Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-04-21
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The Hope THAT is within Us.

We do not know that the honest
hand of toll shall yet grasp the helm
of state-but we believe it. We do
not know that prohibition shall vet
prevail across the continent and be
sailed down by the salt sea boundar-
ies-but we believe it, We do not
know that women will bless and
brighten every place she enters, and
that she shall yet enter every place
but we believe 1t. The Bible IS the
chief corner stone of these beliefs.
The labor movement can find no
better motto than this from Christ's
own lips: "My Father gorketh hith-
erto and I work"
! The temperance movement can find
no better motto than His who said,
Every plant that my Heavenly Faith
or hath not planted shall ba rooted
up" The womans' movement can
find no better motto than that of the
great apostle who said, There is
neither male nor female, but ye are
all one in Christ Jesus" True, there
must always be the day of small things
before we reach the day of the great.
In our modern days, associated effort
has come to the rescue in a fashion
that nightly accelerates the progress
of reform. What if Dorothea Dix
had given her life TO the individual
care of few of the insane poor, in
stead of going before legislature and
founding insane hospitals throughout
the Union? What if Clara Barton
had nursed few soldiers, instead of
founding the Red Gross Army that
can administer to the whole nation in
time of need? What if Lord Shafts
bury had tended the chimney-sweep
or relieved the sorrows of sundry lit
tie ones ground down under the slav-
cry of the coal pits instead of institu-
ting laws that swept child labor out
of England at one stroke? What if
Charles TURNER had uplifted indiv-
idual colored men instead of so utlliz-
ing the machinery of the state so as
to lift up a race? But these are SPLEEN
did illustrations of the genius of one.
This day of q new inspiration shows
us how to apply the genius of the
many localized into systematic bless
edness through organization. I thank
God that by its means the working
man, the home and universal woman
hood are soon to find protection as
universal as their need. Emerson
says, looking at the stately cathedral
in Rome, And yet a little waving
hand reared these huge columns"
Yes but that hand wrought with ten
thousand others on one plan and to
one purpose. Alone we can do little.
Aggregated we, the units of weakness,
become the batteries of power. It
was once the fashion in certain circles
political to speak sneeringly of mud
stills" and of ''the men with hayseed
in their hair" Now the mud opens
to receive into silence and oblivion
those who dared to thus speak of
men, and the hayseed harvest waves
like Lebanon. AgItase, educate, or
ganize these and the deathless watch
words of success. The fingers of the
hand can do little alone, but correla-
ted into fist they become formidable.
The plank borne here and there by
the sport of the waves is an image of
imbecility, but frame a thousand
planks of heart of oak into hull, put
in your engine with its heart of fire,
fit your ship, and it shall cross at
right angle those same waves to the
port it has proposed to attain. We
want all those hke-minded with us,
who would down the saloon, exalt the
home, redeem manhood and uplift
womanhood, to join hands with US for
organized work according to a plan.
It is the way commerce has marched
across this continent and captured it
for civilization one by one; it is the
way an army is recruited, one by one;
it is the way ChrIsps church is built
up into power and heaven adds to it's
souls redeemed, just one by one.
Readers of the Phillipsburg HER
AID, one and all, will you not rally
thus to the holy call of individual re-
sponsibIlity and gloriously united eff
fort?
'sFor the cause that lacks assistance,
| For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future In the distance
And the good that you can do"
The New York dispatches of Sun
day, April 3, tell US of THIRSTY Sun
day." when there was scarcely a sa-
loon in the city to which admission
could be obtained, and groups of men
were going from saloon to saloon vain
ly trying to get drink, unless serv-
ed with crackers and cheese at tables.
Is this improved condition of affairs
due to the exposure of the rottenness
in the man agement of the city by Rev.
DR., Parkhurst9 If so, and the de-
termined effort of one minister of the
gospel can accomplish so much, what
might result if the pastor and ali
christian people of the land should
work unitedly?
The women of Cape May, N. J.,
turned out in force at the school cleo
ton Mar 18th and showed under"
> LIQUOR seller who was candidate for
: school trustee. The legislature of
this same State is said to have decid-
ed by handsome vote that its exhibit
at the Columbian Exposition shall be
closed on the Sabbath. Good for
N. j.