Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-31

4. rest for the people OF God.
wonder how many tired people Their
4 are in the house today A thousand
y More than that Two thousand peopl
a who are tired, tired out with thei
n life, tired in hand and foot AM
e back aud hearth Ali there ar
e more than 1000 tired peopl
e here to-day, supposing all the rest to b
a in luxury and in ease. Yonder Is wo
e man who has her head down on her hand
Q What does thst mean2 Ask her. II hai
e been tirssome week TO her. "Oh',
a sac says, "when will ever get sny rest
!, DO you say: ave have sewing ma
4 chimes now IN our great cities and th,
+ trouble is gone.n No, Il is NOT. see
n great many women wearing themselves
/ out amid the hardshipsr0f the sewing ma
= chine A Christian went into q house oil
a good deal Of restitution In New York
. and he saw q poor woman there with 8
\ sick child, and no was telling the woman
= how good a Christian she ought 10 be and
/ how she ought to put her trust In God.
, "oh,n she said, 81 have no God; work
from Monday morning until Saturiay
, night and get no rest, aud never hear
anything that does my soul any good ;
and when Sunday comes | haven't any
bonnet that can wear TO
church, and I have sometimes
got down 70 pray and then yot up, say-
ing to my husband. MY dear, there's
no use OF my praying; am 50 distracted
can't pray; Il don't do any good OH
sir, II Is very hard TO work on as we peo-
pie do from year to year, and TO see
nothing bright shead, and to see the poor
little child getting thinner and thinner,
! and my man almost broken down, and to
/ be getting no nearer To God, but to be
/ getting farther away from him. On, II l
were only ready TO dle," May God com
/ fort all who toll with the needle and the
sewing-machlne, and have compassion on
those borne down under the fatigues Of
life.
Another great trial is prlvatlou of taste
and sentiment. There are mechanics
who have their beautiful homes, who
have their fine wardrobes, who have all
the best fruits and meats Of the earth
brought 10 their table. They
have their elegant Libraries.
But they are the exception.
A great many of the working-people of
our country are living in cramped abodes,
struggling amid great hardsnips, living
in neighborhoods where they do not want
to live, but where they have TO live. do |
not know of anything much more painful |
than 10 have fine taste for painting and |
sculpture and music and glorious sunsets
and the eXpanse Of the blue sky, and yet |
not 10 be able to get the dollar for the |
ofatorio, or to get a picture, or TO buy |
ones way into the country to look at the
setting sun and at the bright heavens.
While there are men In great atllnence,
who have around them all kinds of lux
uries in art, themselves entirely unable to
these misunderstanding their
books by the square foot, their pictures
sent TO them by some artist who is glad
to get the miserable daubs out Of the stu
dio-there are multitudes OF refined,
delicate women who are Lorn ar
lists and shall reign in the
kingdom OF heaven as artists, who are de.
MED every picture aud every sweet song
aud every musical instrument. Obi let
me cheer such persons by telling them to
ook up and behold the Inheritance that
jod has reserved for them The king of
Babylon had hanging garden that was
ANGUS In oil the ages, but you have
ranging garden better than that. All the
heavens are yours. They belong to your
Gather, and what belongs to your Father
belongs to you.
N'NN'' NANAN NAN a EAt.lV IlhbN WIZ SUI !
er not only in the p ivation of their
aste, but in the approximations and the
oppressive surroundings of life, that
we're well described by an English writer. {
lie said; !
''To be a poor mans child and look :
through the rails OF the playground, and /
nVy richer boys for the sake of their c
lany books, and yet to be doomed '
D ignorance. To be apprenticed to some a
arsh stranger and feel forever banished y
rom mothers tenderness and sisters d
I'VE. To work when very weary and l. Il
hen the heart is sick and the head is f
ore. To see wife or a darling child o
lasting away and not be able to get the a
est ADVICE. To hope that the better "
BOD and pafor air might set her up again, ii
ut that food you cannot buy, that air b
on must never hope to breathe. To be Il
bliged to let her die. To come home q
ON the daily task some evening and see II
Ell sinking. To sit up all night in hope b
catch again those precious words YOU D
light have heard could you have afforded n
} stay at home all day, but never hear I,
lem. To have no mourners atthe funer- 81
], and even to have to carry on your "
wn shoulder through the merry streets ii
lie light deal coffin. To see huddled t.
TO promiscuous hole the dust te
hich Is 50 dear TO you, and q,
)t venture to mark the spot b,
: planted flower or lowliest stone. 10
)mc bitter wioter or some costly spring of
barter for food the clock, or the curl tn
is cupboard, or the Henry's Commenta ey
es on which you prided yourself as the q,
'irloom OF a frugal family, and never III
able to redeem 1t. To feel that you
Q getting old, nothing laid aside and in
9 present earnings scarce sufficient. di
} change the parlor floor for the top 70
Dry, and the top story for single attic, Tic
d wonder what change will be next CT
But have no time this'morning longer VIZ
dwell upon the hardships and the trials on
those who toll with hand and foot, for vo
must go on to offer some grand and tn,
lrlous encouragements for such; and sh
first encouragement Is, that one of mi
greatest safeguards against evil Is on
'nty to do. When men sin against the yo
Of their country, where do the police wi
tectiyes 90 TO find themg Not amid the br,
ST OF factories, not among those pa.
70 have on their "overalls;n but among iy
lse who stand with their hands IN their civ
cke's around the doors OF saloons and gly
teurants and taverns Active EN- He
yment is one OF the greatest sureties wa
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