The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-07-19


smiles as shoes; not 80 much God bless
vou," as jackets and trocls. will put
one earnest Christian man, hard-wOrkinR.
against 5000 mere theorists ON the subject
Of charity There are a great many who
have fine ideas about church architecture
who never in their lives helped to build a
church. There are men who can give you
the history OF Buddhism and Mohamme-
danism who never sent iarthing for
svangelizatlon. There are women who talk
beautifully about the suffering of the world
Who never had the courage. like Dorcas,
to take the needle and assault it.
| am glad that there is not page Of the
worlds history which is not a record OF
female benevolence. God says to all lands
and people. Come, now. and hear the
widows mite rattle down into the poor
boy." The Princess of Cont sold all her
Jewels that she might help the famine
stricken. Queen Blanche. the wife OF
Louis VIII. of France, hearing that there
were some persons uniustly incarcerated
in the prisons, went out amid the rabbe
and took stick and struck the door ms o
signal that they might all strike it, and
down went the prison door, and out came
the prisoners. Queen Maud, the wife OF
Henry j.. went down amid the poor anc
washed their sores and administered tc
them eordials. Mrs. Retson, at Matagor
da, appeared on the battlefield while the
missiles OF death were flying around and
cared for the wounded. Is there a man
or woman who has ever heard of the civi'
war in america who has not heard of the
women OF the sanitary and Christian com
missions or the fact that before the smoke
had gone up from Gettysburg and South
Mountain the women Of the north met the
women of the south on the battlefield, for
getting all their animosites, while they
bound up the wounded and closed the eyes
of the slain? Dorcas the bcnefactress.
| come now to speak OF Dorcas the Ia
mented. When death struck down that
good woman, oh. how much sorrow there
was in the town of Joppal suppose there
were women there with larger fortunes
women perhaps with handsomer faces, but
there WAS not gslef ~ their departure like
this at the death OF Dorcas. There were
not more turmoil and upturning in tbs
Mediterranean Sea dashing aG6ihst the
wharves ct that seaport than there were
surgings TO and fro of grief because Dorcas
was dead. There are great many who
90 out of life and are unmissed. There
may be a very large funeral there may be
u great many carriages and n plumed
heaIse. there may be high sounding eulo.
gums, the bell may toll at the cemetery
shaft reared over the resting place, but
the whole thing may be falsehood and
sham
The churoh OF God has lost nothing,
the world has lost nothing II is only
nuisance abated. II is only a grumbleI
ceasing to find fault. 1t is only an idlcI
stopped yawning Ii is only a disspated
fashionable parted from his wine cellar.
while on the other hand no useful Chris
tian leaves this world without being
missed
The church of God cries out, like the
prophet Howl, fin tree, for the cedar has
falleD!" Widowhood comes and shows
th.. .,.k. ,l, .taI h,I
made. Orphans are lifted up to look into
the calm face OF the sleeping benefactress
Reclaimed vagrancy comes and kisses the
cold brow of her who charmed it away
from sin, and ell through the streets OF
Joppa there rs mourning mourning be
cause Dorcas is dead
Has that Christian woman who went
away fifteen years ago nothing to do with
these things! | see the Towering out OF
her noble heart. j hear the echo of her
footsteps in all the songs over sins for
given, in all the prosperity of the church
The good that seemed to be buried has
come up again. Dorcas is resurrected!
After awhile all these womanly friends
OF Christ will put down their needle for
ever. After making garments for Others
some one will make n garment for them;
the last robe we ever wear--the robe for
the grave. You will have heard the last
cry OF pain. You will have witnessed the
ldsl Il Ou VIII nave cOHlt III
worn out from your last round of mercy
| do not know where you will sleep noI
what your epitaph will be, but there will
be a lamp burning at that tomb and an
angel of God guarding il, and through all
the long night no rude foot will disturb
the dust Sleep on, sleep on! Soft bed,
pleasant shadows, undisturbed repose!
Sleep on!
Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep
From which none ever wake to weep!
Then one day there will be a sky rend-
ing and whirl of wheels and the flash oi
pageant, armies marching, chains clank-
ing, banners waving, thunders booming,
and that Christian woman will arise from
the dust. and she will be suddenly sur
rounded-surrounded by the wanderers OF
the street whom she reclaimed, surround.
ed by the wounded souls to whom she had
administered
Daughter OF God, so strangely surround
ed, what means this? 1t means that re-
ward has come; that the victory is won;
that the crown is ready; that the banquet
is spread Shout it through all the crumb
ling earth! Sing it through all the flying
heavens. Dorcas Is resurrected
In 1855, when some of the soldiers came
back from the Crimean war to London,
the Queen of England distributed among
them, beautiful medals, called Crimean
medals. Galleries were erected for the two
houses OF Parliament and the royal family
to SIT in.. There was n great audience to
witness the distribution OF the medals. A
colonel who had lost both feet in the bat
tie of Inkermann was pulled in on a wheel
chair; Others came i'll limping on their
crutches. Then the Queen of England arose
before them in the name of her Govern
ment and uttered words of commendation
to the officers and men and distributed
those medals, inscribed with the four great
battlefields-Alma, Baaklava, Inkermann
and Sevastopol As the Queen gave these
to the wounded men and the wounded Off
GERS the bands OF music struck up the ma
tlonal air, and the people with streaming
eyes, joined in the song:
God save our gracious queen
Long live our noble queen
God save the queen!
And then they shouted "Huzzal Huzza!"
Oh, 1t was proud day for those returned
warriors! But brighter, better and glad.
der day will come when Christ shal, gath
er those who have toiled in His service
good soldiers OF Jesus Christ. He shall rise
before them, and in the presence of all tn"
gloritied OF heaven He will say, well
done, good and faithful servant" And
then He will distribute the medals OF eter-
nal victory, not inscribed with works of
Righteousness which we have done, but
with those four great battlefields, dear to
earth and dear to heaven-Bethlehem
Nazareth. Gethsemane and Calvary!