Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1880 — Luther Benson’s Gift. [ARTICLE]

Luther Benson’s Gift.

Indianapolis Sentinel. “Charity tbinketh no evil: charity hopeth all things.” At the anniversary meeting of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, held March 7,1880, at the Second Presbyterian church, a brief statement was made of the pressing need of the society for pecuniary help. A place has been secured as a home for the union; very little outlay had been made; no great debt had been incurred. There had been no public call for help for a twelve month. Unremitting and unrequited work had been done for those who suffer by the drink traffic and through it, and help was only asked to make complete the furnishing of the room as it should be, and meet the necessities of Gospel temperance work by the addition of an organ. The audience was a good one, and represented enough wealth to have established the W. C. T. U. in a permanent home, with all things needful therein contained. When the little handful of money collected was handed over to the treasurer there I came forward one who daily must encounter not only the pitfalls laid all about to entrap his footsteps, so weak and weary with the sad, dark scenes behind him, and the struggling life before, but whose heart is well nigh crushed by the distrust, reproach and contempt of those who are—only stronger than he. This man came forward, and said to two members of the union, “Ladies, I will start out tomorrow and earn money, and you shall have it for your organ.” To-day a beautiful Estey organ is theirs and Luther Benson is the beneficent friend. We have much pleasure in recommending Thermaline to our readers, as an aosolute cure for Malaria. The manufacturers name alone is a guarantee of its merit. It sells at 25 -•■ents per bor. For particulars see Advt.