The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-03-31

and look with patriotic admiration on the
nag that noated In victory from the mast
head. But that man is moro of a curiosity
who has gone through thirty years OF the
on, victor over the temptations Of tho
street. oh, how many have gone down
under the pressure. leaving not so much as
the patch OF canvas to tell whore they per-
ishedi They never had any peace. Their
dishonesties kept tolling in their ears. II
had an AK and could split open the beams
OF that fine house. perhaps would And in
the very heart Of It skeleton. In his very
best wine there Is a smack Of poor mans
sweat. oh. 1t is strangetha when a man
has devoured widows houses he is dis
turbed with indigestion All the forces OF
nature are against him. The floods are
ready to drown him and the earthquake to
swallow him aud the fires to consume him
and the lightnings to smite him. But the
children OF God are on every street. and in
the day when the crowns OF heaven are
distributed some OF the brightest OF them
will be given to those men who were faith
others amid the marts Of business. proving
themselves the heroes Of the street.
Mighty were their tenn ptations, mighty was
their deliverance and mighty shall be their
triumph.
Again, the street impresses me with the
fact that life is full OF pretentfon and sham.
What subterfuee. what double dealing,
what two facednessl Do all people who
wish you good morning really hope you
happy day? Do all the people who shake
Gus about your health who inquire con-
cerniuR itp Do all want to see you who
ask you to call? Does all the world know
half as much as 1t pretends to know? Is
there not many wretched stock OF goods
with brilliant show2 Passing up and
down the streets to your business and your
work. are you not impressed with the fact
that society Is hollow and that that there
are subterfuges and pretensionsr Oh.
how OT many there are s6o who %a swasses
natural and walkl While fops simper
and fools chuckle and simpletons gi"gle,
now few people are natural and taught
The courtesan and the libertiue go down
the heart there are volcanoes Of passion
consuming their life away. say these
things not to create In you incredulity or
mtsanthropy. nor do 1 forget there are
thousands the OF people q great deal better
man is prepared for the conflict OF this life
until he knows this particular peril. Ehud
comes pretending to pay his tax to King
Eglon, and, while he stands in front OF the
king. stabs him through with a dagger un-
til the haft went in after the blade. Judas
Iscariot kissed Christ.
Again. the street impresses me with the
fact that 1t Is n great field for Christian
charity. There are hunger and suffering,
and want and wrotchedness in the coun-
try, but these evils chiefly congregate In
our great cities. On every street crime
prowls, and drunkenness staggers, and
shame winks. aud pauperism thrusts out
Its hand asking for aims. Here what is
most squalid and hunger Is most lean. A
Christian man, going along a street in New
York, saw a poor lad, and he stopped
and said, MY boy. do YOU know how to
read and writer" The boy made no an
swer. The man asked the question twice
And then the boy answered. with n tear
plashing on the back of his hand. He said
In defiance: "No, sir, don't read nor write.
neither. God. sir. don't want me to read
and write. Didn't he take away my father
so long ago never remember to have seen
him? And haven't I had to go along the
streets to get something to fetch home to
eat for the folks? Aud didn'tI, as soon as
I could carry a basket. have to go out and
pick up clnders and never have no school
ing, sir? God don't want me to read. sir.
I can't read nor write. neither" Oh. these
poor wanderersl They have no chance
Born In degradation, as they get up from
| their hands and knees to walk, they take
| US so forth in the name OF the Lord Jesns
Christ to rescue them. Let us ministers not
| be afraid OF soiing our black clothes while
we go down on that mission. While we
are tying an elaborate knot In our cravat
| or while we are In the study rounding off
some period rhetorically we might be saw
| ing soul from death and hiding a multi
| tude OF sins. o Christian laymen, go out ou
this work! If you are not willing to go
forth yourself, then give OF your means.
| and IL you are too lazy to go, and IL you
arc too stingy to help, then get out OF the
way and hide yourself In the dens and
caves Of the earth, lest, when Christ's
chariot comes along the horses hoofs
trample you into the inire. Beware lest
| the thousands OF the destitute OF your city
in the last great day rise up and curse
your stupidity and Jour neglect. Down to
work. Lift them I'D.
One cold winters day, as q Christian
man was going along the Battery In New
York, he saw {. little girl seated at the gate.
shivering. in the cold. He said to her:
cold dayY' "Oh," she replied, ''I am
waiting .or somebody to come and take
care OF me-" why" said the man
aes OF y se
"my mother died last week. and was cry
Ing gery much. and she said: Don't cry
denr, though am gone and your father Is
gone, the Lord will send somebody to take
she said some one would come and take
care ofme, md am waiting for them tc
come" Oh, yes, they are waiting fol
you. Men who have money, men who
have influence, men OF churches, men OF
great hearts, gather them In, gather them
In. 1t is not the will OF your Heavenly
Father that one Of these little ones should
perish.
Lastly. the street impresses me with the
fact that all the people are looking for
ward. see expectancy written on almost
every face meet. Where you find n thou
sand people walking straight on, YOU only
find one stopping and looking back. The
fact Is, God made us all to look ahead, be-
cause we are immortal. In thi' tramp OF
the multitude on the streets I hear the
tramp of great host, marching and
marching for eternity. Beyond the office,
the store, the shop, the street, there is a
world, populous and tremendous. Through
Gods grace, may you reach that blessed
place. A great throng fills those bouie
| wards, and the streets are arush will