El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-18

burden is greater than 1 car
bear"
But such q cry will avail US naught II
| we make it simply to rid Ourself of the
burdens. True the Lord gives US GER
tain invitations and promises relative
to these burde ems: but in the midst of it
all he calls out for US to bear our own
| burden.
| AS sure as you live Benjamin Frank
n interpreted the divine plan when he
said: "God helps them that help
| Themselves This is ia grand privi-
lege, and when carried out there is
something heroic about it.
The man who is most admired and
sought after in q community is the
self made man, the man who by brave
ly bearing the burdens of life over
comes the most severe. There is some
thing in the man who bears the bur-
dens of life in that way, and the people
can't help admiring it.
Here Is poor soul who has seen bet
ter days. But disease came into his
family. He himself feels its keen fangs
as day by day it gnaws at his very Wit
ais. And as he plOds home at night,
from his day Of toll, where plenty and
cheerfulness should greet him he finds
his wife racked with neuralgia or
wrapped in nervous attac that makes
the least thing that goes wrong throw
her into a frantic fit Of disconten. The
lamps have not been lit, the supper Is
cold; the children are crying for food
and sleep. And yet, with all this, he
kisses the mouth that is half turned
away, lights the lamps, warns the sup
per and sings the children to sleep.
tell you the man who bears his burden
thus is nothing less than hero.
Here is poor widow whose husband
left her nothing but house full Of
children. Oh, death itself must have
been heavy enough burden for her!
But what must it be to be husbandless,
homeless, moneyless, and look into the
faces of from two to six tiny children
who little know what it all means?
Does she languish and pine and weep
her life away? No! Sometimes to be
sure she must weep, but she Is too
brave to throw the spirit of gloom over
her bright spirited children, so when
she weeps she goes alone with Cod.
And from here she goes not till she
has washed and dried the tears away.
And then with forced resignation and
external cheerfulness she goes back to
her children, tries to make them laugh
and be happy by her own cheerfulness
and beautiful stories: while to the hum
OF heavy sewing machine, or if need
be going from door to door with ar
ticles of merchandise, or into some
body's kitchen, she tries bravely to
keep the wolf away. o, who is there
that does not admire such woman?
Who would not help her if he could?
But there is heavier burden than
this that some poor souls have to bear.
ga dead husband is better than a liv-
ing disgrace,'' were the words of q
poor woman standing beside the bier
of her dead husband. What she meant
was that she had rather have him die
with his record than to live with the
record some have. And so 1t is, many
poor soul has to bear the burden of
q living disgrace. Look yonder at
that poor woman sitting at the window
staring into the darkness, starting at
every sound, after her neigh bors are
fast asleep. The clock strikes eleven
and still her husband does not come,
but she hopes he has been detained on
business. and waits still; but now the