St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-19
A STREET INCIDENT.
One Of the Everyday Scenes
in the Busy Life of St.
Paul,
Which Furnishes the Theme
for Rev. w. S. Wallis
Sermon.
Impressions Created by a
Street. Accident to a
Small Boy.
A Proposed Revolution to Be
Faced When Rev. Mills
Comes.

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morning at the Grand Opera house ON
the subject "An Incident of Street Life
in st. Paul" He said: My text will
be the words, "Inasmuch as we have
done it unto the least of these, my
brethren. ye have done it unto me-" ]
select this text because the sentiment
of it plainly indicates that the speaker
valued the injnnctions set forth very
highly The Importance of this valua-
ton is impressed more fully when we
remember that the words occur in that
scene representing the expectation of
Christ as to the character of represent
ativeS of His church on earth And in that
highly dramatic scene, when the whole
teaching was gathered into a single
proposition, and that proposition de-
clared that the Master would justify
the righ 1us man by saying: Il was
huneereu and we gave me meat. sick
and in prison and We visited me'-that
when men should say in surprise that
they had no knowledge of doing such
thing, the Master would reply. '.lnaS-
much as ye have done it to the least Of
these, my brethren.ye have done it unto
me-"
is sympathetic and helpful love.
Now, this is the sermon | want to
preach, but not in abstract fashion, not
in the language of Scholasticism. On
the contrary, | want to illustrate it by
living example, by citing conditions
at present existing in our city by a
presentation of very modern instances.
And to carry out this method of
presentation | will take you with HE to
Seventh street on a day of the early
December. just at the hour when the
working day has concluded and when
the streets are filed with thrOngs of
people, h0meWard bound.
An Accident Scene.
At given point the crowd gathers in
a knot, man picks up boy who has
been accidentally run over by team,
and throwing a coat around him, carries
him TO a doorway to wait for the patrol
wagon. Here we pause to watch the
action OF this long procession OF people
who pass this point; for we shall see
how little impression troubles make Oh
the great world unless upon the indi
viduaIs who are Immediately touched.
Two men approach the fringe OF
this crowd
They have been talking together most
earnestly.
The scene produces lull in the con-
yerSatiOn.
They see through the moving mass,
1.-THE heap of black clothes, with few
curls of spun gold, stealing out from
under torn cap.
They hear stifed moan.
A touch of sympathy mingleS with
their silence. but they do not speak.
Then, as if feeling they can do no
good by staying, they move on.
Once past the place one says, but you
see Calvinism held sway against every
1t was as Gibraltar's
rock against every aggressive enemy
But the other made savage protest,
and declared that Darwin had come
down on all these theories as the eagles
sweep down from the hills upon the
dove-cotes. and that nothing is left of
the churches but the name and the
shell.
Loud and long these men argued with
savage accent, welding the sword of ar
gument. and when they parted one
thanked God that he was set on the
walls of Zion, defender of faith. the
other that he was armed with a blade.
keener than those made in Damascus,
and with which he was able to demoliSh
both creedS and churches.
Still others come.
Two young men rapidly approach, and
suddenly stop.
They are kindly youth, and say it Is
too bad.
Their faces are troubled, and they
show sign of interest.
But they suddenly remember that
they are on their way to the charity
ball.
Then they hurry on, and three hours
later are Whirling in the midst of gay
scenes, thinking rather OH luxury and
beauty than ''hOneSt poverty" and the
needs and miseries arising therefrom.
An old woman puts down her basket,
and breaks into loud EXPLANATIONS. She
piously prayS God to help.