The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-09-06
For the -Agis Dc Mtelligencer.
Helm! HelDi!

The yellow fever, dreaded every summer,
and some times spreading as pestilencc, is
now raging in many parts Of the South and
in many places where it is not yet mems
hearts are failing them for fear and for look
ing after what, very probably is coming TO
them. Each town still exempt seeks to cut
itself off from all intercourse with others
BY force ofarms, even, some have driven off
those who were seeking safety.
Death reigns where the well are too few to
attend the sick, and where the dead are taken
away in the night and hidden in the earth
without any of the usual tokens of love or
respect. This is what is now done among
our brethren.
Throughout a large part of our country
the living are divided into three classes :
Those who have fed, or who unable to flee
await in fear the sick and those who devote
themselves to he sick and the dying. Thank
God there are those who do thus expose
themselves from simple sense of duty 1t
is not To he said that these voluntary nurses
are exempt from the disease; they often die
after having, (knowing their danger,) faced
death through love of God, or through an
enrolling sense of duty to their fellow men,
What is to be the end of this horror? 1t
will end when frost kills the germs of the dis
case, or when there are left none subject to
ulSpuSt-US II
the fuel is gone. No other end is to be look
cd for.
They are our people who are thus suffer
ing. 1t is true that curing more than year
China has presented the horrors of famine, to
which those of fever stricken city of the
South are but as triflcs. But the Chinese
are afar off, and we read of cannibalism to
quiet hunger, now common among them, rs
il were Il matter ofhstory. These Southern
people are n part of ourselves. We differ
from them in this, that while they are stricken
down, we stand in health while they lack
all things, we have enough and to spare, ut
| least bread is abundant-we farmers say tdo
cheap. How are we, in our prosperity, af-
fectcd by our knowledge of the condition OF
our brethren? We dare not blame those
who in their fear for self run away, even from
duty that il dangerous Do we pity those
left? Do we admire such MS go to the aid Ol
these unhappy ones? Every man answers
| Yes! | do. 1t is II blessed thing that we arc
not likely TO be exposed to the crucial test
of our sincerity. But there is II test from,
which no man in our community can escape
You who read can not You are asked Ia
help. Without danger to life or health, with
but little loss to yourselves, you are asked
To help. Arc you willing to give money &c
help to relieve the dreadful suilcrngs of y0uI
| fellow men, who are also your countrymcn
TO those who must get something back fol
their Giits-whO, when helping the sick and
| the dying, ask for amusement as their recon-
pcnse, an opportunity for giving will lie pro
vided Meanwhile. II general effort TO raise
money to be sent South is made. The Ed
tors of our papers offer to he the means %
communicating the aims of such as have M
other opportunity; and without doubt what
is entrusted To them will he judiciously spent
| And on Sunday next collections will he taken
up in every church (of whatever name il
Hartford county) for however much mcI
may differ in other matters of belief ever,
Christian knows and teaches that all our do
ings yes, and all our pretended faith, wilhou
charity, is nothing worth.
1t is waste Ot time To sound many word,
in the cars Of men when they can not clos,
their eyes To facts more moving than an,
words can he.
You who to any extent recognize the hon,
among men which results from the humant,
of Christ the Lord and who show your fnth
ut least sometimes, by waiting on the Lore
in the courts of His house, do so on Sunda,
next Qha Slh Sept And let no man appear
before the Lord empty let every man give
ms he is able, according to the blessing of tn,
Lord his God" Do as you would he done b,
is, even in the world, rccogniZ At as II frs
principle. And n not very godly poet In.
taught us to say:
Teach me To feel an others woe;
That mercy to Others show,
That mercy show TO me.
While he who in word and in tongue pre-
tends to make any return for the LOVING
mercy of God docs not forget lis declaration
'Whcso hath this worlds goods, and secth hi.
brother to have need and shuttcth up hi.
bowels of compassion from him, how dwell
eth the love of God in him ?" Christians
Help! VIZ. Il.