The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-30
HOODS
Sarsa pariIla

EQUITY! recreations in which we may en-
gage for the strengthening of the body,
Tor the clearing of the intellect, for the
illumination of the soul.
There is still another form of recreation
which l commend to you, and that is the
pleasure of doing good. / have seen young
men, weak and cross and sour and repel-
mig IN their dlSpoSl ton, who by one heaV-
emily touch have Weakened up and become
blessed and buoyant the ground under
their feet and the sky over their heads
some young man in the house to-day, Il
should like that recreation above all
others. but l have not the means" My
dear brother let us take an account of
stock. You have a large estate, if you
only realize it. Two hands. Two feet.
You Will have, perhaps, during the next
year at least ten dollars for charitable
contribution. You will have twenty-five
hundred cheerful looks, If you want to
employ them. You will have five thousand
pleasant words if you want to speak them.
Now, what an amount that is to start
with!
You go out tomorrow morning and you
see case of real restitution by the way
SIDE. You give him cents. The blind
man hears the pennies rattle in his hat,
ana he says Thank you. sir; God bless
your You pass down the street, trying
to look Indifferent; but you feel from the
very depth of your soul Erofound salts
faction that you made that man happy.
on 20 on sun farther and ind poor boy
with wheelbarrow, trying to get it up
on the curbstone. He fails i'm the attempt.
You say: Stand back, my lad; let me
Try. You push it up on the ccurbstone
that well-dressed man was that helped
him. You did a kindness TO the boy but
you ala great JOY to your own soul. You
Will not get over it all the week
On the street tomorrow morning. you
VIII see SICK man passing along. All"
you say, what can do to make this man
happy? He certainly does not want
money; he is not poor but he is sick"
GIVE MN one OF those twenty-five hundred
cheerful looks that you have garnered up
Tor the whole year. Look joy and hope
tulness into his soul; it will thrill him
through and there will be a reaction upon
your own soul. Going a little farther on,
you VIII come to the store of a frienG
who is embarrassed in business matters
You VIII go in and say: what a fine
store you have! l think business will
brighten up, and you will have more Gus
tom after awhile. think there is coming
a great prosperity to all the country
Good morning" You pass out You have
Lheipe9 that young man, and you have
helped yourself.
Col Gardiner. who sat with his elbow
on table, spread with all extravagant
Viands looking off at dog on the rug
saying: How / would like 10 change
places with him: I be the dog and he be
Col. Gardiner; or, those two Moravian
lazaretto for the sake of attending the
sick, and they were told: If you go in
there, you Will never come out. We never
would bring the contagion." Then thew
made their wills and went in, first to help
the sick and then to die. Which was the
happier-Col. Gardiner or the MoraVian
missionaries dying for others? Was ii
all sacrifice when the missionaries wanted
to bring the Gospel to the negroes at the
Barbadoes, and, being denied the privi-
lege, sold themselves into slavery, stand
ing side by side, and lying side by side
down in the very ditch of suffering, in or
der that they might bring those men up
TO life and God and heaven? Oh. there
Is thrill in the joy of doing good! 1t is
the most magnificent recreation to which
his heart.
But, before closing, I want to impress
upon you that mere secular entertain
ments are not a fit foundation for your
soul to build on. l was reading of n
woman who had gone all the rounds of