Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-03-01

pending in useless and unavalling talk about
the bread question should be expended in
merciful alleviations.
] have read that the battle field on which
more troops met than on any other in the
worlds history was the battle field of Leip-
sic, l60, 900 men under Napoleon, 5000
men under Schwarzeberg No, no. Inc
greatest and most terrific battle is now be-
Ing fought all the world over. 1t is the
struggle for food. The ground tone OF the
finest passage in one OF the great musical
masterpieces, the artist says, was suggested
to him by the cry of the hungry populace of
Vienna as the King rode through and they
shouted: BREAD. Give us bread!" And all
through the great harmonies OF mu-
sical academy and cathedral / hear the
pathos, the ground tone, the tragedy of I'M
counted multitudes, who with streaming eyes
and wan cheeks and broken hearts in behalf
of Themselves and their families are pleading
for bread.
Let us take another look around to
see how we may serve our generation.
Let us see as far as possible that they
have enough to wear. God looks on
the human race and knows Just how
many inhabitants the world has. The
statistics of tho worlds population are
carefully taken in civilized lands, and every
few years officers Of government go through
the land and count how many people there
are in the United States or England and great
accuracy is reached. But when people tell us
bow many inhabitants there are in Asia or
Africa, at best it must be wild guess. Yet
God knows the exact number of people on
our planet and he has made enough apparel
for each, and if there be fifteen hundred mil
lion, fifteen thousand, fifteen hundred and
fifteen people, then there is enough apparel
for fifteen hundred million, fifteen thousand,
fifteen hundred and fifteen. Not SLOUGH APP
parel, not ragged apparel, not insufficient
apparel, but appropriate apparel. At
least two suits for every being on the
earth, summer suit and winter
suit. f. A good pair of shoes for every living
mortal good coat, good hat or good
bonnet and a good shawl, and complete
masculine or feminine outfit of apparel A
wardrobe for all nations adapted to all
chimes, and not string or button, or pin
or a hook or an eye wanting. But, alas!
where are the good clothes for three fourths
of the human racel The other one
fourth have appropriated them. The fact
is, there needs to be and will be a redistri-
button. Not by anarchistic violence IL
outlawrY had its way, it would rend and
tear and diminish until instead of three
fourths of the world not properly attired,
four-fourths would be in rags. I let you
know now the redistribution Will take
place. By generosity on the part of
those who have a surplus and increased in
dustry on the part of those suffering from
deficit. Not all, but the large majority of
cases of poverty in this country are result
of idleness or drunkenness, either on the part
of the present sufferers or their ancestors.
In most cases the rum jug is the mael
strom that has swallowed down the liveli-
hood of those who are in rags. But things
will change, and by generosity on the part
of the crowded wardrobes, and industry
and sobriety on the part of the empty ward
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God has done His part toward the dressing
of the human race. He grows a sur
plus Of wool on the Sleeps back,
and flocks roam the mountains and
valleys with a burden Of warmth intended
for transference to human comfort, when the
shuttles of the factories reaching all the way
from the ChattahoOchee to the Merrimac
shall have spun and woven it. And here come
forth the Rocky Mountain goat and the cash
mere and the beaver Here are the merno
sheep, their origin traced back to the flocks
of Abrahamic and Davdic times. In white let
tiers of snowy fleece, God has be n writing for a
Thousand years His wish that there night be
warmth for all nations. While others are
discussing the effect of high or low tariff or
no tariff at all on wool, you and had better
see II in our wardrobes we have nothing that
we can spare for the shiverng, or pick
out some poor lad Of the street and
take him down to clothing store and
fit him out for the winter. Don't
think that God has forgotten to send ice and
snow, because of this wonderfully mild Janu.
airy and February. We shall yet have deep
SHOWS and so much frost on the window pane
that in the morning you cannot see through
it, and whole focks of billiards, for God
long ago declared that winter as well as sum-
mer shall not cease and between this and the
spring crocus we may all have reason to cry
out with the pSalmist: "Who can stand be-
fore this cold"
Again, let us look around and see how we
may serve our generation. What short
sighted mortals we would be il we were
anxious to clothe and feed only the most in.
significant part of a man, namely, his body,
while we put forth no effort to clothe
and feed and save his soul. Time is a
little piece broken off great eternity.
What are we doing for the souls of
this present generation! Let me say
it is a generation worth saving. Most
magnificent men and women are in it. We
make great ado about the improvements in
navigation and in locom ytion, and in art
and machinery. We remark what wonders
of telegraph, and telephone, and stethoscope.
What improvement is electric light over a
talow candle But all these improvements
are insignificant compared with tine improve
ment in the human race. In olden times,
once in while, great and good man or
,rcr..n would come up and the world
has maoG gre.-. fuss ab2-t i svor si.iee, but
now they are so numerous we scarcely speak
about them. We put halo about the peo-
pie of the past, bnt | think If the times de-
manded them it would be found we have now
living in this year Is % fifty Martin Luthers,
fifty George Washingtons, fifty Lady Hunt
ingtons, fifty Elizabeth Frys. During our
civil war more splendid warriors in North and
South were developed in four years than the
whole world developed in the previous TWEEN"
ty years | challenge the four thousand
years before the food and the eighteen CEN
turtles after the flood, to show me the equal of
charity on large scale of George Peabody.
This generation of men and women is more
worth saving than any of the one hundred
and eighty generations that have passed oil.
But where shall we begin! With our.
selves. That is the pillar from which we
must start Prescott the blind historian,
tells us how PiZarro saved his army for the
right when they were about deserving him.
With his sword he made long mark on
the ground. He said: "My men, on
the north side are desertion and death, on the
south side is victory; on the north side Pana-
ma and poverty. on the south side Peru with
all its riches. Choose for yourselves for my
part l go to the south" Stepping across
the line one by one, his troops fol-
lowed and finally his whole army.
The sword of Gods truth draws the
ulVlulng llne To-Day. On one slue Oh 10 are
sin and ruin and death, on the other side are
pardon and usefulness and happiness and
heaven. You cross from the wrong side to
the right side and your family will cross
with you and your friends and your
associates. The way you go they will
go. If we are not saved, we will never
save any one else How to get saved' Be
willing to accept Christ, and then accept
Him instantaneously and forever. Get on
the Rock first and then you will be able TO
hep others upon the same Rock. Men and
women have been saved quicker than have
been talking about it. What, without a
prayer2 Yes. What, without time
deliberately to think it over3 Yes.
What without tear9 Yes, believed That IS
all. Believe what9 That Jesus died to save
you from sin and death and hell. Will you9
Do youl You have. Something makes
me think you have. New light has