Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-03-27
92elieiolrs Department.
USE THE TALENT you have.


by the Lord to wake one hundred Chris
tians up than bring one hundred sinners
in the present state Of the Church.
What we want is to lift up the standard.
By awakening one hundred Christians
to sense Of their standing and OppOr-
tunity for good il would result in more
than one hundred conversions very soon.
Il is 4 good deal better for US to get ten /
men 10 work than for one Of Us to do |
ten mems work. If we could only wake /
up the nine-tenths Of the Church which |
Is now asleep we would be doing great |
work. A few days ago 4 man in middle
life came up to me and asked me if
knew him. did know him. He was
converted in Chicago during the great
revival Of 1857. He said at the time
be wished very much for the conversion
Of a gentleman whom he knew. 1t
would perhaps be no harm to give the
gentleman's name. as il was mentioned
before. Il is Mr.. John V. Farwell. So
this young convert said. IF Mr.. Far
well we're only Christian, what grand
thing it would Be-" The fact was, that
gentleman had been prOfessed Chris
tian for years. So when spoken to by
that new convert bis thought was how
strange that be could be Christian so
long and yet people not know it. He at
once put on his hat and went down to
the MONDAY prayer-meeting. and there
spoke for the Lord. He has been dill
igent man ever since. Now be is 4
working Christian. That young man
did a good days work when be woke up
John V. Farwell. My friends, the har-
vest is white, and everything ready for
the sickle. All We want ia labOrers.
The fact is, we are still asleep. We are
afraid we will offend some one, or that
our interference Will be considered out
Of taste. Oh, this prOpriety. We are
50 much afraid we will make some mis-
take, that We do nothing. l believe it
is good deal better to commence, and
make, now and then, a mistake, than to
not be doing what our God will have Us
to do. Faith without works is dead.
OF what value is dead faith. Wha
we want Is to show our faith by oul
works. We cannot have FIRE withOu
heat, and certainly We cannot have faitl
without works. What We want is {,
have faith which will permit Us to 9
and occupy till Christ come. ''Occup.
till l come" Now, there is diyersit,
Of gifts in the Church Of God. som
people will say they have got no ability
Why, that little girl can do sOmethin
for Christ Every man and woman ha
got circle Of friends whom they CT
influence better than any one else. VI
friend in the gas works at Philadelphi:
who started that prayer-meeting, coul
DO work there which other Christian
perhaps. could not do. He at first treu
bled from head to foot. He could u
speak or pray, but be was one Of the
own kith aud kin. and when be did n
pray be produced a profound sensatic
there. He was the man above all othe
for that place and work. If the mo
eloquent ministers in Philadelphia b;
gone there they would not have effect
the same results. They have a prayt
meeting for the night gang at midnigl
They had a Bible-elass. and perhaps 0
hundred Of those men were eonvertt
Those very men who we're foolish
spending $40 or $50 , month ha
stopped it. Talk about hard time
why, men make hard times for the
selves; but, Of course, their famil
must suffer l remember when in l.
don friend asked me to 90 down t
dog market and preach. It is part
the city where men come to sell d
and cats and birds. They had fight
cocks there, and were trying to get U
fight The streets were literally crOr
Cd with this class Of men, but Ira
went right on. Ny friend said he va
ed some one to preach who could get
attention Of these men; and be thou
if would 60, being an America
might succeed Some Of them stop
a little while to listen, but did not
into sympthy with them. One
came up to me with fighting cock,
l did not succeed in getting any
upon him; but one Of themselves.
had been converted a short time be
stood up on chair and Immediately
trafhe stopped, crowd gathered II
to hear him, and this man, in 81
minutes, did more than all Of Us
together. What We want is every
TO build over against his own house.
each one Of Us would use the gifts
God has given rs mighty results "
follow. | was speaking to a .,
about Mr.. Henry Bevley, Of Du
who has flooded Italy and Spain
his tracts, who. in fact, sends the
every corner Of the world. He 81
100000 in gold in this way. NV on
like to do that?' said this man.
suppose be did the work God hai
for him to do? There Is a N
London named Edwin Wright, a