Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-04-02

book yielded him more than his diction-
airy, though Correggio, the great paint
er, receiving for long continued work
payment of $50, died from overjoy;
though when Goldsmith Is friends visited
him they were obliged to sit in the
window, as hehad but one chair; though
Samuel Boyse, the great poet, starved
to death; though the author Of "HuGi-
bras died in gaIret; though para
disc Lost" brought its author only $25
cash down, with promise Of $50 more if
the sale warranted it, so that $75 was
all that was paid for what is considered
the greatest poem ever written. Better
turn cur attention to the fact that there
are at this moment hundreds Of authors,
painters, sculptors, architects, brain
workers without bread and without fuel
and without competent apparel. AS far
as you can afford it, buy their sculpture,
read their books, purchase their pic
lures, encourage their pen, their pencil,
their chisel, their engraver's knife, their
architects compass. The world calls
them "bookworms" or Or. Dryas.
dust" but if there had been no beck
worms or dry doctors Of law and science
and theology there would have been no
Apocalyptic angel. They are the Greeks
Of our country and time, and your obi
CATION to them is infinite.
Victory Through Sacrifice.
But there is a better way to pay them,
and that is by their personal salvation,
which will never come to them through
books or through learned presentation,
because in literature and intellectual
realms they are masters. They can out
argue, outquote, outdogmatize you. Not
through the gate Of the head, but through
the gate Of the heart, you may capture
them. When men of learning and might
are brought to God, they are brought
by simplest story of what religion can
do for a soul. They have lost children.
Oh, tell them how Christ comforted you
when you lost your bright boy CT blue
eyed grill They have found life a strug-
gle. Oh, tell them how Christ has helped
You all the way through They are in
bewilderment. Oh, tell them with how
many hands Of joy heaven beckons you
upward "When Greek meets Greek,
then comes the tug Of war, " but when
warm hearted Christian meets a man
who needs pardon and sympathy and
comfort and eternal life tncn comes
victory. If you can, by some incident Of
self sacrifice, bring to such scholarly
men and women what Christ has done
for their eternal rescue, you may bring
them in. Where Demosthenic eloquonce
and Homeric imagery would fail, a
kindly heart throb may succeed. a gen
tleman of this city sends me the state
ment Of what occurred a few days ago
among the mines Of British Columbia.
1t seems that Frank CCUson and Jem
Smith were down in the narrow shaft
Of mine They had loaded an iron
bucket with coal, and jim HemswMth,
standing above ground, was hauling
the bucket up by windlass, when the
windlass broke, and the loaded bucket
was descending upon the two miners.
Then Jim HemswoLth, seeing what
must be certain death to the miners be-
meath, threw himself against the eggs
Of the whirling windlass, and, though
his flesh was torn and his bones were
broken, he stopped the .whirling wind
lass and arrested the descending bucket
and saved the lives of the two miners
beneath The superintendent Of. the
mine flew to the rescue and blocked the
When Jim Hemsworth's
bleeding and broken body was put on a
litter and carried homcward and some
one exclaimed, Jim, this is awful
he replied, "Oh, what's the difference
so long as | saved the boysF"
What an illustration it was Of suffer.
ing for others and what a text from
which to illustrate the behavior Of our
Christ, limping and lacerated and bro
ken and torn and crushed in the work cf
stopping the descending ruin that would
have destroyed our souls, Try such a
scene Of vicaTious suffering as this on
that man capable of overthrowing all
your arguments for the truth, and be
will sit down and weep. Draw your il
Illustrations from the classics, and it is
to him an old story, but Leyden jars
and electric batteries and telescopes and
Greek drama will all surrender TO the
story Of jim Homsworth's "Oh, what's
the difference so long as l saved the
boys:"
The; Debt Paid.
Then, If your illustration Of Christ's
self sacrifice, drawn from some scene of
today, and your story Of what Christ has