Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-07-23
CHARITY THAT COUNTS.


We Should Do Such Good AS We
May While We May-Live
and Let Live.
"Spaee is as nothing to spirit
The deed is outdone by the doing;
The heart of the wooer is warm
But warmer the heart of the WOO
ing,
And up from the pits where these
shiver,
And up from the heights where
those shine,
Twin voices and shadows swim star
ward,
And the essence of life is divine"
Yes, beloved, the essence of life is
divine. 1t is for you to distill it.
How?-Well, let's see. cit is not
all ofIife to live"
This is going to be a plea for the
~.Goldsboro Hospital" We have a
beautiful lot on which to erect it
the princely gift of MI. and Mrs.
T'hos. w. Swami; but funds are
needed with which to build and
equip the institution-and they are
needed abundantly, and the time for
giving is at hand. Be not backward,
even though your competency for
giving be but Of a mite, for He who
sees and knows all things see and
knows your heart; and it is in His
name that this work is undertaken
and is being furthered.
Flowers of the field fade "with
the northwind's BREATH" flowers of
the spirit, that bloom from the soil
of charity, fade not at all. The chill
ing autumn or angry winter are
powerless to pale the flowers Of
memory Of kindly deeds from hearts
that are charitable, and lowering
clouds, short black days and long
black nights shall bring no gloom to
any benignant soul.
Whose lives and loves in the wider
and deeper hulnanities shall live
and love beyond the utmost reach of
human grief; shall ring with one
hand the notes of human JOY and
with one hand touch the Infinite.
For him, for her, no shadow falls,
no dirge of muff1ed threnody in life
shall throb or sob.
In the heart that is charitable the
light of conservation shall not burn
out; in the soul that is steadfast in
doing good the song of the leal shall
not cease. There shall ring for ever
faiths hosanna.
The brave and the stately, the
beautiful and the virtuous, the proud
and the lowly, the ways Of all these
converge to human love-to human
charity.
From the maiden, restful in sweet
dreams upon the white couch Of in
nocence, on through the blessed
ranks Of good men and good women,
noble souls here point the way to
truth; and so in all gradations OF
life, upward to the highest, the Sin.
less One, and downward to the rag
ged and homeless waif asleep upon
the cold ground, for every one o.
earth human love, the love of mans
kind, is light that shines forever al
Turing.
You shall not escape the longing
and the gearing for this most pre-
cious thing, the love of your kind
beloved.
Though you be SO given over t.
hardness of heart toward the highe
and godlier things that you neve
bend the knee in the place of prayer
there is ever still a petition in you
heart, unuttered, unexpressed, tina
you may find human love awaitin
YOU at each turn in the road of life
in the busy mart, in garden of rose;
or by the dafodil way where tn
birds sing the praises of that suprem
Love which you seek to deny.
s.He was not all unhappy. His r.
solve
ppbore him, and firm faith, an
evermOre
PRAYER from a living source with
the will,
And beating up thro' all the bltt'
world,
like fountains of sweet water in tt
sea,