Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-05-25

telling how happy sney arc. But show
them a subscription paper, Or ask them
to go and visit the sick, on tell them to
reclaim a wanderer, or speak ont for
some unpopular Christian enterprise,
and they have bronchitis Or stitch i'll the
side or sudden attack of grip. Their
religion is all wing and no hand. They
can fly heavcnward, but they cannon
reach out e,irthN ard
Lifting the Burden.
While Thomas Chalmers occupied tie
chair Of moral philosophy in st. An
drew's university he had at the same
time Sabbath school class of poor boys
down III the slums of Edinburgh. While
Lord Fitzgerald was travelling III Cana
da he saw a poor Indian squaw carrying
a 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.
AID all through the monntain glens,
and down in the quarries where tho
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 Il gen
erous sum of money for tho Johnstown
sufferers from the flood. A few days
after Seattle was destroyed by fire, l
saw it while the whole city was living
i'll tents. Ii Il 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! No!
MOI Send the money to Johnstcwn and
by reclamation the money was 80 sent.
Nothing more beautiful OF sublime than
that. Under the wing Of fire thai smote
Seattle the sympathetic hand, the help
ing hand, the mighty hand Of Christian
relief for people thousands of miles
away.
Why, there are 100,0 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 1.-THE like
ness Of the hands Of man was under
the wings - There was much sense in
that which the robust boatman said
when three were in boat off tho coast
III a sudden storm that threatei ed to
sink the boat, and one suggested that
they all lneel down i'll the boat to pray,
and the robust man took hold of the car
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 10! lost man, in
sane with hunger and cold, was wading
III 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 prearrangementa 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 wandererl
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 enc to tell the ether side
of the story and to say that the city is
the heaven of practical helpfulness?
Look at the empowered and fountained
parks, where the invalids may come
and be refreshed the Bowery mission,
through which annually over lG0, Geo
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 impov-
erished are educated; the hospitals for
broken bones; the homes for the rcstora-
ton Of intellects astray; the Orphan
House, father ard 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
infirmmies; 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 a
crippled boy, give him to me; my dear
boy died with the spinal complaint, ;"
and such q one she found and took
him home and nursed him till he was
well 1t 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 Donot say
that Christianity i'll our cities is all
Z ciAON anu Tain tsAtll Oh
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
GENTLY appreciated the hand of help
stretched forth from the doors and win
dows Of churches and from merciful in
situations, the Christlike hand, tie
cherubie hand, 1.-THE hand under the
wing"
When the Day of Reward Cometh.
There is also in my subject the sug
gestion of rewarded work for God and
Righteousness. When the wing went
the hand went When the wing ascend
cd the hand assembled and for every
useful and Christian hand there viii be
elevation celestial and eternal Expect
no human gratitude, for it will not
come That was wise thing Fenelop
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