St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-02-09
THE LUXURY OF WINNING SOULS.

THE LUXURY OF WINNING SOULS.
tell you, after working in the vine
yard for Christ, the last 81 years, | find
there is no joy in the world like it.
Oh the luxury of winning soul for
Christ Oh the luxury of helping to
build up Gods kingdom! The luxury
and glory of telling what Christ has
done for us, and to think that God
cOndescends to use us that he gives us
power to lead men out of darkness in
to light! Somebody said that he did
not believe there was an angel in heav-
ell that would not be willing to come
into this world, and take the position
of any child of God just for the privi-
lege of working for him. Suppose an
angel could wing his way to this world, |
tonight, and should go back to say:
There is just one solitary child in BOs-
ton, whose mother is dead, and whose
father is drunk and the poor, home
less, motherless boy is wandering in
the street," and God should call around
his throne the angels, and ask if any
one of them was willing TO live here for
50 or 100 years to save that little child.
| don't think there would be one who
would not volunteer. | can imagine
each one saying: Lord let me go and
have the luxury of leading one soul to
Christ"
THE CALL TO INDIVIDUAL WORK.
Every one has mission and place,
and they have only to look to find that
place, and it won't be long before they
find it, and then how they will rejoice
in the work I remember when l was
in England, few years ago, | was in
vited to 90 down, one Sunday, into the
dog-mart in London, and | went down
into that part of the city. had never
been down there before. Not only
were the sidewalks filled, but the
streets were crowded with men and
women, and every one had something
for sale. Some had fighting cocks, and
they wanted to get up a bet and fight;
others had little pigeons, some had
even snakes, and perhaps some had
garment that they wanted to sell. 1t
was down in the east of London, and
they were the poorest crowd of people
| ever saw together. We got up there
and tried to preach to them, but they
didn't pay much attention to us. We
hadn't got the talent to reach that
crowd. But there had been man
few weeks before. l don't think he
could read or spell his own name. He
cot ND on chair, and these men that
we had been unable to reach, that
would not have listened to the greatest
orators of England, not even John
Bright himself, when that man who had
been brought up right there told in his
own dialect what God had done for
Al, g.. ,f C,1 in, him
and what Jesus had done for his soul,
they all stopped their Jeerlng; they
gathered around him, the tears stream
ing down their cheeks, and quite a
number of them were brought under
conviction. That man had the gift to
!. reach that class. There was circle he
could reach that no one else could. We
want every man to reach his own cir
Gle. Some can reach the rich, and
some can reach the poor, some the
learned, some the ignorant.
THE GOSPEL OF WORK.
: Why are all the churches in New
England dead2 Because they are all
; the while receiving, and giving out
nothing. The Spirit of the Gospel is
to give and give, and if, all the time,
we are receiving like a sponge and
never giving out, of course we become
dead and stagnant. Now, if we have
: got any good thing, let us give it out,
and keep the coin of heaven in circu-
lation. If it has been blessing to oul
> souls, go and tell it out to some one
. else, and in that way we will be d
: blessing to all we come in contact with
Il | know there are some wise men i'll the
church who thiuk that it is a danger
Gus doctrine to preach; they say that
men have got to be educated before
t they can work. A man took up his
i pen, the other day, and tried to write
O down this idea, and he said that the
s trouble was the church was trying tC
NOW with a duh scythe. ''Well,"
S said, ''what would you say of maj
: that was all the time whetting hi:
l.. scythe ?" He would wear it out. No
: let us keep whetting and using; if i
# get dull, whet it up again, not be al
S the time getting ready. There are
t great many people in the church whit
D are so afraid they will make some mis-
O take in the Lords work that they don
# do anything at all. Now, it is "a grea
q deal better to make some mistake
It than to fold your arms and go to sleep
5 FOUNDING A COLLEGE AND SAVING !
SOUL.
,, a great many men think they cal
. build college and give it to tn
II church, and the press will herald
:, forth that he gave S50,000 to this o
, that college, Harvard or Yale, or thi
~ ;, OF that church. But, perhaps a maj
! who hasn't got $4,000 to give will g
i and win man for God, and that ma
y will go and win thousands, and tina
> man has done more for the Lord thai
# the other who gave $50,000 to col
II lege or church.
1t AN EXAMPLE OF CHEERFUL RELIGION.
:" preached for minister in Londor
l one Sunday in 1872, and lie sad to me
:" "Moody, want you to notice IA famil
4, in such pew when you get up
is preach" So, when got up to preacl
k | noticed that family. And when | S;
m down, he said 'When we get throug
id / want to tell you about" SO when "
le got through, l said "Now what abou
n that family 1 saw father and motho
I'd and five children in that pew" An
ID he said "Through the mercy of Go
10 they are all coming to unite with til
;e church, next Sunday, and they were a
If. brought to Christ by smile" And
Il, said "How was that ?" "Well," l
a said, 81 was walking up the street, on
he day, and / noticed a little girl at I'll
as window, and just smiled and bowe
nr to the face at the window, and the chill
IN clapped its hands and smiled and bowe
90 back and, the next time, when l wei
20 by there, there were two little childre
TX at the window. and | bowed to both