The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-30

your streets without any recognition.
Grub street. where many OF the mighty
men of the past suffered, is long enough
tn reach around the world. No need OF
wasing out sympathy upon the unappre.
ciated thinkers and workers Of the past!
Though Linnaeus sold his works for a
single ducat. Though Noah Webster's
spelling book yielded him more than his
dictionary. Though Correggio, the great
painter. receiving for long continued
work payment Of $50, died from over
ioy. Though when Goldsmith's friends
visited him they were obliged to sit in
the window, as he had but one chair.
Though Samuel Boyse, the great poet.
starved to death. Though the author of
'Hudibras' died in a garnet. Though
Paradise Lost brought it's author only
S25 cash down, with promise of $50 more.
il the sale warranted it; so that SIS was
all that was paid for what is considered
the greatest poem ever written. Better
turn our attention to the fact that there
are 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 1T, buy their sculpture.
read their books, purchase their pictures,
encourage their pen, their pencil, their
chisel, their engraver's knife, their archi-
tect's compass. The world calls them
book worms' or DIR. Dry-as-Dust,' but
If there had been no bOokworms or dry
doctors OF law and science and theology
there would have been no ApOcalyptic
angel. They are the Greeks Of our coun-
try and time, and yOur obligation to them
is infinite.
"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, out-quote, out-dogmatize 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 little boy or blue-eyed
girl. They have found life a struggle.
oh. tell them h~w Christ has helped you
all the way through. They are in be-
wilderment about the future. Oh, tell
beackons 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.
then comes victory. II you can, by some
incident of self-sacriice, bring to such
scholarly men and women what Christ
has done for their eternal rescue, you
may bring them in. Where Domosthenic
eloquence and IIomeric imagery would
fail, kindly heart-throb may succeed.
SPARTAN COURAGE.
"a gntlenan OF this city sends me the
statement Of what occurred few days
ago among the mines OF British Col
umbia. 1t seems that Frank COnson and
Jem Smith were down in the narrow
shaft Of a mine. They had loaded an
iron bucket with coal, and Jim Hens
worth, standing above ground, was haul
ing the bucket up by windlass. when the
windlass broke and the loaded bucket
was descending upon the two miners.
Then Jim Hemsworth, seeing what must
be certain death to the miners beneath.
threw himself against the eogs of the
whirling windlass, and though his flesh
was torn and his bones were broken, he
stopped the whirling windlass and ar
rested the descending bucket, and saved
the lives of the two miners beneath. The
superintendent Of the mine few to the
rescue and blocked the machinery. When
Jim Hemsworth's bleeding and broken
body was put on a litter and carried
homeward, and some one ex-
claimed: Jim, this is awfulp he re-
piled: oh, what's the difference, so
long as / saved the bays! What an IL
lustration it was Of suffering for others,
and what text from which to illustrate
the behavior OF our Christ, limping and
lacerated and broken and torn and crush
ed in the work OF stopping the descend
ing ruin that would have destroyed our
sOult Try such q scene Of vicariOus suf-
feriHg as this on that man capable Of
overthrOwing all your arguments for the
truth, and he win sit down and weep.
Draw your illustrations from the class
ics, and it IN to him an old story, but
Leyfen jars and electric batteries and
telescopes and Greek drama will all
surrender to the story Of Jim Hens
worth's, oh. what's the difference -
long as I saved the boysT
"Then If your illustration OF Christ's
eelf-sacrifce, drawn from some scene OF
to-day, and your story Of what Christ
has done for you does not quite fetch
him into the right way, just say to HIN.
Professor, Doctor, Judge! What was 1t
that Paul declared he was debtor to
the GreeksY And ask your learned
friend to take his Greek Testament and
translate for you, in has own way, from
Greek into English, the splendid pcrOra-
ton of Paul's sermon on Mars Hill, I'M
der the power of which the scholarly
Dionysius surrendered, namely: The
times of this ignorance God winked at;
but now commandeth all men everywhere
to repent; because He hath appointed a
day in which He will judge the world
in righteousness, by that man whom he
hath ordained; whereof He hath given
assurance unto all men, in that He hath
raised him from the dead BY the time
be has got through the translation from
the Greek l think You will see his lip
tremble and there will come a pallor
on his face like the pallor on the sky at
daybreak BY the eternal salvation OF