The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-09-10

tury. Taking these facts into the
calculation, | make a rough guess, and
say that there have been at least $50
generations of the human family.
With reference to them we have no
responsibility. We cannot teach
them, We cannot correct their mis-
taxes We cannot soothe their SORROWS,
we cannot heal their wounds Their
sepulchers are deaf and dumb to any
thing we might say TO them. The
last regiment of that great army has
passed out of sight We might halloo
as loud a we could; not one Of them
would avert his head TO see what we
wanted.
But the $50 generations have passed
OIL. Passed up Passed down Gone
forever. Then there are generations
70 come after our earthly existence
has ceased. We shall not see them;
we shall not hear any OF their voices;
We will take no part in their convoca-
tons, their elections, their e revolutions,
their catastrophes, their triumphs.
We will in no wise affect the $50 gen.
erAtions one or the $50 generations to
come, except as from the galleries Of
Heaven the former generations look
down and rejoice at our victories, or
AS we may, by our behavior, start
influences good or bad, that shall
roll on through the advancing ages
But our business il, like David, TO
serve our " generation, the peo-
pie now living, those whose lungs
now breathe. aud whose hearts now
beat And mark you, Il is not a silent
procession, but moving. 1t Is a forced
march" at "a miles a day, each hour
being 4 mile. Going with that celer-
ity, IL has got to be a quick service on
our part or no service at all. We not
only cannot teach the $50 generations
past and will not see the $50 genera
lions 70 come, but this generation now
on the stage will soon be of, and We
ourselves will he of with them The
fact Ia that you and | will have 10
start very soon for our work, for II
will be ironicAl and sarcastic for any
one after our exit 10 say OF us, as II
was said of David, after he had
served his own generation by the will
of God he fell on sleep
Well. now, let us look around anx.
iously, prayerfnlly, in a common-seuse
way. and see what we can do for our
own generation. First Of all, let us
see to it that as far as we can, they
have enough to eat The human body
is SO constituted that three times q day
the body needs food as much as q lamt
needs oil, or As much as a locomotiv,
needs fuel To meet this want Goo
has girdled the earth with apple or
chardS orange groves, wheat fields
and ocean full Of fish, and prairiei
full Of cattle And notwithstandln.
this, ! will undertake TO say that thl
vast majority of the human family ar,
now suffering for the lack of food O
the right kind of food. Our civiliza
> ton is all askew, and God only can Sc
it right Many of the great estates o
to-day have been built out Of the bloc,
and bones Of unrequited toll In oldeI
times, for the building OF forts an
towers, the inhabitants Of Ispahan ha
TO contribute 20, 600 human skulls, an
Bagdad 10000 human skulls. an
that number of people we're con
PEELED 10 furnish the skulls Bu
these two contributions added Il
gether made only 1870, 900 skulls, Will
into the tower Of the worlds wealt
and pemp have been wrought h
skeletons Of uneounted mum bers
the half-fed populations OF the earth.
millions of skulls. Don't sit down
your table with FIVE or six courses
abundant supply and think nothir
Of that family in the next street WI
would take any one Of those g,
courses between soup and almond nu
and feel they were in Heaven. II
lack of the right kind Of food is Il
cause Of much Of the dTunkennei
After drinking what many Of our ~
GERS cali coffee, sweetened with VIII
mary call sugar, and eating VIII
many of our butchers call meat al
chewing what many Of our bakers CT
bread, many OF the lsboring class Il
30 miserable they are tempted 10 p
into their nasty pipes what the tobl
conists calls tobacco, or 20 into I
saloons for what the rum-sellers Ct
. beer. Good coffee will do much
- driving out bad rum.
How can we serve nj generatl
with enough TO eat? By sitting dol
In embroidered slippers and lounRi
J back in an arm chair, our mouI
I puckered up around a Havana of
~ best brand and through clouds OF !,
urialt smoke reading about politi
economy and the philosophy Of strik
No, no! by finding out who in (
city has been living on gristle q
NM sending them q tenderloin beefste
Seek out some family, who throu
sickness or conjunction Of misfortnI
have not enough TO eat and do
Or them what Christ did for the hum
Il, multitudes Of Asia Minor, multiply
the loaves and the fishes Let us Q
the surfeiting Of ourselves until
nm cannot choke down another cru
Of cake and begin the sup
Of others necessities So
from helping appease the wor.
hunger are those whom lisa
describes as grinding the faces
the poor.
1t is an awful thing 10 be hung
II is an easy thing for us 10 be In e,
humor with all the world when
have no lack. But let hunger I
Nm foil possession OF MS, and we would
N turn into barbarians and cannil
and BendS Suppose that some of
energy we m eEpending In use.
and u%nayailing talk about the br
rset question should be expended ia me
iul alterations ] have read that
battlefield on which more troops
W. than on any other in the worlds
w tory was the battlefield Of Leips
100. 900 men under Napoleon, $50
men under Schwarzberg. No,
The greatest and most terrific ba
ora is now being fought all the We
over. II Is the battle for bread.
ground tone of the finest passag
one Of the great musical masterpie
the artist says, was suggested TO
by the cry Of the hungry populac
~ Vienna "a the king I0da through.