St. Paul daily globe., 1890-06-23

but we have great many men who are
too good to do a wIlfully dishonest
thing; too good to vote for candidate
whose hands are smirched with bribery;
to good to be coparceners in the padding
Of any census; too good to wrong either
friend or an enemy Intentionally, and
too good to withhold his Just need of
gratitude from gracious God.
We have, moreover considerable
number OF people who are not worth
counting. There are the consumers,
such as indOlent sons, frivolous daugh-
tiers, and husbands who when Ques-
toned as to their avocation must an
swer that their wives take in washing.
And there are the devOurers, such as
gamblers, rumsellers who are licensed
to commit theft and bloodshed, and
bawdS of both sexes. like those who are
running the Theatre COmique. And
there are the suicides, not only such as
take their lives with moose and pistol,
but those who are dying of drink.
opium and Righteousness, dying not for
themselves alone, but dragging others
with them down to spiritual and eternal
death. say these are not worth count
ing. Their room is better than their
company. Our census would be much
better if we could leave them out of it.
Still further, there are scores OF
thousands of blind people in our city.
The prince of this world hath blinded
their eyes lest they should see spiritual
things as they are. They are blind to
all the great verities, as God, and
heaven, and life and immortality. They
are blind to the welfare of their fellows,
thinking only of elf-self-enrichment
self-gratifcation They are blind in-
deed to real self-interest, selling their
SOULS birthright for mess Of pottage;
poor, blind people, who go j0stling each
other in their haste toward selfish ends.
These are the people of whom Carlyle
spoke when looking out of his winoW
on the strand, upon the surging multi
tudeS, hes said: London has 10000
people, mostly FOOLS"
Then, too, we have a great many peo-
pie in trouble, and, therefore, in need
of sympathy and help. Some of them
are enduring physical pain, death feel
ing for their heartstrings. Some have
grown wrinkled and weary from fight
ing the wolf Of poverty. Some have
put away their dead out of their sight.
God knows them all and pities them all;
and he intends that his people also
shall know and pity them. And, finally,
there are great many more people in
Minneapolis than the churches seem
to be able to take care of. This is
called "The City of Churches" and
it has a clear right to the title;
Yet the bitter cry of the Elapsed
Masses is heard among US. Every
man among us, however degraded, is
child of the infinite Father and counts
one in the memorial book. And for
every one the church must bear its
measure of responsibility. "Ye are the
salt of the earth; but if the salt have
lost its flavor, wherewith shall it be
salted? 'Tis thenceforth good for nothing
but to be cast out and to be trOdden
under foot of men,"
For the last fortnight the common
question ON our streets has been, "Bave
you been enrolled?'' 1t is quite posi-
BILE that some have been omitted from
our municipal census, but God has a
great big book wherein all his true chill
dren are recorded; it is the Lambs
Book of life.
SIS your name written there?
In the Book of the Kingdom, is your name
written there?'