The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-10
THE VOICE OF THE PULPIT
HOW TO BE POPULAR: THE PATH
THAT LEADS TO APPRECIATION.
By the Rev. :. Edward Young. ID. d.,
Pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church, Pittsburg, Pa.

For He loveth our nation. and He hath
built US synagogue. Luke VIII 40.
Shall you be peoples Alphabetically,
when you become their lovers. Sweet boon,
bestowed by public press, by quick pulse
beat of our times, by all classes thinking
for themselves, sweet boon to believe that,
should we care deep down for felow-be-
ings. act our part exceeding well, to US will
come a grateful recognition, earlier than
the epitaph, dearer than sorrow after We
are gone Begin nearest you.
Somewhere wars ravage tore lad out of
parents arms. Dice-lot threw him slave
TO our texts hero to carry his spear, burn
ish his helmet. tidy his tent, go petty er-
rands. sympathy for the little lonesome
fellow, opened two hearts, the slaves, the
masters; and the Scripture says he called
the boy his child.
Sickness smote the lad and lying fever
tossed he seemed TO feel his mothers hand
again. No, it was faithful like hers, though
only the rough captains, watching ten
derby, the motherless captive. Then through
soldiers quarters and city. others, too, were
tender. A fountain of good wishes went
from his bosom every whittier. Commotion
populace astir. TN ask him to cure my
darling" exclaimed our soldier, bending
over bedside; was there heather or He
brew, street waif or sanctuary elder, who
did not want to bear his message, Israeiite
rulers rushing, supplicating, in his behalf,
eulogizing a Roman.
The devil take your celebrities whose
fame rings loudest farthest from home!
What do wife, husband, children, brother,
sister, domestics, employees, neghbors tes-
tjfy: Don't trouble yourself. teacher. to
show diploma and directors commentator
and ancestral pedigree-let your pupils,
keenest, cruelest, kindest critics, bring YER
dict Your Establishments of guests, 0
drawing room host are given the lie or else
eclipsed by witness Of their underlings. The
roofs of some families servants garrets
are low enough to keep the whole household
out of heaven. The man who says it might
about we'll first pack his baggage for
leaving town; but to treat employed as
Jesus would must end strikes and the ever
lastingly worse-getting servant question.
Ideas of equality now pervade American
common classes, and bright, ambitious men
and women will not engage themselves to
be put at societys very bottom; will rather
work for less and harder elsewhere; hence
the inevitable. a trihe higher rank for mill
and kitchen toll or more anarchy and good
for-nothing cookery.
ARTISTS EXAMPLE.
Meanwhile. the lowliest ought to do as
Christ would in their places. Immortal
praise TO Robert E. Lee for Offering seat to
/ laboring woman on train near Richmond
and refusing those offered him Immediately
by officers and privates, he protesting,
Gentlemen, If there was no seat for that
tired woman, there can be none for me-"
Additional crown TO Queen Victoria that
she never discharged domestics for getting
old, merely promoted them as Miss Thorn
ton. aged eighty-two. invited guest in pal
ace parlors at jubilee, served with refresh
ments, spectator of her Majesty's triumphal
| departure. escort and return.
Grandest panegryic on David Livingstone
reckon fidelity of Susi and Chuma and those
! black men who would have known and de-
| spised his vices fidelity that carved inscrip-
| ton on Mvula tree where he died, buried
| his heart there, wrapped his body with
calico, bark, and canvas, and later, for
| disguise mapira stalks; fidelity that suf-
fered everything, risked everything from
Africa's jungle to England's glorious Alb
hey, conveying to its grave the dust so
dearly cherished. and in proof that love
| Redeemer-like love, never was wasted
never will be, never can be; royalty, no.
bility, craftsmanship, science, a world S
veneration, bedecked his bier with immor-
telles, while humorist saddened into thren-
| ody, wrote:
| He needs no epitah to guard a name
| Which men shall praise while worthy
work is known;
| He lived and died for loVe-be that his
famei
Let marble crumble; this be his living
stone.
| Shall you be peoples favorite? Verify,
verify, when their lover and serving their
| highest interests He hath built us a