CHAPTER XIII.—(Coxtixi l M
They passed from room to ro« >, find
ing each one gloomier than its prede
cessor. The old man pointed <i iit the
pictures and various relics witch he
thought might he Interestln) . and
Caussldlere glanced about hit with
eyes like a hawk. As they pub, ‘d on
ward bis face became less rad!tint; a
frown of weariness and disappoint
ment began to cloud his brow. At
length the whole of the castle had been
examined, and the two men began to
descend the quaint oaken stairs. Catn
sldlere, lingering as If In no haste to
go, still talked pleasantly and glanced
Impatiently about him.
Presently they passed the half open
door of a kind of boudoir. Caussldlere,
who had looked keenly In, paused sud
denly.
"Surely," he said, "1 know that face!
The old man went forward and
pushed open tile door, and the French
man, following closely behind him. en
tered the room and stood thoughtfully
regarding the object which had arrest
ed his attention. It wus a picture, a
good sized painting, which hung above
the mantelpiece,
" 'TIs Marjorie Annan," explained the
old man, "foster daughter to the minu
ter. 'Twas painted by Johnnie Suther
land. The mistress bought it because
she likes the lassie, and because it bus
a favor o’ herse! ’,’’
The Frenchman stared.
"Like Miss Hetberlngton?”
"Ay, like hersel.” returned the old
man. "You’d be no denying itself If
you saw the picture In that press. I Is
Miss Hetberlngton at seventeen or
eighteen years of age.
"I should like to see the picture.”
“Aweel, aweel, you should see It; but
the press is locked and Mysle has the
key.”
• You could not get It, 1 supposeV
"Ay, 1 could get it," returned Handle,
still under the influence of the French
man’s gold. "Bide awhile and you
shall see.”
He shuffled off, leaving the French
man alone. •
The moment he was gone Caussl
dlere's face and manner underwent a
complete change. He sprang from the
room, as *t were, with cat-like fury,
turned over papers, opened drawers
ransacking everything completely. Al
last he came upon a drawer which
would not a pen; it was In a writlnj
cabinet, the counterpart of one he had
at home; he pressed a hidden spring;
in a moment the drawer flew open, and
Caussldlere was rapidly going over th<
papers which It contained.
Suddenly he started, drew forth «
paper, opened, and read It. A gleam ol
light passed over his face. He folded
the paper, thrust it Into the lnnei
pocket of his coat and closed the draw
er. When the old man returned with
his key he found Caussldlere, with hit
hands behind him, regarding the pic
ture of Marjorie Annan.
CHAPTER XIV.
HILE the persever
ing Caussidisre wa:
Inspecting the in
terior of Annandah
Castle, Miss Heth
erlngton was busllj
making inquiriet
about him at Dum
fries.
To her own dla
appointment sh<
learned nothing t(
the Frenchman's discredit, but, deter
mined to break up all relations betwcei
him and Marjorie, she visited ihi
manse the next day and secured Mr
Lorraine's consent that Marjorie shoult
uisconuuue ner r reni n lessons tor tin
present.
This done, she ordered the coach
nmu to drive to Dumfries.
When they reached the town the;
drove straight to t'anssldlere'f ludg
ing. and with a very determlufit fan
the lady of the Castle descends!. .tut
walke'd up the doorsteps.
She knocked sharply at the door
which was immediately opened by .
servant girl.
"I'm seeking the gentleman ilia
lodges here the Kratich teacher," di
said, stepping without ceremony ini
the lobby.
C'sussldwre, who was within fut hi
l.eud out of the doot of Ills riaim. uni
recognised hU visitor at once with .
luaming smile
|»ray step this way. Ml<% Hethwriug
ton," he cried "I siu delighted to sc
you!**
she followed Him Intu his llttls It
tlngroom. and stisal leaning upofi he
staff and looking at h'm with hsr Id e I
ryes. while he drew *vrwuti I (lul
»ml lagged her to he M.v.si kmlil
rd grimly and glam-d nj d i,^ spot
meni «l Ik* tabkr Hit. m wi*
•wondeuce at the tuns, * I ..ct
• id there, at th* row and is *y*i
which peeped la at the otarn * tot. w
rheit she walked to th* ebstr It" lit'
are pared lor he and sluing down
t icked at him itidly agaia Sot la th
m*at daunted he stood emMlag gl hei
sad watting k» her in ny’rhl ha
tiWilarew
At hull ah* *|mh* la her i*1 >
“itiwt gad I <* »* *' how ci cah e t
Met hut* kaa« swtag t« »e far ku
r>—rh Mtaaoa* '
As eha aahed th> unset tow Wm ll«k
Wftrfti-a drew aut sa old fsektuaed mil
I purse and began examining l a eon
tents. Finding that the Frenchman
did not reply, she looked up and repeat
ed It.
