The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-10-10
Do Something.

Brethren in Christ, do something
Stand not upon the order of your work.
ing, but work. Sauctify to God your
brain and your opportunity. Call it by
whatever name yon choose--Audrew and
Philip Society, Mary and Martha Com
mi'tee, Covenant Band, Pastors Helpers
or Helping Hand, or by any other name
hut let us have the work done, and done
by the Church of Christ, and done veor-
ously. Let US work, let US all work, let
ne work unitedly and persistently for
Christ's sake. Say not there is so much
to do, so many arrayed against us, our
helpers 80 few and feeble. One voice with
God on Carmel was nnightier than the
hosts Of Baal. In every moral reform il is
quality rather than quantity which tells.
When God begins to work, the majority,
from any human stand point, is usually
very small. Begin with prayer. meeting
in private house, if you can do no bet
ter, but do something. Two or three met
in Christ's name may claim his presence
and power. ID, not stand with folded
arms complaining that "the church
ought to move. Each member is included
in the church." and the work of the
church is the sum of individual work.
hby tnhh VI WONdU, DclUR uONtu, Dt-
gin to stir others. Each member stirred
and at work, the church will be aglow.
The smallest amount of work any church
should think of doing in a year can be
brought about bv one man who is thor.
oughlv moved. Are you moved? Then
stir others until in your church this year
we have at least one sermon, one prayer
meeting, one collection for temperance,
and one pledge signed. Let him that
heareth say come" "To him that know.
eth to do coed, and doeth it not, to him it
is sip." Is it said az much is drank az
ever, and there is no further use of trying?
One may be true, but the other does not
follow; for if nothing had been done we
should to-day have bad nothing to save.
Out in mid-ocean ship springs leak,
and when discovered there is already
thirty inches of water in the hold. They
man the pumps, they work for life, and
after two hours it is still thirty inches !;
hut the mate saws "Cheer, boys ! the
water is not gaining on us; we'll yet get
safe into port" After half a day, after
two days, it is still thirty inches. yet the
ship keeps under way, and on the third
day they come into port and are safe.
But where wonld they have been if moth
ing had been done? It is one of Satan's
lies that no Roadway has been made. We
are gaining greatly let us buckle to for
better work. D, something The old
Athenian said first Action, second Action,
third ACTION. Work in all the ways
we have named; work in some only
work in ways we have not named /;
work in only one way, but work. An
lrishmap, ridiculed for starting off on
horseback with only one spur. replied
very justly If l get one side of the
horse moving, III trust the other side"
Move on one point, if you can do no
more; feeble work rather than no work ;
timd work rather than no work; effort
toward the least of all the phases Of this
sin strike at the smallest of the heads
of the hydra. Anything rather than that
apathy which hangs like a Dense damp
chill, paralyzing our energies. The late
Jabez Burno. in the city of London, Janu-
airy "a, 1875, preached his thirty-ffth
annual temperance sermon. Suppose he
had done nothing else but preach one ser.
mon year Do something, yea, any
thing, rather than be indolent and awaken
g ,d's curse as of old, when he said :
Curse ye Meroz curse ye bitterly the
inhabitants thereof, because they came
not to the help of the Lord, to the help of
the Lord against the mighty" Do some.
thing, aid let your doing be continuous
and regular, as opposed to the spasmodic.
The less machinery you have the better.
One wide-awake man and temperance
pledge will work as a rif1ed gun in the
hands of a trained gunner. Begin with a
prayer-meeting be willing to have small
meetings. Let not the day of small
things be despised, but keep right on do
ing sometbirg-doing with both hands.
with all your heart, in all winds and
weather, with ebb or food tide. Let
every Christian, especially, be true
Christian at york. Work at something
worth doing, aud keep right on doing
something worth working for. The tenn
perance cause is always in need of earnest
workers. Christian at Work.