Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-04-05

AL ~ CuA4ls uaL i All buu ASKS OF Us
To do al We can, aud do yOa think We
are doing al We can at present. Why
ms dear ircnls, II seems 10 NE you can
not real.ze the importLHce # the work u
which vou have been clll-h. Il seems "a
me YOU cannot realize that Jesus Christ
Is today d IIy,ng power. |, seems TO me
Z that You do not understand He stands
/ today. as lie stood nearly nineteen hun
J d.cJ ,sIIs ago, pIiutiIg with outstretch'
Ell, p.ercsl, b!eeiing hands and says Ia
each aud every one Oi us, Behold the
fields are white to the harvest; Ca
We, work in My vineyard today" DO
( YOU still ask where are the fields where
are the VINEYARDS, | answer YOU right
here in North Stratiord; it nowhere else
among the children; teach them so that
we may STE, 1t we live, the generation
that follows Ms at least one step higher,
instead of two lower in the ScaletOwardS
the perfect he. But that is not the only
work. there is much else TO be done.
Work TO be done among the lumbermen,
in the line of literature. of sanitation,
the reading room-whch ! hope to see
some day an established fact. the moth
er's work, and so many branches OF char
Nv SUNK l4itlh kAiAA NDLA NAOAINS " lll
suffer and your families feel the need Ot
attention it you do this work. | think
We see as few rags here as outside, and |
do not think il we look upon the work
rightly and each one does her part that
we shall find anyone overtaXcd, but re
heSEcd by the thoughts OF having accom-
plishrd some good in uplifting even one
soul from the depths into the purer life
aud atmosphere of COPS light.
You may ask, as some have, what
have on dore anyway: :" | will tell you
what we have done. First two of us
have worked almost alone. We have
drawn togct her enough literature to form
the nucleus for a reading room. This lit
tie reading room, which some of you rate
50 poorly, is a much greater item than
YOU think tor With little self sacrifice
and trouble you can keep IT open, and
notice already some boys who come in
quite regularly to read, and sooner than
you think It will be a great influence for
good. Even those who do not like the
Union have not hesitated to give us words
OF commentator for this and wonder it
had not been established before. Some
among YOU have said ! have lowered
myself By becoming a scrub woman" |
consider my dignity much more protected
by sweeping the cobwebs down than by
dressing up and sitting under them.
have not scrubbed and swept because
had nothing else to do. or because | liked
dirty work. | cleaned because | would
not care to come into dirty room to
read, and because lwould be ashamed to
! have a convention OF ladies from away
come into a Church hung with cobwebs
as this was. As long as one works for
| COP they cannot lower themselves no
matter how mental the labor IS.
| Are you afraid of being called fanatic
! Let me tell you OF some of the people
| know personally who have been led into
! this tanaticism and found it the only hIt
really worth living. One, n woman
| whose yearly income far surpasscs The
aggregated wealth OF our village, who
has numbered among her dear friends
such people as Wendell Phillips, Edward
| Everett Emerson, Longtellow, Whittier
! Alcott, the Hawthorncs, Peabodys ant
| Stewards, one, whom Frances Willard
wrote me she considered her lone of tn,
noblcst women in all history" With thl:
woman | have been into the sluus o
New York city. into places where 1t wa
necessary to have police protection.
have seen her 20 among such povert,
and dire distress, take people by the hanC
and talk with them. lit the children OF
her knees, and take some OF them away
in her own carriage to better homes
Among those children were some eigh
and nine years of age who had never secl
the green grass, even III that city OF ire
parks, and were afraid 10 step on 1t
children whose only knowledge of hom
was Il crowded, damp cellar, and who's
/. bed was a mere bundle OF dirty straw
There was Dr.. McGlynu, the priest wht
had seen 50 much OF this terrible distres
that in his endeavor TO do something TO
t he amelioration OF poverty lost his pos
ton: another whom have seen bring il
children from the street and battle ant
, clothe and feed them. All my friends tn
people who take this work up are not tn
5 scum of the earth; they are not peopl
: 10 whom any thing Is matter of diver
, sion, but they take it up as the, believ
they owe to GuD something in return 10
all His blessings.
I All eyes throughout the State are upo
, You; those of the liquor dealers an
saloon keepers. to see If You have til
5 energy to carry on this work, and thos
D OF the Sister Unions. AS Mrs. Aust,
{ wrote this place has been made "a speci;
subject OF prayer" and another has VIII
t ten that this Union may be the Umu
n tor work throughout the State" Wi
:, YOU not then take hold with YOUR who
n hearts? VIII you not try and secul
r more active and honorary members
: Will You not take hold with will at
I energy that shall show you are intereSte
{ for the welfare of the Union, and do Il
5 work assigned you as it comes and thu
e make it easier for your President, al
\ easier for all BY each taking hold al
Ii doing their part you can make yo,
t record a high one, for, record You W
4 surely have in the State Union. You CT
:; make it high or you can make it low, a
1t cording as you work with a will, or /
il differently. You can be a mere shell wit
e 4 name, or you can be a living pow
that shall be felt, and be an honor to W
II through all time. As Rev. NJ. J.. Sava
z recently said in a sermon, whether o
< outward endeavors have been SUGGEST
l. u not, /! we have COnSeCratcd ourSelv
Ii 20 the higher services then we have ST
n .eedcd, and the results of our labor t
II st i'll ourselves
is Is il not worth working tor-to raj
SC the reputation OF your village into SON
al thing better than it now ISL You are
IN busy women, but lew hours is all tn
o IS necessary for you to give. and the Ell
1t 5 worthy OF the sacrifice. so aw
le shortly, but do not think | shall forg
as you. shall feel so much interest in
~ YOU do and nothing will give meso gre
Al pleasure as to hear you are doing t
il work know you can do. To those w
ed nave felt that have been harsh and u
If kind must say if have seemed to be
Is was not from any personal feeling, +