Noble Poverty.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1360, 14 May 1895, Page 3

Noble Poverty.

■ * Unseen, unknown, are the divinities that—descending from garrets, treat the loud, foul, sordid, crowning, high ways of London, says the Echo Spiritual presences, suffering all things and in the injustice—most hard tc turn to right—of our social purpose, living and smiling, daily martyrs tc their creed of good. Young children, widowed age, and withered singleness —tho ardent student, Hushed and fed with little else but hope—the disappointed, yet brave, good old man, a long, long loser in the worldly fight, who has retired apart to bleed unseen and uncomplaining die—the poor and stern man, only stern in truths, sour of speech with art ot honeyed sweetness —all of these, in all their thousand shades of character and spirit,—the army of martyrs to fortune, and the social iniquities that, dressed and spangled for truths, man passes off on man—all of this bright band have and do, and will consecrate the garrets of London, aud make a holy thing of poverty by the sacrificial spirit with which they glorify her. Many ot these are to be known—but more escape tho searching eyes of the aspect of some j a depression that elevates; a dogged air of courage that speaks the fighting man in poverty’s battalions; an honorable, undisguised threadbared ness that marks the old campaigner ! Are not his darns more beautiful than best work of Sidonian needles 1 Is there n patch about him that is not, duly cs-ayed, true cloth of gold ? And has not such property its genii, its attending spirits? Yes; a bloodless glory is its holy-guard and its tatter-bearer an angel.