The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-08-18

which must be executed at the earli-
est moment possible, SO you are
jostled hither and thither by business
men, up this ladder with hod of
bricks, out of this bank with roll |
of bills, digging cellar, shngling a
roof, binding book, mending |
watch. Work, with it's thousand eyes |
and thousand feet and thousand arms,
goes on singing its song, "Work, work,
work." while the drums of the mill |
beat 1t and the steam whistles fife it.
In the carpeted isles of the forest, in
the woods from which the eternal
shadow is never lifted, on the shore
of the sea over whose iron coast losses
the tangled foam, sprinkling the
cracked cliffs with baptism of whirl-
wind and tempest is the best place to
study God, but in the rushing, swarm
ing, raving street is the best place to
study man.
Going down to your place of bust
ness and coming home again I charge
you look about; see these signs of
poverty, of wretchedness, of hunger,
of sin, of bereavement, and as you go
through the streets and come back
through the streets gather up in the
arms of your prayer all the sorrow, all
the losses, all the sufferings, all the
bereavements of those whom you pass
and present them in prayer before an
all sympathetic God. In the great day
of eternity there will be thousands of
persons with whom you in this world
never exchanged one word will rise up
and call you blessed; and there will
be thousand fingers pointed at you
in Heaven, saying: THAT is the man,
that is the woman who helped me
when was hungry and sick and wan
dering and lost and heartbroken. That
, is the man, that is the woman;" and
the blessing will come down upon you
as Christ shall say: Il was hungry
and We fed me, l was naked and we
clothed me, was sick and in prison
, and we visited me; inasmuch as we did
it to these poor waits of the streets
. We did it unto me-"
Again, in all cities / am impressed
with the fact that it is very hare
thing for a man to keep his heart
right and to get to Heaven. Infinite
temptations spring upon us from
q places of public concourse. Amid 81
much affluence, how much temptation
;, to covetousness and to be discomfort
!, ed with our humble lot! Amid 81
! many opportunities for overreaching
= what temptation to extortion! Ami'
y so much display, what temptation u
: vanity! Amid so many saloons
strong drink, what allurement to dis
y sipation! In the maelstroms and hel
- gates of the street, how many max
3 ouick and eternal shipwreck! Ii
F." man-of-war comes back from a battl
. and is towed into the navy yard, W
y 90 down to look at the splintere
- spars and count the bullet holes an
= look with patriotic admiration on tn
~ flag that fioated in victory from u
~ masthead. But that man is more OF
y curiosity who has gone through
y. wears of the sharpshooting OF pus
u ness life and yet sails on, victor ov'
~ the temptations of the street. "
d how many have gone down under II
- pressure, leaving not SO much as
- match of canvas to tell where the
n nerished! They never had any peac
~ Their dishonesties kept tolllng
-, their ears, If l had an ak and cou
=. split omen the beams of that fine hou
=, perhaps would find in the very hea
IS ~ n skeleton. In his very best viii
- there is a smack of poor mans sWea
~ oh. is it strange that when man n
~ deyoured widows houses he IS q.
- turbed with Indigestion! All t
on forces of nature are against him. J.
y Aoods are ready to drown him, al
- the earthquake to swallow him. a
the fires to consume him, ana
as liohtning to smite him. Aye, I
Ell angels of God are on the street, anu
en- the day when the crowns OF heaV
CO. are distributed some of the orlgnt'
ce. of them will be given to those m
he who were faithful to God and 1al'
eX- ful to the souls of others amlo
be marts of business, proving themsel'
IN the heroes of the street.
De Again, in all these cities l am
sla messed with the fact that LIE is
his pf nretension and sham. What suDt
ere fnge. what double dealing, what "
ra- facedness! Do all people who w
'oo vou good morning really hope Tor
oe- a happy day? Do all the people "
avs shake hands love each other? are
IN those anxious about your health "
ere inquire concerning it? Do all want
les Gee Won who ask you to call? Does
DIX the world know half as much as IL
l1a' rends to know? Is there not man
. at ,,ro+cbed stock of goods with a b
nu- liant store window? Passing up
and down the streets to your business
one vour work, are you not impressed "
ere +be fact that society is hollo"
nal that there are subterfuges and pref
ma s;ons? Oh, how many there are
.yaqper and strut and how rev
and s,,bo are natural and walk! W.
,ity fops shipper and fools smoker anu
ner nletons giggle, how few peopie
its natural and laugh! say these Uni
Jew not to create in you increduilty
ush misanthropy, nor do I forget there
are thousands of people a great oeai
hat ter than they seem, but do not tt
With anv man is prepared for the con
,ati, Of this life until he knows this
ties ticular peril. Ehud comes preten'
the 10 nav his tax to King Eglon'
one While he stands in front OF the X
pro- stabs him through with a dagger
nee, til the haft went in after the ol
, be midas Iscariot kissed Christ.
van One of the mightiest temptation
,om- commercial life in all cities to-u ls,
ARE. In the fact that many PROGRESSED VI
cen tian men are not square IN their
The Gains Such men are IN pa
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