The Missouri messenger., 1900-01-26

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made for the construction of half
dozen houses and the owners impa
uent for occupancy is not TO be pitied
but give your sympathy to that me
chanic in early acquaintance Will
hammer and saw and bit and amid al
the limitations of journeyman.
Go forth TO be busy body in othel
mems matters. SO far as you can help
ing them out and help them on. Ih,
world is full of instances of those " hC
spend their life in Fuch alleviations. bu
there is one instance that overtops anC
eelipses all others. he bad lived In 9
palace. Radiant ones waited upon him
He was eharioted along streets yellow
with gold. and stopped at gates glisten
ing with pearls, and hosannaed by i'm
mortals coroneted and in snowy white
Centuries gave him not pain. The
sun that rose on him never set. His do.
minions could not be enlarged. for they
had no boundaries. and uncontested
was His reign. Upon all that Iuster and
renown and environment of splendors
he turned His back and put down His
crown at the foot of His throne, and on
a bleak December night trod His way
down 10 stone house in Bethlehem OF
our world. Wrapped in what plain
shawl. and pursued with what enemies
on swift camels, and howled at with
what brigands, and thrust with what
sharp lances, and hidden in what sepuI.
chral crypt, until the subsequent cen.
turies have tried in vain to tell the story
by sculptured cross. and painted can.
vas. and resOunding doxologies. and
domed cathedral, and redeemed ma
tions.
He could not see a woman doubled ur
with rheuma tism but He touched her,
and inf1amed muscles relaxed. and she
stood straight up. He could not meet a
funeral of young man but be broke up
the procession and gave him back 10 his
widowed mother. With spittle on the
tip of His finger He turned the mid.
night of total blindness into the mid.
noon OF perfect sight. He could not see
a 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 a man tongue-tied but he gave him
immediate articulation. He could not
see man with the puzzled and inquir>
ing look of the deaf without giving him
capacity 10 hear the march of life beat
ing on the drum of the ear. He could
not see crowd of hungry people but
He made enough good bread and a sur.
plus that required all the baskets.
He scolded only twice that | remem.
Der. once at the hypocrites with elon-
gated visage and the other time when
sinful crowd had arraigned n unfor-
tunate woman, and the Lord, with the
most superb sarcasm that was ever ut
tered. gave permission to anyone who
felt himself entirely commendable to
hurl the first missile. All for others.
His birth for Others. His ministry for
others. His death for others. His as.
cension for others. His enforcement
for others.
That spirit which leads one 10 be
busy for The betterment of others is go.
80 W A~HN hi[O lAIC iOuDu CdIlu. UdL
spirit induced John Pound 10 estab bIish
ragged schools" and Father Mathew
TO become temperance reformtr and
Peter Cooper TO establish his institute
and Slater 10 contribute his fund for
schools and Baroness Hirsch TO leave
more than 100000 900 for the improve
ment OF her race aid Cornelius Nander-
bllt 10 flood Churt les and charitable
institutions With his benevolence. And |
though our means be limited and our
opportunities circumsCribed, we can do |
the same thing on small scale. "Ulher |
mems matIers!" Be busy bodies in i'm
proving them. With kind words, with |
prayers, with seIf-sacrifcing |
deeds, with enlargiLg charities, let US
go forth on a new mission.
And now my words are 10 the invis- |
ible mullitudes reach week by week,
but yet will never see % this world, but |
whom | expect 10 meet at the bar of |
iod and hope 10 see in the blessed /
Heaven. The last word that Dwight l.. |
Moody, the great evangelist, said 10 me |
at Plalnteld, y. j., and be repeated the |
for ME 10 others, was: Never |
be tempted under any circumstances |
to give up your weekly publication OF |
sermons throughout The world" That |
solemn charge ! will heed as long as | |
have strength TO give them aid the |
newspaper types desire 10 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 cinnamon and color ID
damed groves of Ceylon and ye Ar
nenians weeping over the graves OF
murdered households in Asia Minor and
ye amid the idolatries of Benares on
the Ganges and ye dwellers on the
banks of The Androscoggin and the
Alabama and the Mississippi and the
Oregon and the Shannon and the Rhine
and the Tiber and the Danube and the
Nile and the Euphrates and the Cas-.
'ian and Yellow seas; ye of the four
corners of the earth who have greeted
ne again and again, accept this point
blank offer OF every thing for nothing;
# everything of pardon and comfor'
Ind illumination and safety a1d
Heaven, without money and without
'rice." What a gospel for all lanus, all
zones, all agesI Gospel of sympathy!
Gospel of hope! Gospel of emancipa,
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