The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-22

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and modesty, pride and humility, puri-
ty and beastliness, franlness and
hypocrisy, meeting on the same block,
in the same street, in the same 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"
like this democratic principle of the
gospel Of 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 position you
have gained in society; you are moth
ing 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. II is high time that we
all acknowledge not only the Father
hood Of God, but the brotherhood of
man.
Again, the street impresses me with
the fact that II is a very hard thing for
man to keep his heart right and to
get TO Heaven. Infinite temptations
spring upon us from these places of
public concourse. Amid such afflu-
ence, how much temptation to covet-
BUSINESS and 10 be discontented with
our humble lott Amid so many oppor-
tunities for overreaching, what temp
tation to extortion! Amid SO much
display, what temptation to vanity!
Amid so many saloons of strong drink.
what allurement TO dissipation In the
maelstroms and hell gates Of the street,
how many make quick and eternal
shipwreck! II man-of-war comes
back from battle and is towed into
the navy yard, we go down to look at
the splintered spars and count the bull
let holes and look with patriotic ad-
miration on the flag that floated in vic
| tory from the masthead. But that man
is more of a curiosity who has gone
through 30 years Of the sharpshooting
of business life and yet sails on, victor
over the temptations of the street.
Oh, how many have gone down under
the pressure, leaving not so much as
the patch Of canvas to tell where they
perished! They never had any peace.
Their dishonesties kept tolling in their
ears. If l had an AK and could split
open the beams of that fine house, per-
haps | would find in the very heart of
it skeleton. In his very best wine
there is a smack of poor mans sweat.
Oh, is it strange that when 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 earth
quake to swallow him and 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 distrib-
uted some Of the brightest Of them will
be given to those men who were faith
full TO God and faithful to the souls Of
others amid the marts Of business,
proving themselves the heroes of the
street. Mighty were their temptations,
mighty was their deliverance, and
mighty shall BE their triumph.
Again, the street impresses me with
the fact that life is full of pretension
and sham. What subterfuge, what
double dealing, what two-facedness!
Do all peoplewho wish you good morn
ing really hope for you happy day ?
Do all people who shake hands love
each other? Are all those anxious
about your health who inquire con-
cerning it? Do all wantto see you who
ask you TO call? Does all the world
know half as much as it pretends to
know? Is there not many wretched
stock of goods with a brilliant show
window? 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
there are subterfuges and pretensions:
Oh, how many there are who swagger
and strut and how few people who are
natural and walk! While fops simpeI
and fools chuckle and simpletons gig
gle, how few people are natural and
laugh! The courtesan and the liber.
tine go down the street in beautiful
apparel, while within the heart there
are volcanoes of passion consuming
their life away. say these things moi
to create in you incredulity or misan
,thropy, nor do forget there are thou
sands of people great deal better thar
they seem. bur do not think any mar
is prepared for the conflict of this life
until he knows this particular peril
Ehud comes pretending to pay his ta'
TO King Eglon, and while he stands il
front of the king stabs him through
with a dagger until the haft went IL
after the blade. Judas Iscariot kissed
Christ.
Again, the street impresses me will
the fact that it is a great field fol-
Christian charity. There are hunger
and suffering and want and wretched
ness in the country, but these evil.
chiefly congregate in our great cities
On every street crime prowls ant
drunkenness staggers and shame
winks and pauperism thrusts out it,
hand asking for aims. Here want i!
most squalid and hunger is most lean
A Christian man going along a stree
in New York saw poor lad, and h
stopped and said: my boy, DO yol
know how to read and write?" TIL,
boy made no answer. The man asked
, the question twice and thrice: "CaI
you read and writer" and then the boz
answered with tear FLASHING on th
back of his hand. He said, in def
ance: "No, sir; can't read nor writ
neither. God, sir, don't want me Il
read and write. Didn't He take ava.
father so long ago l never remember t.
have seen him, and haven't had to g
along the streets to get something Il
fetch home to eat for the folks, ant
didn't I as Roon ms I could carry