The Newtown bee., 1895-07-19

alled upon the floor of the school room Q recite, the pictures in the reading 'ook remind the little girl of the picture f beauty that passed before her rowing yes on her morning race to school. And the housewife, early out to the market, goes back to the numberless ares of her home to make t more beautiful and bright through the remembrance of the ,right flowers. Over by window op- oosite this great house from morning to night sits an invalid girl, and many a Hull hour is varied and many lonely | hour cheered by the sight of these beau 5iful flowers. The owner of these flow ers will probably never know how much | pleasure or how much inspiration is | given by that which she maintains for her own delight. Other lives are en- riched by this ministry, of which she has no knowledge, of whose existence she does not dream.
 All, YES, UNCONSCIOUS MINISTRIES are everywhere. You cannot pass through a city street and look in at window in- to a room that wealth and taste have made beautiful without your being .in- fiuenced for .the better thereby; you cannot see 8 group of happy children at play without your own heart feeling thrill of joy; you cannot listen to the clear note of bird without your whole being swelling in harmony with the little songster's strain ; you cannot look at charming landscape without feeling soul; you cannot see sweet face, made sweeter by artless manners and unstud- jed graces, without knowing the charm of innocence; you cannot. converse for five minutes with good man without yourself being filled with a desire for greater goodness. I have seen them many time, men just to shake whose hand I would climb mountains and cross rivers for the sake of getting the in- spiration in that grip, though they ut tered not a word; and there are men l have seen many time, for whom would do favor that cost me much toll, just to hear them say "Thank you." There are many in respect to whom it is an inspiration just to stand near them Wester was said to have half won his case when he had but fully got on his feet. Dr Samuel Johnson once said
 ''No one could be under tho same um. hrollo fnr uuith FHnnn
 Burke and not feel that he was the great est man in all England" The genia
 and gifted Dr Norman Mcleod, o1
 Glasgow, after call upon Dr Earth
 the devoted German missionary anc
 Christian scholar, made this entry ! in his diary: May God make me sucf
 man, and I shall then pity Julius
 Cesar" Of Jerobaam it is IS time'
 said in the Old Testament that ht
 caused Israel to sin. What fearful al
 legation to write against man! Hi
 sin was worse, if possible, than the sil
 of Pontius Pilate, for, not content witl
 himself proving recreant to his high dut,
 as king and falling away from his God
 he dragged his people with him down t.
 his low level.
 1 There is no
 l TRUTH WHICH WE NEED EMPHASIZE
 more than this,-our responsibility fo
 others through the influence that is al
 the while subtly going forth from ou
 lives. An, that will be the dreadful
 thing for many at the Day of Judg
 ment, not the awful array of their owl
 sins which they see set up before them
 but the condemnation that is writer against them because of other lives tha l their influence has dragged down. Tha 1 is just what the judge in California hac l in mind when, in passing sentence upor
 a young man convicted for some crime
 committed under the in fiuence of liquor
 said "I would not own brewery. wert l it worth to me it's weight in gold. '~ Oh
 what mountain-weight of guilt rests
 upon those who spend their lives in pan dering to the lusts of others, who by evi machinations entice young girls iron lives of purity into lives of shame; there are no wretches more deep-dyed in sim The judgment fell upon the wrong head when the young clerk received a long term in jail for continued petty pecula tions from his employers money-till Who was responsible for the crime Not the clerk who suffered the penalty but the employer who for years by the plain force of example had taught his clerks that dishonesty in trade was wholly pardonable, so long as it was covered up under the very inclusive names of business and shrewd dealing. Oh, you father of a family, you say that you don't care anything about the churches yourself and have not much respect for religion, but that you are willing that your children should at tend Sunday school and go to church, if they wish. We'll, your willingness Is of very poor sort; it amounts to a positive unwillingness for your opinions of the churches will be the opinion of your children, and, in your old age, even to your regret, you will see Will liam an out-and-out atheist and George a skeptic who lis ever parading his doubts and Thomas thorough man of the world who has given himself over to all sorts of frivolity. Not responsible for what your children think and how they look upon questions whose de .cision is of infinite concern to them !! Oh, yes, man,
 YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE.
 Coming down from the time of Cain are