The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-03-02
THE GOOD MEN DO.


The men who do good are more
numerous than ore would think In
the narrow bounds of his own oDser-
walton. First in the catalogue ano
highest In rank are the great preach
ers who under modern improvements
of the short hand writer and the tele'
graph and the newspaper have nun
dreds OF thousands Tor an audience,
and who send through all the avenues
of Intelligence divine truth clothed IN
thrilling eloquence, touching ana AMI
mating to Christian hope men ana
women who never enter church, Out
for a ceut or two can purchase thh
great dailies that catch from the lips
of the orators the fresh thoughts Oi
their git minds. such men, IL Is
true, are few, for very few have the
Oeni IA 10 make for themselves such
vast audience. Headed by BtecNef
and Talmadge, the others may DO
counted on the fingers who have d
world audience. they make up III
the quality of good they do, for their
limited number. These are the men
who by an instinct of sympathy touch
and invlgOrate the great heart OF the
people, and they do a world of good.
It would seem that science and
art had been inspired to higher
efforts and greater accomplishments
in order that bjth might become bet
ter servants and nobler factors in
spreading truth broadcast and in
planting the germs of % higher and
purer intelligence In every condition
of society. The stenOgrapher, the
prees and the telegraph have thus be-
G me the servants of the Most High
and to those who have the germs to
command Tor this purpose DO due all
honor.
Doing good il not confined to these
gifted men of the clergy. It's gentle
and generous hand is everywhere ana
its effects can be seen In the broaden
ing and Frightening OF human intel|i-
gence aud social life. The minister
VINO has u smaller audience plants
seed perhaps az small rs the mustard,
but it grows and its branches spread
out and give comfort and rest to the
weary aud wing tired. Their inilu'
ence may be seen in every city, every
village and every hamlet throughout
the bounds of Christendom.
Then comes the great army OF doors
of good, the common soldier, humble
in preteusion but strong in purpose,
who avoids uot tho heat OF the day
nor does no shirk duty shelteripg
himself from the biting frosts of cold
and SNOW, but who, heroic at
heart and indomitable in purpose,
carries the cause OF humanity to every
purleu of vice and degradation, and
with it consolation to every heart
broken aud care worn aud defeated
sufferer In the great struggle OF men
and women to live upon a higher
plane.
Then last but not least come the
mothers and women OF our land,
always hr,t to catch the hlg hest in.
spiration and always interchangeable 10
touch sin and woe with the magic
hand OF repentance aud consolation
and lead erring humanity into the
sweet paths OF peace.
There are many, very many noble
men and women doing god in this
world, some speaking in thunder
tones from the mountain tops to the
nations in the valleys beneath, others
moving along the dusty roads with
the vast multitudes of pilgrims, others
stopping by the wayside in the great
hospitals where the wounded, stricken
and helpless are crying for II drop OF
cool water. Every where over the in
ha )itable globe these evangels of
good may be found, catching the first
cry of infancy in every humble cradle
and soothing with sweet promises the
last hours of age either breathing
away its life In the hovel or in the