Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-01-22

old merchants have their business so
well established that they feel inde-
pendent of banks. of all changes In
tariffs, Of all pancs, 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 mp that young
farmer whose acres are covered with
big mortgage 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 MS you can help
ing them out. and help them on. The
world Is full of instances Of those who
spend their life in such alleyintions.
But there Is ono instance that overtops
and eclipses all others. He had lived
In palace. Radiant ones waited up
on him. He was charioted nlong
streets yellow with gold and stopped at
gates glstening with pearl and ho-
sannaed by immortals coroneted 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 luster and renown and en-
vironment of splendors he turned his
back and put down his crown at the
foot of his throne and on a bleak De-
cember night trod bis way down to
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
lnnces, 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 resound!ng doxologles. and domed
cathedral, and redeemed nations.
He could not see n woman doubled
up with rheumatism, but he touched
her, and inHamcd muscles relaxed. and
she stood straight up. He could not
meet 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 midpoon of perfect sight. He could
not see man down on his mattress
helpless with palsy without calling
him up to health and telling him to
shoulder the mattress and walk off.
He could not find man tongue tied,
but he gave him immediate articula-
tlon. He could not see man with
the puzzled and lnquiring look of the
deaf without giving him capacity to
hear the march of life beating on the
drum of the ear. lie could not see a
crowd of hungry people, but he made
enough good bread and surplus that
required all the baskets.
He scolded only twice that remem-
ber, once at the hypocrites with elon-
gated vlsage and the other time when
sinful crowd had nrraigned 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 commendn-
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-
BILE mutltudes | reach week by week,
but yet will never see In this world.
but whom | expect to meet at the bar
of God and hope to see In the blessed
heaven. Tho last word that Dwight j..
Moody, the great evangelist, sajd TO
me at PlaInneld, n. j., and he repeated
the message for me to others. was,
Never be tempted under any clrcum-
stances TO give up your weekly pub
licatlon of sermons throughout the
world" That solemn charge | will
heed as long rs have strength to give
them aud the newspaper types desire
to take them. Oh. ye people back there
in the Sheffield mines Of England. and
ye In the sheep pastures of Australia,
and ye amid the pictured terraces Of
New Zealand, and ye among the Gin
namon and color lnAamed groves OF
Ccylon, and ye Armcnlans weeping
over the graves Of murdered house
holds In Asia Minor and ye amid the
idolatrles OF Bcnares ON the Ganges,
and ye dwellcrs on the banks Of the
Androscoggn, ana the Alabama, and
the Mississippi, and the Oregon, and
the Shannon, and the Rhine, and the
Tiber, and the Danube. and the Nile,
ana the Euphrates. and the Caspian
and Yellow seas: ye the four corners
OF the earth who have greeted me
again aud again. accept this point
blank offer of everything for nothing,
of everything OF pardon and comfort
and Illumination and safety and heav-
en-, without money and without
price, What gospel for all lands,
all zones, all ages! Gospel OF sympa-
thy! Gospel OF hope! GOSPEL of eman-
cipntlon! Gospel Of sunlight! Gospel
OF enthroncment! Gospel OF eternal
victoryl Take It, all ye people, until
your sins are all pardoned, and your
sorrows all solaced, and your wrongs
all righted. and your dying pillow be
spread at the foot OF ladder which,
though like the one that was let down