The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-16

light comes their death groan. 1t IL not
such a cry as comes from those who are
suddenly hurled out of life, but slow,
grinding, horrible wasting away. Gather
them before you and look into their faces,
pinched, CHASTITY, hunger struck! Look at
their fingers, needle.pricked and blood.
tipped See that premature stoop in the
shouldersi Hear that dry, hacking, mer-
ciless cough! At large meeting Of these
women, held in hall in Philadelphia,
grand speeches were delivered, but a
needle woman took the stand, threw aside
her faded shawl, and with her shriv eled
arm hurled a very thunderbolt of elo-
quence, speaking out the horrors Of her
own experience.
speak more fifty of woman's wrongs
because she has not been heard 10 the
present agitation. You know more of
what men have suffered. I said to col.
ored man who, in Missouri last March,
came into my room in the morning to build
my fire: "Sam, how much wages do you
people get around here?" He replied:
"Ten dollars a month, STRIP asked:
"Have you a familyW "Yes," said he,
"wife and children" Think of it; $12O a
year to support family on. My friends,
there Is something in this world awfully
atwist. When l think Of these things
am not bothered as some of my brethren
with the abstract questions as to why
GOD let sin come into the world. The only
wonder with me is that God don't smash
this world up and start another in place
of It.
One great trial that the working classes
feel 10 physical exhaustion. There are
athletes who go out to their work at six or
seven O'Clock in the morning and come
back at night as fresh as when they start.
ed. They turn their back upon the shut.
tie or the forge or the rising wall, and
they come away elastic and whistling.
That is the exception. Ihave noticed that
when the factory bell taps for six O'Clock,
the hard working man YEARLY puts his
arm into his oat.sleeve and starts for
home. He sits down in the family circle
resolved to make himself agreeable, to be
the means of culture and education to his
children; but in five minutes he is sound
asleep. He is tagged out-strength of
/ body, mind and soul utterly exhausted.
! He rises in the morning only half rested
fom the toll. Indeed he will never have
any perfect rest in this world, until he
gets into one narrow spot which is the
only perfect rest for the human body in this
world. think they call 1t a grave! Has
toll frosted the color of your cheeks? Has
it taken all spontaneity from your laugh
teri Has it subtracted the spring from
your step and the luster from your eye,
until it has left you only half the man you
were when you first put your hand on the
hammer and your foot on the wheel? To-
morrow, in your place Of toll, listen, sud
you will hear voice above the hiss Of the
furnace and the groan Of the foundry and
the clatter of the shuttle-a voice not of
machinery nor of the task master, but the
voice of an all-sympathetic God, as he
says:
Come unto me all you who labor and are
heavy laden. and will give you rest.
Let all men and women of toll re.
member that this work will soon be over
Have they not heard that there is great
holiday coming? o! that home, and nc
long walk to get to it. o! that bread and
no sweating toll necessary to earn it. o.
these deep wells Of eternal rapture and nc
heavy buckets to draw up. wish they
would put their head on this pillow stuffed
with the down from the wing Of all Gods
promises. There remains rest for ths
people of God.
wonder how many tired people there
are in the house to-day. A thousand
More than that. Two thousand peopl,
who are tired, tired out with their life
tired in hand and foot and back and heart
All! there are more than two thousand
people bere to-day, supposing all the res
to be in luxury and in ease. Yonder is 9
woman who has her head down on he
hand. What does that mean' Ask her
It has been tiresome week to her.
"Ow she says, "when will / ever re
any rest"
May God comfort all who toll with tn
needle and the sewing mo chine, and hav
compassion on those borne down under tn
fatigues of life.
Another great trial is privation of tast
and sentiment. There are mechanics VIII
: have their beautiful homes, who have thei
fine wardrobes, who have all the bes
, fruits and meats of the earth brought :
, their tables. They have their elegan
, libraries. But they are the exception
A great many of the working peopl
, of our country are living in cramps
, abodes, struggling amid great hardships
, living in neighborhoods where they
not want to live, but where they have t
live. do not know Of any thing NOR
painful than to have fine taste for paint
r ing and sculpture, and music and gloriou
sunsets, and the expanse Of the blus sky
and yet not be able to get the dollar 70
the oratorio, or to get picture, or to bu
ones way into the country to look at tn
setting sun and at the bright heavens
While there are men in great affuenct
who haye around them all kinds of lux
uries in art. themselves entirely unable t
/ appreciate these Misunderstanding thei
/ books by the square foot, their picture
sent to them by some artist who is gla
to get the miserable daubs out of the studi
! there are multitudes of refined, delicat
. women who are born artists and sha
s reign in the Kingdom of Heaven as art
9 lists, who are denied every picture an
r every sweet song and every musical in
. strument. oh! let me cheer such person
| by telling them to look up and behold tn
: Inheritance that God has reserved 70
D them. The King of Babylon had a hang
s ing garden that was famous in all tn
T ages. but you have hanging garden bet
r ter than that. All the heavens are your.
e They belong to your Father, and what be
r long to your Father belongs to you.
!, But have no time this morning longe