Milford chronicle., 1896-10-02

the clergy, because they (the laymenl
study politics more than the clergy and
have better opportunity Of being intelli-
gent on those subjects But good morals,
honesty, loyalty, Christian patriotism and
tho Ten Commandments, these We must
preach. God says distinctly in the Bible,
"Thc silver aud the gold are mine, and
he viii settle the controversy between
those two metals. If ever this country
needed the divine rescue, it needs it now,
Never within my memory have so many
! people literally starved to death as in the
past few months Have you noticed in
! the newspapers how many men and wOm-
/ en- hero and there have been found dead,
the post norton examination stating that
tho cause of death was hunger? There is
/ not day that We do not hear the crash OF
some great commercial establishment, and
as a consequence many people are thrown
out of employment.
Millions Want Work.
Among what we considered comfortable
homes have come privation and close cal
culation and an economy that kills. Mil
lions of people who say nothing about it
arc at this moment at their wits end,
There are millions of people who do not
want charity, but want work. The cry has
gone up to the ears Of the Lord Of Saba
9th, " and the prayer will be heard, and re-
/ lief will come. II We have nothing better
TO depend on than American politics, relief
will never come. Whoever is elected TO tho
presidency, the wheels Of government turn
so slowly and q caucus in yonder white
building on the hill may tic the hands Of
any president Now, though we who live
in the District Of Columbia cannot VOTE
4 a nd
shall be- 20 God, hear the cry Of the souls
from under the ALTAR Thou, who hast
brought the wheat ard corn of this season
to such magnitude Of supply, give food to
fman and beast Thou, who hadst not
where 10 lay thy head, pity the shelterless,
Thou, who hast brought 20 perfection the
cotton Of tho south and the fax of the
north, clothe the naked. Thou, who hast
filed the mine with coal, give fuel to the
shivering. Bring bread to the body, intel
ligence to the mind and salvation to the
soul Of all the peoplel God save the ma
toni"
But we must admit ii is a hard gate to
push back. Millions of thin hands have
pushed at it without making il swing on
its hard hinges. 1t IS a gate made out Of
empty flour barrels and cold fire CRATES and
unmcdicatCd sickness and ghastliness and
horror 1t is gate of struggle. A gate
of Eenury. A gate of want. A gate of
djsaI Lointment. A rcd gate, or what
Isaiah would have called gate of carbun-
cles.
The Bitter Draft.
Now, as l have already suggested, as
there are obstacles in all our paths, we
will be happier if We consent to have our
life a struggle do not know any ono to
whom 1t is not a struggle. Louis XIV
thought he had everything fixed just right
and fixed to stay, and so he had the great
clock at Bordeaux made. The hours Of
that clock were struck by figures In bronze
representing the kings of Europe, and at
certain time of day William III of Eng
lard and other kings We're made to come
out and bow to Louis XIV. But the clock
got out of order one day, and just the oppo-
site of what was expected occnrred-as the
clock struck a certain hour Louis XIV was
thrown to the feet of William III. And
so tie clock of destiny brings many sur
prises, and those go down that you expected
to stuLd, ard at the foot of disaster most
regal conditions tumble. In all styles of
life there come disappointment and strpgs
gle God has for some good reason ar
ranged it SO. If IL is not poverty, 1t Is
sickness. Ii it Is not sickness, it is perse-
cution If it is not persecution, it is con-
test with some evil appetite If it is not
some evil appetite, it is bereavement If
it is not one thing, IL is another. Do not
get soured and cross ard think your case
is peculiar You are just like the rest Of
us. You will have to take the bitter draft
whether it be handed to you in golden
chalice or pewter mug. A man who has
81 coo year income sleeps sOunder and
has a better appetite than the man who
has So, 600, 600. If our life were not o
struggle We would never consent to get
out Of this world, and we would want to
stay here, and so block up the way of the
advancing generations. BY the time that
a man gets TO be 20 years Of age, and some
times by the time he gets to be 90 years Of
age, he says, Il have lad enough Of this,
and W hen the Lord Wills 1t am ready 10
emigratc to a country where there are no
taxes and tho silver of the trumpet put ia
pne's lips has no quarrel with the gold OF
the pavement under lis feet. We have In
this world moro opportunity to cultivate
PATIENCE than to cultivate any other grace.
Let that grace be streL gthened in the royal
gymnasium of obstacle and opposition, and
BY the help Of God, having overcome our
own hindrances and worriments, let us
so forth to help others whose struggle is
greater than our own.
The Feet of Christ.
A friend told me the other day of a shoe
maker in u Russian city whose bench was
in the basement Of a building and so far
underground that he could see only the
feet Of those who went by On the sidewalk,
Seated ON his bench, 10 often locked UP,
and there went the swltt and skipping feet
If children, and then the slow and uni.
form step of the aged, and then crippled
iCet, and he resolved he would do kind
ess to each one who needed 1t. So when
the foot with the old and wornout shoe
was passing he would hail It and make
for 1t a comfortable covering, for he had
the hammer, ard the pegs, and the shoe
lasts and the laEstOne, and the leather to
do it. And when he saw the invalid foot
pass he would hail it and go out and offer
medicine and crutch and helpfulness And
when he saw the aged foot pass he hailed
1t and told the old man of heaven, where
he would be ycRng again. When he saW
the foot of childhood pass on the sidewalk,
ne would go out with good advice and
laugh that seemed like an echo Of the
child laugh. Well, time went on, and as
the shocmaker's wants were very lew he
worked but little for himself and most OF
the time for others, and In tho long even
lngs, when he could not so well sec the
feet PASSING on the sidewalk, he would
make shoes of all sizes and stand them on
a shelf, ready for feet that would pass In
the daytime OF course, as the years went
on, under this process the shoemaker be-
came moro and more Christian, until one
day he said to himself: 81 wish among all
those feet passing up there on the sidewalk
could see the feet of the dear Christ pass
ing. Oh, if could only see his feet go by,
would know them, because they arc scar
red feet ," That night the shoemaker
dreamed, and in the dream he saw the glo-
rious Christ, and he said, 20 Christ,
have Eeen waiting for thee to pass on the
sidewalk, and have seen lame feet and
wounded feet, and aged feet, and poor feet,
but in vain have l looked for thy SCARED
feet" And Christ said to the shoemaker;