The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-20


for some one 10 tell the other side Of the
story and 10 say that the city IS the heav-
en- OF practical helpfulness2 Look al the
empowered and fountained parks. where
the invalds may come and be refreshed
the Bowery Mission. through which an
nually over 10000 come 10 get bread Tor
this life and bread for the life 20 come,
all the pillows Of that institution under the
blessing Of Him who had not where 10 lay
his head: the free schools. where the most
impoverished are educated. the hospitals
for broken bones; the homes for the re-
st0ration Of intellects astray; the Orphan
House. father and mother to all who come
under its benedictiOn; the Midnight Mis-
sions. which pour mid-nOOn upon the dar-
kened: the Prison Reform Association;
the Houses Of Mercy; the Infirmaries; the
Sheltering Arms: the Aid Societies; the
Industrial Schools; the Sailors Snug Har-
Dor. the Founding Asylums; the Free Dis
pensaries. where greatest scientific skill
feels Of the pulse Of wan pauper; the Am
bulance. the startling stroke Of its bell
clearing the way 10 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 10 me; my dear boy died with
the spinal complaint" and such an one
she found and took him home and nursed
him TIL he was well. 1t would take a ser
mon three weeks long 10 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 genuhexion, and
sacrei 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 sufficiently
appreciated the hand of help. stretched
forth from the doors and Windows OF
churches and from merciful institutions,
the Christ-like hand. the cherubic hand,
the hand under the wings"
There Is also in my subject the sugges-
ton of rewarded work for God and right
eousnes. 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 IL Will rot come. That was a wise
thing Fenelon 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
saying and believing that / ask little of
men in general. / try 10 do much for
them and 10 expect nothing in return
/ find a decided advantage in these terms
on these terms l defy them to disap-
point me" But, my hearers, the day
cometh when your work, which perhaps
no one has noticed. or rewarded. or hon
ored, will rise to Heavenly recognition.
While l have been telling you that the
hand was under the wing of the Cheru-
bin, l want you TO realize that the wing
was over the hand. Perhaps reward may
not come to you right away. Washing
ton lost more battles than he won, but he
trlumphed at the last. Walter Scott, in
boyhood, was called THE Greek Block
head" but what hight of renown did he
not afterward tread? 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, its fingers
enringed with what jewels, its wrist
clasped with what splcndors, Come up
and take IL. you Christian woman, who
served at the washtub. Come up and
take IL, you Christian shoemaker, who
pounded the shoe-last. Come up and take
II, you professional nurse, whose COM
pensation never fully paid for broken
nights and the whims and struggles of
delirious sick-roons Come up and take
it, you firemen. besweated, far down amid
the greasy machinery of ocean steamers,
and We conductors and engineers on rail-
roads. that knew no Sunday, and whose
ringing bells and loud whistles never
warned off your own anXieties Come up
and take IT, you mothers. who rocked and
lullabed the family brood until they took
ated what you had done and suffered for
them. Your hand was well favored when
you were young. and it was a beautiful
hand. SO well rounded, so graceful that
many admired and eulogized it; but hard
work calloused IT. and twisted It, and self
sacrificing toll for others paled it, and
many household griefs thinned it, and the
ring which went on only with a push at the
marriage altar, now is too large, and falls
off, and again and again you have lost 1t.
Poor hand. Weary hand! WORKOUT hand!
But God will reconstruct IL, reanimate It,
readorn 1t. and all heaven will know the
story of that hand. What fallen ones II
lifted up! What tears 1t wiped away!
what wounds 1t bandaged! What light
houses 1t klndled! What storm tossed ships
ii brought into the Pearl-beached Har-
Dor! oh, am so glad that In the vision
of my text, Ezekiel saw the wing above
the hand. Roll on that everlasting rest
for all the toiling, and misunderstood. and
suffering, and weary children of God, and
know right well that to join your hand, at
last emancipated from the struggle. will
be the soft hand the gentle hand, the tri-
umphant hand of Him who wipeth away
all tears from all faces. That will be the
Palace of the King of Which the poet sang
in somewhat Scotch dialect:
It's a bonnie. bonnie warr that were
Twin in the moo,
An sunny is the Ian we aften traivel
thro';
But in vain we look for something to
which cor hearts can cling,
For its beauty is as naething to the Palace
o the King.
We see cor frien's await us over yonder
at his gate;
Then let US a be ready for ye ken it's
gettin' late;
Let DOR lamps be BRIGHTLY burnin'; let's
raise DOR voice an sing:
Soon wen meet, to part nae mair, l. the
Palace O. the King.
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