The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-08

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EdltJr RUthtRi Gij. Allow the u.s.
Of your columns % speak in the car of
sympathy and benev0lence. have ic-
Gently returned from four months So
journ in Nebraska, and beg 20 assure my
friends cast that the restitution and suffer-
ing are widespread and terrible. The
grasshoppers desolated, almost utterly, all
parts Of the state, that have been settled
within the past three or four years With
out doubt, some exaggerated accounts
have been published, but when it GENES to
be "A case Of suffering for lack Of fuel and
furnishing for lack of bread, the mildest
form in which it can be put is simply ter
rible. The actual fact is that nearly all
the inhabitants of those parts of the state
referred to must either live upon charity
until next harvest. leave their homestcads
or starvc. 1t will comfort the heart of
every human person to know that the
State Relief societies are so completely or
ganized and are operating so efficiently
that the wants of the destitute will be gen.
orally supplied. Some persons and some
localities may be overlooked or only par
TALLY supplied, bnt in the main the helping
hand will reach all cases of want. Only
let us remember not to be spasmodic in our
sympathy and contributions, but continue
them until by the revenues IT another har-
vest the people can help themselves.
My principal object IN making this com
munication is to present 10 benevolent and
Christian people the dire necessities of
Christian ministers in al that desOlate re-
gion. Their dependence is, at all times,
gifts from the communities which they
serve, and when their people live on char
ity they are necessarily destitute. There is
probably no class of persons on orr whole
scourged frontier that is, at the present
time, suffering more keenly than ministers
and their families More than half of the
preachers of the Nebraska conference went
to therappointmcnts last September haunt
ed by the distressing certainty that they
would not receive a dollar from their peo-
pie until after another harvest Notwih-
standing the fearful apprehension of cold
and hunger and suffering, they went to
their posts of duty and are there still.
Verify the days of Christian heroism have
not passed The same is true of the minis
,ers Of other denominations. To confirm
what have SAID | quote from the letters
(receiyed since my return) of two presiding
elders whose acquaintance | made in Ne
braska
The presiding elder of Lincoln district
says; "All the western part of my dis
trict has been devastated by grasshoppers.
The people having little else besides wheat,
and many of them but little of that, are alb
solutely unable to do anything in the way
Of supporting the preachers. | have nine
preachers on the western part of my dis
trict that are R0io in need My heart aches
when | see them and their families suffer
ing for the necessary comforts of life, and
unable to relieve their wants. They can
not hope for anything OF consequence until
after har, est. What is more needed now
10 uiOhNy +" pbf iNNi anu liONl5loln IL
you can do something for them at once, il
will be relief. Send TO me. | will dis
tribute and take receipts" The presiding
elder of Beatrice district says: sour
preachers suffer, in some instances, more
than the people, for those on whom thew
are dependent are themselves objects of
charity. People at the East do not ade-
quately realize our fufferings. They do
not understand how general and imperative
the dCs,itutiOn is throughout these borders.
We need clothing and money. Can 1t be
possible that our rich brethren elsewhere
realize that here our preachers children are
crying for hunger and shivering with cold !?
that our preachers themselves are com
PEELED, in inadequate clothing, to face the
prairie winds, blowing a gale, with the
mercury 20o below zero. Yet these are
actual occurrences here every day, May
God send them succor soon"
| make this communication in the in
terest Of truth and humanity, to allay the
suspicion that Eastern generosity has been
imposed upon, and to assure the public, so
far as may, that the peril of both preach
ers and people on the frontier is imminent,
and their restitution frightful Let no one
who can contribute, a mite, even, wait to
be solicited. Some poor brother may die
OF hunger while you are waiting to be
asked for charity. Send your gift to
some friend or acquaintance on the
spot whom you can trust-or send to
some relief society, whose address you can
easily get-or send to Rev. fl. Il. Davis of
Lincoln or Rev. John b. Maxneld of