The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-07-28
RIG AND LITTLE CHARITIES.

TO escape discredit and do good dea
Of very cheap charity. BY such mis-
use the magnanimity Of the first name
less saint who gave her all to God ha'
lost somew hat Of its glory aud blessed
influence. So. too. great charities an,
} public benefactions have been deprived
OF their splendor by the selfish
ambition and vulgar display OF
the benefactors. Left hand and
right have co-oporated in publish.
ing gifts: and whole bands o. music have
broke forth and cannous Doomed TO an.
nounce the GIFT Of a church.
a great old grabber has photographed
for show the check that carried bis
gift, and given his name and face Ia
hand down avarice and ugliness 20 pos
terity. Old age comes on. desire fails,
the stale, flat and Improbable set in.
aad death orders to loosen the grip and
the old wretch proposes to hold his
own by giving his ill gotten gains to
an institution that shall bear his name
and be a monumental lie.
An this sounds harsh. is bitter 20 di-
| gest; but is not this land full of It's IL
Illustrations. in the way of asylums
hospitals, colleges, universities. and
even memorial churches and windows.
intended to impose on posteriiy as
saints men who in their lifetime were a
shame and a reprvach.
Fortunately for the world. these great
things pass as benefactions. as exam
Piles of liberality. as offerings to
virtue and the general good And
fortunately the moanness. the
hardness and depiavity Of the
wretched accumulation passes into OBJ
lvion, drop like discordant notes. and
only the good survives. 50 the AL
mighty has ordained. TO the sinner
lie giveth travail, to gatherand to heap
up, that he may give to him that is
good before God 80
Little charities and big charities may
easily pass into fashion, and lose all
the life and character that makes them
refreshing. honorable or good. Accor-
ding to the Apostle. men may, in their
lifetime, give all their goods TO hos
pital or preach like Chrysostom. and yet
be as solele-s as hogs. Nay. even veri-
table poor widow may give her all TO
the Church, when true affection would
spend it at home, or give to the hospital
time stolen from her children. and be-
no better than a heather.
The world makes great mistakes iu
its estimates and measures. AID it
makes woeful mistakes in its ideas Of
the uses and possibilities of wealth. The
surplus mamma that ihe greedy lsrac-
lites gathered turned 20 worms and ies-
titled against the posscssors. Money
Will hold to the end the character of its
getting. Aud the greedy, iearilos-
knaye will find that millions will fail 90
give him purity OF thought, gentlenoss
of manners, hberality of soul. or kind
ness of heart. Old habits Of sclfshness
rule him like devils. /, is a pity that
the world SO fasteus charity aud good
ness to gifts or splendid acts. A man 5
life consists not in the abundance that
he possesses. And the heaviest and the
commonest sutferiugs of life are be-
yond the reach of material aid. Not
as the world giveth | YOU, were tine
words of the liudest Of men, and the
earliest aims giving was the order
" Stand upright ON thy feetl' Manly
words.
The source of all true charity is a
warm heart and bountiful and kind
ly soul. The pcssesser of these knows no
distinction of big or little charities. A
word in season, timely and hearty.
may save life-nay, soul To such
one Time 5 changes and the various
accidents and conditions of life are like
the blasts and breezes that dilIuse and
scatter fragrance and good seeds; that
dash from the fun bosom cheering. en-
couraging, enli,ening influences, i'm
thousand forms. pleasant. familiar, and
natural. To live is 20 bless The pos
SCISSOR is as "a covert from the tempest,
a hiding place from the wind, as rivers
Of water in a dry place, and the shadow
of a greatrock in a weary land. The
dust may return to the dust as it was.
but the spirit surely returns to the God
that gave it,.
WE had occasion before to utter
"seven wise words" on the ice-cream
decision IN Cincinnati, and protest
against any popular failure to appre-
ciate its significance, especially as re-
CARDS the fate and fortuneof the court
ing man. The point was that ice cream.
as "a necessity, could be lawfully sold
on Sunday. The result, Of course, is that
the ice cream tariff of expenses on the
beau - is a seven day Is assessment. The
judge rounded up the climax of his de-
cisiou by calling attention to the fact
that mo man was ever melted by the /
eating of ice cream to e. home and beat
his wife and break up the furniture.
noUGH the theory is accepted that I
modern weapons of war are so destruc- /
tive as 70 make war no longer possible /
arbiter in The quarrels of nations. still /
the Haytian heroes give a practical il
Iustration of the contrary.
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