Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-04-26

estimated that $50. 900 strangers attend
every year. 1t was a sermon that had
for them a special interest The text
selected was Matthew XIV, 35: 81 was
a stranger and We took me in
1t is moral disaster that iocosity
has despoiled so many passages of
Scripture, and my text is one that has
suffered from irreverent and misap-
piled quotation. 1t shows great pow
erty of wit and humor when people
take the sword of divine truth for a
game at fencing, or chip off from the
Kohinoor diamond Of inspiration a
sparkle to decorate a FOOLS cap. NV
text is the salutation in the last judy
ment 10 be given TO those who have
shown hospitality and kindness and
Christian helpfulness to strangers. By
railroad and steamboat the population
Of the earth are all the time in notion
and from one years end to another
our cities are crowded with visitors.
Every morning on the tracks of the
Hudson River. the Pennsylvania the
Erie, the Long Island railroads, there
come passenger trains more than can
number; so that all the depots and the
wharves are a-rumble and a-clang with
the coming in of a great immigration Of
strangers. Some of them come for
purposes of barter. some for mechanism.
some for artistic qualification, some
for sightseeing. A great many OF
them 60 out on the evening trains and
consequently the city makes but little
impression upon them; but there are
bA In, hA nd
boarding-houses make temporary resi-
dence. They tarry here for three or
four days, or as many weeks. They
spend the days in the stores and the
evenings in sightseeing. Their tenn
porary stay will make or break them
not only financially but morally for
this world and the world that is to
come. Multitudes of them come into
our morning and evening services, ]
am conscious that / stand in the pres
enee of many this moment desire
more especially to speak to them. May
God give me the right word and help |
me to utter it in the right way.
There have glided into this house |
those unknown TO others whose his |
tory if told, would be more thrilling |
than the deepest tragedy, more excit-
ing than PATHS song more bright |
than a spring morning, more awful |
than a wintry midnight If they could |
stand up here and tell the story of |
their escapes, and their temptations, |
and their bereavements, and their dis
asters, and their victories and their de-
feats, there would be in this house such /
a commingling of groans and acclama-
tons as would make the place unen-
durable
There is a man, who, in infancy. lay /
in cradle satin-lined. Out yonder is
a man who was picked up. a foundling,
on Boston common. Here is man who
is coolly observing this religious serv-
ice, expecting no advantage, and caring
for no advantage for himselt while
yonder is man who has been for ten
years in an awful confagration of evil
habits, and he is a mere cinder of de-
stroyed nature and he is wondering if
there shall be in this service any escape
or help for his immortal soul. Meet
ing you only once perhaps, face to
face, | strike hands with you in an
earnest talk about your present condi-
ton and your eternal well-being. ST
Paurs ship at Melitia went to pieces
where two seas meet; but we stand to-
day at point where thousand seas
converge and eternity alone can tell
the issue of the hour
The hotels in this country, for beauty
and elegance, are not surpassed by the
hotels in any other land; but those
that are most cele brated for brilliancy
Of tapestry and mirror cannot give to
the guest any costly apartment unless
he can afford parlor in addition to
his lodging. The stranger, therefore,
viii generally find assigned TO MIN a
room without any pictures and, per-
haps, any rocking chair! He will find
a box of matches on bureau and an
old newspaper left by the previous oc-
cupant and that will be about all the
ornamentation. At o'clock in the
evening, after having taken his repast
he will look over his memorandum |
book of the days work. he will write
a letter to his home. and then desper-
alton will seize upon him to get out
You hear the great city laundering
under your windows and you say; i
must ioin that procession" and in ten
minutes you have Joined it. Where are
YOU going? 20" you say, Il haven't
made up my mind vet. Better make
mp your mind before you start Per- /
haps the very way you go now you viii .
always 90. Twenty years ago there
We're two young men who came down
the Aston House steps and started
out in a wrong direction, where they
have been going ever since.
well. where are you going? says :
one man. II am going to the academy :
to hear some music" Good. ! would
like to join you at the door, At the !
tap of the orchestral baton, all the =
gates Of harmony and beauty will open =
before your soul ! congratulate You. !.
Where are You going? well, you :