The Richmond palladium., 1875-01-13

unequal contest here, and was
called to the Land of the Leal, to
make there bed, home and
resting place in the golden gardens
Of God for the one she left here for
!. time, she dropped over his
.houlders. around his heart and
nto his soul, the legacy of q moth
r in her bequest Of pluck, patience
nd disposition to endeavor. Poor
hat little shivering boy may be,
nut he is not bankrupt. His
apital is inexhaustible. His bank
,r is Over There, and some of
hese days, like the tree that stands
eafess all the winter, viii he put
orth his energies and fasten them
o success, when comes the spring
nd the warmth which unlocks the
rms of the ice fiend that SO freezes
; he life out of the poor.
What are our rich men doings
.ver struggling for wealth. AL
says investing on their bodies,
lhich sooner or later will go down
nth all on board What are
hristian congregations and soci-
ties doing to prove their inner
tance with the angless The spires
oint high toward the clouds as
jaillions of dollars are squaDdered
n these inverted wooden phylac
cries. senseless and soul callousing
Office ornaments that they are.
here are stained glass windows
10 the worshippers may not see the
'tarving ones outside their beauti-
sul temples. Aisles softly carpeted,
usions deliberately trimed and
disposed, that Worship may be
luxury only for the rich. How we
f,ould like to enter all the churches
nd rip up the cushions to make of
,hem beds and garments for the
,ittle ones whose souls, with ours,
IRE speeding on to the Great Judge
.sho provides the future, to tell
4 Tim how hollow and full of mock
'ry is much of what we call religion
md worship. We would melt the
] hurch bells into dishes from which
Z he poor could eat, and use the
!noney squandered i'll useless
7 rnaments for the purchase of food
or the deserving sufferers, who
/ re forgotten by men in their
f'eliish scramble for gold and for
Heaven, when the roads to each
ay in opposite directions. We
txould quietly, carefully tear down
'.he wooden steeples and use all the
;timbers, chips and splinters for the
..onilding of fires in the Easements
!,f churches, so that the widows,
. he aged, the impoverished, the
t'hipwreeked waits of insane human
sty might warm their hearts, and
.nt in groups to be taught the
sullness of the idea born of Jesus
when he walked, talked, and lived
With the poor, who are the Inherit
''rs of Heaven, simply because they
10 not SO rear their souls that they
cannot rise to comprehension Of
Immortality.
We love the example and the
memory of Christ-not because He
was powerful or the inheritor of a
,,olden future, but because He
opened His arms to the poor;
because He sat and talked with
Them, and was not above assisting
those who bear the heavy burdens
of life. He lived to warm hearts,
TO build hopes. to create faith. An
architect of humanity, He ended
not his religion in temples and
s,hurch ediices, but through be-
I1evolence, human love, sympathy,
lind care for the sorrowing, clear
N to the lap of Life Eternal and
he heart of God 1t is for this
hat we worship the Saviour-and
is for this love to the poor that
We think more of the laboring men
nd the struggling women, who
ympathize with the distressed and
sho are not in such haste as are
he selfish rich to push aside and
ostle against the freezing poor
rhey walk to their homes and to
he stepping stone to eternal hap
nness this welcomed Saturday
Iight.-'.BRIcK' PoMERoY.