Sharp County record., 1878-04-26

and the birds sing. He meant us to
cultivate the beautiful on earth to his
glory"
eyes, said Mr.. Patton.
The next Sunday he, set before MS
people the condition of two or three
miserable coal districts, where there was
no church nor school. ,
Judge Sinlms met him coming out OF
church, 81 will head the subscription
to send a 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 hoor 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 a treshet
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 nome
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 sub
scriptiOn.
The rose window is not yet ordered
81 wanted to put it there" the Judge
said in his last illness. cit was afavor-
ite fancy of mine. | thought the Lord
would be glad to see His temple glorl'
Gus. But there were always so many
hungry to feed and the naked to clothe'
| intended to devise money to it III 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 colored glass"
The Judge had the reputation among
St. Marks people of being ga good,
we'll meaning man, but with no capa-
bility of high emotional feeling, or the
devotion which grows out Of the cult
vation of aesthetic sensibilities.
The Judge heard this opinion, and
looked bewiIdered.
"Maybe so," he said. "But l did
what | could"
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
undeniably very plain compared to 9th,
ers possessed of as large resources. The
young people this spring are anxious to
put Ia costly windows, a new organ.
velvet carpeting, ETC., and to hire a
noted soprano and basso for the choir
But Mr.. Patton has opened a new mis-
sion chapel and a wOrkingman's club,
room, and is now contriving aN associa-
ton by means of which unemployed Ia
borers will be helped to buy land in the
waste districts of the State and to 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 90.
ing to treat himself to fine furniture IN
his house, or even to noble music.
"But St. Matthew's is not in debt?'
cried his hearers. "We do not owe q
dOllar!"
envy friends, - said the old man, eve
are in debt as long as there is human
being on the earth poorer iii body and
soul than we. We owe him education,
civilization, the Gospel-that help, in
short, which is to make man of him
instead of a brute. Until we have met
this great and terrible obligation which
rests upon us, every dollar spent in lux
ury in our place of worship is simply
defrauding our creditors. Beauty is 6
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
than all the red glass or velvet carpet
ing in the city,"
But Mr.. Patton, by most people, il
looked upon as an eXtremistin his views
SO St. Marks and st. Matthew:
work, each in its own way, for the hon
or of their Master. Each is type of {
large class of churches throughout this
country.-RebeccG Harding DGUiS, IN
Sunday afternoon for april.
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