The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-01-24

may settle them: the fallen, that you
may lift them; the pangs, that you may
assuage them. Arm yourself with two
bottles of divine medicine, the one tonic
and the other an anaesthetic, the latter
to soothe and quiet, the former to stimu-
late, to inspire to sublime action. That
mans matters need looking after in this
respect. There are 10000 men and
women who need your help and need 1T
right away. They do not sit down and
cry. They make no appeal for help, but
within ten yards of where you sit III
church and within ten minutes walk OF
your home there are people in enough
trouble to make them shrek out with
agony if they had not resolved upon sup
preston.
If you are rightly interested in other
mems matters, go to those who are just
starting in their occupations or profess
slons and give them q boost. Those old
physicians do not want your help, for
they are surrounded with more patients
than they can attend to, but cheer those
young doctors who are counting out their
first drops to patients who cannot afford
to pay. Those old attorneys at the law
want no help from you, for they take re-
tainers only from the more prosperous
clients, but cheer those young attorneys
who have not had brief at all lucrative.
Those old merchants have their business
SO we'll established that they feel indie
pendent of banks, of all changes in tar
IFS, of all panicS, but cheer those young
merchants who are making their first
mistakes In bargain and sale. That old
farmer who has 200 acres in best tillage,
and his barns full of harvested crops, and
the grain merchant, having bought his
wheat at high prices before it was reap
ed, needs no sympathy from you, but
cheer up that young farmer whose acres
are covered with big mortgage and the
drought strikes them the first year. That
builder with contracts made for the con-
struction of half dozen houses and the
owners inpatient for occupancy is not
to be pitied, but give your sympathy to
that mechanic in early acquaintance with
hammer and saw and bit and amid all
the limitations of a journeyman.
Benevolent Busy bodies.
Go forth to be a busybody in other
mems matters, so far as you can helping
them out, and help them on. The world
is full of instances OF those who spend
their life in such alleviations but there
is one instance that overtOps and eclipses
all others. He had lived in a palace.
Radiant ones waited upon him. He was
charioted along streets yellow with gold;
and stopped at gates glistening with
pearls, and hosannaed by immortals cor
oneted and in snowy white. Centuries
gave him not pain. The sun that rose
ON him never set His Gominions could
not be enlarged for they had nc. bounda-
rieS, and+tincontested was his reign. Upon
all that buster and renown and environ
ment of splendOrS he turned his back and
put down his crown at the foot of his
throne; and on bleak December night
trodahiS 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 III what
sepulchral crypt, until the subsequent
centuries have tried in vain to tell the
story by sculptured cross, and painted
canvas, and resounding doXologies, and
domed cathedral, and redeemed nations.
He could not see woman doubled up
with rheumatism, but he touched her,
and infamed muscles relaxed, and she
stood straight up. He could not meet
funeral of a young man, but he broke up
the procession and gave him back to his
widowed mother. With spittle on the tip
of his finger he turned the midnight Of
total blindness into the midnoon of per-
feet sight He could not see a man down
on his mattress helpless with palsy with
out 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 articula
ton. He could not see a man with the
puzzled and inquiring look of the deaf
without giving him capacity to hear the
march Of life beating OH the drum of the
car. He could not see crowd of hungry
people but he made enough good bread
and a surplus that required all the bas-
kets.
He scolded only twice that remember,
once at the hypocrites with elongated Wis
age and the other tii:e when Il sinful
crowd had arraigned an unfortunate
woman, and the Lord, with the most SUI
perb sarcasm that was ever uttered, gave
permission to any one 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 ascension for 9TH
ers. His enthronement for others.
Edenizinc the Earth.
That spirit which leads one to be busy
for the betterment of others is going to
Edenize the round earth The last word
that Dwight l.. Moody, the great evange
list. said to me at Painfeld, n. j., and
he repeated the message for me to 9TH
ers, 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
and the newspaper types desire to take
them. Oh, We people back there in the
Sheffield mines of England and We in the
sheep pastures Of Australia and We amid
the pictured terraces Of New Zealand
and We among the cinnamon and color in
famed groves of Ceylon and We Armeni-
ans weeping over the graves of murder
ed households in Asia Minor and We amid
the dolatries of Benares on the Ganges
and We dwellers on the banks of the An
droscoggin and the Alabama and the Mis-
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