The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1900-01-26

patients who cannot afford to pay.
Those old attorneys at the law want
no help from you. for they take re-
tainers only o the more prosper
Gus clients, but cheer those young at
torneys who have not had a brief at
all lucrative. Those old merchants
nave their business so well established
that they feel independent of banks,
of all changes il. tariffs, of all panics,
but cheer those young merchants who
are making their first mistakes in bar
gain and sale. That old farmer who
has 200 acres in best tillage and his
barns full of harvested crops, and the
wheat at high prices before it was
reaped. needs no sympathy from you,
but cheer up that young farmer whose
acres are covered with a big mortgage
and the drought strikes them the first
year. That builder with contracts
made for the construction of half a
dozen houses and the owners impa-
tient 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.
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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 a
palace. Radiant one waited upon him.
He was charioted along streets yellow
with gold, and stopped at gates glisten-
ing with pearls, and hOsannaed by inn
mOrtals cOroneted and in snowy white.
Centuries gave hin, not a pain. The
sun that rose on him never set. His do
mirions could not be enlarged, for they
had no boundaries, and u~ncOntested
was His reign. Upon all thatluster and
renown and environment of s]plendors
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 ston house in Bethlehem of
our world. Wrapped in what plain
shawl. and pursued with what enemies
OF swift cameis. and hOWIed at with
what b~rigands, and thrust with what
sharp lances, and hidden in what sepul-
chral crypt, until the subsequent GEN.
turtles have tried in vain to tell the story
by seulptured cross. and painted can
vas, and ~resOunding doXolOgies. and
domed cathedral, and redeemed ma
tons.
He could not see a woman doubled up
with rheumatism but He touched her,
and intfamed muscles relaxed. and she
stood straight up. He could not meet a
funeral of a young man but he broke up
tho nrHcaSEi0p and Or va in, hDrL- TO hiS
widowed mother. With spittle on the
Zip 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 no.
find a man t~ongue-tied but He gave him
immediate articulation. He could not
see a 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 a sur
Plus that required all the baskets.
He scolded only twice that l remem-
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gated viSage and the other time when
a sinful crowd had arraiened 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 commendable to
hurl the first missile. All for others.
HIS birth for others. His ministry for
others. His death for others. His as
ccnsion for others. His reinforcement
for others.
That spirit which leads one to be
busy for the betterment of others is 60
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.OOG,00O for the improve
ment of her race and Cornelius Wander
bilt to food churches and charitable
institutions with his benevolence. And.
though our means be limited and our
opportunities circumscribed. we can dc
the same thing on a small scale. Other
mems matters!" Be busybodies in i'm,
proving them. With kind words. with
earnes prayers, with self-sacriticine
deeds, with charging charities, let lis
go forth on a new mission.
And now my words are to the invis,
IDLE muItitudes | reach week by week
but yet will never see in this world, bu,
whom ! expect to meet at the bar OF
Goo and hope to see in the blessed
heaven. The last word that Dwight l.
Moody. the great evangelist, said to mt
at Piaintield, \. j., and he repeated the
message Tor me to others, was: "Neve1
be tempted under any circumstances
to give up your weekly publication O.
me throughout the world" Thai
solemn charge | will heed as long as
have strength to give them and the
newspaper types desire to take them
Oh. Ne people back there in the Sheffield
mines of England and We in the sheer
pastures Of Australia and We amid tn
pictured terraces Of New Zealand anC
We among the cinnamon and color in
famed groves OF Ceylon and We Ar
menians weeping over the graves o
murdered households in Asia Minor anC
We amid the idolatries of Benares OF
the Gauges and ye dwellers on the
banks of the Androscoggin and thu
Alabama and the Mississippi and til,
Oregon and the shannon and the Rhine
and the Fihpr n nd tho nar,ho orl ~.