The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-02

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not had a brief az all Lucrative. Those
old merchants have their business so
well established ehat they feel indie
pendent Of banks, OF all changes in
tariffs. OF all panics. bU cheer those
young merchants who are making
their frst mistakes in bargain and sale.
That. old farmer who has 200 acres in
best tillage, and his barns full OF har-
vested crops, and the grain merchant.
having bought his. wheat ar high prices
before IL was reaped, needs no sympa-
thy from you. but cheer UP that young
farmer whose acres are covered with a
big mortgage land the drought strikes
them the first year. That builder with
contracts made for the construction Of
half a dozen houses n the owners i'm
patient for occupancy is not TO be
pitied. but give you sympathy 90 that
mechanic in early acquaintance with
hammer and saw and biz and amid all
the limitations OF a jOurneyman.
BENEVOLENT BUSYBODIES.
Go forth 10 be a busybody in other
mems matters, so far as you a help
ing 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
gllStening with pearls, and ~hoSannaed
by immortals promoted and in snowy
white. Centuries gave him not a pain.
The sun that rose on him never set.
His dominions could not be enlarged.
for they had no boundaries, and I'M
conteste7 was his reign. Upon all thai
luSter and renown and environment OF
s~plendors he turned his back and put
down his crown at the foot Of his
throne, and OF a bleak December night
trod his way down 20 a stone house in
Bethlehem of our world. Wrapped in
what plain shawl, and pursued with
what enemies on swift camels, and
howled ait with what brigands, and
thrust with what sharp lances. and
hidden in what sepulchral crypt, until
the subsequent centuries ave tried in
vain TO tell the story by sculptured
cross, and painted canvas, and resound-
ing doxologies, AND domed cathedral.
and redeemed nations.
He could not see a woman doubled UP
with rheumatism but he touched her,
and inflamed muscles relaxed, and she
stood straight up. He could not meet
a funeral of a young man but he broke
up the procession n 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 perfect sight. He could not
see a man down on his mattress help
less with palsy without 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 articulation. He could
not see a man with the puzzled and
inquiring look of the deaf without Civ
ing him capacity to hear the march Of
life beating on the drum of the car.
He could not see a crowd of hungry
np0nla hit ha mad annJ1Oh pnn1 hraod
and a surplus that required all the
baskets.
He scolded only twice tina I remem-
Der, once at the hypocrites with elon-
gated visage and the either time when
a sinful crowd had arraigned an unfor-
tunate woman, and the Lord, with the
most superb sarcasm that was eve ut
tered, 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 as
cension. for others. His enthronement
FOR others.
EDENIZING THE EARTH.
That spirit which leads one to be
busy for the betterment Of Others is
going to Edenize tn e round earth.
That spirit induced John Pound to es-
tablish ragged schools" ard Father
Mathew to become a temperance re-
former and Peter Cooper to establish
his institute and Slater to contribute
his fun for schools and Baroness
Hirsch to leave more than 500, O00, QUO
for the improvement of her race and
Cornelius Vanderbilt to flood churches
and charitable institutions with his
beneficence. And, though our means
be limited and our opportunities cir
cumscribed, we can d. tie same thing
on a small scale. "Othec mems mat
ters!" Be b~usybodies in improving
them. With kind words, with earn
est prayers, with self sacrificing deeds,
with charging charities. let us go
forth on a new mission.
And now my words are 10 the invisi-
BILE multitudes 1 reach week by weak
but yet will never see in this world,
but whom / expect to meet ait the bar
of God and hope to see in the blessed
heaven. The last word thar Dwight L..
Moody, the great evangelist, said to
me at Plainfield, N. J., anG ne repeat
ed the message for me to others, was,
Never be tempted undar any circum-
stances to give up your weekly publ
cation of SermOn throughout the
world" That solemn charge [ will heed
as long as 1 have strength to give them
and the newspaper types desires 10
take them. Oh, we people back there
in the Sheffield mines of England and
We in the sheep pastures of Australia
dIu we dIllU TIE pictured teFTdccS OI
New Zealand and we among the CHINA
mon and color inflamed groves OF Cey-
Ion and We Armenians weeping over
the graves Of murdered households IN
Asia Minor and We amid the iuclatries
Of BenareS on the Oranges and we
jewellers on the banks of the Andres
coggin and the Alabama and the Mis-
sippi and the Oregon and the shannon
and the Rhine and the Tiber and The
Danube and the Nile and the
Euphrates and the Caspian and Yellow
seas; We of the four corners of the
earth who have greeted me again and
again, accept this point blank offer Of
everything for nothing; Of everything
of pardon and comfort and illumina-
tion and safety and heaven, without
none and without price" What q
gospel for all lands, all zones, all 4ges!
Gospel of sympathy! Gospel Of hope
Gospel Of emancipation. Gospel Of I'M
light Gospel Of enthronement! Cos
pei of eternal victory. FAX 1T, all ye
people,, until your sins are all per-
doned and your sorrows all solacej
and your wrongs all righted and -our