Year: 1870

sense people. If the home is tidy, the children
neat, if there dares 10 be ribbon or vase or
small engraving, what righteous indignation at
the extravaganza, 'they can't need or be worthy
of help if they do such things. "God help US i
Was man ordained to live in burrow that he
may not cheer ever poor home with bit of
adornment | wish | could break you who are
better off to think more of the imperativeness of
making your homes more CHERRY. If the hou,e
he dirty, children ragged, everything at skies
and sevens, you are sure you are not going to aid
such lazy, thrftless people, when prehaps the
sded mother never has learned, chow can they
learn except they be taught and who has been
doing the teachig y household duties and econo-
mics, or with brutal husband, poverty at the
door and wrong at the heart, she has not the
tinle the power or the pride left. You
wrong and unreasonable in both cases expecting
TOO much. And specially unreasonable are we
apt to be with the poor who have once been well
To do. Theirs is the hardness of poverty. APP
ply the case to yourself. The away poor, the
hereditary poor suffer in no way as the poor by
misfortune They are the poor who suffer and
make no sign, the poor TO whom mere want is
the least sting, and they need the very tenderest
consideration that decacy Of act and word
which we should ourselves crave we pushed


into their place. We expect the bitter thing Of
them when we expect them 10 accept the pauDer





have been, and in their poverty aspect that pride
which may be the truly safeguard remaining TO
keep them from the evil to which their condition
more sorely tempts them than it does the alway
poor.


have only time to say that at the present day,
ty friend or foe, there is too much expected of
the negro. Never was man SO weighted down
by unreasonable demands, never was mans PR
vious training so wlinlly injured, never man
looked TO to do so much, and SO fast and so we'll,
and with so little help as he. The ia: of the
SISTERS who carried water in baskets is nothing to
it, and the future will look back in amazement
at this nineteenth century civilization for the
nadness:of its demands upon just emancipated
l'eople. demands that there is not nation in
Europe to-day equal TO, demands that a large
part OF our own white population are not asked |
10 meet not expected to meet not able to meet | |


One thing on the other side. We are not apt
10 expect too much of ourselves Reasons as
plenty as blackberri :, spring up why we should |
he exempt from all sorts of very reasonable |
things, and let ourselves cff at very frivolous |
excuse and after very slight scrutiny. Suppose |
we try little OF this with others /
Il believe have called YOUR attention to a very |
prevailing mistake, prolific in mischief, and | |
want you to give the matier hospitable entertain
ment. 1t is matter in which we all daily tres
pf ss and in which think the cure is near and eff
fectual. Indeed think a great many things be-
side would be effectualy cured by making the
Golden Rule the rule ofife, measuring everything
by it. 1t is a rule we do very little. 1t is quite
time we did. 1t would upset all the relations of
life, it is true, but it is quite time they were upset.
They are low and mean and false enough. We
want to get man out from under the crushing
load of disabilities he has had forced upon and
hound to him. We want TO help establish him
10 his manhood, to help him stand unshackled
and hopeful before God and his race. We want
TO make the demand of him, to exact that of
him, to expect that from him which shall estab-
lish confirm, develop him, neither to crowd him
or to can him. Nothing man needs at man hand
SO much as justice. The Golden Rule will givei