The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-04-21

anil nakedness that kasles sadly against
our front door step! If the roof of all
tue houses of restitution could be lifted
so We could look down into them Just as
God looks, whose nerves would be strong
enough to stand IL? And yet there they
are. The fifty thousand sewing m
in these three cities, some of them in
hunger aud cold, working night after
night, until some tiples the blood spurts
from the nostrl and lips. How well
their grief was voiced by that despairing
woman who stood by her invalid hus-
band and invalid child aud said TO the
city missionary: 81 am down.heart d.
Everything's against us; and then there
are other things" "Whatother thing?H
said the city missionary. SOP she re-
piled, my sn." what do you mean
by that?" "WeIl," she said, 81 never
hear or see anything good. It's work
from Monday morning till Saturday
night, and then when Sunday comes /
can't go out, aud / walk the floor, and
1t a me tremble to think that / have
got to meet God. o sir, it's 80 hard for
us. We have to work SO, and then we
have so much trouble. and then we are
getting along so poorly; and see this wee
little thing growing weaker; and then to
think we arc not getting nearer to God,
but floating away from him. o, sir, I
do wish 1 was ready to die"
/ should not wonder if they had a good
deal better time than we in the future, to
make up for the TACT that they had such
a bad time here. 1t would be lust like
Jesus to say; 'Come up and take the
highest seats. You suffered with me on
earth; now be glori6ed with me in heay-
en-" o thou weeping One of Bethany!
o tn III dying One of the cross! Have
mercy on the starving, freezing, home-
less poor of these great cities.
have preached this for four
or five practical reasons: Because L
want you to know who arc the uproot-
ing classes of society. Because I want
you to be more discriminating i'll your
charities. Because 1 want your hearts
| open with generosity and YOU hands
open with charity. Because L want you
to be made the sworn friends of all city
evangelisation, and all newsboy's lodg-
ing houses, and all childran's and So
%cieties, and Dorcas societies, under the
skillful manipulation of wives and moth
ers and sisters and daughters; let the
| spare garments of your wardobes be fit
ted to the limbs of the wan and shiver-
ing. / should not wonder il that hat you
give should core back o jeweled coronet,
or if that garment that you hand out
from your wardrobe should mysteriously
be whitened, and somehow wrought
into the Saviour's own robe, so in the
last day he would run his hand over 1T,
and say: 81 was naked, and ye clothed
me-" That would be putting your gar
ments to glorious uses.
But more than than that, 1 have
preached the sermon because l thought
in the contrast you would see how very
kindly God had dealt with you, and I
thought that thousands of you would
go to your comfortable home s, and sit
at your well filled tables, and at the
warm registers, and look at the round
faces Of your children, and that then
you would burst into tears at the re-
view of Gods goodness to you, and
that you would go to your room and
lock the door, and kneel down, and say:
20 Lord, 1 have been an migrate; make
me thy child. o Lord, there are so
tered to-day, | thank thee that all my
life thou hast taken such good care Of
me. 0 Lord, there are so many sick
and crippled children to-day. L thank
thee mine are well, some of them on
earth; some of them In heaven. Thy
goodness. o Lord, breaks me down.
Take me once and forever. Sprinkled
as 1 was many years ago at the altar,
while my mother held me, now conse
crate my soul to thee in a holier bap-
tism of r%epenting tears,
FOR sinners, Lord. thou cam'stt to bleed,
And I'm a SHINE vile indeed;
Lord. J. believe thy grace is free, ~.
@ magnify that grace to me-"