San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-24

you to a cold plunge in the icy waters
! below.
Happy is that boy or girl, maid or
matron, youth or manhood who has
ut the critical moment Il friend to
warn back from the inevitable that
lies lurking below that thin ice. Hap
by also If having taken the fatal stride
and sunk beneath the chill waters,
some strong courageous hand is
stretched our for your rescue at the
peril of the life of its owner. The
world is full of the music of the names
of those who. in complete renuncia-
ton and fOrgetfulneSS of self. have
! interpOsed their own lives for the res
cue of their comrades, or the needy
stranger. and gained the satisfaction
of having rescued n human being from
| physical death. No grander mOnu-
mcnt is reared on earth than is erect
ed by the deeds of unSeltiSh herOiSm,
in the camp, on the battlefield. on
board ship, in the deep waters, down
in mines, wherever danger calls to
rescue.
Beloved. There is as great honor
anu dS ldlllO III lllI llloiai
universe. for the man or woman who
interposes, without considerations or
self. between the death of Il reputation
and the thin ice upon which it is en-
dangered. Hospitals have been open
ed for the treatment of those whose
bodies are trampled under foot of the
horses in the street. or crushed under
the cruel rails of cars, or drowned in
the treacherOuS waters. or manned
in hOrrid explosions. and their work
of mercy is the cOmmendatiOn of the
century. But where are the hospitals
for the treatment of those who sink
under the cold waters of calumny.
are crushed beneath the iron hOOfS of
hard Indifference, are blown into air
by the explosions of jealousy, or en-
w? Who in their divine inverness
of sympathy have provided Il cure
for these? Where is their hospital
built?
Beloved! 1t is better to save a life
from despair and hide a multitude of
sins, than to rescue n body from the
danger of temporal suffering. or
manning. 1t is easier to prevent the
sinking through the ice than to rescue
after the ice breaks and the arctic
flood closes over its victim. Earth has
no diviner work than to go about
hosting danger signals wherever the
ice is too thin for human weight to
rest safely upon it. To the swift skat-
err the blade of the skate often cuts
clear through the ice before it bends
under his weight dangerously. Then
il is too late to turn around. 1t is not
possible, for the skate blade is clamp
ed in the ice through which it has cut.
Better take the ounce of prevention
and post the danger signal. That is
the best.
There is nothing on earth 50 effect
ual as the circumstances of Love.
There is nothing that will so make
your danger signals effective as to
post them in the spirit of Il true help,
by the hand of wise affectiOnatenesS.
There are danger spots all along the
halfway of the boy or the girl, who
has gone out from the shelter of home
to take the first slide or the first skate
upOn the waters of life. or death,
which is it? You who are older, you
who have had experience, YOU know
where the thin ice, you who have seen
| the agony that follows the sudden drop
| to social and personal perditiOn. you
are divinely commissioned to post the
| danger signal For the nOnce you are
the keeper of your brother. the guar
dian of your sister. Let hell Sneer ut
the remOnstrances of your loving con
SideratiOn. Do your duty to your fell
| low.
1t may be in order on another Occa-
sion to point out some of the peculiar
" dangerous places that are found
upon the surface of all ponds of pleas
IRE, and of social functions, and of
business and political life. This morn
ing the admonitiOn comes to you in
earnestness, to watch the steps OF
those with whom you associate, as
they approach the danger spots of
which you have knowledge, and to
warn them away from that which
takes hold on destruction. Beloved!
The watchCare of another is bless
ed ministry. To know that you have
rescued one heart from despair. bound
up one bleeding spirit, healed the hurt
of one tender soul. restored the cOur-
agee in one fainting coward nature.
turned one life back from the danger
of evil and guided it safely to solid
land. to know this is the knowledge
that saves. To do this work is to
help the forces of all good all where's.
IVY MASQUERADE BALL.