The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-07-13

destroyed by fire. saw it while tn
whole city were living in tents. In
: public meeting some one proposed tina
the money raised for Johnstown b
used for the relief OF theit uwn city
) and the cry was No! No! No! Send tn
money to Johnstown, and by acclama
tion the money was SO sent. Nothin,
more beautiful or sublime than that
Under the wing of fire that smote Seat
tie the sympathetic hand, the helping
hand, the mighty hand of Christian
relief for people thousands of mile.
Away. Why, there are n hundred
Thousand men and women Who's,
one business is to help others
Helping hands, inspiring hands. lifting
hands, emancipating bands, saving
hands Sure enough, these people had
wings of consolation. but 1.-THE likeness
Oh she hands of a man was under the
wings" There was much sehse Id that
which the robust boatman said when
three were in a boat off the coast in a
sudden storm that threatened to sink
the boat. and one suggested that they
all kneei down in the boat and pray,
and the robust man took hold
VI the oar and began to pull,
sayinHi Let you, the strong, stout
fellow, lay hold the other oar, and let
the weak one who can not pull give
himself mp to prayer" Pray by ali
means; but at the same time pull with
all your might for the worlds rescue
An arctic traveller hunting beaver
while the ice was breaking up, and
supposing that there was no human
being within a hundred miles, heard
the Ice crackle, and lol lost
man, insane with hunger and
cold, was wading in the ice
water. The explorer took the man in
to his canoe and made for land, and
the people gathered on the shore. All
the islanders had been looking for the
lost man, and finding him according to
Encouragement all the bells rang, and
all the guns fired. Oh, you can make
gladder time among the towers and
hill-tops of Heaven if you can fetch
home wanderer.
There is is also in my subject the
suggestion of rewarded work for God
anu A'SuoCOuoHCoS. nueu TIE wing
went the hand went. When the wing
assembled the hand assembled; and for
every useful and Christian hand there
will be an elevation celestial and eter-
nal. Expect no human gratitude for
1t will not come. That was wise
thing Fenelon wrote to his friend:
Il am very glad, my dear,
good fellow, that you are pleased
with one of my letters which
has been shown to you. You are right
in saying and believing that ask lit
tie of men in general. / try to do |
much for them and to expect nothing
in return. l lind decided advantage |
in these terms. On these terms defy |
them to disappoint me-" But, my hear
ers, the day cometh when your work,
which perhaps no one has noticed,
or rewarded, or honored, will |
rise to heavenly recognition.
While l have been telling
you that the hand was under the wing
Of the cherubim, want you to realize
that the wing was over the hand. Per-
laps reward may not come to you
light away. Washington lost more
battles than he won, but he triumphed
% the last. Walter Scott. in boyhood,
vas called 1.-The Greek Blockhead;"
put what height of renown did he not
Ifterward tread? And / promise
vou victory further ON and higher
lp; if not in this world,
hen in the next. Oh, the heav-
My day when your lifted hand shall
'e gloved with what honors, its fingers
nringcd with what jewels, its wrist
lasped with what splendorsl Come
p and take it, you Christian women,
'ho served at the washtub. Come up I
nd take it, you Christian shoemaker,
rho pounded the shoe last. Come up :
nd take it, you professional nurse,
hose compensation never paid for bro !
en- nights and the whims and struggles
delirious sick rooms. Come up and
ike it, you tiremen, besweated, far I
own amid the greasy machinery of
,ean steamers, and We conductors and
1gineers on railroads. that knew no b
unday, and whose ringing bells and !
ud whistles never warned off your
vn anxieties. Come up and take it, T
)u mothers, who rocked and lullabied u
lie family brood until they took wing
r other nests, and never appreciated II
hat you had done and suffered for Z
em. Your hand was well favored
hen you were young, and it was a
.autiful hand, SO well rounded, SO q
aceful that many admired and eulo- i
zed it; but hard work calloused it,
i'd twisted it, and self-scrifcing toll
r others paled it, and many house T.
Id griefs thinned it, and the ring ],
nich went on only with push at !.
e marriage altar, now is too large, =
d falls off, and again and again you
We lost it. Poor hand! Weary hand!
hand! But God will recon-
'uct it, reanimate it, readorn it, and
Heaven will know the story of
1T hand. What fallen ones it lifted
What tears it wiped away! What
it bandaged! What light
uses it kindled! What storm. tossed
ps it brought into the pearl 4
rbor! Oh, am SO glad that in the
ion OF my text Ezekiel saw the wing
ove the hand. Roll, on that everlast-
, rest for all the toiling, and misun-
stood, and suffering and weary
ldren of God, and know right
Il that to join your hand. at last e
ancipated from the struggle, will