Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-05-24

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, then OF Washington
territory, now Of Washington state.
The people Of Seattle had raised a gen.
erous sum Of money for the Johnstown
sufferers from the food A few days
after Seattle was destroyed by fire.
saw it while the whole city was living
in tents In public meeting some one
proposed that the money raised Tor
Johnstown be used for the relief Of their
own city, and the cry was No! mol
No! Send the money to Johnstown, and
by acclamation the money was so sent.
Nothing more beautiful or sublime than
that. Under the wing Of fire that smote
Seattle the sympathetic hand, the help
ing hand, the mighty hand Of Christian
relief for people thousands Of miles
away.
Why, there are 100, 900 men and wo-
men whose one business is to help 9TH
ers Helping hands, inspiring hands,
lifting hands, emancipating hands, saw
ing hands Sure enough, those people
had wings Of faith and wings Of prayer
and wings Of consolation. but "the like
ness Of the hands Of a man was under
the wings" There was much sense in
that which the robust boatman said
when three were in boat off the coast
in a sudden storm that threatened to
sink the boat, and one suggested that
they all kneel down in the boat 10 pray,
and the robust man took hold OF the oar
and began to pull, saying, Let you,
the strong, stout fellow, lay hold the
other oar, and let the weak one who
cannot pull give himself up to prayer.
Pray by all means, but at the same
time pull with all your might for the
worlds rescue. An arctic traveller hunt
ing beaver while the ice was breaking
mp, and supposing that there was no
human being within 100 miles, heard
the ice crackle, and lol lost man, in
sane with hunger and cold, was wading
in 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 for
the lost man, and finding him, accord
ing to prearrangement all the bells rang
and all the guns fired Oh, you can
make gladder time among the towers
and hilltops Of heaven if you can fetch
home a wanderer
The Other Side Of the Story.
In our time it is the habit to denounce
the cities and to speak Of them as the
perdition Of all wickedness. Is it not
time for some one to tell the other side
Of the story and to say that the city is
the heaven Of practical helpfulness!
Look at the embowered and fountained
parks, where the invalids may come
and be refreshed the Bowery mission,
through which annually over 100, 900
come to get bread for this life and bread
for the life to come, all the pillows OF
that institution under the blessing OF
him who had not where to lay his head;
the free schools, where the most impoy-
erished are educated; the hospitals for
broken bones; the homes for the restora-
ton Of intellects astray; the Orphan
House, father and mother to all who
come under its benediction; the mid
night missions, which pour midnoon
upon the darkened; the Prison Reform
association; the houses OF mercy; the
infrmaries; the sheltering arms; the
aid societies.; the industrial schools;
the Sailors Snug Harbor; the found
ling asylums; the free dispensaries,
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, If you have
crippled boy, give him TO me; my dear
boy died with the spinal complaint, "
and such a one she found and took
him home and nursed him till he was
we'll It would take a sermon three
weeks long to do justice to the mighty
things which our cities are doing FOR
the unfortunate and the lost Do not say
that Christianity in our cities is all
show and talk and genuhexion and sa-
cred noise. You have been so long look
ing at the hand Of cruelty, and the hand
of theft, and the hand Of fraud, and the
hand of outrage, that you have not suffi-
ciently appreciated the hand Of help
stretched forth from the doors and WIN
dows of churches and from merciful in
stitutious. the Christlike hand, the
eherubic hand, 1.-THE hand under the
wing"
when the Day Of Reward Cometh.
There is also in my subject the sug-
sestion Of rewarded work for God and
Righteousness. When the wing went
the hand went. When the wing ascend
ed the hand ascended; and for every
useful and '.hristian hand there will be
elevation celestial and eternal Expect
no human gratitude, for 1t will not
come. That was wise thing Fenelon
! wrote TO his friend: II am very glad,
nv dear, good fellow, that you are
, pleased with opeof my letters which has
been shown to you. You are right IN
saving and believing that / ask little Of
; men in general try TO do much fol
them and to expect nothing in return.
find a decided advantage in these terms
: On these terms / defy them to disap
point me-" But, my hearers, the da,
? cometh when your work, which perhaps
no one has noticed or rewarded or hon
ored. will rise to heavenly recognition
While l have been telling You that tn
= hand was under the wing Of the cheru
9 BIN want you to realize that the win
was over the hand. Perhaps rewar'
: may not come to you right away Wash
ington lost more battles than ne won
0 but he triumphed at the last. Waite
Scott, in boyhood, was called 18th
Z Greek blockhead, but what height Q
, renown did he not afterward tread!
Rest For the Toiiing.
And promise you victory farther o
!, and higher up, II not in this world
y then in the next Oh, the heavenly da