The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-04-05

the day Wnen tue cfOWnS VI uoo'on etS
distributed some Of the brightest OF them
will be given to those men who were faitn-
ful 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 tho
fact that life Is full OF pretentfon and sham.
What subteriuge. what double dealflg,
what two facedness! Do all people VINO
wish you good morning really hope you
happy day? Do all the people VINO snase
Gus about your health who inquire con-
cerning itf Do all want to see You VINO
ask you to call2 Does all the world know
half as much as 1t pretends to know? is
there not many a wretched stock OF goods
with q brilliant show? Passing up ana
down the streets to your business and your
work, are you not impressed with the lace
that society is hollow and that that there
are subterfuges and pretensions? On,
how many there are who swagger
and strut, and how few people who are
natural and walk! While fops simper
and fools chuckle and simpletons giRgle.
how few people are patural and Iaught
The courtesan and the libertine go down
the street In beautiful apparel, while within
the heart there are volcanoes OF passion
consuming their life away. soy these
things not to create in you incredulity or.
misanthropy, nor do forget there are
thousands Of people great deal better
than they seem, but 90 not tnink n any any
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, stahs him through with dagger un-s
til the haft wenti after the blade. JudaS'
Iscariot kissed Christ.
Again, the street impresses me with the Il
fact that 1t Is q great field for Christian
charity. There are hunger and sunering,
and want and wretchedness in the coun-;S
try, but these evils chiefly congresate In
our great cities. On every street crime
prowls, aud drunkenness staggers, and
shame winks, and pauperlsm thrusts out
its hand asking for aims. Here what is
most squalid and hunger Is most lean. A
Christian man, going along q street IN New
York, saw a poor lad, and he stopped
and said, my boy. do you know how to-
read and writeP The boy made no an
swer. The man asked the question twice
and thrice. "Can you read and writea'rS
And then the boy answered, with tes1
In defiance: mo, 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? And didn't1, as soon as
I could carry basket, have to 80 out and
pick up cinders and never have no school-
ing, sir? God don't want me to read, sir
I can't read nor write. neither" Oh. these
Door 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 OF despair. Let
US go forth in the name OF the Lord Jesne
Christ to rescue them. Let US ministers not
be afraid OF soiling our black clothes while
We 20 down on that mission. While We
are tying m elaborate knot In our eravat
or while we are in the study rounding on
some period rhetorically We might be say
ing soul from Genth and hiding multi.
this work. II you are not willing to go
forth yourself, then give OF your means,
and II you are too lazy to 30, and you;
are too stingy to help, then get out ofthe'
way and hide yourself in the dens and
cnyes OF the earth, lest, when Chrlst,S
chariot comes along the horses ,hoofa
trample you into the mire. Beware lest
the thousands OF the destitute OF your city,
in the last great day rise up and curses
your stupidity and your neglect. Down TO-
work! Lift them up.
Ono cold winters day, as 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.
"My child. what do you sit there for. this
cold day." "Oh," she replied, Il am
waiting for somebody to come and take
care Of me-" ''Why," said the man,
"what makes you think anybody will come;
and take care OF your" "Ob," she said,
"my mother died last week, and was cry-
ing very much, and she said: Don't cry,
dear, though am gone and your father u
crre OF you.' My mother never told lte;;
she said some one would come, and take
care Of me, md I am waiting forthsm to:
come" Oh, yes, they are waiting for
you. Men who have money, men who
have influence, men of churches, men OK
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 Tor,
ward. see expectancy written on almost
every face I meet. Where You find thou
and 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 tho
tramp OF great host, marching and
marching for eternity. Beyond the once,
the store, the shop, the street, there IS q
world, populous and tremendous. through
| Gods crhce, may you reach that blessed
place. A great throng fills those bonie'
wards, and the streets are arush Wfto
| the chariots Of conquerors. The lnoao-
itants 60 up and down, but they never
weep and the never toll. river lows
through that city, with rounded and INK
urlous banks, and the trees OF life, laden
with everlasting fruitage, bend tner
branches into the crystal. ~
| No plum sd hearse rattles over that pave.'
ment, for they ure never sick. With Inn
mortal health glowing in every vein, they
know not how to die. Those towers OF
strength, those palaces OF beauty, gleam
in the light Of 4 sun that never sets. on,
heaven, beautiful heaven! Heaven,
where our friends are! Tue take no
census in that city, for It Is fnhao-
tied by "a multitude which no man
can number" Rank above rank.
Host above host. Gallery above gallery,
sweeping all around the heavens. Thou
sands of thousands. Millions OF millions.
Blessed are they who enter in through the
gate into that city. Oh, start Tor II 10.
day! Through the blood OF the great
sacrifice OF the Son OF God take up your.
| march to heaven. "The spirit anu tno
bride say, Come, and, whosoever will, leg
him come and take the water OF lie freely.
JoIn this Great throns marching heaven
ward. All the loor5 OF invitation are
| open. "Aad saw twelve gates. and the
twelve gates were twelve pearls"