The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-05-26
APPEAL FOR THE FRIENDLESS.
For the COLUMBIA HERALD

A mother sleeps dreamleNsly unuer the sward
While dolorous Winds above her rave
Ana buffet the frame Of her dpSOlatp child
Who weeps convulSiyely over her grave.
What passionate grief, what unspeakabe
woe,
The hapless and wrctched orphan betide!
What Kindness if death would his anguish
relieve,
And give him peaceful place at her side!
Bat for him, her struggle with sorrow and
want
Had dtvsstcd the grave ofeyerv fear;
Bot oh, it was bitter, 80 bitter, to die,
And leave her darling uncared for herel
She felt that the end could bring her no rest
was II fearful test OF / reSolute faith;
Ana she clung to lie for her dear ones sake
win a struggle thai ceased with ner dy.
ing breath.
There's many a waif adrif' on LIES tide,
MANY an ornhan in pitiful plight
watching with anxious and pleading gaze
Iocaich some eye with Kindness alight.
The Savior is watching those little ones
AS they wander abroad in search OF relief,
He knows the mlStOrtunes that shadow
there lives
The ad desttution, the sources of grief.
He is watching His stewards to whom they
apply,
Anu marvels that only few appear
(OI all VINO have found deliVerer in Him, }
70 stand as His representatives here.
o mothers who fondle your babies fair.
Where the spectre of poverty never comes
Have you ever thought of the oIpuan's
needs,
In the safe r, treat of your pleas ant homes?
Have you never surveyed the shelterless
waif,
And Lnen to your inner self have said:
"lf death and misfortune had wrecked my
home,
Then at might have been my darling in
stead?"
And you, the possessors of chiluless homes
with none TO innent your names and
estates,
Do YOU ever think of those hapless ones
For whom future, unpronising, waits?
And deep in your hearts an sching void
Give refuge TO some of those fugitives,
And may you mud happiness, unalloyed,
Moreover, the orphan is not alone
The worthy object OF charity's care;
| The needy of every age and plight,
The lonely and wretched are everywhere
What did Christ say of "the least Of these"
In the prdctical lessons lie taught? AnC
more,
what of rejecting Him in them?
! GODS children, however lonely and poor
"The poor ye have with you, always" H,
said.
Now let us consider what the word imply
Is reference only to physical thugs.
Cold, hunger, ana consequent misery?
There are far worse ills than scanty food
And clothing for the INDECENT, all, Inc!
To which the iricndle,S are often exposed:
The depths OF spi itual poverty.
A good definition of charity
Is help for the suffering anywhere;
| Not merely money and what IL can buy,
But thoughtful kindness and loving care
Outlines a redunGance ofearthly goods
Is founr in conjunction with poignan
need;
A craving for kindness and sympathy,
| Which the merciful soul will always heed
Many, doubtless there are who walk b,
Chr St's side,
And seek His Dewidered and wandering
sheen;
Neglected and frendless, forgotten and lost
And ready 10 perish on some rugged steer
AT length there VIII be an ingathering @
souls,
When the end of human probation ha
come;
a grand assembly Of the worlds redeemed
The day OF the heavenly harvest-home.
And those who have rescued immortal soul
Will be OF the number that happy day,
And as long as eternal ages roll,
VIII shine as the stars forever and aye.
-LOUISIASA.