The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-04-19

and the birds sing. lie meant US To
cultivate the beautiful ON earth 10 his
glory I"
Yes" said Mr.. Patton.
The next Sunday he set before his
people the condition Of two or three
miserable coal districts, where there was
no church nor school.
Judge Simms met him coming out Of
church, ~ will head the subscription
TO send missionary there. The rose
window can wait until January"
But in January there was the story Of
the county jails in the State to hear, of
insane girls strapped to the floor or
chained in cells, and the Judges sub
scription did not 90 to stained glass,
but paid for their admission to an asy-
lum.
In the spring, there was freshet
which destroyed the houses of half the
mill-hands living down by the river, and
St. Matthew's Church fed and clothed
hundreds.
In the spring, there was great city
burned TO the ground, and thousands OF
poor wretches were turned out home
less. In the autumn, came the story Of
famine in another country. St. Mat
thew's was always ready with its helps,
the Judge always ready with his SUBJ
scription.
The rose window is not yet ordered.
- wanted to put it there" the Judge
said in his last Illness 1T was favor
lite fancy Of mine. thought the Lord
would be glad to see His temple glori-
Gus. But there were always SO many
hungry to feed and the naked to clothe!
l intended to devise money to il in my
will, but have endowed, instead, beds
in our Children's Hospital and Orphans
Home. ! think the sight of the little
children there, well cared for, happy,
learning TO be Christian men and
women, will be fairer in His eyes than
any pretty mixture Of colorsd glass;
The Judge had the reputation among
St. Marks people Of being Ga good,
well meaning man, but with no capa-
bility of high emotional feeling, or the
devotion which grows out Of the cult
walton Of aesthetic sensibilities
The Judge heard this opinion, and
looked bewildered
"Maybe So" he said. "But | did
what could.r
He is gone, now, where the opinion Of
St. Marks or St. Matthew's will have
little weight.
st. Matthew'S Church is old, and Is
very plain compared to 9TH
ers possessed Of AS large resources. The
young people this spring are anxious TO
put in costly wind rvs, new organ,
velvet carpeting, etc., and To hire
noted soprano and basso for the choir.
But Mr.. Patton has opened new mis-
sion chapel and workingman's club
room, and is now contriving az associa-
ton by means Of which unemployed la
borers will be helped to buy land in the
waste districts of the State and 10 col
onize there. The church, he says, ought
to set an example as to the proper out
lay Of money. No honest man, with
the times as hard as they are now, If he
Is in debt to his poorer neighbor, is GO
ing to treat himself to fine furniture in
his house, or even TO noble music.
I" But st. Matthew's is not in debt?-
cried his hearers. "We do not owe =
dollar!'
Ny friends, said the old man, 1--WE
are in debt as long as there is human
being ON the earth poorer in body and
soul than we. We owe him education,
civilization, the Gospel-that help, in
short, which Is to make a man Of him
instead Of brute. Until we have met
this great and terrible obligation which
rests upon US, every dollar spent in lux
lry in our place Of worship is simply
lefrauding our creditors. Beauty is a
help to devotion, Ell? Oh, children, the \
sight Of a single man whom we have
helped out Of misery and vice to clean,
honest life, is better help to devotion
han all the red glass or velvet carpet
ng in the city!"
But Mr.. Patton, by most people, i
ooked upon as an extremist in his views. i
SO St. Marks and St. Matthew's
work, each in its own way. for the hon
,r Of their Master. Each is type # a
arge class Of churches throughout this
country .-Rebeccd Harding Daris, IL
Sunday afternoon for April.