Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-10-04
What Can | Do =?

known but little, and are but little cared
for by the world.
/. You can be a christian. As the sun
transfgures drop of dew by the reflection
of his own glorious image, so if you but
hold still in faith, Jesus will shine in and
through you, making the weak, worthless,
perishing man you now are, a medium of
his own matchless grace. A steady life for
Christ is a means of usefulness incaleula
bly, effective.
2. You can pray for others. There may
be little apparent connection between fer
vent prayer for another and his spiritual
improvement, but there is such connection
and it is vital. Daily prayer for others is
daily service which the Master will ulti-
mately reward.
3. You can win the love of others. Love
is a cable between souls through which
mighty influences flow. We transfer to
some extent the good that is in us to those
who love us. All humility, gentleness,
carefulness, prudence, hel pfulness, beget
love in those who witness these graces and
qualities.
f. You can speak to others. A prudent
word spoken in love has often proved a
seed of life. A good woman once address
ed word of admOnition to a man in her
employ. Another man simply overheard
her remarks and was led by them to Christ.
Let the lips open once in a while for the
utterance of Jesus name, and for plea in
his behalf
5. You can visit Others Little atten-
tions prepare people to receive our practi-
cal counsels. They reason, 'If he cares
enough to come he must have some inter
est in me. If he has an intesest in me, |
owe attention to his words" Visits to the
poor, neglected, Indifferent, worldly, afflict-
ed, ignorant-may often be sanctifed to
their good, even though the subject of re-
ligion is not specially mentioned.
6. You can put good reading into the
hands of the people who need it. The Sun
day school book, the religious book in your
own library, little tract, newspaper, a
selected article from a magazine may be
put in the way of somebody every day
The right book in your spare bedroom, or
handed to a friend about starting on a
journey, or forwarded by mall may do
wonders. A ticket agent in a railroad de-
pot used to give away fifty dollars worth
Of tracts every year. A tract went with
every ticket sold. More than twenty per
sons wrote to him, acknowledging that the
tracts he had thus given them had been
blessed to their conversion.
} 7. You can reach people with the gospel
: influences, who from sickness or suffering
= are most susceptible to them. There is a
/ gentleman in Paris who watches the obit-
e uary notices in the morning papers, and
D then sends to the bereaved little tracts adj
e apted to their situation. A visit to the
' poor house and the Jail may often be bless
= ed to the good of their inmates. O, how
many such opportunities for usefulness are
e neglected by us There, too, are the sick
e who lie, for days at a time, weary, discour
? aged, and often friendless. How full o
5 cheer a daily call, with the reading o
b Gods word, a prayer and cordial, cant
5 less chat about life and its experiences
: death and the realities to follow, duty anC
O its imperious demands.
= s You can invite and persuade peopl,
T. to attend Gods house-the preaching ser
V vice, the Sunday school and the socia
n meetings.
G 9. You can enlist others in work TO
= the Master. Here are church member
who should be awakened to Gods CLAIM
? upon all men for service A word, a plei
T. oft repeated, ever urgent, may be the mean
It of awakening them to a sense of duty.
It TO- You can give. Five cents weel
e is something in ten years, expended in be
r nevolence. Who cannot save five cents
week for this purpose? Who cannot saw
: five cents day?
IS But what we all want, most of all, is tn
n "ready mind" that our services may b
IS mot by constraint, but willingly" "Wher
+ there's will there's a way" Good Lord
= give us, thy servants, willing, loving heart
= and then shall we toll with fidelity and de
n light for thee-,S s. Journal