The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-22

times the blood spurts fIom nostrils and
lips. How well their grief was voiced by
that despairing woman who stood
by her invalid husband and
invalid child, and said to the
city missionary: II am down-hearted.
Everythings against us; and then there
are other things" "What other things?"
said the city missionary. "O," she re-
piled, "my sin." "What do you mean by
that?" "Well," she said, 81 never hear
or see anything good. It's work from
Monday morning till Saturday night, and
then when Sunday comes l can't 90 out,
and | walk the floor, and it makes me
tremble TO think that l have got to meet
God. o, sir. it's so 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 weaker; and then to
think we are not getting nearer to God,
but floating away from him. o, sir, do
wish was ready to die"
Ishould not wonder if they had good
deal better time than we in the future, to
make up for the fact that they had such a
bad time here. 1t would be just like Jesus
TO say: Come up and take the highest
seats. You suffered with me on earth I;
now be glorified with me in heaven" o
Thou weeping one of Bethany; o Thou
dying one OF the cross. Have mercy on
the starving, freezing, homeless poor OF
these great cities!
Ihave preached this sermon for four or
five practical reasons: Because L want
you to know who are the uprooting classes
Of society. Because | want you to be
more discriminating in your charities. Be-
cause want your hearts open with gen.
erosity, and your hands open with chart
ty. Because I want you to be made the
sworn friends of all city evangelization,
and all newsboys lodging houses, and all
children's aid societies and Dorcas socie-
ties, under the skiliful manipulation OF
wives and mothers and sisters and
daughters; let the spare garments of your
wardrobe be fitted To the limbs OF the wan
and shiverlng. should not wonder If
that hat that you give should come back
a jeweled coronet, or if that garment that
you hand out from your wardrobe should
mysteriously be whitened. and somehow
wrought into the Savior's own robe, so in
the last day He would run His hand over
me-" That would be putting your gar
ments to glorious uses.
But more than that, have preached
the sermon because | thought in the con.
trast you would see how very kindly God
had dealt with you, and 1 thought that
thousands of you would go to your COM
Portable homes and sit at your well-flled
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
review of Gods goodness to you, and that
you would go to your room and lock the
door, and kneel down and say: 80 Lord,
/ have been an migrate; make me thy
child. o Lord. there are so many hungry
and unclad and unsheltered today, | thank
thee that all my life thou has taken such
good care of me. 0 Lord. there are Sc
many sick and crippled children today,
thank thee mine are well, some of them
on earth, some Of them in heaven. Thy
goodness, 0 Lord, breaks me down. Take
ne once and forever. Sprinkled as L wa:
many years ago at the altar, while my
mother held me, now consecrate mysou
to thee in a holIer baptism OF repentine
tears.
For sinners, Lord. thou csm'st to bleed
And I'm q sinner vile Indeed;
Lord, believe thy grace Is Tree,
o magnify tina. grace TO me-