Dr. N. D. Hillis, speaking of the perversion of men’s talents to low or
bad uses, says:
And oh, the pity of the waste and abuse of these gifts! Oh, the
sorrow of Jesus at these opportunities despised and flung away!
Are roses reddened for the swine to lift its tusk upon? Are
pearls made to be flung in the mire, in which they are trampled
and lost? Is a hospital fitted up as a room in which physicians
and nurses riot, drinking up the precious wines, consuming the
jellies, wasting the soft linens, while wounded soldiers lie in
the darkness without, moaning and dying as their own life-blood
ebbs away in the black night? When Philadelphia, in the morning
after Gettysburg, rushed a relief train to the battle-field, how
would the whole land have quivered with indignation at the news
that the officers in charge had forgotten sobriety and honor,
and looted the train of its gifts, counting the treasure to be
personal to themselves, in utter contempt of heroes wounded and
dying?
(2361)
See WOMAN’S SPHERE.
=Perversity=--See GIRLS, LITTLE, AND SLAMMING DOORS.