The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-17
ON ST. Paul s GENEROSITY
REV. MIR. WILKINSON PREACHED
AN INSPIRING SER
MON
LIVING UP TO PAST RECORDS
City Responded NObIy to Appeals
When Forest Fires Swept Min
nesOta and at Time of New
Richmond Cyclone.

church yesterday morning the Rev. Will
lam Wilkinson was celebrant. and in his
sermon said: six years since, l and
my dear revered and, alas, departed
friend, Mr.. Charles A. Pillsbury, stood
in this chancel to describe the great for
est fires which on the 1st day Of Sep
TENDER, 1894, had swept over a large
part of North Minnesota and left 4lS dead
and thousands of homeless people in its
track. Till this Galveston calamity, we
looked upon that as in some respects the
most awful disaster which had in days
of peace been seen in the United States
Now we have an event which almost
makes our hearts still, the Bosom of de-
Struction sweeps over half a city, how,
we know, why. the w.sest man amongst
us cannot tell. Nor can he rightly guess
for the reason Of Providence we must all
wait It'll the day dawn and TIE shadows
fly away Man is not made. even in
and sounds, to stand in dumb helpless
silence, Still like the Statute eff Memnon
in the lands of Egypt; IL he were the
calamities of the world would set back
or stop tie clock Of progress. The men
tai and moral worlds are madc ON no
such plaE as that AS we stand face to
face with death and desolation, the no
blcSt emotions Of the soul are stirred in
d way no words can describe, and we
say death and Gesalation are not to tri-
umph. for even they shall DE vanqu shed,
and forever done away.
LAS the eyes of all Americans turn to
Texas. we see sight which may we'll
delight alike angels and men. In desire
10 help none are Tor a party. d sect, a
part of the people. We set aside reli-
g1ous preferences and names, and color
lines, and lines Of descent We care not
for any of the Gist:Rctio MS which ma l1ed
those who are now cold in death, who
are penniless and homeless, who sit in
sadness looking for faces othey never
again will see. and listening for voices
they never or earth will hear again
We say to these children OF grief, let US
please help YOU. as best we can. We
know how poor our best is, but we cheer
it with faith and hope and love, and
We sanctify it with the soiemnities Of
prayer. This calamity, and every ealam-
1ty, which happens on these American
shores. brings into sight s@me ignob e
things. But not one in all the 500 ois-
asters in our history has failed to show
deeds which are well worthy a place in
a now eleventh chapter OF Hebrews, and
the old one contains the ncb,est exploits
in the ancient world.
Where in all the wide earth could the
splendid deeds of help which we have
seen done IN the week last past have
been euualed outside of the United
Stats? This city has, as it Cid in the
forest fires, and in the New Richmond
cyclone, come 10 the help of the home
Jess in way which some John Fiske
historian, viii tell TO the generations fol-
lowing, VINO viii read thereof with won
der and delight. On lonely hillsides. in
the sequestered farm house, in. the for
est and in the city, it Will be told Wiaan
we are all with the generations of tk e
dead, how large, how gracious how glad
was the bei-eficence which mer of all
shades of belief gave 10 those whose cir
cumstaneeS needed help. DO not tell OF
dead faith, of dying church ana fail
lng Christianity. Mover in al the DAVIS
gone by have the sweetest notes in the
music Jesus Christ taught the weary
children of men been learned and prac-
tlced AS now. [ pray a blessing upon all
VINO help the Texan sufferers, and as
surely If the man was rewarded who fe,I
the hungry, clothed the naked, and visit
ed the sick and gave water to the tfirs
", In the days when Jesus was here
the deeds done in His name now shall
receive Just reconT enSe of reward. Sin
and sorrow, pain and death, the loss Of
tather or mother, wife or child, houses
ana land' are not inventions of priests
nor the superstitiops Of hierarchies on
the one hand, or of vulgar and ie,nora14r
people, who by them are deluded, en- the
otnef They are the burning. bliehsiug
Facts OF human life. Tenderness SYN.
pathy, help, faith, love- prayer God du-
~, destiny and eternity abide so wa
may we'll believe that what we do net
Know now. one day will be made clear
a. the ISht, and stand resplendent with
the ne very glory of the living God
Ihe appeal addressed by tha state com.
nlttee TO the towns and cities through
OUT Minnesota is meeting with pronnt
and ready response as the following will
show. v ~
Gov Lind on Saturday received the fol-
lowing telegram from the Sleepy Eve
Milling company:
Sleepy Eye, Sept. 15-Hon. John Lind
Governor, st. PauI-Dear Sir: We have
Just wired you as follows: 1--WE are Dre-
parlng carload of highest patent flour
a a;d, IeXas sufferers. Have you any spe-
clal routing instructions? Realizing the
great need OF our fellow creatures in
Texas, We are glad to devote our mite
toward the alleyiation of their affiiction.
Sleepy Eye Mi ling Co.
"A c. Van Hagen President
Tc this message the governor reniiad
as follows:
To Sleepy Eye Milling Co, S,eepy
Eye Eye-ln behalf of the state. thank you
f3F your generosity. Ship to mayor of
galveston Route through your SieeDy
Eye 81; office Send freight bill to H. P. Hail.
81. Faul, and he will arrange for frank
ing; John Lind
The state committee has received the
following contributors from points OUT
side the city:
Mayor Micherski. New Tim, voted
ny Ills COUNCIL Observation-Disclosures. IN
J. r. Sammens, recorder, Rush
City ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 25.eO