The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-10-05

va present. TIE sublime report OF thai
ss',1 en.on oment Is In To. book OF Deuteronomy
s wn.cn says tnat the Lori buried rim. and oI
tnose who have gons down 10 siun.ha, IN 81,
,.oeP ,no same may be said, 'sThe Lord bur
tnem. AZ Christ was buried in n gsr,isn .c
your shipwrecked friends and thoss vbo
eouiu not survive till they reached port were
put down amid irlicscence--"rn ths midst ,I
'br garden there was n sepulch.r
IL mas always been mys,erv what v.s -.
particular mole by whici G,.or,e {, Too,.
insn, the pu'pt orator OF ths Mcthotis.
nhurch alId the chaplain OF the Amerlra.,
congress. lot this lie aher emb,rxiny IN,
Enyiand on the steamship President. Mar,
a.sn, i'.i. Inc snip never arrived Ia port.
no one ever sicnsIed nor. anu on notn sIne,
OF the ocean 1t has for fifty years been qups.
toned what became OF her But this know
about Coo smnn that whether IL WIS icsb.r,.
or conhngrnton midses or collision he had
morn garlsnds on his ocean tomb than H. ex-
pirlng on land, each OF his million friends
mad put bouquet on hi4 casset In tho
midst OF the garden was his sepulcher.
But that brings me to notice the misnomer
N TINS Jonahitic expression OF the text. The
prophet NOT only maze MISTAKE by ,rylny
To 40 to Tarshish when God told him TO go
To Ninevab. but he made mistake when he
styled as weeds these growths that envrapped
him on the day he sank A weed is some
thing that IL useless. II Is something YOU
throw out from the garden. IL Is something
that chokes the wheat. II Is something 20
be grubbed out from among tho cotton. Il
Is something unsightly to the eye. Il Is an
invader oil the vegetable or tioral world.
but rms growth tnat sprang up rom ,no
depth OF the Mediterranean or roated on its
surface was among the most beautiful THINGS
that God ever makes. IL WAS a water plant
known as the red colorcd alga aud no weed
at all. 1t comes from the loom of infinite
beauty. II Is planted by heavenly love. IL
Is the star OF a suuken armament IL IL a
lamp which the Lord klndlei IL isA cord
by which TO bind whole shaaves OF practical
suggestion. II is pcsm all whose cantos
are rung By Divins goodns.. Yet We all
make the mistake that Jonah made In regard
to il and call II n weed
The weeds were wrapped about my head"
An, that IN the trouble on tho land AZ on the
SEA We call those weeds that are flowers.
Pitched up on the beach OF society are chill
dren without home, without opportunity for
anything but sin, seemingly without God.
They are washed mp helpless They are callcf
ragamuflns They are spoken OF "a tho
rakings OF the world. They are waits. They
are street arabs. They are fiotsam and jet
sam oi the social sea. They are something
10 be left alone, or something - be trod on,
or something to give up TO decay. Nothing
but weeds. They are up the rickety stairs OF
that garret. They are down In the cellar OF
tnat tenement house They swelter In sum
mers when they see not one blade OF green
grass. and shiver In winters thnt allow them
not one warm coat or shawl or shoe.
Such the city missionary found in one oi
our city rookerIes. and when the poor woman
was asked II sne sent her children TO school
she replied mo, sir, never did send EN-
TO school. | know II. they ought to learn,
/ but | couldn't. | try TO shame him some
|, times (it Ia my husband, sir), hut he drinks
and then beats me-look al that bruise on
my Iace--sns 1 tell MIN TO see what IA comm
TO his children. There's Peggy goes sellin'
fruit every might In those cellars in Water
street. and they're hells sir. She's learnin'
all sorts OF bad words there and don't get
, back till II O'Clock AT night. II It wasn't for
! her earnin' a shillin' or two in them places.
| should starve. Oh / WISH tney was out OF
| the city. Yes, IL ~ the truth. | would rnther
! have all my children dead than on the street,
I but can't help it,"
Another one of those poor women found
| Ivy reiormatory association re'ited he-
story OF want aud woe ana looked up and
| said, ~ felt so hard to lose the children
when they died, but now I'm glad they're
gone" Ask any one OF a thousand sucn
| children ON the streets, where do you live%
| and they will answer, 81 don't live no.
/ where" They will sleep tonight in asa bar
| rels, or under outdoor stairs. or ON the
| wharf, kicked and bruised and hungry. Who
| cares tor themi Once In while city mis-
sionary, or n 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 mis-
| represent the red alga about his head In tno
Mediterranean than most people misiudse
| these poor and forlorn and dying children OF
tie street They are not weeds. They ara
| immortal flowers. Down in the deep sea ot
| woe but flowers. When society ami tho
| church OF God come to appreciate their eter-
nal value there will be more c. l.. Braces
and more Van Meters and more angels of
mercy spending their fortunes and their lives
| Ia the rescue.
Hear 1t, o We phlanthropic and Christian
and merciful souls--not weeds, but howrrs.
| [ abjure you ~ the friends OF all newsuoys
| lodging houses, OF all industrial schools. oil
all homes for iriendless girls, AMI Tor the
mary reformatories and humane assoclG-
tons now on foot. How much they nave AL
ready accomplished Out OF what wretch
edness, into what good homes or 1000 o
these picked up out OF tue streets ana sent
into country homes only tweleHs children
turned out badly.
In the last thirty years q number that nc
man can number oi the vagran,s have been
lifted into responsibility AMI usefulness an,
a Christian life. Many OF them have nom"
of their own. Though ragged boys once an'
street girls. now at the head OF prosperou
| families, honored on earth AMI to b" gorlou
in heaven. Some OF them have been Govern
| Ors OF STATES. some OF thcm are nllulAloIs
the gospel. In all departments OF III" thos
who were thought to Ds weeds have turne'
out TO be flowers. One OF those rescued lad
from the streets OF our cities wrote To another
saying III have heard you are studying 10
the ministry. 40 am |.
Ny hearers. implead you for the news
BOYS OF the streets, many ofthem the bright
est children OF the city, but with no chance
Do not step ON their bare feet. DO mol
when they steal ride, cut behind. Whe
the paper Is three cents. once in while Civ
them a live cent piece and tell them 10 k-e
the change. lise the ring OF the letter IN
newsboy sent back from Indiana, wnere Il
had been sent 10 good home, Ia Net
York newsboy's lodging house "Boys, "
! should show ourselves that we are no fool'
that we can become ~ respectable as any q
| the countrymen, for Franklin ana WeuSe
{ and Clay we're poor boys once and eve
: George Law and Vanderbilt and Astor. An
t now, boys, stand up and let them see yo
, have got the real stun in you. Come "