The record-union., 1897-11-26

bread. 1t was a well of water first. and
then the living water after. He re-
stored the sight to the blind man before
ne spoke of the light of the world. We
nave made great mistake in our
methods. The submerged path Of our
city does not need plum pudding and
roast turkey to-day like they need the
use OF soap and water the other
Ihree hundred and sixty-four DAYS
your donation of goodies once per year
is not what they need. They need you.
your presence in some filthy rooming
house with a scrub brush in your hand,
and sweet charity in the heart, where
you can stand beside that hungry. crude
being, You call sister, with three un-
clean little animals clinging to her, and
snow her how to tidy UP the room, and
Ify steak properly, and make a bed,
that is not a rack of tortures, and pre-
pare bowl of SOUP that doesn't drive
her husband to drink, will do more than
a hundred donation parties to alleviate
the suffering of the destitute.
A physician of London, England, saws
he can trace certain crimes to the eating
OF soggy biscuit and tough steaks. We
want to look after their bodies first.
reach them how to be clean and
healthy. Soao and water will do more
for the lower strata than turkeys and
cranberry sauce, pound for pound. 1t is
not that YOU don't remember the poor,
but you don't help them when you do re-
member them.
Take a stand for cleanliness and you
can interest them in godliness. How
can you teach them heavenly things un-
til they are able to learn of earthly
things. This moral mud will never be
removed from their souls until the other
mud comes from their bodies.
Life is an arrow, therefore you must
know
What mark to aim at-how to use the
Then draw it to the head and let it go.
Were half the power that fills the world
with terror,
Were half the wealth bestowed on camps
and courts,
Given to redeem the mind from error,
There were no need of arsenals and forts.
The Philistine we meen in every
walk and calling of life is
greed. There is spirit of hog
gishness that has taken POSSESSION of
The bodies of men. Once it was an un-
clean spirit that sought shelter inside of
a hog, but the poor brute found refuge in
suicide. Now it is the spirit of a hog in
the bodies of men, but unlike the swine.
they try to live as long as possible. This
malady is worse than the black fever,
yet none are frightened at its presence.
There is a cure for drunkenness, but
who has an antidote for selfishness.
Nothing short of the call of the cross
can reach this modern Scourge.
The Christian citizen must meet this
new enemy. If it is with drawn sword
and cry in the heart Of God, there will
be new victory recorded for the chill
dren of the king. Arise and God Will
arse within you and refresh unto the
end.
REv.A. J. STURTEvANTS THANKS
GIVING ADDRESS.
After a collection for the poor had
been taken up, Rev. A. ]. Sturtevanr,
pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist
Church, delivered the following very
timely and able address:
My limitations are such this morning
that / cannot speak eyhauStively along
any line. The best I can hope to do is
to make this brief address suggestive.
Assembled as we are to-day, under
such peculiarly auspicious circum-
stances, it will be profitable, am sure,
to call to mind few of our blessings.
A few, I say, for time would fail and
ability would fail to even enumerate
tithe Of Gods gifts for which we should
be thankful.
It will be profitable to enumerate a
few such things, for we are apt to
give so much care anad worriment to
some little thing that we do not enjoy
that we overlook the great multitude
of our blessings. A little cloud, scarce
bigger than mans hand, comes be-
fore our eyes and obscures the great
sun and throws our whole mental hor-
iZon into deepest gloom. The sun is
vastly larger than the cloud, and more
substantial, but the cloud, by our per-
mission, stands right in the way and
obscures all the brightness and beauty
of the glorious orb of day. Let US get
above the cloud to-day and bathe in
the sunlight.
And now / am obliged to limit myself
again. I not only have to say that
out of the multitude of Gods blessings
/ can only select a few of which l may
hope to speak, but / also have to say
that because of my limitations I must
pass by all the greatest and most fun
damental blessings and only allude TO
few minor ones-the love Of God. life
and liberty: the continued orderly
operation of the forces of nature; the
plan of atonement for sin still open:
the Lords continued presence among
men; the power of choice between good
and evil still continued
What could l do in fifteen minutes
auv ono of those pv oP bnpdrad
other great and fundamental subjects
for Thanksgiving? Volumes could not
exhaust either one of these topics. nor
angels speak the praise to God which
each ought to call forth.
The great continents of Gods mercy.
with their deep granite foundations of
eternal love. and their glistening peaks
of glory we can't hope to explore in fif-
teen minutes. If we can scan some
little islands Of blessing that His grace
has given, it will be as much as we can
hope to do. We cannot take up the
mountains. but only here and there a
pebble on the shore.
Gods love is so great. his mercies
are so innumerable, the life, the liber-
ties and the hopes that He gives are
so precious-who can thank God enough
for them2 Let us look at a few of
the special and significant gifts of this
present year, for which our people
should be at this time especially CRATE
full. Present conditions and the material
and spiritual blessings of the last nine
teen months call for peculiar and
heartfelt thanksgiving.
i. Notice the peaceable settlement of
national affairs since our last Thanks
giving Day. A new Chief Executive of