The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-04-17

be helped. ana must be helped, and VIII
be helped While there are thousands
of industrious men who cannot get any
work. these u1e1 not ant any
work come in and make that plea
am In favor of the restoration Of the
Old-fashioned whipping post for Just
this one class OF men who viii not
work
Again: Among the uprooting classes
place the oppressed poor Poverty TO
a certain extent is chasteuiRgs but after
that, when IL drives 3 man to the wall
and he hears his children cry in vain for
bread, it sometimes makes him desper-
ate. think that there are thousands
Of honest men lacerated into EsRabond-
ism There are men crushed under bur
dens for which they are not half paid
While there is oeScuse for criminalitv,
even in oppression state 1t as a sim
pie fact that much of the scOundrelism
OF the community is consequent upon
III treatment There are many men and
women battered and bruised and stung
until the hour OF despair has come, and
they stand with the ferocity Of a wild
beast, which, pursued until it can PUN
no longer, turns round, fOaming and
bleeding. to fight the hounds
There is a vast underground New
York and Brooklyn life that is aPpall-
ing and shameful 1t wa1lOvys and
steams with PutrefactiOn- You 60
down the stairs, which are wet and de-
cayed with filth, and at the bottom you
find the poor victims on the floor. cold,
sick, three-fOurths dead, sinking into a
still darker corner under the CLEAN OF
the lantern of the police. There has
not been breath OF fresh air in that
room for five years, literally. The
broken sewer smpties its contents upon
them, and they lie at night in the swim
ming filth. There they are, men, women
and children; blacks, whites; Mary
I Magdalen without her repentance, and
Lazarus without his God. These are
the dives into which the piclzpOclzets
/ and the thieves go, as wen as great
many who would like a different life
but can not get it
/ They are the underlying volcano that
threatens as with a Caracas earth
/ quake It rolls and roars and surges
and heaves and rocks and bIasphemss
and dies. And there are only two out
/ lets for it: The police court and the
/ POtter's field. In other words, they
must either go to prison or to hell.
In this cluster Of cities, whose cry of
/ want interpret, there are said to be,
as far as I can figure it up from the re-
ports, about 500, 600 honest poor who
! are dependent upon individual city and
/ state charities. If all their voices could
/ come up at once 1t would be a grpau
/ that would shake the foundations Of
I to the rescue. But, Tor the most part,
it suffers unsurpassed. It sits in sile nee,
/ crashing its teeth and sucking the
blood of its own arteries, waiting the
! judgment day. o, L should not wonder
if on that day IL would be found out that
some OF ms had some things that
belonged to them some extra gar
ment which might have made them
comfortable in cold days; some bread
( thrust into the ash barrel that might
have appeased their hunger for little
/ while; some wasted candle or gas let
that might have kindled up their dark
ness; some frescO on the ceiling that
would have given them a roof; some
jewel which, brought that orphan girl
in time, might have kept her from be
ing crowded off the Precipices of an un-
clean life; some New Testament that
would have told them of Him who
''eame to seek and save that which was
lost"
I have preached this sermon for four
or five practical reasons: Because ]
want you to know who are the uproot-
ing classes of society. Because L want
you to be more discriminating in your
charities. Because want your hearts
open with generosity and your hands
open with charity. Because I want
you to be made the sworn friends Of al
city evangelism and all nevsboys' lOdg
ing houses and children's aid societies
and DOrcas societies, under the skilifu
manipulation of wives and mothers and
sisters and daughters; let the spare gar
ments of yOur wardrObes be fitted K
the limbs OF the wan and shivering.
should not wonder if that hat thai
you give should come back a jeweleC
cOrOnet, or if that garment that yOr
hand out from your wardrobe should
4 mysteriOusly be vhitened, and some
how wrought into the Saviour's owl
robe, so in the last day he would ruI
his hand over it, and say: II was naked
and ye clothed me" That would bS
putting your garments to glorious uses
But more than that, I have preached
the sermon because I thought in the
contrast you would see how very kindly
/ God had dealt with you, and though
that thpRsanas Of you would go TO YOU
, I comfortable homes, and sit at your wei
; filed tables, and at the warm registers
and look at the round faces OF youl
. ! children and that then Won yrr,uftf l1lrs