| Show LAZARUS AT THE GATE detroit degroa free press here said the good minister to the applicant at the back door you can have these crusts of bread that is all I 1 have for you today are we all brothers asked the boy looking up tip into his face you said so last sunday when you preached to us p yes yes said the minister turning red we are alap all I 1 hope brothers in christ 22 AW an would you give your poor brother crusts of moldy bread to eat the boy asked seriously Li lazarus zarus does not often ask questions it la Is more like him to take the moldy bread with meek civility and when he is out of sight eight to hurl burl it over the fence with murder in his heart and mal maledia edle eions on his tongue it la is such a bitter affront to his poverty that he can neither forgive nor forget it and on the lintel of that house he writes his in the mystic letters of his tribe shall I 1 ask him into my parlor and regale him on strong coffee and toast 1 asks the well housed citizen who denies relationship with lazarus Li azarus better men have done it my friend the good bishop bienvenu in les lea Mise the Mon monseigneur welcome of the poor people ordered another knife and fork laid for the rough traveler in search of a lodging and clean sheets to be put on the bed in the alcove then he said sit bit down and warm yourself sir we shall sup directly and your bed will be got ready while we are supping P aj and the astonished man who had bad announced himself as a convict said you call me sir you do not thou me get out you dog that is what is ie always said to bepp me then we are told that thirsts for respect but alas for the climax if we read it with the sordid interpretation of our earthly senses alone jean VaI valjean jean the convict steals the bishops bishop Ps silver is arrested and brought back with it in his bis possession but the good bishop argues that all he has belongs to the poor and he tells the gendarmes gen darmes that it is a mistake and the man is 18 free then he gives him his silver candlesticks with the lo junction that he I 1 is never to forget to employ their value in becoming an honest man here is the good bishops formula for christians of all creeds when they deal with the vicious poor my brother you no longet longer belong to evil but to good I 1 withdraw it from your black thoughts and the spirit of perdition and give it to god the chinese never give an inferior thing to the poor they say their best is none too good the poet priest fathel ryan byan now gone to his reward basof was of the same opinion he was in eted by the ladies of mobile to give a lecture he told them he had bad nothing to wear so they ordered a new suit and bad it sent to his house the evening of the lecture while he was eating his frugal supper A 4 beggar rapped at his door asking ibi fot clothes 1 I have none except those I 1 wear said the good man a moment here is a suit I 1 have never worn take it and gods blessing go with you and he laid the package containing his now new clothes in the tramps arm and delivered the lecture in his old ones there may have been zeal without j judgment I 1 but who doubts the goodness that lal to the action and made it fine I 1 knew an excellent man once who never refused the beggar at his gate a warm meal but while the man ate he sat by him and took the role of father confessor you have sinned or you would not have bave been where you are this good man would say as the hand palsied with age and dirt conveyed the food in trembling mouthfuls mouth fuls acknowledge your sin if you are penitent and reform you may yet be saved ap pp if the vagrant tried to deny or evide evade a direct answer the superior man and brother was ready with his texts cc 1 I have the bible for an authority py he would say david the man after gods heart said these words ci have been young and now am old yet have hav I 1 not seen the righteous forsaken or his bi seed begging bread 11 1 and one day this re respecter of persons met with a rebuff where least ex pecked A veritable old tramp without a single ear ruark mark of respectability was eating the food of charity with apparent relish when the master ot 0 the house bouse began his favo favorite rite canticle about helping deserving Poverty ending with the remarks of king david the tramp pushed back his bis chair and left his hi food uneaten eaten 1 I ask for a sermon aup an I 1 aguil fur a job ive done some men mean things in nay my life but I 1 reckon david warn it always straight himself if my memory serves me an it aint fair to hit a man when he is down id I ad gutber jo go hungry much obliged for vitt vittal als fl but the seasoning aint to my bihin sp there has ha 8 bee beeh n a R wom woman a n be beRRio gg in tf from house to house at occasional periods who always asks for luxuries s A little white sugar some jelly ur or as aft she calls it jell P I a piece of cake or pie she said she ke kept t her family in t the necessaries of life but her son dy ing of consumption craved delicacies and for his hia sake she r resorted to begging at intervals her wish to remain un known and her refusal to give her ad 1 dress drees led people to think her a an n im 1 poster finally she was traced to her home and it was a sight eight to arnov any I 1 heart to see the poor boy in the teat lot stages of this distressing illness kept keo clean and comfortable and made hap happy by a supply of such food as he cmar craved there was no longer any need for the mother to beg the substantial features of the case at once appealed to the th charitable heart and band you have only to imagine the spectre spec tres of want which attend attena ul ft on e very every beggar who with b old bold nl pe z si stence rings your doorbell door bell to be snubbed by your cross manservant man servant or maidservant maid servant who is clothed in a ajl brief authority for the occasion you do not need to join any society or wear any reg regalia lalia or go slumming in order to exhibit a picturesque charity the slums come to you every day abe tb poor you have with you always listen to my tale of woe chacto abante 1 lazarus at your gate and you call 00 him an impostor and are not willing to t recognize him until he is in abrahams abrahah V bosom I 1 r would like to suggest f hat cold food is not good enough for lazarus wats war your buckwheat cakes and put syrup on them warm up your cold cof coffee pw you n need e 1 d not net serve it with a silver spoon because that might be too great a temptation silver is convertible i into money we could coul doot bot trust ouri selves it in his case if we were were cold and homeless and poor with winter coming on and a rich mans sumpter spoon iu in our hand band and if you give your oatmeal porridge of day before yesterday to an old beggar woman just take the trouble to put it over the fire re and hot beat it up and don dont donit it grudge her that remnant of cream with it she bhe may bean be an angel before you are in tha tbt wonderful novel jane iriane eyre p WA w have a good picture of a beggars treat from door to door it is jane who says cat at the door of a cottage I 1 saw a little girl about to throw a mess mesa of cold porridge into a pig trough will you give me that I 1 asked ti mother she ahe exclaimed there is isa a woman wants me to give her this thia porridge well lass replied a voice within elvei 1 V fc her beria if ashes a beggar ta T pig ja t want it that is ie too often the sum and sub L eta stance or of our back door charity ta 1 pig f decent want it |
