The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-09-17

Where humanity wesves
Git yon bum
Light and vsIcome
A subtle Transformation
Where homo Ares burn.
Looking into the future
In glory's fires.
The instrument.

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- ~ W. AIsxantr Inlay -
Weaving eternal figure sishl
through the streetS cf . great cst
IN the southwest . Saturday evenin
erosd shifted IN o human phantal
magora under hrillisnt arc lights.
was early winter. In the fashionxtl
district well clad pes. nors new o.
ercosfs and silken muffiers. N IA
lower end Of the city men paIle
thin simmer coats tightly sbou
their necks.
Women beating their way s.onl
the thoroughfsrss felt the chillinl
wiad on x,eszy silk clad ankles
Children OF the Sums hoped swiftly
along. .homswsrd bound from er
rsuds seeking the warmth OF tene
men's for their chilled bare feet
A gutter rat stood in sns door.
way Of cheap restaurant. The
odor Of frying. enions and steak
tantali,ed HE nestrils II was
for the warm cir that Game
through the epsn door that he,
tarfied. M ~. s~ .
-Git. you bu'n.. Ne heard. A
seeonc later the tee 81 q tail.
msn's boot had forced him. into
the street.
-No one wants . down and
outer" the snifsfino thing mssn-
ed a.. he sunk away.
Women OF the etreet passed him
with a leer A down and outer
sls the last fhsns on earth they
fought. What they wanted was
money for food and warm quarters.
rhe rat" could supply neither.
A swinging light In the STREET
head drew his attention. Upon COM
NC close 10 it he spelled out WEI
'-O-ai-Es'
"Ha. Ha,r he laughed cynicaily.
'us be entered
Next morning the '.rat" vas
no longer = rat. He had b<sn
fed and clothed. He, hsd bsen
bathsd and given . bed. Hops
burned high In his heart.
Through the oriees u hls new
friends ne ~ss sven work. u 10
use less to fellow him fer. Of
courss,. 40 in I'll articles Of this
kind. the, "ratr msds good.
Beaten and CURED, sesrnsd and
un~anted hs had al last come
to his own.
Five years later We fnd the rat
lthont a seAibiance 1f the thing CT
le gutter which had been clinging
bout him.
lu a pleasant room. with . flower
J the window. we nnd him reading |
10 daily paper. A woman speaking |
soft tones is iulling child to
st.
Outside the wind howls. A cow
awls In the stable At the rear Of
ie lot on which she cory home is
iilt.
The one time down and outer Ia
owing up. He has = wife and
hid. He owns home He has .
w,
I'VE must make some steps
70 issue our child the surround.
inss Of Christianity" the wife
tells the one time thins Of the
gutter. after the child 10 sound
asiesp in its crib.
Wei, what shall We Do about
NJ" he repiies.
The woman plaess her cheek.
next to his and Whispers. The
honest citizen 10 at peace. He
neds his head in aesuieseencs.
Sunday comes with bright spark
ig mornins light The honest cid.
n and his wife dress in thsir bes.I
d start for church .,s..
II II church OF ATick and stona-l
aSed windows break carly moyniugf
ht into thousands OF prrsmatioI
ystais. II
Ths minister takes his text
u Even ~ you Do uuto. othesa."
f1ls ssaorous voice rings out iK
] periods. The one time child Of
3 slums in entranced
A great organ pee's its message Of
: and love-
The honest citizen and lis wIfsI
lk forward. !.
They join the church
No one, knsws hs has been N
hing Of the streets and ths eIn>
serpath. .That has been fsrset.
.en. Dut-
Many are brought q American
churches each ye1rs who tssk
heir first upward. step with the
Salvation Army backing their e.
'ert. II,
4suss Indersss g. A. Campaign.
Those Of NJ who have been fortu
e enough to see something OF thsl
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