Show The Meeting ol Citizens The meeting that is to be held in Union Opera House 1 this evening will give Ogden citizens an opportunity to once more show their generous charity and place the city on the immortal list of those who contribute to the relief of the stricken sufferets of Charleston While pone who have not been subjected sub-jected to the terrible ordeal of having a personal experience like that of there the-re idents of Charleston can clearly conceive con-ceive the magnitude of their sufferings all can understand that those sufferings hare been Keat indeed alJ rem mber lUg the Golden Rule can contribute their mite to the glorious purpose of helping to alleviate the paics of their fellow mortals For people to lie down to sleep with a sense of perfect security in all their surroundings and to be rudely awakened bum their slumbers by the hideous groaning of some powerful monster and while the rumbling of his terrible voice still lingers in their ears striking terror to their souls and puncturing every sen e of their minds with the thou ht of some awful though hidden calamity j to have him in his blind rage lift the very earth beneath them and send the walls of their houses tottering to the ground while the midnight air is filled with the shrieks of women the cries of children and the groans and shouts of men and a yawning gulf threatens momentarily to open and swallow them is an experience that none need envy Then to look upon the destruction that was wrought see thousands of helpless women and children roaming about in the streets of the city with no covering but the canopy can-opy of heaven no resting place but the cold dump ground to think that the results of years upun years of incessant toil have been ruthlessly destroyed atone at-one fell blow and that to provide for these helpless creatures the shelter that nature must have or perish will take months and years if the work of provision provi-sion be left alone to the hands of their natural protectors and to know of the acute suffering which gentle charity can prevent is enough to draw pity from a stone and cause the most niggardly to open their purses and pour the golden ducats of their surplus into the lap of the gentle goddess for the purpose of softening pangs of hunger and destitution in these desolate homes Those who have suffered from the pinching of poverty and privation but who are now in no want need no one to tell of them the divine character of charity and the poet has told those who knoW it not what a godlike boon it is It falleth like the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath It is twice blessd it blesseth him that gives and him that takes |