Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-10-03

| 1oeH 0lenonest1eo Kept toll1ng In tne11
ears. II had an AZ, and could split
open the beams of that fine house, per
haps I would find in the very heart Of it
q skeleton. In his very best wine there
is . smack Of the poor mans sweat. Oh!
| IL 1t strange that when q man has de-
| voured vidow'sl houses. he is disturbed
with indigestion? AL the forces of ma
ture are against him. The floods are
ready to drown him, and the earthquake
to swallow HIM, and the fires to consume
him, and the lightnings to smite him.
But the children of God are on every
street, and in the day when the crowns
of Heaven are distributed, some of the
brightest will be given to those men who
were faithful to God and faithful to the
souls of others amid the marts of busl-
ness, proving themselves the heroes of
the street. Mighty were their tempta-
tions, mighty was there deliverance, and
mighty shall be their triumph.
Again, the street impresses me with
the fact that life is full of pretentions
and sham. What subterfuge, what dou-
BILE dealing, what twofacedness! Do all
the people who wish you good morning
really hope for you a happy day? Do
all the people who shake hands love
each other? Are all those anxious about
your health who inquire concerning it?
Do all want to see you who ask you to
call? Does all the world know half as
much as it pretends to know? Is there
not many a wretched stock of goods
with brilliant show window? Passing
mp and down these streets to your bust
ness and your work, are you not i'm
pressed with the fact that much of So
ciety is hollow, and that there are SUBJ
terfuges and pretensions? Oh! how
many there are who swagger and strut,
and how few people who are natural and
walk. While tops shipper, and fools
chuckle, and simpletons giggle how few
people are natural and laugh. The
courtesan and the libertine 60 down the
street in beautiful apparel, while within
the heart there are volcanoes of passion
consuming their life away. l say these
things not to create in you incredibly
and misanthropy, nor do l forget there
are thousands of people a great deal
better than they seem; but l do not
think any man is prepared for the con-
flict of this life until he knows this par
ticular peril. Ehud comes pretending
to pay his tax to King Eglon, and while
he stands in front of the king. stabs
him through with dagger until the
haft went in after the blade. Judas
Iscariot kissed Christ.
Again, the street impresses me with
the fact that it is great field for Chris
tian charity. There are hunger and suf-
fering, and want and wretchedness in
the country; but these evils chiefly con-
gregate in our great cities. On every
street crime prowls, and drunkenness
staggers, and shame winks, and pauper-
ism thrusts out its hand asking for rains.
Here want is most squalid and hunger
is most lean. A Christian man, going
along street in New York, saw a poor
lad and he stopped and said: My boy,
do you know how to read and writer"
The boy made no answer. The man
asked the question twice and thrice:
Can you read and writer" and then the
boy answered with o tear splashing on
the back of his hand. He said in def
ance: mo, sir; can't read nor write,
neither. God, sir don't want me to
read and write. Didn't He take away
Der to have seen him? and haven't l had
to 60 along the street to get something
to fetch home to eat for the folks? and
didn't I, as soon as could carry bas-
ket, have to go out and pick up cinders.
and never have no schooling sir? God
don't want me to read, sir. l can't read
nor write neither" Oh, these poor
wanderers! They have no chance.
Born in degradation, as they get up
from their hands and knees to walk,
they take their first step on the road to
despair Let us go forth in the name Of
the Lord Jesus Christ to rescue them.
If you are not willing to go forth your
self, then give of your means; and If you
are too lazy to go, and if you are too
stingy to help, them get out of the way,
and hide yourself in the dens and caves
of the earth, lest, when Christ's chariot
comes along, the horses hoofs trample
you into the mire. Beware lest the
thousands of the destitute of your city,
in the last great day, rise up and curse
your stupidity and your neglect. One
cold winters day, as Christian man
York, he saw a little girl seated at the
gate, shivering in the cold. He said to
her: My child, what do you sit there
for, this cold day." oh" she replied,
Il am waiting-I am waiting for some
body to come and take care of me-"
why" said the man, what makes YOU
think anybody will come and take care
of your" oh" she said, my mother
died last week and 1 was crying very
much, and she said: Don't cry, my dear;
though I am gone and your father is
gone, the Lord will send somebody to
take care of you." Mymother never told
o lie; she said some one would come
and take care of me, and 1 am waiting
for them to come" . yes, they are
waiting for YOU. Men of great hearts,
gather them in, gather them in. 1t is
not the will of your Heavenly Father
that one of these little ones should
perish.
Lastly, the street impresses me with
the fact that all the people are looking
forward. 1 see expectancy written on
almost every face meet between here
and BROOKLYN bridge, or walking the
whole length of Broadway. Where you
find a thousand people walking straight
on. you only find one man stopping and
looking back. The fact is, God made
NJ all 70 look ahead because We are i'm
mortal. In this tramp of the multitude
on the streets, 1 hear the tramp of
great host. marching and marching ifor
eternity. Beyond the office, the store,