Democratic messenger., 1893-10-07

drcn I" school she replied: NO, sir,
9"ver 6il send en- to school. know il,
they ou.;ht To learn. but | couldn't.
try to shame him sometimes Cit is my
husband. sir). but Ec drinks and then
beats mc-look ut that bruise on my
!ace-aad tell him to see what is comm
10 his children. There's Peggy goes
scllin fruit every night i'll those cellars
in Water street, and they're hclls. sir
She's learnin Ill sorts Of bad words
there and don't get back till II O'Clock
mt night. If it wasn't for her earnin
shillin or two in them places. should
siarve Oh. wish they was out Of the
city. Yes. it is the truth. / would
rather have I'll my children dead than
on the street. but can't help it."
Another one of those poor women
found by u reformatory association, re-
cited her story of want and woe and
looked up and said. Il felt so hard 10
lose the children when they died. brt
now I'm glad they're gone" Ask any
one Of Thousand such children on the
streets. Where do you live:" and they
will answer. Il don't live nowhere"
They will sleep tonight in ash barrels. or
under outdoor stairs. or on the wharf,
kicked and bruised and hungry. Who
cares for them? Once in awhile n city
missionary. Or tract distributor, or Il
teacher of ragged schools will rescue one
of them. but for most people they are
only weeds.
Yet Jonah did not more completely
misrcprcssi:t the red alga about his
head III the Mediterranean than most
p, oplc misjujgc these poor and forlorn
and dying children Of the street. They
are not wects. They are immortal flow
ers. Down in the deep sea of wee, but
flowers. When society and the church
Of God come 10 appreciate their eternal
value, there will be more c. l.. Braces
and more Van Meters and more angels
of mercy Spending their fortunes and
their lives in the rescue.
Hear it. o We philanthropic and
Christian and iaerciful souls-not weeds,
but flowers. Iabjure you as the friends
of all newsboys' lodging houses. of all
industrial schools. of all homes for
fricn Hess girls and for the many re-
formatories and humane associations
now on foot. How much they have NJ
ready accomplished. Ort Of what
wretchcdncss. into what good homes.
OF II GOO IF these picked up ont of the
streets and sent into country homes
only IL children turned out badly.
In the last 30 years Il number that 10
man can number of the Migrants have
ltfs.I i,,.o a.. 1.ifitx- nn1
usefulness and Christian life. Many
of them have homes of their own.
Though ragged boys once and street
girls. now ut the head of prosperous
families, honured on earth and 10 he
glorious in heaven. Some of them have
been governors Of states. Some Of them
are ministers of the gospel. In all de-
partments of life those who were
Thought to DO weeds have turned ont to
be flowers. Or. of those rescued lads
from :he streets of our cities wrote TO
another. saying: Il have heard you are
studying for the ministry. So am T.
My hearers. l implcad you for the
ncwsboys of the streets, many of them
the brightest children of the city. but
with no chance. Do not step on their
bare feet Do not. when they steal n ride,
cut behind. When the paper is cents,
once in awhile give them a ) cent piece
and tell them to keep the change. | like
the ring of the letter tine newshoy sent
back FROM Indiana. where he had been
sent 10 good home, to 4 New York
newsboys' lodging house: Boys. we
should show ourselves that we are no
fools. that we can become as respectable
as any If the countrymen. for Franklin
and Webster and Clay were poor boys
once, and even George Law and VAN
de-bilt and Astcr. And Eow, boys,
stand up and let them see you have
got the real strT in You. Come out
here and make respectable and honor
able men. so they can say, There; that
boy WIS once y ncwsbOy.'" My hear
ers. join the Christian philanthropists
who are changing organ grinders and
bootblacks ard newsboys and street
arabs and cigar girls into those who snail
be kings anG queens unto God forever.
1t is high time that Jonah finds out that
that which is aicut Kim is not weeds,
but flowers.
CocoNAls or rEAUTY.
As Ioxam,nc this red al;a which was
about the rcc.cant prophet down i'll the
Mediterranean depths, when. III the words
OF mv text. hc cried oCt, The weeds
were wrapped abous my head" and am
lei thereby 10 further xaminc this sub
marine world. am compelled TO czclaim.
What wonderful God we Lave. l am
glad that. by diving hell. ard Brooks
deep sea sounding apparatus. and ever
improving machinery. we are permitted
to walk the floor Of tie ocean and report
the wonders wrought IL the great God.
Study thesc :;ar,icnscf thcs Easier
ani easier shall the rrofourdS of the
ocean become To us. and more and more
its opulencc of color ard plant unroll,
especially as "Villcroy's submarine
boat" has been constructed. making il
possible TO navigate under the sea al
most rs we'll as Oh the surface of the
sea, and unless God in his mercy ban
ishes war from the earth whole fleets Of
armed ships will yet far down under the
water move on 10 blow up the arSosies
that float the surface. May such sub
marine Sips he U.ol for laying open the
wonders of Gods workings i'll the great
deep and never for human devastation!
On. the marvcls of the water world!
These so called seaweclS are the pasture
fields and the forage of the innumerable
animals of the deep Not one species Of
them can be spared from the economy of
nature. Valleys and mountains and
plants miles underneath the waves are
all covered with fora and fauna. Surken
Alps and Avcnnines and Himalayas of
Atlantic and Pacific oceans. \ continent
that once connected Europe and Ameri-
ca. so that i'll the ages past men came ON
foot across from where England Is to
where we row stand. all sunkcn and
now covered with the growths of the
sea as il once was covered with srowths
of the land.
England aud Ireland once all one piece
If land hut now much of il so far sunk