Sharp County record., 1878-11-14
THE SORROWFUL 8,
A Nicksburg Minister
Ravages of the Yellow FaeeOa

calls for help from the first v - II
morning to the midnight ! Ss1 o.
All business has been at at Os
still. The colored people b.s q sna
and if they want to 60 to to tIs Ias { Ill ID
to pick cotton, they are III .
come, as they are regar5sS ~ ian
porters of the poison that In lie.
withstanding, as you see bv a, Y Dan
fever is being carried all oys. Ter
try, and we are looking % n, o;no
fearful times outside the a. : e
scattering itself over HiDd,C'. e
bids fair, unless very cold w,,S' I, =
soon, to reap a greater bsrr',
country than it has in the 4 !, :. !.
have buried over 800, and i y iIe'
1000 we may be thankful %0ks s;
pillars of society have gone A. 20"
tomb. You see names here ,%,I w pey
Springs whose loss will 6n \ s' irse
with sadness and pain. O~f'
have behaved well. Some y,
with alarm and fled hurrpF, plic
The ravages of the fever a 70 :
caused the worst forn of aIs,, 20 !
evening paper lately said that s.
had fled and left the DOM Ion
alone, but the very on,, a
true. Our bankers and csrHS eje'
wealthiest citizens are here n ID '
brave and noble service. hi 81
a great offering of almost iprs|ost
anthropy to God and to suss wit
manity, The church has no i du
in devotion to the sick. God, in,
less saints who sport amidst at
and follies of healthy days and
and tender, ready, and never d .om
their aid, and | may say ar 'hea
keep the night-watch in the pssga
homes of those who are dying Ters
seen them holding the head sice
the black-vomit poured Iers'
mouth, and doing little acts Of sta
and comfort which poetry ash I" ]
to the soft hands of womsn II h
heart has taken them into is ent'
love. Many such, having D5ple
the fever, made it doubly HOt.lly
know that in the forty year rs.
friendship | have cherished DO eoI
sham or gush or over-laudingdsar
nuns, sisters, or clergy of sly ,eg'
nation for. attention to sick
suffering soldiers. l think the seq
charity a most noble class, tiro(
wives, mothers, and beautti 1 in
women of the best walks Of sG5 \
more to lose than they ever 1lun
facing this fearful scourge Mnar
down to death with a fidelity ads
and humanity, that never Wa q
be excelled, and yet no pn
claim is ever set up to remarkly q
or unequaled heroism. AsE ID ,
priests and the rest OF US y
clergymen, we deserve the les TO
of the brave men that toll ins;
ic to assuage the sufferingsofM I
beings, and yet what a matT 4 I
claimed when a young, wife@ ha
less, homeless clergyman dies i 4
idemic! Nonsense! Every IN,
every creed and church is supp 81,
be ready in any hour to 60 stlf 4
the Great Master. He has heE .
home and eternal things ofiHil q a.
ue for his reward. Why shoA q Z
fear? Why not desire to die II
great PaulP Nothing is lost N on,
you see hundreds of good, cleyS &;
patriotic men of every age and 81, ,
with every thing to make life t. =;
and not the least preparstlOn ~; ~;
eternal years beyond, step, l0n ~, a.
and engage in a struggle form r. ~; ~;
of some poor victim Of tb tV, : q
monster, and knowing :,
before morning they ~ =
in the vortex of death, lN !
see manhood in its greatest attn J y =
the pretentions of the chnI'l ~ ~.
honor due for sacrifice and ~
martyrdom Knocked and laassls Ion -,
have been in many epidemic, !, 'iI', !; !
ashamed as | have observed ln.s,e -
South church-leaders get eulos ~ ~
others laurels, while many
heroes and heroines were P1he
quite forgotten. Ought not lnh is
a roll of honor by which tne:sftne
privates of the rank and file ID ID per
of pestilence and death ShOulu 'ers
to feel that their names are Dol tro
to perishp Many a plain unPS I, '.1sl q
person who has deserved 'n 20
honor and the largest gratiluus Tht
under a sense of the indlllelSTT T5 ss,
ness, and neglect of society: T.,
no reward, but is it therelOls W q
their names should perish aTI T T
praise be sounded over slnA pct
Of semi-conspicuous person, hsr,;. Sot
sweet the consciousness Oh p"hel
their full duty is-perhaps'
reward9 l have been Sons~ Du
ing this letter. Meantime maD! l,,n!, es
have taken place but the sTiS N ptr
here, and now the country ,rinr % /
one to twenty miles is sullslTi lsarr ch
country will need help OF ;,jnS guoi 3 Ge
the HOWards here are tolipe dis