News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-21

| for fifteen hundred million, fifteen thousand,
fifteen hundred and fifteen. Not SLOUGH ap-
parel not ragged apparel, not insufficient
least two suits for every being on the
earth, summer suit and a winter
suit. A good pair of shoes for every living
mortal A good coat, a 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 a button, or a pin
or hook or an eve wanting. But, alasi
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 redistri-
button Not by anarchistic violence. If
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 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 a result
of idleness or drunkenness, either on the part
of the present su ferers 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
robes there will be enough for all to wear.
God has done His part toward the dressing
of the human racs. He grows q sur
plus of wool on the sleeps back,
and focks roam the mountains and
valleys with a burden of warmth intended
for transference to huma comfort, when the
shutteS of the factories reaching all the way
from the ChattahoOcaee to the Merrimac
shall have spun AMI woven it And here come
forth the Rocky Mountain goat and the cash
md ho hoa Hpra
sheep. Their origin traced back to the flocks
of Abrahamic and Davidic times In white let
ters of snowy fleece, God has be n 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 il in our warstrobes we have nothing that
we can spare for the shivering, or pick
out some poor lad of the street an
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 tbs wonderfully mild Jsnu-
airy and February. We shall yet have deep
SHOWS and so much frost on the win low pane
that in the morning you cannot see through
it: and whole hocks of billiards, for God
long ago declared that winter as we'll 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 coldI'
Again, let us look around and see how we
may serve our generation. What short
sighted mortals we wou be if we were
anxious to clothe and fee I only the most in
significant part of man, namely, his body,
while we put forth no effort to clothe
and feed and save his soul. Time is a
little piece broken OF great eternity:
What are we doing for tho 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 l. com ton. and in art
and machinery. We remark what won iers
of telegraph, and telephone, and stethoscope
What improvem mt is electric light over
tallow can llei But all these improvements
are insignificant compared with the improve
ment in the human race In oiden times
once in while, a great and good man or
woman would come up and the world
has made great fuss about it ever since, but
now they are so numerous we scarcely speak
about them. We put ha'o about the PEG
pie of tie past, bnt l think if the times de-
manded them it would be found we have now
living in this year Is 50 fifty Martin Luthers,
fifty George Washingtons fifty Lady Hunt
ingtons, fifty Elizabeth Frys. During our
civil WAT more splendid warriors in North and
South were develops in four yeas than the
whole world develouad in the ,0-avio',s +,von
ty years l challenge the four thousand
years before the flood and the eighteen cen.
turtles after the flood, to show me the equal or
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 of. |
But where shall we begin! With our
'eives. That is the pillar from which we |
must start Prescott. the blind historian, |
ellis us how PIzarro saved his army for the |
light when they were about DESERVING him. |
With his sword he made long mark on |
he ground. He said: my men, on /
he north side are desertion and death, on the |
outh side is victory; On the north side Pana-
ma and poverty, on the south side Peru with |
IL its riches Choose for yourselves; for my
'art | go to the south" Stepping across
he line one by one, his troops fol- /
owed and finally his whole army.
he sword Of Gods truth draws the
ividng line to-day. On one side of it are
in and ruin and death, on the other side are /
ardon and usefulness and happiness and |
eaven. You cross from the wrong side to |
he right side and your family will cross |
With you and your friends and your
rs The way you go they VIII
ave any one else How to get saved! Be
willing to accept Christ. and then accept |
he Rock first and then you will be able 10 |
e p others upon thu same Rock. Men and /
women have been saved quicker than l have
zen talking about it. What. without a
rayers Yes. What, without time
eliberately to think 1t over. Yes.
II. Believe what! That Jesus died to save
ou from sin and death and hell. Will youa
20 youi You have. Something makes
ne think you have New light has
ONE into your countenances Wei
omel Welcome! HALL Hail. Saved
Tiers! By testimony. Tell it to your fam
". Tell it to your business associates. Tell
every We will successfully preach
% more religion and will successfully talk
o more religion than we ourselves have.
The most of that which you do to benefit
be souls of this generation, you will effect
Trough your own behavior. Go wrong, and
hat will induce others to go wrong. Go
light, and that will induce others to go
light. When the great centennial exhibition
vas being held in Philadelphia, the ques
ion came up among the directors as
o whether they could keep the ex-
osition open on Sundays, when director,
Vho was a man of the world. from Nevada,
rose and said, his voice trembling with
motion and tears running down his cheeks:
! l feel like returned prodigal. Twenty |
ears ago I went West and into a region
where we had no Sabbath, but to-day old
memories come back to me. and | re-
member what my glorified mother
aught me about keeping Sunday. and |
eem to hear her voice again and
eel as did when every evening kne't by
Ter side in prayer. Gentlemen, | vote for
he observance of the Christian Sabbath"
And ne carried everything by storm. and
he exhibition on Sabbathr' it was almost
NO" No" What one man can
10 if he does right, boldly right, emphatic
lily right.
What if we could get this whole genera
ion savedi These people who are living |
With US the same year AMI amid the same
tupendous events and flying toward the flu
,ure swifter than eagles to their prey. We
cannot stop. They cannot STOP We think
we can stop, We say, Come now, my /
'riend let W stop and discuss this subject"
but we do not stop. The year does not
'top, the day does not stop, the hour does not
top. The year is a great wheel and there is
band on that wheel that keeps it revolv-
n.y. and as that wheel turns, it turns three |
hundred AMI sixty five smaller wheels. which
ire the days and then each of these three
hundred and sixty five wheels turn twenty |
our smaller wheels, which are the hours and
hese twenty-four smaller wheels turn sixty
mailer whee's, which are the min
ties and these sixty smaller wheels turn
ixty more smaller wheels, which are the |.
econds and they keep rolling. rolling, roll
switching, switching. Oh,
lodi If our generation is going like
hat and we are going with them,
Saken us to the short but tremendous
l confess to you that my
me wish is to serve this generation, not to
Intagonize it, not to damage it, not to rule it,
nut to serve it. | would like to do something
oward helping unstrap its load, to stop its
ear to basam its wounds and to induce it
% put foot on the upward road that has |
1t its terminus, acc amation rapturous |
Ind gates pearline, and garlands amaranth-
ne and fountains rain5owed AMI dominions
and coroneted, for cannot forget |
hat lullaby in the osing words of my text:
David, after he had served his own genera
ion bv the will OF God. fell on Sleep"