Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-01-26


hand. his literary position lost, his
books unstable. ard tell him OF the
mightiest of the past aud the present
who suffered from nonappreciation.
Show the discouraged author whose
manuscript the publishing house will
not take that among the rejected man
uscripts of the publishing houses for
awhile were Paradise Lost and
"Jane Eyre" and Thackeray's VANITY
Fair and "Yestiges OF Creation" and
'Uucle Toms Cabin" and that Shakes
peare was comparatively unknown in
England until Germany acclaimed its
appreciation of the greatest of drama
lists. Uuroll before that discouraged
public man the cartoons in the time of
Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lin
coin and James G. Blaine and show all
the misinterpreted and pursued the
fact that they have II no worse than
many who have preceded them and
that in most cases 1t Is jealousy at sue
cess that has caused the assault.
lift the Fallen.
Hear I'll The more you go TO busy
Ing yourselves In other mems mat
tiers the better II you have design of
Offering relief. Search out the quar-
rels. that you may settle them; the
fallen. that you may lift them; the
pangs. that you may nssuage them
Arm yourself with two bottles Of d.
vine medicine. the one a tonic and
the other an annsthetic. the latter to
soothe and quiet, the former to stimu
late, to inspire to sublime action. That
mans matters need looking after In
| this respect There are 10000 men
and women who need your help and
need ii right away. They do not sit
down and cry. They make no appeal
for help. but within ten yards OF where
you sit In chxrch and within ten min
utes' walk Of your home there arc peo
pie in enough trouble to make them
Shrek out with agony II they had not
resolved upon suppression.
II you are rightly interested In other
mems matters, go to those who are just
| starting In their occupations or pro-
| fessions and give them n boost Those
old physicians do not want your help.
| for they are surrounded with more pa
| tients than they can attend TO. but
| cheer those young doctors who arc
counting out their first drops to pa
tients who cannot afford 20 pay. Those
old attorneys at the law want no help
| from you. for they toke rotainers only
from the more prosperous clients, but
cheer those young attorneys who have
not had brief at all lucrative. Those
old merchants have their business so
well established that they feel indie
NJ ho 90 oil T.
| tariffs. OF all panics, but cheer those
young merchants who are making
| their first mistakes In bargain and sale.
That old farmer who has 200 acres in
best tillage and his barns full of har-
vested crops and the grain merchant
having bought his wheat at high prices
before 1t was reaped needs no sympa-
thy from you, but cheer up that young
farmer whose acres are covered with a
big mortNge and the drought strikes
them the first year. That builder with
| contracts made for the construction of
half dozen houses and the owners
impatient for occupancy is not TO be
pitied. but give your sympathy to that
mechanic In early acquaintance with
hammer and saw and bit and amid all
the limitations of journeyman.
he n Busybody.
Go forth TO be busybody IN other
mems matters, so far as you can help
Ing them out, and help them on. The
world is full of instances of those who
| spend their life i'm such alleyiations.
But there is one instance that overtops
and ecllpses all others. He had lived
In palace. Radiant ones waited up
on him. He was charioted along
streets yellow with gold and stopped at
gates glistening with pearl and ho-
sannaed by immortals coroncted and
In snowy white. Centuries gave him
not pain. The sun that rose on him
never set His dominions could not be
enlarged. for they had no boundaries.
and uncontested was his reign. Upon
all that lsster and renown and en-
vironment OF splendors he turned his
back and put down his crown ut the
foot OF his throne and on a bleak De-
cember night trod his way down TO n
stone house In Bethlehem OF our world.
Wrapped In what plain shawl, and
pursued with what enemies on swift
camels. and howled Mt with what
brigands. and thrust with what sharp
lances. and hidden In what sepulchral
crypt until the subsequent centuries
have tried In vain to tell the story by
sculptured cross. and painted canvas,
and resounding doxologies. and domed
cathedral, and redeemed nations.
he could not see a woman doubled
up with rheumatism, but he touched
her. and infiamed muscles relaxed. and
she stood straight up. He could not
meet a funeral OF young man, but he
broke up the procession and gave him
back TO his widowed mother. With
spittle on the tip OF his finger he turn
ed the midnight Of total blindness into
the midnoon OF perfect sight. He could
not see man down on his mattress
helpless with palsy without calling
him up 10 health and telling him to
shoulder the mattress and walk of.
He could not find n man tongue tied.
but he gave him immediate artlcula-
ton. He could not see man with
the puzzled and inquiring look of the
deaf without giving him capacity to
hear the march of life beating on the
drum Of the ear. He could not see n
crowd OF hungry people. but he made
enough good bread and a surplus that
required all the baskets
He scolded only twice that remem-
Der. once at the hypocrites with clon-
| gated visage and the other time when
sinful crowd had arraigned an un-
fortunate woman, and the Lord with
the most superb sarcasm that was ever
uttered gave permission TO any one
| who felt himself entirely commenda-
Bile to hurl the first missile. All for
others. his birth for others. His min
istry for others. His death for others.
His ascension for others. His en-
thronement for others.
And now my words are to the invisi-
bic multitudes ! reach week by week,
but yet will never see In this world,
but whom expect TO meet at the bar
OF God and hope 10 sec In the blessed
heaven. The last word that Dwight L.