The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-12-30
Frank b Meyer BrO Grand Central, 3O4 SO6 OhioSt
WILLIAM CRAIG.
Physiological Problem for
Philanthropic Philosophers.

The name of Craig has been made too
familiar 10 Sedalia's citizens through the
medium of the police docket, to require
any lengthy introduction. and 10 the ms
iUrity OF them il embraces In Its i've letters
lecture on the evils OF iniemperance
longer than Hugo's "Les Miserables."
There was a time, however, when it was a
name that bore respectsbiliiy and import
ance second to few in the country, but as il
became more frequently coupled with the
coup that cheers" il grew more and more
a synonym of poverty. degradation. ruin,
want, and to-day it signifies in this place
beggary, restitution, gaunt famine and dis
ease. VIM. Craig, the once proud embodi-
ment of al that goes 10 make grand phys
ical manhood, spirit aud enterprise, les
cold, hungry, neglected, disgraeed, diseased
ard destitute amid bundle OF W etched
rags, relics :of former bedding, while be-
side him lies the patient, suffering woman
who has borne his offsprings, his kicks, his
curses, his drunken abuse, wan, emaciated,
oeyond the power to struggle against her
hard fate and the worlds cold
charity for sinful sufferers. While
gathered beside them stand their
children crying for bread, and shivering
from cold. Yesterday they sent an apps al
to the mayor for help, but il was rot given.
Their sin has found them out Upon the
head Of the wife and of the offspring must
fell the penalty Of "the iniquities of the
father" Within the cold code of legal
cb arity their names stand upon the debtor
side OF the book, too often and too long for
further credit. Kind Christian reader, on
this bright Sabbath dav, what do you think
of il? 1t is hard, you say. True, but
what do you think of it2 1t is an everyday
story, it is around you, about you. 1t
swallows you up as the mighty meslstrom,
it is but one of thousands Of similar cas-, S.
What do YOU think Of il? Shall equity
perish? Shall the innocent also perish
with them? Shall their seed be cut off and
cast into the FIRE as TIE tree that beareth no
fr1it? Will you sit in judgment upon
them, or shall they be succored back to
life; the swine to return to his wsllow
and the viper to renew his sting
in the hand that car sses him
Whit do you think of it? When you
kneel in your pew to prsy, think of it;
when you SIT down to your bounteous re-
past think OF 1t; when you rest By your
coy hearth think of it; when you prepare to
retlre anu Say WIN claspSu INDUS hHu up
turned, reverential face toward the home
of that God who hsth said "judge not lest
We be judged" forgive us our trespssses as
we forgive those that trespass against U.s."
think of 1t; when you rise in the morning
and start forth to the honest toll which
brings you your daily bread, your cheerful
sense of usefulness, your happy conscious
ness of duty done, think of il; and ,hink-
ing, remember if you Withhold your hand
the law upholds you, human nature will
not condemn you, but think sgain. How
will it be up yonder? and with all your
thinking, think how you can best aid in
Kidding the earth of such perplexiug prob
lens and conflicts between duty and char
ity, and on whose head must rest the blood
outlines of their existence, and when you
are done thinking act. q