The Penn's Grove record., 1894-03-09

/ OD, Ile DlOD on ms DTOW, luB DlOou on nus
hands, the biOOI on His feet, the blood on
His sidei Ii seems as if an artery must have
been cut.
There Is q fountain filed with blood
Drawn from Immanuel's veins,
And sinners PLUNGED beneath that aool
Lose all their guilty stains.
At Q o'clock tomorrow afternoon go among
the places of business or toll. 1t will be no
| diff cult thing for you to find men vino by
their looks show you that they are over
worked. They are prematurely old. They
are fastening rapidly toward their decease.
They have gone through crises in business
that shattered their nervous system and
pulled on the brain. They lave a shortness
OF breath, and a pain in the back ofthe head,
and at night an insomnia that alarms them.
| Why arc they drudging at business early and
late! For un? No it would be difficult to
extract any amusement out of that exhaus-
ton. Because they are avaricious? In many
cases, no. Because their own personal eX-
penses are lavish? No, a few hundred dollars
would meet all their wants.
The simple fact is the man is enduring all
that fatigue and evaporation and wear and
tear to keep his home prosperous. There Is
an invisible line reaching from that store,
from that bank. from that shop, from that
scaifolding, to a quiet scene n few blocks, a
few miles away, amt there is the secret of
That business endurance. He is simply the
| champion of a homestead, for which he wins
| bread and war lrobe and education Inc pros
| perity, and in sunl battle 10, 1000 men fall. OF
ten business men whom l bury nine die of
ovarworE ,or others, Some sudden disease
hnds them VITA no power of resistance, and
they are goue. Lie Ior lie. Blood Tor blood.
| Substitution
AT / o'clock tomorrow morning. the hour
when slumber is most uninterrupted and
most profound, walk amid the dwelling
houses OF the city. Here and there you will
| find a dim light, because it is the household
! custom to keep a subdued light burning, but
most of the houses from base to top are as
dark as though uninhabited. A merciiui
God has sent forth the archangel OF sleep,
4! and he puts his wings over the city. But
Wonder is a clear light burning, and outside
on the window easement a glass or pitcher
containing food for a sick child-the food set
in the fresh air.
This is the sixth night that mother has sat
ND Will that sufferer She has to the last
point obeyed the physicians prescription,
| not giving a drop too much or too little, or
a moment too soon or too late. She is very
| anxious, for she has buried three children
! with the same disease, and she prays and
| weeps. each prayer aud sob ending with a
kiss on the pale cheek. By dint OF kindness
she gets the little one through the ordeal.
After il is all over the mother is taken
| down. Bran OF utINOuS ltfGE StlS Ill, anu
one day she leaves the conyalescent child
| with a mothers blessing and goes up to join
the three in the kingdom of heaven. Life
| for life. Substitution! The fact is that
there are an |uncounted number OF mothers
| who. after they have navigated a large
family OF children through all the diseases
OF infancy and got them fairly started up the
Towering slope OF boyhood and girlhooh
have only strength enough left to die. They
| fade away Some call it consumption some
call it nervous prostration ;some call it inter
mittept or malarial disposition, but l call II
martyrdom of the domestic circle. Life for
life. Blood for blood. Substitution
or perhaps the mother fingers long
enough to see a son get on the wrong road
and his former kindness becomes rough re
ply when she expresses anxiety about him.
But she goes right on, looking carefully after
his apparel. remembering his every birthday
with some memcnto, and when he Is brought
home. worn out with dissipation, nurses him
lin he gets well and starts him again and
hopes and expects n prays and counsels
and suffers until her strength gives out and
she fails. She is going, and attendants bend.
Ing over her pillow ask her If she has any
! message to leave, and she makes great effort
TO saw something, but OUT OF three or fouI
: minutes ofindisttnct utterance they can catch
/ bnt three words, my poor boy T. The simple
fact Is she died for him. Life for life. Sub
stitution.
About thirty-three years ago there went
forth from our homes hundreds of thousand:
of men TO do battle for their country. AL
the poetry OF war soon vanished and left
J tham nothing but the terrible prose. They
/ waded knee deep in mud. They slept il
sn~owbanks. They marched till their cut fee
tracked the earth. They were swindled on
nj their honest rations and lived on meat d
6t fora dog, They had jaws all fractured
and ewes extinguished, and limbs shot away
| Thousands OF them cried for water as they
! Law diving on the field the night after the
F., battle and got it not. They were homesicl
nnes. They died in barns. in bushes. il
ditc6es. the 5uzzards OF the summer heat e,
only attendants on their obsequIes.
No one but the infinite God, who know
+, everything, knows the ten thousandth par
of the length and breadth and depth anC
height of anguish OF the northern and south
ern battleaelds. Why did these father,
leave their children and go to the front, an(
why did these young men, ~postponing tn
marriage day. start out into the probabiiitie
OF never coming back? For the country the
died. Life for life. Blo1h for blood. Sub
stitutionl
But we need not goSo far. What is tina
monument in Green9 Sd2 1t is TO the doc
tors who fell in outhern epldemics
Why go2 We're theTf OF enough sick TO b,
attended in these - hern ATTITUDES? oh
yes but the doctor $ a few medical book
In his valise, and sons J6Ss OF medicine, anS
leaves his patients hers Nhe hands of othel
: physicians, and takest Ill train. Befor'
I he gets to the iniectfr uegions he passe,
| crowded rail trains, reJNe ir and extra, tax
ing the flying and am phted populations
He arrives in a city oyeAYhicha great hor
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