. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ayer will touch the sufferer as it never would do underany other condition. I often see the work menand women are doing among thepoor. I saw them in Philadel-phia, in Bedford Street, distrib-uting tracts. They went downinto the lowest dens of vice,running the risk ofinfection and dis-ease and insult, en-tering garrets andcellars in the dis-charge of their duty— many of them ladiesbelonging to the bestfamilies. I spoke in theAcademy of Music on theMonday after I had seenthem at their good work on Sunday. I said, after alluding totheir mi
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ayer will touch the sufferer as it never would do underany other condition. I often see the work menand women are doing among thepoor. I saw them in Philadel-phia, in Bedford Street, distrib-uting tracts. They went downinto the lowest dens of vice,running the risk ofinfection and dis-ease and insult, en-tering garrets andcellars in the dis-charge of their duty— many of them ladiesbelonging to the bestfamilies. I spoke in theAcademy of Music on theMonday after I had seenthem at their good work on Sunday. I said, after alluding totheir missionary spirit, Ladies, you are engaged in a goodwork, a magnificent work. But, ladies, when you go to ahome of poverty, where there is a constant battle for bread,where they know what hard, griping, grinding starvationmeans, go with your tracts in one hand, but with a loaf ofbread in the other. Then, out of respect to you, a man willnot tear up your tract, nor light his pipe with it when yourback is turned, because you show sympathy with the man and. SHALL I PRAY WITH YOU? 444 A WRETCHED COMPANY with his class in their sorrows. So did the Master. He laidIds hands on the afflicted. We read more about His healing the sick, curing diseases, and cleansing lepers than we do ofHis preaching. He went among the people and laid Hishands on them, and as Christian people we should follow Hisexample. I was once asked to speak to an audience of the most mis-erable outcasts that the eye of man ever rested upon. Themeeting was held in aloft, and there wereabout eight hundred
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