"How muekle In Marjorie Annan ow
ing ye? Tell me that. If you please."
"Nothing, Miss Hetherlilgton,” he re
plied.
"Naethlng? Then Marjorie has paid
ye already, maybe.”
"Yes. she has paid me,” roturne
j Caussldlere, quietly.
Naturally enough his manner hat
changed, and his courteous smile bad
given way to u cold expression of
hauteur, tempered with gentle Indig
nation.
"How muekle has she paid y< ?" de
manded the lady of the castle.
"She has paid me,” answered the
Frenchman, "with her sympathy, with
her sweet society. I have not taken
money from her. I shall never take It.
My labor. Miss Hetherlngton. has been
a labor of love.”
The lady's eyes flashed, and putting
up her purse, she uttered an Impatient
exclamation.
"Nae doubt,” she cried. "But from
this duy forward your labor's done. I
have come here to pay you your hire,
and to tell you with my aln mouth that
Marjorie Annan’s French lessons are
ended, and that If she needs nuir she'll
get them from another teacher.”
Caussldlere flushed angrily, but still
preserved his composure.
"May 1 ask a question, Miss Hether
lngton ?”
"If you please."
"I should like to know what authority
you have to act on behalf of my dear
pupil? 1 don’t ask out of mere curl
oslty; but you would oblige me by in
forming me If the young lady herself
bus requested you to come here on so
peculiar an errand?"
"The young lady?—a bairn who kens
naethlng of the world."
“But, pardon rae, had yon her au
thority to dismiss me, or that of her
guardian?”
“The balm's a bairn, and the minis
ter's old and foolish. I've ta'en the
business Into my own hands."
"Indeed!” exclaimed Caussldlere, still
sarcastically smiling.
“Ay, indeed!" repeated the lady, with
growing irritation. "And I warn you,
once for a', to cease meddling with the
lassie. Ay, ye may smile! But you'll
smile, maybe, on the wrong side of
your face, my friend, If ye dlnna tuk'
the warning I bring ye, and cease mo
lesting Marjorie Annan."
It was clear that Caussldlere was
amused, instead of smiling now, he
laughed outright, still most politely, but
. with a self satisfaction wnlch was very
irritating to his opponent. Subduing his
amusement with an efllort, he quietly
took a chair, and sat down opposite
Miss Hetherlngton.
"Weel,” she cried, striking with her
staff upon the floor, "whut’s your an
swer to my message?”
"You must give me a little time, you
have so tuken me by surprise. In the
first place, why do you object to my
friendship for the young lady? My In
terest in her is great; I respect and
UUiUil O l uv/oim , *» u/ ' MU
we not be friends? Why can I not con
tinue to be Uer teacher?"
"A bonny teacher! A braw friend!
Do you think I'm blind?"
"1 think,” said Caussldlera, with a
hum king bow, "that your eyes are very
wide open, Miss Hetherington. You
perceive quite clearly that 1 love Mbs
Annan.”
The lady started angrily.
• What?" she cried.
‘‘I love her, and hope some day, with
your permission, to make her my
wife.”
Trembling from head to foot, Mirs
Hetherington started to her feet.
"Your wife!” she echoed, as |f thun
derstruck.
"Why not?” asked Cuussldlere, calm
! ly. *T nm not rich, but I am u gentle
man. wad my connections are honor
able, I assure you. Why, then, should
you distrust me so? If you will per
1 mlt mo. I think l can give yon very
good reasons fur upprovliiR of my union
with Miss Annan.”
‘ "How daur ye think of if" cried Miss
Hetherington. "Murry that bairn' I
forbid ye even to come near htr. to
I speak wl' her again.”
Caiissblleie shrugged his should >rs.
"Let us return,If you pleat-*, to where
we began You have not yet lufortued
me by what right you attempt to inter
fere with the hupplnos of my dear pn
pit ”
Hy what right*"
I'reelsely What may lie the na
ture of your relat nafet'i n h the
y mug lady?”
