The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-10

ms may possibly seem little
strange TO some, for do not expect
ever to BIO n resident ot Wheeling again
But | lived there long cnough.to be-
come specially interested in two classes
OF persons-those who wcre my person
al friends, and those who seemed to
have few if any. real friends. OF, the
latter class there were so many, and
they seemed SO helpless, that when l
saw ono, who, like Mr.. Sawyer, was in
terested in them and knew how to help
them, could but feel that nothing
ought to DO allowed TO Interfere with
such noble and Christ-like work.
Something like year ago, Mr.. Hcarnc
called to SEQ me 10 talk about the i'm"
portance and possibility OF i permanent
building. ! had talked with him before
and knew his interest; but what
feared was that it might DO so long
before he would see his way clear to do
what he wantc,l to--that is erect a
building himself-or before others could
be made TO feel its importance suiIi-
GENTLY to undertake it, tina. the result
would BIO that the enterprise would be
abandoned. I knew that Mr.. Hearno
was in earnest in regard to the matter,
but for the time being there seemed to
be insuperable obstacles in his way.
While residing in Rochester | had
seen the result OF such work in some
what similar enterprise Beginning
very small, the work has grown and
spread until now there are two largo
missions, one OF which is paying nearly
or quite $4,000 annual rent for its main
building, whcre,from 500 to 1000 are
fed daily and provision is made for
lodging something moro than 100 per-
sons; while another place is rented for
the religious work. The number OF
persons who are rescued from lives OF
degradation and crime and led into
lives Of purity and usefulness is OF
itself sufficient to justify the outlay OF
money and strength, while the number
who are provided with place for shell
ter and food is very large. But the
most hopeful feature is found in the
fact that these persons are, to very
great extent, led into lives OF industry
and usefulness. have hoped tosee, on
smaller scale, some such results in
Wheeling. So when | read the an
nouncoment that Mr.. Hearne was
ready TO begin the work OF erecting a
building. that the ground was already
bought and tho plans made, l felt q JOY
which words cannot express.
Other noble men have done ,magnani-
nous things for Wheeling; but no one,
as it seems to me, has done q more
Christ-fik thing than this will prove to
be. A grander monument could hardly
be reared by Christian man.
l do not know the details OF the plan.
But can but hope that such provision
will be made as will secure the perma-
nence and perpetuity Of the work. And
can but pray that AIR. Hearne will live,
not onl " to complete the work under
taken, but to see tho rich frnit OF his
planting for many years to come.
The experience OF MIR. Sawyer has
been such that he will be fully compe.
tent to organize and carry forward such
work as is contemplated. on much
more comprehensive scale than could
DO possible in the forbiddng surround
ings Of the work hitherto.
feel quite sure that the large. hearted
men OF Wheeling will,not let him want
for ample resources to carry forward
the work when once fairly inaugurated
under the more favorable auspices.
While writing, l want to say, though
entirely irrelevant to the above, how
much have enjoyed the letters Of Mr..
Campbell from Rome. One who has not
been over tho ground and made some
thing OF study OF the subject, especi.
ally OF the ruins, can hardly appreciate
the difference between these letters and
tho letters often printed from the or
binary tourist,
First OF all, Mr.. Campbell knows how
to write. Next in Importance, he evi.
IDENTIFY has learned tho art OF seeing
things. Then he cvinces skill in that
most. difficult OF all tasks in Rome, viz
distinguishing tho real from the iabu.
lous. At every step in Rome one is con-
fronted with mixture oftruth and
fiction, which requires the utmost skill
and patience to separate. But Mr.
Campbell may be followed, l think,
with entire safety. More than this, his
letters show. skill i'll getting hold Of
facts which etlde the ordinary writer
Not since was in Rome have l read
any letters which have interested me
more.
There is so much that is marvellous in
Rome, that persons generally arc in.
clincd to swallow almost anything
which is written about 1t.
remember reading some time since
letter credited to the Sunday Schoo
Times, in which n lady traveller de.
scribed in glowing language the effect
OF the suns rays MS they shone through
tho richly.colored glass in tho largo cir
cnlar5 window ut the top OF the Pan.
theon. The funny thing about it vii:
the fact that the only window in the
Pantheon is circular opening at the
top, said to BIO twenty-seven feet in di.
amcter, which never had Il pane OF glass
in it, but simple aperture, through
which the rain has fallen upon the
pavement below since twenty-sevcn
years before the Christian era. .s
The letters OF tourists are valuable
when carefully written.
CnAs. W. CUSHING
Bataria, New York, Nay a.
Woman Suffrage and tho Ri sht of Suffrage.
Harer's Weekly. 50
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