The Chanute times., 1899-03-24


city. Oh! that is what Solomon meant
when he said: "The rich and the poor
meet together; the Lord is the maker
of them all"
l like this democratic principle Of
the Gospel CT Jesus Christ which recog-
niZes the fact that we stand before God
On one and the same platform. Do
not take on any airs; whatever posi-
tion you have gained in society, you are
nothing but man, born of the same
Parent, regenerated by the same Spirit,
cleansed in the same blood, to lie down
in the same dust, to get up in the same
resurrection 1t is high time that we
all acknowledged not only the Father
hood Of God, but the brotherhood of
| man.
Again, the street impresses me with
the fact that it is a great field for
Christian charity. There are hunger
and suffering, and want and wretched-
ness, in the country, but these evils
chiefly congyegate in our great cities.
On every street crime prowls, and
drunkenness staggers, and shame
winks, and pauperism thrusts out its
hand asking for aims. Here, want is
most squalid and hunger is most lean.
A Christian man, going along street
in New York, saw poor lad and ne
stopped and said: "My boy, do you
know how to read and writer" The
boy made nc answer. The man asked
the question twice and thrice: "Can
you read and write?" and then the boy
answered, with tear FLASHING on the
back of his hand. He said in defiance:
"No sir; l can'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 remem-
ber to have seen him? and haven't l
had to go along the streets to get
something to fetch home to eat for the
folks? and didn't I, as soon as l could
carry a basket, have to go out and pick
up cinders, and never have no school
ing, sir? God don't want me to read,
sir. 1 can't read, nor write neither"
Oh, these poor wanderers! They have
no chance. Born in degradation, as
they get up from their hands and knees
to walk. they take their first step on
the road to despair. Let us go forth in
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to
rescue them. Let us ministers not be
afraid of soiling 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 rhet-
orically, we might be saving soul
from death, and hiding a multitude OF
sins. o Christian laymen, go out on
this work. If you are not willing to go
forth yourself, then give Of your means,
and if you are too lazy to go, 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
mire. Beware lest the thousands Of
the destitute of your city, in the last
great day, rise up and curse your stu
pidity and your neglect. Down to
work! Lift them up! One cold win
ter's day, as Christian man was 60
ing along the Battery in New York,
he saw little girl seated at the gate,
shivering in the cold. He said to her.
"My child, what do you sit there for,
this cold day." "Oh," she replied, ''I
am waiting-I am waiting for some
body to come and take care Of me. -
why" said the man, what makes
you think anybody will come and take
care of you?" "Oh," she said, my
mother died last week, and l was cry
ing very much, and she said: Don't
cry. dear; though l am gone and your
father is gone, the Lord will send
somebody to take care of you My
mother never told a lie; she said
some one would come and take care Of
me, and l am waiting for them TO
come" o, yes, they are waiting for
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 lit
tie ones should perish.
Lastly, the street impresses me with
the fact that all the people are look
ing forward. 1 see expectancy written
on almost every face 1 meet. Where |
you find a thousand people walking |
straight on. you only find one man
stopping and looking back. The fact
is. God made us all to look ahead, be-
cause we are immortal. In this tramp |
of the multitude on the streets, l hear |
the tramp of a great host, marching
and marching for eternity. Beyond |
the Office, the store, the shop, the
street, there is a world, populous and
Through Gods grace,
may you reach that blessed place. A
great throng fills those boulevards, and
the streets are a-rush with the chariots
of conquerors.-T The inhabitants go up
and down, but they never weep and
they never toll. A river flows through
that city, with rounded and luxurious
banks, and the trees of life laden with