The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-03
Stand BY Each Other.

In these pinching times, when multi
tudcs are on short supply and thousands
of families are being compelled by hard
necessity to step down from their former
positions, the duty of brotherliness is
doubly incumbent. A friend in need is a
friend indeed. Enforced idleness is to an
industrious person CALLING yoke, but the
last few years have demonstrated that,
however willing one may be to work, the
procurement of that work is not always
possible. What is our duty toward that
large deserving and suffering class which
we all find among Ouf relatives and
friends? Shall we withdraw portion o.
our deposits from the savings-bank and
place it at their disposal? To the merce.
nary spirit this is a tough proposition.
To the generous soul that has been bap.
TIED of heaven it is a very simple one.
The first object of money, and one of the
greatest pleasures of life, is to turn SUM-
shine and joy into the homes threatened
with despair. Reader, do you wish to be
happy? Work that mine. Be assured
that it is more blessed to give than to re.
ceive. Huxley ridiculing prayer, and
Moody delighting in it, both agree here.
Let us, as We journey along, make this
desert of ours bloom as the rose. Where
there's q will there's a way. If we have
within US the spirit which springs up like
bubbling stream, We cannot help but do
good, refreshing, irrigating work as we
put in our three-score years and ten. We
do not often enough ask ourselves the
question whether we have kindly relatives
or devoted friends who are carrying heavy
burdens and are in tight place.
Life is battle. Brave soldiers stand
by each other in the camp and on the bat
tie. field, and when disease or the bullet
strikes them they endure nObly. On the
waste of waters sailors are as true as steel
to each other. The flag of distress stirs
their Utmost soul and induces large per
sonal sacrifices. These are excellent ex
amples to follow everywhere. Selfshness
is the ogre which disfigures society. Il
has seated itself in the Christian Church
and it is the blemish, the besetting sin in
many a Christian home. 1t is an influ
ence from below, not from above.
In prosperous times we foated along
pleasantly with associates in the counting
house and the factory. Orders were is
sued by the Captain of the craft that sal
should be taken in. This one and tina
was dismissed from service. Heads o
families were thrown out by hare
necessity. Well, how do we wht
continue in the service ami undel
pay act in this crisis? Do we consider
the wife and the children of our cash
tered associate? Do we economic and
make sacrifices that we may in the mean
time give our unemployed friend help
ing hand? Yes, if we are the sons of Coo
and were rightly educated at the fireside
The sons of Belial, NO matter what theil
professions, have no solicitudc on coca
sions like this. They are sorry, but theil
SORROW is from the teeth outward. Theil
hands, by impulse or principle, never fine
their way into their pockets, or If they d.
it is only that they may clutch the green
backs more closely, that they and theil
family may live in luxury.
Let every little circle, then, stand by
each other when the storm is on. Let u!
look less upon our own cares, and more
upon the heavy burdens of our neighbour
and acquaintances. If you have thi'
worlds goods, and see your brother hav'
need, and shut up your bowels of compass
sion from him, how 6welleth the love o
God in YOUTH. Y. Witness.