Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02
NUMBER 8.

acres are covered with big mortgage
and the drought strikes them the brat
year. That builder with contracts
made for the construction OF half
dozen houses and the owners impa-
,ient for occupancy is not to be piued,
but give your syfpathy to that me-
chanic in early acquaintance with
hammer and saw and bit and amid all
the limitations OF a journeyman.
Go forth TO be busy body in other
mems matters, so far as you can help
ing them out, aud help them on. The
world is full of instances OF those who
spend their life in such alterations, but
there is one instance that overtops and
eclipses all Others, lie had lived In
palace. Radiant ones waited upon him.
lie was charoted along streets yellow
with gold, and stopped at gates glisten-
ing with pearls. aud hosannaed by i'm.
mortals coronetsd 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 luster and
renown and environment of splendors
lie turned His back and put down His
crown at the foot of His throne, and on
a bleak December night trod His way
down TO a 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 sepnl.
chral crypt, until the subsequent cen.
! turtles have tried in vain TO tell the story
by sculptured cross, and painted can.
vas. and resounding doxologies, and
domed cathedral, and redeemed ma
lions.
He could not see woman doubled mp
with rheumatism but he touched her.
and iphamed muscles relaxed. and she
stood straight up. lie could not meet q
funeral of young man but he broke up
the procession and gave him back 10 his
widowed mother. With spitt!e 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
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
lind 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 a 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 hypocritcs with elon-
gated visage and the other time when
u sinful crowd had arraigned an unior-
tunate woman, and the Lord. with the
most superb sarcasm that was ever ut
tered, gave permission 10 anyone who
felt himself entirely commendabe 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 TO be
busy for the betterment of others is go
ing TO Edenize the round earth. That
spirit induced John Pound TO esta blish
ragged schools" and Father Mathew
10 become a temperance reformtr and
Peter Cooper TO establish his institute
and Slater 10 contribute his fund for
schools and Baroness Hirsch 10 leave
more than SlOOO0O0OO for the improve
ment of her race and Cornelius Vander-
bit TO flood churches 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. "Other
mems mattersl" BE busybodies in i'm
. proving them. With kind words, with
earnest prayers, with self-sacrifcing
deeds, with enlarging charities, let US
: go forth on new mission.
, And now my words are to the invis-
ible multitudes l reach week by week,
} but yet will never see in this world, but
] whom | expect 10 meet at the bar of
God and hope to see in the blessed
Heaven. The last word that Dwight l..
, Moody, the great evangelist, said TO me
e al Plainfeld, n. j.. and be repeated the
J message for me TO others, was: "Never
be tempted under any circumstance
to give up your weekly publication OF
d. sermons throughout the world That
= solemn charge | will heed as long as |
. have strength TO give them and the
!, newspaper types desire 10 take them.
. Oh, ye people back there in the Sheffield
0 mines Of England and ye in the sheep
e pastures of Australia and ye amid the
pictured terraces of New Zealand and
g ye among the cinnamon and color in
4 famed groves OF Ceylon and We Ar
$ menans weeping over the graves Of
+. murdered households in Asia Minor and
h sc amid the idoatries of Beuares on
I the Ganges and ye dwellers on the
i. banks of the Androscoggin and the
y 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-
a plan and Yellow seas; ye of the four
corners of the earth who have greeted
!. me again and again, accept this poiI
q blank offer of everything for nothing;
p of everything of pardon and comfort
: and illumination and safety and
? Heaven, without money and without
h price," What gospel for all lands. all
, zones, all ages! Gospel of sympathy
. Gospel of hope! Gospel of emancpa.
y ton! Gospel of sunlight! Gospel OF
, enforcement! Gospel of eternal vie.
4 tory! Take it. all ye people. until your
). sins are all pardoned and your SORROWS
>. all solaced and your wrongs all rigbtec
/. and your dying pillow be spread at the
:. foot Of ladder which, though like the
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