A a he spoke he Rial ti.s tie.* us* rdy
opon her, to her tdiatous *-n* <a,,
tv>el Her pale face giew toiler Isti
i •'«
I am ylarpn b Annan a ft lead,” >tl
I answered, after a imusc
ttf that I win aware. Him Hr. genus
, I'tu I aw aware aieo that you bate
teas aery hind to her that tug t< •
f .Misted her IhMS thtldhoaHl ta ttg htnyw
•ugts uut of your own p s kat May |
I ash without offegM hats you dugs II
this uut of pure phiUnthtopi hgt meg
I you hats at*. h a thrrllabl# heart?
r l He stltl watehsd her with Ha ten a
• half sareastu penetrating i— k lisp
, I twkai i aasuogi la. rsased and she lid
II got reply, hut her lip* hs-ew* dry. »*4
she moistened them nervously with the
Up of her tongue.
Suddenly his manner changed and he
rose smiling from his seat.
"You are fatigued." he said, politely.
‘•|>*t me offer yon a glass of wine."
She declined his offer with an angry
gesture, und moved toward tbe door.
"I hue warned you,” rhe raid In a *■» *'
voice. "I hae warned you ami forPh
den you. If ye didn’t heed my wr;-»
Ing I'll maybe And some other m*.tn:
to bring you to your senses. ”
She would have left the house, but
quietly approaching the door, he t-et h!:
back against It and blocked the way.
“Pray do not go yet." he said. "Par
don me, hut you must not. You have
given mo your message, my dear Miss
Hetherington; now let me ask you to
hear mine."
"What's your will with n:e?” ►iv
cried, Impatiently.
"Will you sit and listen a little
while?"
"I'll stand whero I am. Wed?”
"First let me thank you for the k'ral
n<ss of your servant In showing roc
over the beautiful castle where you >iv
I am Interested In all old houses, and
yours Is charming."
She stared at him In blank amazi
ment.
"The Castle? when were you there . "
"Just before 1 returned to Dumfries.
I regretted that you were not at home,
In .order tlj/it I might ask your kind
permission; but In your absence I took
the liberty of making a reeonnaissam
I came away delighted with the place
The home of your ancestors, I pre
sume?”
The words were Innocent enough, hut
the speaker's manner was far from a;
Muring, and his eyes, keenly Axed on
hers, still preserved that, penetrating
light almost n threat.
"Dell tak' the man. Why do yon
glower at me like that? You enter'd
my house like a thief, then, when I w.ia
awa'?”
"Ah, do not say that; It Is ungener
ous. I went merely as an'amateur to
sec the ruins, and I found—-what, shall
I say? so much more than I expect
ed.”
He paused,while she stood trembling;
then he continued;
"The Castle Is so picturesque,the ruin
so Interesting, and the pictures— the
pictures are ho romantic and so strange.
Ah. It Is a privilege, indeed, to have
such a heritage and such an ancestry;
to belong to a family so great, so full
of honor; to have a 'scutcheon without
one blot since the day when the first
founder wore It on his shield.”
It was clear that he was playing with
her, laughing at her. As he proceeded,
hla manner became almost, aggressive
In Its studied insolence, Its polite sar
casm. Unable any longer to restrain
her anger, Miss Hetherlngton, with
outstretched hand, moved toward ’he
door.
“Stand awa’, and let me pass."
He obeyed her In a moment, and with
a profound bow drew aside; but as she
passed him, and put her trembling hand
upon the door handle, he said In a low
voice close to her ear:
“It would be a pity, perhaps, after
all. to quarrel with one who knows so
much.”
She turned furiously, and fixed be;
eyes upon him.
"What's that?" she cried.
“Who knows so much, let us say,
about the morals of your bonny Scot
land as compared with those of la belle
France.”
"What do you mean? Speak out!
What do ye mean?"
He smiled, and bending again close
to her ear, he whispered something
which drove the laBt tint of blood from
her cheek, and made her stugger and
gasp as If about to fall. Then, before
she could recover herself, or utter a
single word, he said aloud, with the
utmost politeness:
"And now, my dear lady, will you
stay a little while longer, and ta'k with
me about Marjorie Annan?”
(TO HE CONTIS CEO.)
ABOUT SUMMER DISHED
M/i. ttorrr'M Way of ft •(luring tit* Cook
ing to tho Minimum.
