The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-05-24

Necitih I" N"huoieip vi speak out iui
some uupopular Christian enterprise,
and they have bronchitis M stitch in the
side or sudden attack of grip. Their
religion is all wing and no hand, They
can fly heavenward, but they cannot
reach out earthward.
tiftine the Burden.
While Thomas Chalmrs occupied the
chair of moral philosophy in St Aiis
drew's university he had at the same
time Sabbath school class Of poor boys
down IN the slums of Edinburgh. While
Lord Fitzgerald was travelling in Cana
da he saw poor Indian squaw carrying
a crushing load, and he tool, the harden
on his own shoulders. That was Christ
like. That was "a hand under the
wing" The highest type of religion
says little about itself, but is busy for
God and in helping to the heavenly
shore the crew and passengers Of this
shipwrecked planet Such people are
busy now up the dark lanes of this city,
and all through the mountain glens,
and down in the quarries where the
sunlight has never visited, and amid
the rigging, helping to take in another
reef before the Caribbean whirlwind.
A friend was telling me Of an exquisite
thing about Seattle, Their Of Washington
territory, now of Washington state
The people of Seattle had raised gen
erous sum of money for the Johnstown
sufferers from the flood. A few days
after Seattle was destroyed by fire l
saw 1t While the whole city was hvlng
III tents. In public meeting some one
proposed that the money raised for
Johnstown be used for the felief OF their
own city, and the cry was NO! MOI
No' Send the money to Johnstown, and
by acclamatioh the money was so sent.
Nothing more beautiful Of snbiime than
that Under the wing OF fire that smote
Seattle the sympathetic hand, the help
ING hand. the mighty hand OF Christian
rellel tof people thousands OF miles
away. .7.s -.r ..-., ...;
why, there are loo, 0oo men and We
men whose one business Is to help 9TH
ers. Helping hands, inspiring hands,
hitting hands, emanclpating hands, saw
illE hands sure enough, those people
had wings OF faith ana wings OF prayer
and wings OF consolation, but the like
ness OF the hands Oh man was nnder
fthe wings There was much sense IN
that Which the robust boatman said
When three We're IN q boat on the coast
In a sudden storm that threatened to
sink the boat, and one suggested that
they all kneel down III the boat to pray,
and the robust man took hold OF the car
and began to pull, saying, Let you,
the strong, stout fellow, lay hold the
other oar, and let the weak one VINO
cannot pull give himself up to prayer. .
Fray by all means, but at the same
time pull with all your might for the
world s rescue. An arctic traveller hunt
ing beaver while the Ice was breaking
up, and supposlng that there was no
human beng within 100 miles, heard
the ice crackle, and 10! lost man, in
sane with hunger and cold, was wadlng
Ill the Ice water. The explorer took the
man into his canoe and made for land,
and the people gathered On the shore.
All the islanders had been looking Tor
the lost man, and hndlng him, accord
ing to Encouragement all the bells rang
and all the guns fired. Oh, you can
make gladder time among the towers
and h1lltops OF heaven II you can fetch
home wanderer!
The Other Side of the Story.
In our time 1t is the habit to denounce
the cities and to speak OF them as the
perdltlon OF all wlckedness. Is 1t not
time TN Tor some one to tell the other side
81 the story and to say that the city Is
the heaven OF practical helpfumess'
Look at the EMPOWERED and fountalned
parks, Where the lnvallds may come
and be refreshed the Bowery mission,
through which annually over 100000
come to get bread for tins life and bread
Tor the lie to come, all the pillows OF
that INSTITUTION under the blessing OF
MIN who had not where to lay his head !;
the 1ree schools, Where the most lmpov-
erlshed are educated; the hospitals Tor
broken bones; the homes Tor the restora
ton OF lntellects astray; the Orphan
House, father and mother to all who
come under Its benedlctlon; the mid
night missions, which pour mldnoon
upon the darkened; the Prison Reform
association; the houses OF mercy; the
in1lrmaries; the shelterlng arms; the
aud societies; the Industrial schools !;
the Sailors Snug Harbor the found
ing asylums; the free dlspensarles,
where greatest scientific skill feels the
pulse OF wan pauper; the ambulance,
the startling stroke OF its bell clearing
the way to the place of casualty, and
good souls like the mother who came to
the Howard mission, with its crowd Of
friendless boys picked up from the
streets, and saying, eff you have a
crippled boy, give him to me; my Gear
boy died with the spinal complaint, J"
and such one she found and took
him home and nursed him till he was
well 1t would take sermon three
weeks long to do justice to the mighty
things which our cities are doing for