Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-08-10

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ing pitch the husband dead 1r ms n'G ;n1o
the front entry. No bitter w u,%nN n in.o
wlping from the swollen brow wo tha h Mnea
s.ruck out in a midnipht coronoo oI
pending over the battered and hmisai
urn folm OF MN. who, when he took her
a ron ner fathers home, promised love.
a anu kindness, and protection
Seo nothing but sympathy. and
they are asked for. No bitter wards
when the family Bible goes for RIM
ana the pawnbroker's shop gets the last
decent dress. Some dap, desiring to
eve Z, the story of her sorrows. YOU saw:
Meli' now are you getting along now?"
ana rallying her trembling voice and
asppieting her quivering lip, she says:
cl retty Well. thank you, pretty we'll"
one never will tell you. In the delirium
" ner last sickness she may tell all the
secrets OF her lifetime, but she will not
'eIl tnat- Not until the books of eter-
IL, my ~ are opened on the throne of judg-
s men. VIII eve eyer be known what she has
sunered. Oh! We who are twisting gar
land for the victor. put it on that bale
prov; When she is dead the neighbors
Will peg linen to make her shroud, and
she e, Will be carried out in plain box
with no silver plate to tell her years,
Tor she has lived thousand years of
trial and anguish. The gamblers and
swlndlers who destroyed her husband
Will not come to the funeral. One car
rage will be enough for that funeral
one carriage to carry the orphans and
the two Christian women who presided
over the obsequies. But there is flash
and the opening of a celestial door and
shout: Lift up your head, We ever
lasting gate, and let her come in!" And
Christ will step forth and say: Come
in! ye suffered with me on earth, be
gloritied with me in Heaven" What is
the highest throne in Heaven? You say:
The throne of the Lord God Almighty
and the Lamb" No doubt about it..
What is the next highest throne in
Heaven? While I speak it seems to me
that it will be the throne of the drunk
ards wife, if she with cheerful patience
endured all her earthly torture. Heroes
and heroines.
find also in this roll the heroes of
Christian charity. We all admire the
George Peabodys and the James Lenoxes
of the earth, who gave tens and hun
| dreds of thousands of dollars to good
objects.
But am speaking this morning of those
who, out of their pinched poverty, help
others-of such men as those Christian
missionaries of the west, who are living
on $3.50 a year that they may proclaim
Christ to the people, one of them, writ
ing to the Secretary in New York, saying
I thank you for that S25. Until yester-
day we have had no meat in our house
for three months. We have suffered
terribly y. My children have no shoes
this winter" And of those people who
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piece of it to others who are hungrier;
COAL but help others to fuel; and of
those who have only dollar in their
pocket, and give % cents to somebody
else; and of that father who wears a
shabby coat, and of that mother who
wears faded dress, that their children
may be we'll appareled. You call them
paupers, or ragamutfins. or emigrants. l
call them heroes and heroines. You
and I may not know where they live, or
what their name is. God knows, and
they have more angels lowering over
them than you and have, and they will
have q higher seat in Heaven.
They may have only cup of cold wa
ter to give poor traveller. OF may have
only picked splinter from under the
nail Of q child's finger, OF have put only
two mites into the treasury. but the
Lord knows them. Considering what
ever done, and their faded dress will
become white robe. and the small
room will be an eternal mansion, and
the old hat will be a coronet of victory,
and all the applause of earth and all the
shouting of heaven will be drowned out
when God rises up to give His reward
to those humble workers in His king
dom, and to say to them: well done.
good and faithful servant" You have
all seen or heard of the ruin of Melrose
abbey. suppose in some respects it is
the most exquisite ruin on earth. And
vet. looking ut it was not SO impressed
you may set it down to bad taste-but
was not SO deeply stirred as was at a
tombstone at the foot OF that abbey
the tombstone placed by Walter Scott
/ over the grave Of an old man who had
served him for many years in his house
the inscription most significant, and
defy any man to stand there and read it
without tears coming into his eyes-the
epitaph well done, good and faithful
servant" Oh, when our work is over,
will it be found that because of any
thing we have done for God. or the
church, OF suffering humanity, that such
an inscription is appropriate for us?
God grant it.
| Who are those who were bravest and
deserved the greatest monument-Lord
Claverhouse and his burly soldiers or
John Brown. the Edinburgh carrier, and
his wife? Mr.. Atkins. the prosecuted
| minister of Jesus Christ i'll Scotland,
was secreted by John Brown and his
wife, and Claverhouse rode up one day
with his armed men and shouted in
front of the house. John Browns little
girl came out. He said to her: Well,
miss. is Mi. Atkins here?" She made no
answer, for she could not betray the
minister of the gospel. "Ha!" Claver-
house said, then you, are chip OF IT. the u e
in nv pocket for you. 1t is g nosegay.
Some people call it a thumbscrew, but L
call it a nosegay." And he got of his
horse, and he put it on the little girls
hand and began to turn it until the
bones cracked. and she cried. He said:
Don't cry; don't cry: this isn't thumb
screw; this is a nosegay. And they
heard the child's cry, and
] the father and mother came
out and Claverhouse said: Ha: 1t
/ seems that you three have laidyour holy
heads together determined to die like
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