The Monitor-register., 1897-06-04
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way home from prayer meeting, where
he gave testimony for Christ: "What a
fool you made of yourselfl Ihope here
after you will keep still" And when
he would be benevolent and give $50
she criticises him for not giving 80
cents. I must do justice and publicly
thank God that L never proposed at
home to give anything for any cause of
humanity or religion but the other part
ner in the domestic firm approved it,
and when it seemed beyond my ability
and faith in God was necessary she had
three-fourths the faith. But I know
men who, when they contribute to char
liable objects, are afraid that the wife
shall find it out. What a whitening
curse such a woman must be to a good
man!
Then there are others under the great
disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to
get things cheapest? You say those who
have little means. But they pay more.
You buy coal by the ton; they buy it by
the bucket. You buy flour by the bar
rel; they buy it by the pound. You get
apparel cheap because you pay cash;
they pay dear because they have to get
trusted. AND the Bible was right when
it said, "The destruction of the poor is
their poverty"
Mistakes In Early Life.
Then, there are those who made a
mistake in early life, and that over
shadows all their days. "Do you not
know that that man was once in pris-
on?" is whispered. Or, "Do you know
that that man once attempted suicide?"
Or, ''Do you know that that man once
absconded?" Or, "Do you know that
that man was once discharged for dis
honestly" Perhaps there was only one
wrong deed in the mans life, and that
act haunts the subsequent half GEN.
fury of his existence.
Others have unfortunate predomi-
III of some mental faculty, and their
rashness throws them into wild enter
prises, or their trepidation makes them
decline great opportunity, Or there is a
vein Of melancholy in their disposition
that defeats them, or they have an en-
dowment of overmirth that causes the
impression of insincerity.
Others have a mighty obstacle in
their personal appearance, for which
they are not responsible. They forget
that God fashioned their features. and
their complexion and their stature, the
size of their nose and mouth and hands
and feet, and gave them their gait and
their general appearance, and they for
get that much of the worlds best work
and the church's best work has been
done by homely people, and that Paul
the Apostle is said to have been hump
backed and his eyesight weakened by
ophthalmia, while many of the finest in
appearance have passed their time be-
fore fattering looking glasses or in
studying killing attitudes and in dis
playing the richness of wardrobes-not
one ribbon or vest or sack or glove or
button or shoestrfng Of which they have
had brains to earn for themselves.
Others had wrong proclivities from
the start. They were born wrong, and
that sticks to one even after he is born
again. They have a natural crankiness
that is 275 years old. 1t came over with
their great grandfathers from Scotland,
or Wales, or France. It was born on
the banks of the Thames, o. the Clyde,
or the Tiber, or the Rhine, and has sur
vived all the plaques and epidemics Of
many generations, and is living today
on the banks of the Potomac, Or the
Hudson, or the Androscoggin, or the
Savannah, or the La Plata. And when
a mar tries to stop this evil ancestral
proclivity he is like a man on a rock in
the rapids of Niagara, holding on with
a grip from which the swift currents
are trying to sweep him into the abyss
beyond.
Oh, this world is an overburdened
world, an overworked world. 1t is an
awfully tired world. 1t is a dreadfully
unfortunate world. Scientists are try
ing to find out the cause Of these earth
quakes in all lands, cisatlantic and
transatlantic. Some say this and some
say that. l have taken the diagnosis of
what is the matter with the earth. 1t
has SO many burdens on it and so many
fires within it, 1t has a fit. 1t cannot
stand such a circumference and such a
diameter. Some new Cotopaxi or Strom-
boil or Vesuvius will open, and then
all will be at peace for the natural
world. But what about the moral woes
of the world that have racked all ma
tions, and for 5000 years science pro-
poses nothing but knowledge, and many
people who know the most are the most
uncontrolled? ~ -.
A Way Out For All.
In the way of practical relief for all
disadvantages and all woes the only