Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-20

TO 90 and visit the sick, or tell them to
reclaim a wanderer, or speak out for
some unpopular Christian enterprise,
and they have bronchitis Or 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.
Lifting the Burden.
While Thomas Chalmers occupied the
chair of moral philosophy in st. An
drew's university he had at the same
time a Sabbath school class of poor boys
down in the slums of Edinburgh. While
Lord Fitzgerald was travelling in Cana
da he saw a poor Indian squaw carrying
crushing load, and he took the burden
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
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 gen
erous sum Of money for the Johnstown
sufferers from the flood. 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 for
Johnstown be used for the relief of their
own city, and the cry was No! Mol
No! Send the money to JOhnstown, and
by reclamation 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 10O,0 900 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 'Fthe 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 to 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
world rescue. An arctic traveller hunt
ing beaver while the ice was breaking
up, 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 Encouragement all the bells rang
and all the guns fired. Oh, you can
make a gladder time among the towers
and hi1ltops 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
Il
and be refreshed; the Bowery mission,
through which annually over 100, 900
come to get bread for this life and bread
for tic = TO come, all the pillows of
that on under the blessing of
him W.. I'D not where to lay his head;
the free schools, where the most impov-
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 it's benediction the mid
night 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 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, eff you have a
crippled boy, give him to me; my dear
boy died with the spinal complaint, -
and such 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 DnnOt saw