The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-08-24

non damages Washington square
laurel Hill. Mount Auburn, Green
good weep over the same grief. The
...t,,a of BENJAMIN Franklin in New
York greeting the bronze statue Oh
Edward Everett in Boston. All tne
cities a confraternity. L cannot IN
ders+and how there should go on bick-
sr;nps and rivalries. I plead for
bioher style of brotherhood or SIS
terhood among the cities.
But while there are great differences
In some respects have to tell you
that all cities impress upon me and |
ought to impress upon you three
OF four very important lessons all OF
them agreeing in the same thing. ~
does not make any difference in what
part of the country we walk lhe
streets of a great city there is one
lesson think which ought to strike
every intelligent Christian man, ana
that is the world is scene OF toll ana
STRUGGLE. Here and there you ind
man in the street who has his arms
folded and who seems to have no par
ticular errand, but if you VIII stanu at
the corner of the street ana Watch lhe
CONTINGENCIES of those who go by you
will see in most instances there Is an
intimation that they are on an erranu
which must be executed at the earn
est moment possible, so you are
iostled hither and thither by business
men ND this ladder with hod OF
bricks. out of this bank with roll
of bills, digging cellar, shinging a
roof, binding book, menolng
watch. Work, with its thousand eyes
and thousand feet and thousand arms
goes on singing its song, Work, WORK,
work." while the drums of the mill
heat it and the steam whistles tfe IL.
In the carpeted isles of the 1orest' III
tho woods from which the eternal
shadow is never lifted. on the shore
] az the sea over whose iron coast losses
the tangled foam, sprlnkllng TUE
$ cracked cliffs with baptism OF whlrl-
wind and tempest, is the best place &c
y studv God, but in the rushing, swarm
S inc. raying street is the best place &c
study man.
Going down to your place OF DUST
e ness and coming home again charg'
: Won look about; see these signs
/ poverty, of wretchedness, OF munger
of sin of bereavement, ana as you y
~ through the streets and come pacl
y through the streets gather up IN IN
II arms of your prayer all the sorrow a.
u the losses, all the sufferings, all tn
&c bereavements of those whom you pas
~ and present them in prayer pelore
all sympathetic God. In the great ia
81 of eternity there viii be thousands c
m nersons with whom you in this wori
y never exchanged one word VIII rise u
d and call you blessed; and there WI
a he A thousand fingers pointed at yo
ne IN Heaven, saying: That is the mai
OF that is the woman who helped II
es when | was hungry and sick and wal
ou dering and lost and heartbroken' lh'
a' is the man, that is the woman ai
rs the blessing will come down upon ye
wv as Christ shall say: 81 was hungi
in and We fed me, l was naked and
nd clothed me, l was sick and in prise
es, and We visited me; inasmuch as ye q
no it to these poor waits OF the stree
ie' We did it unto me-"
up Again in all these cities l am II
I'D As am ~ foo+ that life is f,
an of pretension and sham. what supt'
us fure. what double dealing, what I"
on facedness! Do all people who WI
lgs Won good morning really hope for
PIE a happy day? Do all the people
'u' shake hands love each otherT are
DC those anxious about your health W
III inouire concerning it? DO all want
ION see YOU who ask you to call! Does
ny the world know half as much as 1t p
LOT tends to know? Is there not many
wretched stock of goods with d
as liant store window? Passing up a
cen down the streets to your business
lem vour work, are you not impressed W
ice The fact that society is hollow
ice. that there are subterfuges and pref
the sions? Oh, how many there are v
ex- swapper and strut and how few ?
be nle who are natural and walk! WI
! in TONS simper and fools smoker and
, be pletons giggle, how few people
Asia natural and taught l say these TN
his not to create in you incredullty
lere misanthropy, nor do forget there
fra thousands of people great deal
rood ter than they seem, but 90 no' u
be- shy man is prepared for the con-
vays of this life until he knows this
g in ticular peril Ehud comics pretend
here to pay his tax to King Eglon' 4
lries while he stands in front OF the k
fork slabs him through with dagger
ohia, til the haft went in after the bi
g at Judas Iscariot KISSED 'nris''
onti- One of the mightiest temptation
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