Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-18

" cry ~ comes from those who are
euuuenly hurled out Of life, but a slow.
Er'naing, horrible wasting awav. Gather
'nem before you and look into their faca.
plncned' CHASTITY, hunger-struck Look At
ene'r fingers, needle.pricked and blood.
srpea' see that premature stoop in the
snouldersl Hear that dry, hacking. mer-
Guess cough! AT a large meeting of these
women, held in a hall in Philadelpbia.
erano speeches were delivered. Init a
neeole-woma took the stand, threw aside
ner FADED shawl, and with her shri ve,ed
arm hurled a very thunderbolt of elo-
quence, speaking out the horrors NJ bar
" experience.
1 speak more fifty Of woman,s wroro,
because she mas not been heard in the
present agitation. You know more of
what men have suffered. 1 said to a COL
ored man who, in Missouri last March.
came lnto my room in the morning to build
my fire: Sam, how much wages do Won
people get round here?" He replied.
"Ien dollars a month, sir!" I asked:
"Have you a familyH" eyes," said he.
"wife and children" Think of it: $40 a
year to support a family on. My friends,
there is something in this world awfully
atwist. When I think of these things I
am not bothered as some of my brethren
with the abstract questions as to why
God let sin come into the world. The onlv
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 is 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. have noticed that
when the factory bell taps for six O'Clock,
the Woodworking man YEARLY puts his
arm into his coat-sleeve and starts for
home. He sits down in the family circle
resolved to make hir1self 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
from the toll. Indeed he will n-ser 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. l think they call it a grave! Has
toll frosted the color of your cheeks? Has
1t taken all s%pontaneity from your laugh
tar? 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, and
you will hear a voice above the hiss of the
furnace and the groan of the foundry and
the chatter 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 l 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 a great
holiday coming? o! that home, and nc
long walk to get to it. o! that bread anG
no sweating toll necessary to earn it. o
these deep wells of eternal rapture and nj
heavy buckets to draw up. 1 wish they
would put their head On this pillow stuffed
with the down from the wing of all Cod
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people of God.
I wonder how many tired people ther'
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 han two Thousand
people here to-day, supposing, all the res
to be in luxury and in ease. Yonder is
woman who has her head down IN he
hand. What does that mean? Ask her
1t has been a tiresome week to her.
CO.," she says, "when will I ever ge
any rest?"
May God comfort all who toll with tn
needle and the sewing machine, 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
nave their beautiful homes, who have thei
fine wardrobes, who have all the bes
fruits and meats of the earth brought t
their tables. They nave their elegan
libraries. But they are the exception
A great many of the working peopl
Of our country are living in crampe'
abodes, struggling amid great hardships
living in neighborhoods where they d.
not want to live, but where they have t
live. lido not know of any thing NOR
painful than to ave a fine taste for paint
ing and sculpture, and music and glorious
sunsets, and the expanse of the blue sky
and yet not be able to get the dollar TO
the oratorio, or to get a picture, or to blu.
ones way into the country to look at tn
setting sun and at the bright heavens
While there are men in great afiuence
who have 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 glat
to get the miserable daubs u of the studio
there are multitudes of refined, delicate
women who are born artists and shall
reign in the Kingdom of Heaven as art
lists, who are denied every picture ant
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 TO
them. The King of Babylon had a hang
ing garden that was famous in all tn
ages, but you have a hanging garden bet
ter than that. All the heavens are yours
They belong to your Father, and what be
1onp tn vonr Father belongs to YOU.