The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-05-31

Dumb, yet without pencil, or with irradi
ated countenance, they declare the glory
OF God.
A large audience assembled in New
York at the anniversary OF the Deaf anc
Dumb Asylum, and one of the visitors
with chalk on the blackboard wrote this
question to the pupils "Do you not find
it very hard to be deaf and dumb ~
And one of the pupils took the chalk and
wrote on the blackboard this sublime
sentence in answer "When the song OF
the angels shall burst upon our en-.
raptured ear, we will scarce regret that
our ears were never marred with earthly
sounds" Oil the brightest eyes in
heaven will be those that never saw or
earth. The ears most alert in heaven
will be those that in this world heard
neither voice of friend, nor thrum OF
harp, nor carol of bird, nor doxology Of
congregations.
A lad who had been blind from infancy
was cured. The oculiet operated upon
the lad and then put a very heavy
bandage over the eyes, and after a few
weeks had gone by the bandage was re-
moved, and the mother said to herchild:
willie, can you see ?" He said "Oh l.
mama, is this heaven ?" The contrast
between the darkness before and the
brightness afterward was overwhelming.
And tell you the glories of Heaven will
be thousand fold brighter for those
who never saw anything on earth. While
many with good vision closed their eves
in night, and many who had cool.
artistic and cultured ear went down into
discord, these afflicted ones cried unto the
Lord in their trouble, and He made their
sorrows their advantage, and so "the
lame took the prey"
In the seventh century there was a
legend of st. Modobert. It was said that
his mother was blind, and one day while
looking at his mother he felt so sympa-
thetic for her blindness that he rushed
forward and kissed her blind ewes. and.
the legend says, her vision came i'm.
mediately. That was only a legend, but
it is truth, glorious truth, that a kiss
OF Gods eternal love has brought to
many blind eye eternal illumination.
A step further: There are those in all
communities who toll nightly for a
livelihood. They have scant wages.
Perhaps they are diseased, or have phys.
ical infirmities, so they are hindered
from doing continuous days work. A
city missionary finds them up the dark
alley, with no fire, with thin clothing
with very coarse bread. They never ride
in the street car they cannot affor the
five cents. They never see any pictures
save those in the show window on the
street, from which they are often ios;led,
and looked at by some one who seems to
say in the look; "Move on what ara
you doing here looking at pictures ?"
Yet many OF them live on mountains
of TRANSPORTATION. At their rough table.
he who fed the five ousand breaks the
bread. They talk often of the goo times
that are coming This world has no
charm for them. But Heaven entrances
their spirit. They often divide their
scant crust with some forlOrn wretch
who knocks at their door at night, and on
the blast of the night wind as the door
opened to let them in, is heard the voice
OF Him who said 81 was hungry and We
fed me-" No cohort of heaven will be
too bright to transport them. By Gods
help they have vanquished the Assyrian
host They have divided among them
the spoiIs. Lame, lame, yet they took
the prey.
l was riding along the country road
one day and saw a man on crutches
l overlook him. He was very old. He
was going verv slowly. At that rate it
wou d have taken him two hours to 90 A
mile. ! said: "Wouldn't YOU like to
ride ?" He said: "Thank you, I would.
God bless you" When he sat b aside
me, he said ''You see, 1 am very lame
and very old, but the Lord has been a
good Lord to me. have buried all nv
children. The lord gave them, and the
Lord had a right to take them away,
Blessed be His name. l was very sick,
and l had no money, and my neighbors
came in and took care of me, and wan
ted nothing. L suffer great deal with |
pain, but then | have so many mercies
left. The Lord has been good Lord to |
me, And before we had got far, 1 wps
in doubt whether l was giving him ri |, |
Or he was giving me ride He said: |
Now, II you please, I'll get out here.
Just help me down on my crutches, if |
you please. God bless you. Thank you,
sir. Good morning. Good morning."
Swarthy men had gone the road that
lay. do not know where they came
out, but every hobble of that old man
was toward the shining gate. With his
Did crutch he had struck down many a
5ennacherib of temptation which has
mastered you and me. Lame, 80 fear
ully lame, SO awfully lame; but he took
he prey.
A step further There are in all com.
nunities many orphans. During our
asst war, and in the years Immediately
ollowing, how many children we heard
Jay "0h! my father was killed in the
var" Have you ever noticed-I fear
you have not-how well those children
lave turned out? Starting under the
greatest disadvantages, no orphen asvlum
ould do for them what their father
would have done had he lived. The
kirmisher sat one night by the light of
agots, in the swamp writing a letter
lome, when sharpshooter's bullet ended
he letter which was never folded, never
posted, and never read.
Those children came up under great
disadvantage. No father to fight their
way for them. Perhaps there was in the
Id family Bible an old yellow letter
,asted fast, which told the story of chat
ather's long march, and how he suffered
n the hospital; but they looked still
urther on in the Bible, and thew came
o the story of how God is the Father of
he fatherless, and the widows portion,
nd they soon took their fathers place in
hat household. They battled the wav
Or their mother They came on up, and
nany of them have in the years since the
var taken positions in church and state.
While many of those who suffered
othing during those times have had
ons go out into lives OF Incidence and
agabondage. These who started under
o many disadvantages because they
Tere so early bereft, these are the lame
1ho took the prey.
A step further: There are those who
7ould like to do good. They saw: ooh
I only had wealth, or If had eloouence.
r if 1 had high social position, how much
would accomnlish for God nnI A.