“Mu' h summer cooking may be dons
nn the i n at u 11 mi>n t nlun ** urrlluu Utu 4
T. Rorer on Summer Dishes With Lit*
tip Fire," In thp I.utiles' Home Journal.
"If uspsrngus la ortlerptl for today’s din
ner. cook double quantity, and serve
Hint remaining for tomorrow's salad.
From a fricassee of chicken for dinner
the giblets tnay bp served for gitilet
stew for the next tlay's luncheon. You
will thereby gain a dish without extra
cost. Rotted fish, with cucumber sauce,
may lie served as a first course in place
of soup, but If the latter is preferred, a
quick soup may be made by stirring
beef extract lilto boiling water, and sea
sou 1 UK It with celery seed and bay leaf.
Where light meats are to be served
some of the cream soups are not out of
place, as they coutaln nourishment eas
ily digested Cream of potato, cream
of |iea. tomato, celery, asparagus, rice,
squash, till umber and oma beau soups
are all very aeeeptabh •« hot weather,
lulling the heated lert, he roast joint
might be served cold. s' eiy garnished
with edible green* NO •» u hot vege
iabbs might be netted The hot meat
dishes should be light and qul.hly
c yoked lb away with the large Joints,
the pot rousts aud the heav bode, and
.ni ctitate chops smothered beef, roiled
| steak broiled steak It union, steak ur
, tnrktsb meat t ails dtuffvd . sWtaM.’s
iilll be served occasionally in the glare
*f meat egg plant staled with meat
, sad bread crumb*, sad t»mat> an and
tqush prepaid In the msm way
rttow ccHihlaa makes III ewe vegwtgtUUa
palatable and wholesome, '
Heiigtna nil howl love la fanaUtraw
Heit«t»a with love la a loagwe wf Ire
Ne« M hi a ;t» wder Methodiet t ia
. v aaait. O.
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
DYNAMITE IS NOW UNDER OUR
GREAT CITIES.
from the Text: "The Hoar Out of
tba Wood Doth Wait* It, and the
Wild lleaxt of th* rield Doth
Devour It” I’xaltnx MO : 18.
Y thl* homely but
expressive figure,
David sets forth
the bad I n
fluenccs which In
olden time broke
in upon God’s herl
t a g e, as with
swine's foot tramp
ling, and as with
swine's snout up
rooting the vine
yards of prosperity. What was
true then Is true now. There
have been enough trees of righte
ousness planted to overshadow
the whole earth, had It not been for
the axe-men who hewed them down.
The temple of truth would long ago
have been completed, had It not been
for *he Iconoclasts who defaced the
wall* and battered down the pillars.
The whole earth would have been all
B-uhoi of ripened elustera, had It not
been that, "the hoar has wasted It and
the wild beast of the field devoured It."
I propose to point out to you those
whom 1 consider to be the destructive
clnercs of society. First, the public
crlni'i-als. You ought not to be sur
prised that these people make up a
large prr portion of many communities.
In 18C9, of the forty-nine thousand
paopla who were Incarcerated In the
prisons of the country, thirty-two
thousand were of foreign birth. Many
of them were the very desperadoes of
society, oozing Into the slums of our
cities, watting for an opportunity to
riot and steal and debauch, Joining the
lav,« gang of American thugs and cut
throats. There are In our cities, people
whose entire business In life Is to com
mit crime. That is as much their
business as jurisprudence or medicine
or merchandise Is your business. To
It they bring all tli*»Ir energies of body,
mind vmd soul, and they look upon the
Interregnums which they spend In
prbop as so much unfortunate loss of
time, Just as you look upon an attack
of Influenza or rheumatism which fas
tens you In the house for a few days.
It Is their lifetime business to pick
pockets, and blow up safes, and shop
lift, and ply the panel game, and they
have as much pride of skill In their
business as you have In yours when
you upset the argument of an oppos
ing counsel, or cure a gun-shot frac
ture which other Burgeons have given
up, or foresee a turn In the market so
you buy goods Just before they go up
twenty per cent. It Is their business
to commit crime, and I do not suppose
that once In a year the thought of the
Immorality strikes them. Added to
these professional criminals, American
and foreign, there Is a large clas» of
men who are more or less Industrious
In crime. Drunkenness Is responsible
for much of the theft, since It con
fuses a man’s Ideas of property, and
he gets his hands on things that do
not belong to him. Rum Is responsi
ble foi much of the assault and bat
tery, Inspiring men to sudden bravery,
which they must demonstrate, though
It bo on the face of the next gentle
man.
