The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-28
Scotland.
REMEMBERING THE BARNS"

Mrs. @. A. SoULE, our Glasgow mis-
sionary, addressed the following letter to
the editor of the North British Mail,
Dec. 81:
"SIR.-At the close of our session on
the 18th, after arranging with my schol-
ars for their Christmas service on the 25th,
and their Christmas festival on the Goth,
spoke to them of the destitute condi-
| ton OF the children in the Lewis. Tears
were in every eye when / finished. Then
proposed that the school send its Christ
mas collection to the editor of the Daily
Nail toward the New Year treat for those
"puir bairns." Every little hand was
lifted, and every voice exclaimed, AYE,
aye, we'll send it, So 1 enclose with
this note e2 5s, the Christmas collection
of st. Pauls Universalist Sunday school.
Please use it toward the children's treat
the destitute children of the North
and may God bless you now and ever for
the truly Christian charity that you have
started. am, ETC.,
CAROLINE A SoULE,
"Pastor of 81. PauCs Uniuersalist church."
"P. S.-The children desired me to
carry the collection to you, my dear sir,
just as it was taken up in their own box.
"P. s. (2)-Just one word of acknowl-
edgment for the sake of the little ones in
my school. @. A. s."
This is evidence that the Glasgow Sun
day.school took beautiful way OF cele-
brat1ng the late Christmastide. The col
lection ($11.25) was a most generous one
for this little mission school, and shows
that the children are being educated to
give as well as to receive.
It was in regard to the starving people
of the Lewis, in behalf Of whose children
this collection, was taken, that MRS. SoULE
wrote the following pathetic poem, after
reading an editorial in the ". B. Mail, OF
Nov. 25, 1887, entitled "Deer Hunt in
the Lewis"
DEER HUNT IN THE LEWIS.
Hank to the cry that comes from the North
From an Island of the SEAL
"Fm hungry, starving, o Father-God,
Hast thou no meat for me?"
'Tis the cry of wife, poor auld wife,
AS she shivers through the day;
sim hungry, starving, o Father God.
Give me some meat, prayl"
'Tis the cry of wife, a fair young wife,
With baby on her knee;
g I'm hungry, starving, Father-God,
Hast thou no meat for me?'
lis the cry of a child. bright-eyed child,
AS he runs in from his play;
I'm hungry, so hungry, o give me meat
I've not had a bite to-day"
TITS the cry of the men, the old and young,
AS they faint beside the way;
"We're hungry, starving, o Father-God,
Give us some meat, we pray"
= Some meat? Why, the hills and the moors
close by
Are all alive with the deer;
Go, help yourselves, my brave, bold men;
Why starve in your homes so drear?
Has Lord or Lady the right to say,
That the children of God shall be
Starved unto death in this bonnie land,
This land of-Christianity?
Has Lord" or 6 Lady the right to say
AS God doth unto the sea-
$50 far shalt thou come, no nearer though,
Ye crofters unto me-"
Has Lord or " Lady - the right to say,
I've may starve-it's nothing to me;
III keep my deer on the hills and moors
Of this Island in the Sea-
"what care for the words of ChIistf'
IF ye would be good to me,
Be good to the crofters on your land
| In the Island of th@Sea!"
"what care for the words of Christ?
| My deer are more to me
| Than starving wife, or child or man,
| In this Island of the Sea-
| o, Christian folks! is it right that they.
| The children of God, should be
Starved unto death in this bonnie land,
This land of-Christianity