The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-09-09

brand, and through clouds OF luxuriant
smoke reading about political economy
and the philosophy of strikes? Oh, no!
BY finding out who in this city has
been living on gristle, and sending
than a tenderlOin beefsteak. Seek out
some family, who through sickness or
conjunction OF misfortunes, have not
enough to eat, and do for them what
Christ did for the hungry multitudes
of Asia Minor, multiplying the loaves
and fishes. Let us quit the surfeiting
of ourselves until we cannot choke
down another crumb OF cake, and be-
gin the supply of others necessities.
So far from helping appease the world
hunger, are those whom Isaiah de-
scribes as grinding the faces OF the
poor. You have seen a farmer or a
mechanic put a scythe or an ak on a
grindstone, while someone was turn
ing it round and round and the man
holding the AK bore on it harder and
harder, while the water dropped from
the grindstone, and the edge OF the ak
from Seing round and dull, got keener
and keener. So l have seen men who
were put against the grindstone OF
hardship. and while one turned the
crank, another would press the unfor-
tunate harder down and harder down
until he was ground away thinner and
thinner-his comforts thinner, his
prospects thinner, and his face thinner
And Isaiah shrleks out: What mem
we that We grind the faces OF the
poor?"
But, alas! where are the good
clothes for three-fourths OF the
human race? The other one-fourth
have appropriated them. The fact
is, there needs to be and
will be, redistribution. Not by anar-
chistic violence. If outlawry had its
way, it would rend and tear and dimin-
ish, until, instead of three-fourths OF
the world not properly attired, four
fourths would be in rags | will let
you know how the redistribution will
take place. BY generosity on the part
of those who have a surplus, and in
creased industry on the part or those
suffering from deficit. Not all, but the
large majority Of cases of poverty in
this country are a result of idleness or
drunkenness, either on the part of the
present sufferers or their ancestors
In most cases the rum jug is the mael-
strom that has swallowed down the
livelihood Of those who are in rags
But things will change, and by gen.
erosity on the part of the crowded
wardrobes. and industry and sobriety
on the part Of the empty wardrobes
there will be enough for all to wear.
God has done his part toward the
dressing of the human race. He grows
and fccks roam the mountains and
valleys with a burden Of warmth in
| tended for transference to human com.
! fort. when the shuttles of the factories
reaching all the way from Chatta-
hoochee to the Merrmac, shall have
snowy fleece God has been writing FOL
thousand years, his wish that there
might be warmth for all nations. While
others are discussing the effect Of high
| or low tariff, or no tariff at all. on wool
YOU and / had better see If in oui
wardrobes we have nothing that We
| can spare for the suffering, or pick ou
some poor lad of the street and take
| him down to a clothing store and fl
him out for the season. Gospel o.
shoes! Gospel of hats! Gospel o.
clothes for the naked!
Again. let us look around and SCI
how we may serve our generation
| What shortsishted mortals we woulj
| be IL we were anxious to clothe an
feed only the most insignificant par
OF a man, namely, his body, while W.
put forth no effort to clothe and feet
and save his soul. Time is little
piece broken off a great eternity. Wha
are we doing for the souls of this pres
ent generation? Let me say it is gen
Grafton worth saving. Most magnin
cent men and women are in 1t. W.
make a great ado about the improve
ments in navigation. and in locomotion
and in art and machinery. We re
mark what wonders of telegraph ant
telephone and the stethoscope. Wha
| Improvement is electric light over
tallow candle! But all these i'm
provements are insignificant compare'
with the improvement in the human
race. In olden times. once in a while
a great and good man or woman woult
come up. and the world has made
great fuss about it ever since; but nov
they are so numerous. we scarcel.
speak about them. We put hall
about the people OF the past, but
think IL the times demanded them, |
would - found we have now living II
this year. 1893. fifty Martin Luthers
fifty George Washingtons, fifty Lad
Huntingdons. fifty Elizabeth Frys
During our civil war more splendi
warriors in North and South were de
veloped in four years than the Who'll
world developed in the previous TWEEN
ty years. ! challenge the 1000 year
before Christ and also the eighteeI
centuries after Christ to show me tn
equal Of charity on large scale o
George Peabody. This generation Q
men and women is more worth saw