The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-26


When the struggle has ceased, Divine
appreciation will be the climax and tn
Masters words will comfort and cheer
'Inasmuch as We have done 1T unto
one of the least of these, my brethren
ye have done it unto me-"
SorroW-heartache, universally exist
Sir Edwin Arnold, in his Light o,
Asia" stirred the world with the story
of Buddha.
OF sorrow he says:
'"The first truth is of sorrow Be not
Knocked!
Life which We prize is a long drawn
agony;
Only its pains abide; it's pleasures are
AS birds which light and fly.
Ache of the birth, ache of the helpless
days,
Ache of hot youth and ache of man.
hoods prime;
Ache of the chill gray years and chok-
ing death;
| These fill your piteous time
But / quote a sunlt passage from a
book greater, incompatible to Arnold s
Light of Asia" even Gods holy word,
Come unto Me all We that labor and
are heavy laden and I will give you
rest
The successful burden litter requires
indomitable courage. Courage has
been called the flower of confidence.
Shakespeare mentions courage as one
of the four king becoming graces.
If it becomes a king, does it not a bur-
den litter? For is he not to be
crowned? Courage propelled by duty
and love presses forward, indifferent to
the chances of victory. 1t abhors
eowardice. 1t ignores fear. 1t laughs
at peril 1t is stalwart 1t is sublime.
The burden litter must be courageous.
He strives to help. He labors for loves
sake. He works for humanity. He
lifts for God and God helps him to lift.
Is there a more impressive spectacle
than courage contending against odds
but confident of victory.
Fortified by prayer encouraged by
communion with God, enheartened by
faith, endowed with patience, equipped
with courage, the burden litter enlists
amongst the workers for humanity.
suffering and at last enters heaven,
having patiently and lovingly labored
that the weak might become strong
and the unfortunate happy.
Upon his shoulders, when a worker,
there We're no bars nor stars, but now at
rest, at home with God, he receives a
star-gemmed crown in recognition of
his labors Of love.
There have been no exhibitions of
courage more sublime than that of
those who persisted in the Brkenhead
disaster. Not many have been called
to stand and be still to the Birken cad
drill" but there was another order in
that awful hour than that which Cap
tains Wright and Girardot gave to the
immortal four hundred to stand and be
still to the Birken cad drill.
1t came only to a few; it was. Man
the life boats" Into them sprang the
perishing women-out from the grave
of the Birken'ead rowed away the sur
vivors.
Brother to you, to me, the call has
come-not to stand and be still at the
Birken'ead's drill, but to man the life
boats-to rescue the perishng-to care
for the dying-to lift the burdens in
the home, the church and the state
Will we do it?
Was there a more beautiful life than
that of the Belgian missionary, physi-
clan and teacher-Father Damien--Who
for sixteen years on the island of Mo-
lokai minstered to the pitiable lepers? |
But there is ministry beautiful as
the good Fathers. i is for me, for
you, to entreat our unsaved brothers |
and sisters to turn towards the Divine |
Burden LITTER who healed the Samari-
tan and Galilean lepers
All the world would applaud Sergeant |
who in the Peninsula war,
pulled away from a fatal fire lad of |
sixteen afterwards the English Gene
raj Brown, exclaiming, you are too
young to be killed." and offered himself
willing sacrifice.
But there are sacrifices to be rem
Tered necessitating patience, faith and
There are burdens to be lift
I'd. There are men to be pulled away
rom the fatal fire of alcohol, in the
saloon, he cafe and the club--too
7oung to be killed. There are wives
md mothers too young to be killed.
Will we save them? There are homes
90 young to be destroyed. Will we
prevent destruction? There are states
90 young to perish. Will we preserve
hem? There are churches too young
0 die VIII we save them?
The burden litter must possess great
'atiensraa and perseverance, Substitu-
ing brother for father, often the bur-
en- litter might offer the fervent prayer
f young Adam Imbody, 80 merciful
Tod, Thou who canst see how souls
re tried, incline the heart of my father
0 me-
My friend, Louis Church, a son of our
reat painter recently deceased, the
Their evening al my home described the
atient unremitting labors of his father
midst physical suffering and infirmity,
ut fourteen months of incessant work t
reduced the Heart of the Andes"
Mr. Church also stated that his faith s
r was greatly tried by unfriendly, ig- !
GRANT and unjust criticism; that it {
-as stated that his candles Of the I
EQUATOR" lacked moisture, when the
cal fact was that it was painted to
apresent scene where there had not
cen a drop of rain for six months.
Frederick the Great, or Grant the in