The Russellville Democrat., 1889-02-21

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 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 the worlds population are carefully taken in civilized lands, and every few years of icers of government go through the land and count how many people there are i'll the United States or England, and great accuracy IS reached. But when people tell us how 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 million, fifteen thousand, fifteen hundred and fifteen people, then there is enough apparel for fifteen hun dred million, fifteen thousand, fifteen hundred and fifteen. Not slouchy ap- 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. A good pair of shoes for every living mortal. A good coat, a good hat, or good bonnet, and good shawl. and a complete
 
 A wardrobe for all nations adapted to all climes, and not @ string, or button, or a pin, or hook, or an eyo wanting. But, alas where are the good clothes for three- fourths of the human race? The other one-fourth have appropriated them. The fact is, there needs to be and will be a re- distribution. Not by anarchistic violence. If outlawry had it's way, 1t would rend .s,..- an1 g,f three-fourths of the world not properly attired, four -fourths would be in rags. I let you know how the redistribution will take place. By generosity on the part of those who have a surplus and increased industry on the part of those suffering from deficit. Not all, but the large majority of cases of poverty in this country are a result of idleness or drunkenness, either on the part of the present sufferers or their ances- tors. In most cases the rum jug is the maelstrom that has swallowed down the livelihood 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 wardrobes, there will be enough for all to wear. God has done His part
  He grows a surplus of wool on the sheep's back, and focls roam the mountains and valleys with 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 cashmere and the beaver. oh, 1,as,, ,toxt,, traced back to the flocks of Abrahamic and Davidic times. In white letters of snowy fleece God has been writing for @ thousand years his wish that there might 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 if in our wardrobes we have nothing that we can spare for the shivering, or pick out some poor lad of the street and take him down to a cloth- ing store and fit him out for the winter. Don't think that God has forgotten to send ice and snow, because of this wonderful mild January and February. We shall yet have deep snows and so much frost on the window-pane that in the morning you can not sec through it; and whole focks of blizzards, for God long ago declared
 
 cease, and between this and the spring crocus we may all have reason to cry out with the psalmist: ''1Yho can stand out before His cold?"
 Again, let us look around and see how wemay serve our generation. Whatsho sighted mortals We would be if we were anxious to clothe and feed only the most insignificant part of a man, namely, his hol xnrhf agfn, 4A clothe and feed and save his soul. Time is @ 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 magnif- cent men and women are in it. We make great ado about the improvements in navigation, and ill locomotion, and in art and machinery. We remark what won- ders of telegraph, and telephone and stethoscope. What improvement in elec- tric light over a tallow candlel But all these improvements are insignificant compared with the improvement in the human race. In olden times, once in a while, great and good man or woman would come up and the world has made a great fuss about it ever since, but now they are so numerous we scarcely speak
 
 pie of the past, but think if the times de- manded them it would be found we have now living in this year 1889 fifty Martin Luthers, fifty George Washingtons, fifty Lady Huntingtons, fifty Elizabeth Frys. During our civil war more splendid war riors ill North and South were developed in four years than the whole world devel- oped in the previous twenty years. challenge the four thousand years before the flood and the eighteen centuries 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 off,
 But where shall we begin: With our selves. That is the pillar fiom which VIC must start. Prescott, the blind historian, tells Us how Pizarro saved his army for the right when they were about deserting him. With his sword he made a 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 Panama and poverty, on the south side Peru with all its riches. Choose for your- selves; for my port go to the south" Stepping across the line one by one, his troops followed and faally his whole army. The sword of Gods truth draws the dividing line to-day. On one side of It are sin and ruin and death, on the other side are pardon and usefulness and hap piness and Heaven. You cross from the wrong side to the right side and your fam fly will cross " ith 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 saved2 Be willing to accept Christ, and then accept Him instautaueously and forever. Getun the Rock first and tnon you will be able to help others upon the same Rock. Men and women have been saved quicker than have been talking about it. What, without prayers Yes. What, without time deliberately to think it over: Yes. W hat without teary Yes, believe That is all. Believe whats That Jesus died to save you from sin and death and hell. Win you: Do youI You have. ttfs