Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-22
,aE RUTLAND HERALD.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER II, 1870.
Remember the Poor at the Festal
season.


ing oocupantF of the common pau
per home, the poor house, - the
prisoner In his cell--the poor widow
struggling with poverty in its harshes'
form, with her children begging bread
and she hath none to give them,-the
struggling man of toll whose earnings are
SCARCE sufficient to feed the little ones that
gather around his lowly hearth, thesf
chill December aays. Yes, in the quiet
of your peaceful, happy homes, surround
ed by Injuries and comforts, remember
there are those whom fortune has not ia
yored so beneficiently. Amid the gazette
thought to the poor, and ask, can make
one heart happier by word or deed ? Car
dry up falling tear, or console broken
heart or feed one hungry soul of earth
-uffrriog children? You will bring t,
lnind many ssd instance of deserving
poverty and honest suffering, and do mo-
change your reflections until you hav.
performed the promptiues of a generou
heart, and do y"nr dnry to your fellow
On. VIII 1T q host of good, cheerful acts
Zach ore can d..
We hear some cua whisper, is there no
c,- t. thls dong ior the poor ? We ans
No Not wall mans selfshness
,au,;puvs. for th,r must always be met
i lyerthrown b. tie sight and sound
- so.row and fer az. There is no end
och - s Labs 'rr The poor, if they
4 sA.ir 3uty, until n rich raan and the
\ u, II ;g fnwn ! lie dust together i
~ tue opuler sTe the suffering weari-
81 lne. IT DE- TT "Jl.- de by side through
Is da- s ste 81 e death. This side OF
tate g4taway', the wealth and luxury of
$50 or,, .,r' the dirt and rags of the
u...r DIP ,@ Nad they enter together.
NJ L. --g Arp.pdent on each other, but
Rob a.non1c,t ulil1e on God. Until wei
40 long need 70 beg of God, may we ex-
p4.> to 9s frc- f,2m begging OF each other
When, the day shall come that we can
erase from the prayer..our Lord left us as
a legacy "Give us this day our daily
bread" then-not before-may our de-
pondonce on each other cease.
There are lessons we learn from the
poor, if we properly observe and profit by
their experience. We learn to exercise
good viii, TO men--to be more humble, en-
during and patient. Do they not teach
heroism A distinguished writer has said
that ''the surest way to maintain holy
life is to pray much and keep up con-
slant intercourse with the poor" But
Sir Walter SCOTS testimony we shall all
respect; he says, 81 have read books
enough and observed and conversed with
enough of eminent and splondidly Guilt
waited minds, too, in my time, but as
sure you, have heard higher sentiments
from the Tips Of poor, uneducated men
and women, when exercising,the spirit of
severe, yet gentle heroisrn, under diff |
culties and affections, or speaking their
simple tale as to circumstances in the lot
of friends and neighbors, than have ever |
yet met with out of the pages of the
Bible -
But another says "The poor are set OF
imposters" That there are many impos- |
ters we admit, but You know the poor OF
your own neighborhood. Shall real, in
nocent sufferers be left in their suferings
to pay the penalty for imposters Be-
ware, lest we unjustly, numerically leave
the genuine, innocent sufferer to sink in hia
SORROWS, because we do not investigate the
ease end are too ready to excuse the mat
ter to our eonsciences by denouncing the
poor as class of imposters. The poor are
necessarily on the surface of society. Many
persons never see any other part of the
poer--thsy never see the quiet, modest,
patient, accomplishing sufferers. Selfish
persons do not wish to see that better
part. They gladly excuse themselves
from the pain of plying and the expense
Vi relieving, by one sweeping condemna-
ton OF the poor as lazy, ungrateful class.
But such Judgment will not stand. 1t
win be judged, when the rich and the
poor-the oppressor and the oppressed,
shall meet before one common Father, and
RSOAt
dsspised oppressed. For this shall be the
time when "for the oomfortless troubles
sake of the needy and the deep signing OF
the poor, will up, saith the Lord, to
help"
oh that we had a currency among men
incribed "To Charity that should prove
the barter of nothing but sympathy, to.
day it should cheer misfor une --to-mor-
row be a cordial to the broken hearted.
To-day it should bless the blind way
iarer-to-morrow warn the chill of deere
pid age. Like an Invisible angel walk
Charity, up and d ,wn the earth, stealth.
into aud softening hearts that begin Il
grow hardened il sorrow and sin. Sb
pleads for the beggar, and couquers heart
that fortunes could not soften.
We present the-s. thoughts Mt the open
In. Of the festal season, that the poor may
not be forgotten in he protu-ion OF the
h5rnty md hospitality that will surround
rnc boards, and ii one Sigh be hushed,
uur cr giped away. one sad face awak-
~ e." - Y 4uNLc, u , u bItS1 bchy Naihioa'
on "Argry ,aout- teu, one silk bed COM
:1,tt,l, eur parposc viii be accomplished
C. awardei. II you do not remember
= voor, u may, regret 1t.
- BIN OF Starving you told,
Sh = OF Ieg ! b. j. *, and cold;
W. Of her WIS ~a.t-ns aud feeds
From her breast n a hat breast bleeds;
When u has IS 10 err for bread
7olrd copsarGpton's CHASTITY bed;
When the water night pind moaning
sounds o thee like sufferers groaning;
Wien shy chtl5 IL pain is crying,
Or thy ehid r wife dying;
When 'hau SEES thy last hours Hy,
When thou fseiat what IT'S to die;
Then 'hou'lt wish if not before, ...
Oh, that you had given more.
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