They are harder In heart and more
Infuriate when they come out of Jail
than when they went In. Many of the
people who go to prlRon go again and
again and again. Some years ago, of
fifteen hundred prisoners who, during
the year had been in Sing Sing, four
hundred had been there before. In a
house of correction in the country,
where during a certain reach of time
then had been five thousand people,
more than three thousand had been
there before. So, In one case the oris
on, and In the other case the house of
correction, left them just us bad as
they were before. The secretary of
one of the benevolent societies of New
Yorl; saw a lad fifteen years of age
who had spent three years of his life
In prison, and he said to the lad,
"What have they done for y ou to make
you better?” "Well," replied the lad,
"the first time 1 was brought up before
the Judge he said, 'You ought to be
ashamed of yourself.' And then I
committed a crime again, and I was
brought up before the same Judge, anil
he said, 'You rascal!' And after a
while I committed some other crime,
and 1 was brought before the same
Judge, and he said, 'You ought to be
hanged*" That Is all they had done
for him In the way of reformation and
salvation. "Oh," you say, "these peo
ple are Incorrigible," I suppose there
nra hundreds of persons this day lying
In the prlBou bunks who would leap
m> »• tie* nrnspeet of reformation, If
society would only allow them u way
Into decency aud respectability. "Ob,”
yuu say, "I have no patience with these
rogue* " I a»k you tu reply, how much
betlei would you have been under the
same circumstances? Suppose your
mother had been a blasphemer and
your father a sot, and you had started
t|f« with a body stuffed with evil pro
clivities, and you had spent much >f
your time In s cellar amid obscenities
and cursing, and If at leg years of asc
y o | had been C II)pe!If d In go out slid
steal, battered and binged at night If
you came In without any spulle, and
•ti|.|H>..e your early manhood and
w< M anhood hod been covered with
rag * and tttth. and decent so*iety had
turned tie bach tipon you aud left yuu
to c»«t»ort with vagabonds and wharf*
rata how much better would you have
fe*"W? I have no sympathy with that
emuttve > lemetw y which would let
crime run loose, or which would Sit in
the gallery of a court room wcoping
b«pause eume hard* hearsed wretch is
brought to Just i.e, but | do say thst
the safety sa.l Ilfs of the .ummwnlly
demand mors potential mluencsn in
behalf of Ihees offenders
I stepped into one of the prteotM
of one of our great cities, and the air
was like that of the Black Hole of Cal
cutta. As the air swept through the
wicket It almost knocked me down. No
sunlight. Young men who had com
mitted their first crime crowded In
among old offenders. I sow there one
woman, with a child almost blind, who
had been arrested for the crime of
poverty, who was waiting until the
slow law could take her to the alms
house, where she rightfully belonged;
but she was thrust in there with her
child, amid tho most abandoned
wretches of the town. Muny of the
offenders In that prison sleeping on
the floor, with nothing but n vermin
covered blanket over them. Those
people, crowded, and wan, and wasted,
and half-sufforated, and Infuriated. I
said to the men, "How do you stand It
here?” "God knows." said one man;
"wo have to stand It.” Oh, they will
pay you when they get out! Where
they burned down one house, they will
burn three. They will strike deeper
the assasstn's knife. They are this
minute plotting worse burglaries.
Many of the Jails are the best places I
know of to manufacture footpads,
vagabonds and cut-throat*. Yale Col
lege Is not so well calculated to make
scholars, nor Harvard so well calcu
lated to make scientists, nor Prince
ton so well calculated to make theolo
gians, us the American Jail Is calcu
lated to make criminals. All that these
men do not know of crime ufter they
have been In that style of dungeon for
some time, satanlc machination cannot
teach them. Kvcry hour these Jails
stand, they challenge the I/Ord Al
mighty to smite the cities. I call upon
the people to rise In I heir wrath and
demand a reformation. I call upon the
Judges of our courts to expose the In
famy. I demand. In behalf of those In
Cnrcerated prisoners, fresh air and
clear sunlight, and. In the name of him
who had not where to lay his head,
a couch to rest on at night. In the
Insufferable stench und sickening sur
roundings of some of tho prisons, there
Is nothing but disease for the body.
