Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-19


him to see what is comm to his chill.
dren. There's Peggy, goes sellin' fruit
every night in those cellars in Water
street and they re bells, sir. She S
| learning all sorts of bad words there,
and don't get back till ~ o'clock at
night. If it wasn't for her earnin' a
shillin' or two in their places, should
starve. o, | wish they was out of the
city. Yes, it is the truth; | would
rather have all my children dead than
on the street, but | can't help 1T. y
| Another one of those poorwomen, found
| by reformatory association, recited
| her story of want and woe. and looked
up and said: II felt so hard to lose the
children when they died, but now Pm
glad thet re gone" Ask any one
of thousand such children on the
streets: Where do you live?" and
they will answer: 81 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 city missionary or
tract distributor or teacher of ragged
schools will rescue one of them, but
for most people they are only weeds.
Yet, Jonah did not more completely
misrepresent the Red Alge about his
head in the Mediterranean than most
people misjudge these poor and for
lorn and dying children of the street
They are not weeds. They are inn
mortal flowers. Down in the deep sea
of woe, but flowers. When society and
the church of God came to 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, ye philanthropic and Chris
tian and merciful souls; not weeds, but
flowers. ] adjure you as the friends of
all newsboys' lodging houses, of all
industrial schools, of all homes for
friendless girls, and for the many
reformatories and humane associations
now on foot How much they have al
ready accomplished. Out of what
wretchedness, into what good homes.
of $1,000 of these picked up out of the
streets and sent into country homes,
OilAl tNEtNt Iuiilth OUb
In the last thirty years number that
no man can number of the Migrants
have been lifted into responsibility
and usefulness and a Christian life.
Many of them have homes Of their
own. Though ragged boys once and
street girls, now at the head of prosper
Gus families, honorcd on earth and TO be
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 We're
thought to be weeds have turned out
to be flowers One of those rescued |
lads from the streets of our cities wrote |
10 another. saving: II have heard You |
are studying for the ministry; so am
L." My hearers, ] implead you for the
of the streets. many of them
the brightest children of the city, but |
no chance. Do not step on their bare |
feet Do not, when they steal ride, |
cut behind. When the paper is three |
cents, once in while give them a FIVE
cent piece, and tell them to keep the |
like the ring of the letter
the newsboy sent back from Indiana,
where ne had been sent to good home,
to a New York newsboys lodging
house: Boys, we should show our
selves that we are no fools, that we can
become as respectable as any of the
for Franklin and Webster
and Clay We're poor boys once, and even
George Law and Vanderbilt and Aston
And now, boys. stand up and let them
see You have got the real stuff in you.
Come out here and make respectable
md honorable men, 50 they can say:
There, that boy was once news
boy" Ny hearers. join the Chris
ian philanthropists who are changing
,rgan-grinders and bootblacks and
lewsboys and street arabs and cigar
girls into those who shall be kings and
iueens unto God forever. II is high
lime that Jonah finds out that that
which is about him is not weeds but
lowers.
As I examine this Red Alga which
was about the recreant prophet down
n the Mediterranean depths. when. in
he words OF my text. he cried out: THE
weeds were wrapped about my head. :"
md | am led thereby to further ex-
mime this submarine world, am COM
,elled to exclaim. what a wonderful
iod we have. am glad that, by diving
lell and Brooks deep sea sounding
apparatus" and ever improving ma
.hinery, we are permitted to walk the
loor of the ocean and report the won
Iers wrought by the great God.
Study these gardens Of the sea. East
r and easier shall the profounds of the
,cean become to us. and more and more
Is opulence of color and plant unroll.
specially as ''Villeroy's Submarine
loat' has been constructed making it
,ossible to navigate under the sea al
most as well as on the surface of the
ca. and unless God in his mercy ban
she's war from the earth, whole fleets
I armed ships will yet far down under
he water move on to blow up the ar
osies that float the surface. May such
ubmarine ship be used for laying
pen the wonders of Gods workings