The Monte Vista journal., 1898-01-29
Myror Reeds Sermon.

Too many Denver children are wear
ing spectacles. What greater hind
rance than lame eyes? remember
seeing old people reading by candle
light. When they needed spectacles
they would go over to the village
grocery and buy a pair or send to the
neighbors and borrow a pair. Any
glasses seemed to be good enough
forty years ngo. Now it's a weeks
, work Of measuring. fitting and adjust
ing. How did this loss of eyes come
about?
In all our great cities there are In.
geniOusly built nests for the cholera
to hatch in. The sweating dens where
! cheap and nasty clothing Is made are
an invitation to cholera. The tenement
houses that Helen Campbell writes
about are the delight OF the plague.
The greed OF man eats them up. Such
conditions exist In our great cities that
We may say tile cholera ought to come.
Denver Is the cleanest city this side
| OF the ocean. but II Ii not ms clean AZ
London. Man Is the principal thing.
Let us rate him more precious than
gold. A man IN out of work, out Of
money walking the street; what crime
has he committed? l nm glad to sec
a rising feeling that he has committed
none. There is II kind OF competition
in this city that hurts. One young
lady. who has n comfortable home
goes TO work In IA shop for what she
can get. She does not need wages. She
has room and board. But she competes
and cuts the wages down of another
young lady who must live on her
wages.
\ little thoughtfulness mixed with a
lltfIe mercy would make city life more
tolerable for women who must earn
their living. When n man has served
MS term In the penitentinry, what
right have We to affiict his soul any
more! He Ia on terms Of equality.
| strolled out the other day TO what
Is called the Industrial Home. 1t is n
failure. II requires genius. talent. tact,
To deal with these children. They are
children. Mentally they are not years
old. There IL strong odor OF cabbage
about the place. Cabbage is not good
1t Is cheap. Less cabbage and more
Kindness would he better. 1 undertake
to say that these children will have
sunlight and heat and exercise within
twenty-four hours. The people In charge
are doing the best they can. But they
have no vocation. Let them give up II
difficult job and go into something they
can do. would suggest wnshtnb.
Mr. Whitehead and myself We're re-
ccivcd by these girls in n gentle fash
Ion. We had no trouble. When am n
gentleman myself people are gentle to-
ward me. And have been In rough
places. Those people ont there nt the
so-callcd Industrial Home do not have
the tact To do their work. They do not
know how. Policemen and cold water
NJ . n. m. Will not reform n child.
The thing has broken down.
II Is n case OF brain and heart failure.
Charles Lowell. colonel of the Sec
ond Massachusetts cavalry. graduate
Of Harvard had three horses killed un-
der him. and was killed himself nt
Cedar Creek. Among other things he
| wrote:
Though love rcpinc and reason chafc
There came n voice without reply.
'Tis mans pcrdition to be safe
When for the truth he ought 10 die.
Now. want 10 say to you over. again
the words Of n man who was OF the
blue blood of America. and he had not
twcnty-four hours to live. The follow
Ing Is nm extract from u letter TO n
friend: Don't grow rich. II you once
begin you'll find II more difficult to b,
"A useful citizen: don't. seek office: but
don't disrcmcmbcr that the useful citi-
zen holds his time. his trouble. his mon.
cy and his life always ready at the
hint Of his country"
| ! cannot do better. Everything good
Tint ] know Of Is sentimental, from
love Of man III to love of God