Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-12-21
sorrows their advantage andso ''thelam,

h indness that he rushed forward and kissed
her blind eyes, and, the legend says, hcl
vision came Immediately. That was only
legend, but it is truth, a glorious truth
that the kiss of Gods eternal love has
brought to many blind eye eternal illu
minatiOn.
A step farther: There are those in ali
communities who toll nightly for live
lihood. They have scant wages. Perhaps
they are diseased or have physical inGrmi
ties SO they are hndered from doing a con
tinuous days work A city missionary
finds them ur the dark alley, with no fire
with thin clothing, with very coarse bread
They never ride in the street car; they can
not afford the cents They never see any
pictures save those in the show window on
the street, from which they are often jostled
and looked at by soma one who seems tC
say in the look; Move on! What are you
doing here looking at pictures,"
Yet many of them live on mountains on
TRANSPORTATION. At their rough table he
who fed the 5000 breaks the bread They
talk often of he good times coming This
world has no charm for them, but heaven
entrances their spirit. They ften divide
their scant crust with some forlorn wretch
who knocks ut their door at night, and on
the blast of the night wind, as the doCl
opens to let them in. is heard the voice OF
him who said, Il was hungry, and he fed
me" No cohort of heaven will be too
bright to transport them. BY Gods help
they have VHnqushcd the Assyrian host.
They have divided among them the spoils.
Lame, lame, yet they took the prey,
INCIDENTS FOR ILLUSTRATION.
Twas riding along the country road one
| "A
took him. He was very Old. He was go
ing very Slowly AT that rate it would have
taken him two hours to go II mile | said,
"Woudn't You like to ridc?' He said;
"Thank you, | would. God bless you"
When he sat beside me, he said: You see,
| am very lame and very Old, but the Lord
has been Il good Lord to me. | have buried
all my children. The Lord gave them, and
the Lord had IA right to take them away.
Blessed he his namcl / was very sick. and
| had no money. and my neighbors came
in and took care of me, and wanted moth.
ing. | suffer Il great deal with pain, but
then have 50 many mercies left. The Lord
has been Il good Lord to me"
And before We had got far was in doubt
whether was giving him a ride or lie wa.
giving me Il ride He said: Now, if You
please. I'll get out here. just help me
down on my crutchcs, if you please God
bless you. Thank you, sir Good morning.
Good morning. You have been feet % the
lame, sir, you have. Good morning"
~warthy men had gone the road that day.
| do not knox where they came out, but
every hobble Of that old man was toward
the shining gate. With his old crutch he
had struck down many Il Sennachcrib OF
temptation which has mastered you and
me. Lame, 20 fearfully lame, SO awiully
lame, but he took the prey
\ step farther: There are in all commu-
mites many orphans. During our last war
and i'll the years Immediately following
how many children ut the north aud south
we heard say, "Oh, my father was killed in
the war; Wave You ever noticcdI fear
you have not-h0w well those children have
turned ont? Starting under the greatest
disadvantage, no orphan asylum could Ito
for them What their father would have done
had he lived,
The skirmisher sat one night by the light
Of fagots in the swamp writing u letter
home, when Il sharpshooter's bullet ended
the letter which was never folded. never
posted and never read. Those children
came up under great disadvantages No
father to fight their way for them. Per
haps there was in the Old family Bible an
Oil yellow letter pasted fast which told
the story Of that fathers long march and
how he suffered in the hospital, but they
looked still further on in The Bible and
they came to the story Of how God is the
father Of the tathere.s and the widows
portion, and they soon took their fathers
place in that household.
They battled the way for their mother
They came on up, and many Of them have
already in the years since the war taken 20.
si,iuu, in church and state north and souih h.
While many of those who suffered NOTHING
during those times have had sons 20 out
into lives of Incidence and Vdgabondagc,
these who started under so many dsadvan
tHgea because they We're SO early bcreit,
these are the lame who took the prey
\ step farther; There are those who
would like to be good. They say, "Oh, ii
only had wealth, or ii | had cioquence. or il
! had high social position, how much !
would accomplish for God and the church,"
| stand here today to tell you that you have
great opportunities for usefulness
Who built the pyramids; The king who
ordered them built 40; the plain work
men who added stone after stone and stone
after stone Who built the bikes of HCl.
land; The government that ordered the
enterprise? No the plain workmen who
carried the earth and rang their trowels on
the wall. WHO are those who have built
these vast cities? The capitalists No; the
carpenters, the masons, the plumbers the
plostercr~, the timers, the roofrrs depend.
cut on days wages for a livelihood. And
so in the great work of assuaginI human
suffering, and enlghtcning human gno.
rance. and Laltihg humanlniquity In that
great work the chief part is to be done by