Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-26

and the drought strikes them the first
year. That builder with contracts
made for the construction of half q
dozen houses and the owners impa-
tent for occupancy is not TO be pitied.
but give your sympathy 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, and 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. He had lived in
palace. Radiant ones waited upon him.
he was eharioted along streets yellow
with gold, and stopped at gates giisten-
ing with pearls. and hosanDaed 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 luster and
renown and environment of spIendors
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 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 sepuI-
| chral crypt, until the subsequent GEN.
| turtles have tried in vain 10 tell the story
| by sculptured cross. and painted can
vas. and resounding doxologies. and
| domed cathedral, and redeemed La
| lions.
| He could not see woman doubled up
| with rheumatism but He touched her.
| and inflamed 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 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 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 to 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 sur
| plus that required all the baskets.
He scolded only twice that 1 remem-
Der, once at the hypocrites with eIon-
| gated visage and the other time when
a sinful crowd had arraigned an unfor-
tunate woman. and the Lord, with the
most superb sarcasm that was ever ut
tered, gave permission to anyone who
| felt himself entirely commendabi bic 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 establish
ragged schools" and Father Mathew
to become a temperance reformer and
| Peter Cooper to establish his institute
! and Slater to contribute his fund for
| schools and Baroness Hirsch to leave
more than $100!O00.O00 for the improve
ment of her race and Corn eIius Wander
bilt to food 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 busy bodies in i'm
| proving them. With kind words, with
earnest prayers. with self-sacrifciDg
deeds, with charging charities, let US
| go forth on a new mission.
And now my words are to the invis-
ible multitudes 1 reach week by week,
but yet will never see in this world, but
whom l expect to 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
at Plainfeld. n. j.. and he repeated the
message for me to others, was: Never
be tempted under any circumstances
to give up your weekly publication OF
sermons throughout the world" That
solemn charge L will heed as long as 1
have strength to give them and the
newspaper types desire TO take them.
Oh, ye people back there in the Sheffield
mines of England and ye in the sheep
pastures of Australia and We amid the
pictured terraces of New Zealand and
ye among the cinnamon and color in
famed groves of Ceylon and ye Ar
menians weeping over the graves OF
murdered households in Asia Minor and
ye amid the idolatries of Benares Oh
the Gauges and ye jewellers 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-
plan and Yellow seas: ye of the four
corners of the earth who have greeted
me again and again. accept this point
blank offer of everything for nothing;
| of eVerYthip0 of narClnn and comfort