Idiocy for the mind, and death to the
soul. Stifled air and darkness and ver
min never turned a thief Into an hon
est mun. We want men like John
Howard and Sir William illackstone,
and women like Klizaheth Fry, to do
for tIn prisons of the United States
what those people did In other days
■ »**v i” mwiin vt kiikhiimi, l luiiun
God for what Jaaae T. Hopper and
Doctor Wlnea and Mr Harrla and
ftcere* of othera have done In the way
of prlaon reform; but we want aome
thlng more radical before upon our
cltler will come the bleaalng of him
who aald: "I waa In prlaon and ye
0(1 rrw, nntn VMM •*
In this class of uprooting and de
vouring population and untrustworthy
officials, "Woe unto thee, O land, when
thy king is a child, and thy princes
drink In the morning!’ It Is a great
calamity to a city when had men get
into public authority. Why wax It
that in New York there was such un
paralleled crime between 1866 and
1871? It was because the Judges of po
lice In that city, for the most part,
were as corrupt us the vagabonds that
tame before them for trial. These
were the days of high carnival for elec
tion frauds, assassination and forgery.
We had the "Whisky Iting," and the
"Tammany Iting,” and the "Erie
King." There was one man during
those years that got one hundred and
twenty-eight thousand dollars In one
year for serving the public. In a few
years it was estimated thut there were
fifty millions of public treasure squan
dered. In those times the criminal had
only to wink at the Judge, or his luw
yer would wink for him, and the ques
tion was decided for the defendant. Of
the eight thousand people arrested In
that city in one year, only three thou
sand were punished. These little mat
ters were "fixed up," while the Inter
ests of society were "fixed down." You
know as well as I that a criminal who
escapes only opens the door of other
criminalities. It is no compliment to
public authority when we have In all
the cities of the country, walking
abroad, men and women notorious for
nKlininullt v iintirhlmixxl of iontl,... nu, . ..
are pointed out to you In the street by
day. There you find what are called
the ‘'fences," the men who stand be
tween me miei ana me noncst man.
fheltering the thief, and at great price
handing over the goods to the owner
to whom they belong. There you will
find those who arc called the "skin
ners,” the men who hover around Wall
street and Stale street and Third street
with great sleight of hand in bonds
and storks. There you find the fu
neral thieves, the people who go uud
sit dow n and mount w ith families and
pick their pockets. Ami there you
ttnd the "cotilldence men," who borrow
money of you because they have a
dead child ill the house, und want to
bury It, when they never had a house
nor n family, or they want U> go to
Hngluud and get a large property there
and they waul you to pay ihetr way.
and they will send the money bark by
the very ueit mull. There are the
harbor thieves." the "shoplifters," lie
| "pickpockets," famous all over the
cities Hundreds of them with their
faces In the "Itogues gallery," yet do
lug nothing for the Iasi live or ten
years but deft uud society and escape
Justice, When these people go Ultat
1 rested amt unpunished, it Is pulling a
1 high pic to i toil upon vice, and saying
| to the young t mutual* of this country
< ‘What a safe thing II is to W a great
| criminal l.rt the law swoop upon
; them? I art U he known In this voutt
| try that trim* will have wo quarter.
1 that the detectives are after it, lhat
| the polite > Ink is twins brandished
that the Iron door of the prison Is he
M»g Opened that the Judge Is fendy t»
; tail Ike I ass' Too greed leniency lu
: rrtnilnats is too great severity to no
• • *
In Ihsen Ametkan close whose try
of waal I in'stptei tfcsrs are hundreds
j end tkuwaands of honest pour who are
• depewdewt upon individual slip and
state charities. If all their voice*,
could come up at once. It would be a.
groan that would shako the founda
tions of the city, and bring all earth
and heaven to the rescue. But for the
most part It suffers* unexpressed. It
sits lu silence, gnashing Its teeth and
sucking the blood of Its own arteries,
waiting for the Judgment day. Oh, I
should not wonder if on that day It
would be found out that some of us
had some things that belonged to
them; some extra garment whleh
might have made them comfortable on
cold days; some bread thrust Into the
ash barrel that might have appeased
their hunger for a little while; some
wasted candle or gas Jet that might
have kindled up Ihelr darkness, some
fresco on the celling that would have
given them a roof; some Jewel which,
brought to that orphan girl In lime,
might have kept her from being crowd
ed off the precipices of an unclean life;
some New Testament that would have
told them of him who "came to seek
and to save that which was lost!" Oh,
this wave of vagrancy and hunger and
nakedness that dashes against our
front doorstep, I wonder If you hear
II and see It us much as I hear uiid see
It! 1 have been almost frenzied with
the perpetual cry for help from all .
