Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-05-23

OF practical helpfulnessf Look AZ the en-
powered and fountained parks, where the
invalids may come and be refreshed; the
Bowery mission, through which annually
over 100, 600 como 70 get bread for this life
and bread for the life 70 come, all the pill
lows Of that Institution under the blessing
OF him who had not where 20 lay his
head; the free schools, where tho most Inn
poyerished are educated; the hospitals for
broken bones; the homes for the restora-
ton Of intellects nstray; the orphan house,
father and mother TO all who come under
Its benediction; the midnight missions,
which pour midnoon upon the darkened; !;
the Prison Reform association; the houses
Of mercy; the infirmaries; the sheltering
arms; the aid societies; the industrial
schools; the Sailors Snug hArbor; the
foundling 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 well. II would take 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 genuflexion and sacred
noise. You have been SO long looking at
L.. - aud ha hard ~ fhafk
and the hand Of fraud, and the hand of
outrage that you have not sufficiently ap-
preciated the hand Of help stretched forth
from the doors and windows of churches
and from merciful institutions, the Christ
like hand, the cherubio hand, "the hand
under the wings"
Bound For the Palace.
There Is also in my subject the sugges-
ton Of rewarded work for God and right
eousness. When the wing went, the hand
went. When the wing assembled, the hand
assembled, and for every useful and Chris
tian hand there will be elevation celestial
and eternal Expect no human gratitude,
for it will not come. That was wise
thing Fenelon wrote to his friend: "I 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 little Of
men in general. try to do much for them
and to expect nothing in return. find a
decided advantage in these terms. On
these terms defy them to disappoint me. "
But, my hearers, the day cometh when
your work, which perhaps no one has no.
ticed or rewarded or honored, will rise to
heavenly recognition. While have been
telling you that the hand was under the
wing of the cherubim want you to real
lie that the wing was over the hand. Per
haps reward may not come to you right
away. Washington lost more battles than
he won, but he triumphed at the last.
Walter Scott in boyhood was called the
"Greek Blockhead, but what height of re-
nown did he not afterward treadp And ]
promise you victory further on and higher
up, If not in this world, then in the next.
Oh. the heavenly day when your lifted
hand shall be gloved with what honors,
it's fingers enringed with what jewels, Its
wrist clasped with what splendorsl Come
up and take it, you Christian woman who
served at the washtub. Come up and take
1t, you Christian shoemaker who pounded
the shoe last. Gpme up and take it, you
professional nurse whose compensation
never fully paid for broken nights and
the whims and struggles of delirious sick
rooms. Come up and take 1t, you flremen,
besweated, far down amid the greasy ma
chinery Of ocean steamers, and ye conduct
ors and engineers on railroads that knew
no Sunday and whose ringing bells ani
loud whistle never warned off your owr
| anxieties.
Come up and take it, you mothers, who
rocked and lullabied the family broot
until they took wing for other nests ant
never appreciated what you had done ant
| suffered for them. Your hand was vel
favored when you were young, and 1t was
| beautiful hand, SO well rounded, sc
| graceful that many admired and eulogized
| 1t, but hard work calloused 1t and twisted
| 1t, and self sacrificing toll for others paled
1t, and many household griefs thinned it,
and the ring which went ON only with q
push at the marriage altar now Is toe
| large and falls off, and again and again
| you have lost it, Poor handl Weary
hand Wornout handl But God will
reconstruct 1t, reanimate 1t, readorn it,
and all heaven will know the story of thai
hand. What fallen ones it lifted upl What
tears it wiped away What wounds il
bandagedl What lighthouses 1t kindled
What storm tossed ships 1t brought intt
the pearl beached harborl Oh, am SC
| glad that in the vision Of my text Ezekie
saw the wing above the hand. Roll OF
that everlasting rest for all the toiling ant
misunderstood and suffering and weary
| children of God and know right well thai
to join your hand, at last emancipatet
| from the struggle, will be the soft hand
the gentle hand, the triumphant hand O
him who wipeth away all tears from al
faces. That will be the palace Of the King
of which the poet sang in Scotch dialect:
| It's bonnie, bonnie warl that we're livil
| in the moo,
| An sunny is the Ian we aften traivel thro',
| But in vain we look for something to whicl
| oor hearts can cling,
| For its beauty Is as naething to the palac
| o. the King.
| We see oor frien's await us over yonder at hi
gate
Then let us a. be ready, for, ye ken, it's getti,
late.
Let oor lamps be BRIGHTLY burnin; let's rails
COR voice an sing.
Soon we'll meet, to part nae maiy, l. the palac'
o. the King.
DIR. Hands Collie Cure in Ohio.
CEDARvr1LE,lO., May 4, 1893.