Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-21

| and vension, or between partridge and
quail on toast, and out of spoons made
out of Nevada silver or California gold the
| pastries will drop on tongues thrilling with
| thankfuness because they have full enous h.
have no idea God is going to let the human
| race stay in its present predicament.
| Ii the world winds up as it now
is it will be an awful failure OF
a world. The barren places will be
| irrigated. The ponologIstS. helped of God
will urge on the fruits. The botapists, in
spired of the Lord, will help on the gardens
/ The raisers of stock will send enough ami
mails fit fer human food TO the markets. and
| the last earthquake that rends the world
will upset banqueting table at which are
| seated the entire human race Meanwhile
suppose that some of the energy we are ex-
pending in useless and unavailing talk about
| the bread question should be expended in
mercful aleviations.
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, 100000 men under Napoleon, 250, 900
men under Schwarzeberg. No, no. The
greatest and most terrific battle is now be-
Ing fought ali the world over Il is the
struggle for food. The ground tone of the
lnle-s passage in one OF the great musical
masterpieces the artist says, was suggested
10 70, nun by the cry of the hungry populace of
Vienna as the King rode through and they
shouted: Bread Give US brcadl" And all
through the great harmonies of mu-
steal academy and cathedral | hear the
pathos, the ground tone. the tragedy of UNI
counted multitules, 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
SEQ how we may serve our generation.
Let MS 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 officers OF government 20 through
the land and count how many people there
are in tho 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 IL there be fifteen hundred mill
lion, fifteen thousand, fifteen hundred and
Fl teen 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 aud winter
suit A good pair of shoes for every living
mortal A good coat. a good hat or a good
masculine or feminine outfit of apparel A
wardrobe for all nations adapted to all
chimes. and not string or "A button, or pin
or hook or an eye wanting. But. alasl
where are the good clothes for threefourths
of the human racer 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. let you
know how the redistribution will take
place. By generosity on the part of
those who have 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 wartirobes, and industry
and sohriety on the part of the empty ward
robes thers will be enough for all to wear
God has done His part toward the dressing
of the human race. He grows sur
plus of wool on the sleeps back,
and foclss roam the mountains and
valleys with burden of warmth intended
for transferenee TO human comfort, when the
shuttes 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 merino
shesp, their origin traced back to the fiocks
of Abrahamc and Davdic times In white let
tiers OF snowy fleece. God has be n writing for
thousand years His wish that there mignt 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 hal better
see il 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 a clothing store and
think that God has forgotten to send ice and
snow. because of this wonderfully mild Janu'
ary 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. Tor Iod
long ago declared that winter as wen as SUN,
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 codf'
Again. let us look around and see how we
may serve our generation what snort
sighted mortas we would be II we were
anxious 10 clothe and fee only the most m
significant part of a man. namely, ms Doay,
while we nut forth no effort TO clothe
and feed and save his soul. Time IS
little piece broken oil great ete,iiey.
What are we doing for the souls OF
this present generauons Let me say
il is a generation worth saving MOST
magnificent men and women are IN IL. we
maze great ado about the improvements in
navigation. and in lccomotion. and IN ART
and machinery. We remark what wonlers
Of telegraph. and telephone and stethoscope.
What improvem mt is electric lght over a
taIlow candiei But all these Improvements
are INSIGNIFICANT compared with the improve
n,srt in tbe human race In olden times,
once IN a while, great and good man o.
woman would come up aud the WoIru
has made great fuss about it ever since. oue
now thew are so numerous we scarcely speak
about them. We put ha'o about tue PFC.
ME OF the past, bnt | think If the tim 5 oe-
pmsnded them It would be found we have now
living in this year 1889 fifty Martin bu1ners'
fiftv George WaShngtons, fifty Lady hune-
invtons. fifty Elizabeth Frys. turing our
civil war more splendid warriors IN Noreh an ~
South were deveiope in four years nan Wy
,rhoie world develora3 IN the ,'-nvlo,aS ~,
~ years / challenge the tour tious ali'
wears before the food and the egnteen ee ~