for it. Your
beauty will be all the grander. Your sway
will be all the more powerful.
AT the forge, at the desk, at all forms of
work, we see men striving and laboring to
make an honest living for themselves and
dependent families. DO you, rich man, give
them the encouragement and support which
they deserve? DO you scom these sons of
toll as you pass them by? Do you blame
them because they something's fall "from Vir-
tues ways, instead of endeavoring to pro-
mote their interests and elevate them in the
scale of society? "Put yourself in their
places" endure, in amagnation at least,
what they have to endure; toll as they have
to toll; suffer as they have to suffer. Then
you will be better prepared to appreciate
their condition and their wants. Then you
will give them a helping hand, kindly
smile, contribute your share towards helping
them to improve themselves; and you will
enjoy the happy consciousness of good deeds
well and faithfully performed and the bright
reward of such deeds so performed
The bright eyed little children, with their
childish troubles and no kindly parents to
listen to their sorrows or soothe their grlefs
will you not put yourselves in their places,
and by gentle words, by good advice, by
better example, lead them Alright in the path
way of life They are Gods own, and you
must be good to them; you must be in all
ways careful and watchful of them. So
shall you receive compensation as you are
good, and just, and careful of them.
So in all the relations of lfe-in the fami-
ly circle, in society, in the outer world and
the inner world, under all circumstances and
on all proper occasions we can do no better
than to follow this grand counsel, "Put
yourself in his place" 1t will "teach us to
feel another's woe"