classes and from all nations, knocklngV^^j
knocking, ringing, ringing. If Hi
roofs of all the houses of destitution
could be lifted so we could look down
Into them Just as God looks, whose
nerve* would he strong enough to
stand It? And yet there they are. The
sewing women, some of them In hun
ger and cold, working night after
night, until sometimes the blood
spurts from nostril and lip. How well
their grief was voiced by that despair
ing woman who stood by her Invalid
husband and Invalid child, and said
to the elty missionary, "I am down
hearted, Everything's against, us; and ^
then there are other things." "What
other things?” said the city mission
ary, "Ob,” she replied, "my sin."
"What, do you mean by t.hut?" "Well,”
»h>. said "I never hear or see anything
good. It's work from Monday morn
ing to Saturday night, and then when
Sunday cornea I can’t go out, and I
walk the floor, and It makes me trem
ble to think that I have got to meet
Clod. Ob, sir, It's so hard for us. We
have to work so, and then we have so
much trouble, and then we are getting
along so poorly, and see this wee lit
tle thing growing weaker and weaker;
and then to think wo are getting no
nearer to Ood, hut floating away from
him—oh, sir, 1 do wish I was ready to
die!"
1 should not wonder If they hail a
good deal better time than wo In the
future, to make up for the fact that
they had such a hud time here. It.
would be Just like Jesus to say ’Tome
up and take the highest seats. You
suffered with me on earth; now lie
glorified .with me In heaven." O thou
weeping One of Bethany! O thou dy
ing One of the cross! Have mercy on
the starving, freezing, homeless poor
of these greut cities."
1 want you to know who are the up
rooting classes of society. I want you
to he more discriminating In your
charities. I want your hearts open .
with generosity, and your hands open ’
with charity. I want you to he made
the sworn friends of all city evangeli
zation, and all newsboys’ lodging
houses, and all children’s aid societies.
Aye, I want you to send the Dorcas
society all the cast-off clothing, that,
under the skillful manipulation of the
wives and mothers and sisters and
daughters, these garments may he fit
ted on the cold, hare feet, und on the
shivering limbs of the destitute. I
should not wonder If that hat that
yon give should come back a Jeweled
coronet, or that garment that you this
week hand out from your wardrobe
should mysteriously be whitened and
somehow wrought into the Savior’s
own robe, so in the last clay he should
run his hand over it and say, "I was
naked and ye clothed me..*’ That
would be putting your garments to
glorious uses.
kindly (Jod has dealt with you In your
comfortable home*, at your well-filled
table*, and at the warm register*, and
to have you look at the round faces
of your children, and then, at the re
view of Clod's goodness to you, go to
your room, and lock the door, and
kneel down and xay, “o !,ord, I hav#
been an Ingrate; make mo thy child, O
l.ord, there are so many hungry and
unclad and unsheltered today. I thank
Thee that all my Ife thou ha* taken ^
such good care of me. (> I,ord. there
are so many sick and crippled chil
dren today, l thank Thee mine are
well, some of them on earth, some of
them in heaven. Thy goodness, O
l.ord, breaks me down. Take me once
and forever. Sprinkled as I was many
yeuis ago at the altar, while my moth
er Itehl tue, now I rottawrale my soul
to Thee In u holitt baptism of repent
ing tears.
" Kor tinners, I. rd. thou ram st to
bleed,
Vnd l ilt a sinner vile Indeed;
laird, I believe Tb) ara <• Is free;
t) magnify that grace in on " ••
~P»ha*,“
home une has found out Hut ' I'ttu '
Campbell • fatuous retort ]'>tia«v
abate tbs const tlutto'i lu'wwen
I (t tends * * was anticipated two hundred
| t««it ago by no less dignthed a pep.
■ uiagc tnan aokn lieldm. Ibe witty
and learned Kwgltsh law yet II:, vvr
stun read* I He house of "oil,utott c J
Is called the lower house lu twenty
( tmtlUmcot hut wbat’a twenty act*
•I parliament « uu.ua friends* New
Vuth rrttmwe
He who help* a > hud help* humanity
with w dtafiwetwwsn, with an imm«4t'
aimesa sink no other help given tv
i human . realm** m any efber •>*§ • „f
j their bumsu Itte cwn poswtbt* gtvn
I again (Hilldps ttruug*
