West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-09-26

What subterfuge what double dealing. what
twoiacednossi Do ell tho people who wish
you good morning really hope for you q
hands love each otSsr RT. ~ All s tSass
anxious about your health who Inquire con-
corning itl Do all want TO see you who ask
S 20 1 70 cSl' Does all the world know half
there not many a wretched stock
OF goods with brilliant show
Window Passing up and down these streets
10 your business and your work, are you not
Impressed with the fact that much of society
Is hollow, and that there are subterfuges and
Pretensionsl Obi how many there are who
swagger and strut and how few people arc
natural and walk While foDs simper. and
fools ehuckle. and simpletons giggle, how few
people are natural and laugh. Tho courte-
san and tho libertino go down the
street in beautiful apparel, while with
IN tho heart there are volcanoes of pas
sion consuming their life away. say
these things not to create in you incredulity
and misonthropy, nor do forget there are
thousands OF people great deal better than
they seem; but l do not think any man is
prepared FOR the conflict Of this life until he
knows this particular peril. Ehud comes pre-
tending to pay his tax TO King Eglon, and
while no stands In front Of the King, stabs
him through with dagger until tho haft
went In after the blade. Judas Iscariot
kissed Christ.
Again, the street impresses me with the
charity. There are hunger and suffering, and
want and wrechedneSs in the country: buS
these evils chiefly congregato In our great
cities On every street crime prowls, and
drunkenness staggers, and shame winks, and
pauperism thrusts out its hand asking for aims,
Here want Is most squalid and hunger is most
lean. A Christian man, going along q street
In New York, saw poor lad and he stopped
read and writer The boy made no answer
The man asked The question twice and thricet
"Can you read and writer' and then the boy
answered with tear FLASHING on the
back Of mis- hand. He said in de-
fiance: mo, sir; can't read nor write,
neither. God, sir, don't want mo to
read and write. Didn't he take away
my father so long ago / never remem-
Der TO have seen himf and haven't had
to go along the street to get something to
didn't /, as soon as l could carry Q
basket have TO go out and pick up
cinders, and never have no schooling, siri
God don't want me TO read, sir. l can't read
They have no chance Born in degra-
dation, as they get up from their hands and
knees to walk, they take their first step on
the road TO despair. Lc5 us go forth in the
name OF the Lord Jesus Christ TO rescue them.
IL you are not willing to go forth yourself,
then give of your means; and il you are too
lazy TO go, and il you are too stingy to help
then get out of the way, and hide yourself in
tho dens and caves of the earth, lest
when Christs chariot comes along. the
horses hoofs trample you into the
mire. Beware lest the thousands of the
destitute of your city, in the last great day
rise up and curse your stupidity and Your
neglect. One cold winters day, as a Chris
tan man was going along the Battery in
New York, he saw little girl seated at the
gate, shiverIng in the cold He said to her:
MY child, what do you sit there st1>, this
cold dayF oh" she replied II am wait
i
and take care of me-" "Why,h said tho
man, what makes you think anybody will
como and take care of YOU" ''Ohb she
said, my mother died last week and was
crying very much, and she said: Don't
cry, my dear; though l am gone and your
father is gone, the Lord will send somebody
70 take care of YOU My mother mover told
lie; she said some one would come and take
care OF me- and | am waiting for them to
come" o yes, they are waiting for you.
Men of great hearts, gather them in, gather
them in. Ii is not the will of your Heavenly
Father that one Of these little ones should
perish.
Lastly, the street impresses me with the
TACT that all the people are looking forward.
| see expectancy written on almost every face
meet between here and Brooklyn Bridge or
walking the whole length of Broadway
Where you find thousand people walking
straight on. You only find ono man stop
ping and looking back. The fact Is,
God made MS oil to look ahead be.
cause wo are immortal. In this tramp
OF the multitude on the streets / hear tho
tramp OF great host, marching and march
ing for eternity. Beyond the Office, the store
the shop, the street, there is a world populous
and tremendous. Through Gods grace. may
you reach that blessed place. A great thron9
fills those boulevards and the streets are
a-rush with the chariots of conqucrors The
inhabitants go up and down, but they never
weep and they never toll A river flows
through that city, with rounded and luxur-
iOus banks, and trees of life laden with ever
lasting fruitage bend their branches to dip the
crystal. No plumed hearse rattles over that
pavement, for they are never sick. With
immortal health glowing in every vein they
know not how to die Those towers
OF strength, those palaces of beau
ty, CLEAN in the light OF n sun
that never sets. Oh heaven, beauti-
full heaven! Heaven, where our friends are.
They take no census in that city, for it is in
habited by "a multitude which no man can
number" Rank above rank Host above
host Gallery above gallery, sweeping all
around the heavens Thousands of thou
sands. Millions of millions. Blessed arc
they who enter in through the
gate into that city. Oh start for
it today. Through the blood of the
great sacrifice of the Son of God, take up
your march 10 heaven. "The Spirit and the
Bride say come, and whose ,ver win, let him
come and take OF the water of life freelyS
Join this great throng marching heaven
ward. All the doors OF invitation are open
And saw twelve gates, and there were
twelve pearls"