The Forrest City times., 1888-06-02

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 help me down on my crutches, fl yoti please.
 God bless you. Thank you sir. Good morn-
 ing. Good morning. You have been feet to
 the lame sir you have, Good moruing.r
 swsrthy men had gone the road that day.
 do not know where they came out but every
 hobble Of that old man was toward the shin
 ing gate. With his old erutch he had struck
 many sennacherib of temptation which has l mastered you and me. Lame, co fcarfully
 lame, SO swfullv lame; but he took the prey.
 THE ORPHANS AS HEkokA
 step further. There are in all commnni-
 ties many orphans During our last war and
 la the years immediately following how many
 | fear you have not-Sow vii shoss i children
 have turned outi Starting out under the
 greatest disadvantages no orphan asylum
 could do for them what their father would
 one night by the light of fagots in the swamp
 writing letter home when sharpshooters
 bullet ended the letter which vss neter fold
 ca; never posted and never read.
 Those children came up under great disad.
 vantage, No father to fight their way for l them. Perhaps there was ib the old family
 Bible an old yellow. letter pasted fast which
 told the story of that fathers long march
 and nov he suffered in the hospital, but
 they came to the history of how God is the | Father of the fatherless and the widow's DOT
 ton and they soon took theft sathers place
 In that household. They battled the way for
 then moiher. They came on up and many
 of them havo ir the years since the war taken positions in church and state While
 many of those who suffered nothing during
 those times have had sons go out in to lives of
 indoence and vsgabondage, these who started under so many disadvantage be- cause they were so early bereft thefe ar the
 lame who took the prey
 THE ONLY TRUE woRgMEN.
 A step further: There are those who would @ n dn f.td hes <xxx1~ h~A
 wealth, or if l had eloquence. or if Ihad nigh | social position how much would accomplish
 for God and the churchi" l stand here to- day to tell you that you have great opporru- midsi The king who ordered them builti | No, the plain workmen who added stone sf. | ter stone and stone after stone. Who built the dikes of Holandi The government that men who carried the, earth and flung their | trowelion the wall. Who are tbose who hate built these vast citiesi The cspitalistsi No; the carpenters, the mssons, the plumbers the plasterers the timers the roofers, depend | in the great work of assuaging human suffer. | ing and enlightening human ignorance and hslting human iniquity. In that great work, the chief part is to be done by ordinary men, with ordinary speech, in an ordinary manner and by ordinary means. The trouble is that in the army Of Christ we all want to be cap tains and colonels and brigadier generals. l We are not willing to march with the rank | and file and to do duty V tn the private sol. dier. We want to belong to the reserve corps and read about the battle while warming our selves at the camp fires or on furlough at | home our feet on an ottoman, we tagging | back into an arm chair.
 As you go down the street, you see an ex- | cavation and four or five men are working, | and perhaps twenty or thirty leaning on the rail looking over at them. That Is the way it Is in the chu,ch of God to-day; where you ind mn thrfsf bard tk~rA | fifty men watching the job.
 LABoRING IN LowLY PLACES. | . my friends, why do you not go to work and preach this gospel; You say: "I have no ter's bench, 1t may be the mascn's wall The robe in which you are to proclaim this gospel | may be shoemaker's apron. But woe unto | you If you preach not this gospel somewhere, | somehow If this world is ever brought to Christ it will be through the unanimous and | long continued efforts of men who, waiting | for no special endowment, consecrate to God | what they have. Among the most useless people in the world are men with ten talents, Y, while many a one with only two talents, or nc talent at all, is doing great work, and 50 | "the lame take the prey"
 | There are thousands of ministers of whom | you have never heard-in log cabins at the | west, fin mission chapels at the east--who are warning against the legions of darkness, sue | cessfully warning. Tract distributors, month by month undermining the citadels of sin. | You do not know their going or their coming; | but the footballs of their ministry are heard in the palaces of heaven. Who are the work | CTS in our Sabbath schools throughout this | land to-dast Meu celebrated, men brilliant | men of vast estatef For the most part, not | that at all I have noticed that the chief | characteristic of the most of those who arc successful in the work Is that they know their | Bibles, are earnest in prayer, are anxious for the salvation of the young, and Sabbath by | Sa bbath arc willing to sit down unobseryed alI Nf hrfa and tt. l These are the humble workers who are re- cruiting the great army of Christian youth not by might, not by power, not by profound argument not by brilliant antithesis, but by | the blessing of God on plain talk, and humble story, and silent tear, and anxious look. ''The lame take the prey.n
 Ol this work of saving the youth of our country-how few appreciate what 1t isl This generation ,,ist. n, tramping on to the grave-we | will soon all be gone. What nextf
 AN ENGINEERS BRAVE DEED. An engineer on q locomotive going across I the western pralres day after day, saw little child come out in front of cabin and wave to him, so he got in the habit of waving back to the little child, and 1t was the days | joy to him to see this little one come out in front of the cabin door and wave to him, while he answered back. One day the train 1 was belated and 1t came on to the dusk of the evening. As the engineer stood at his post l be saw by the headlight that little girl on the track, wondering why the train did not come, looking for the train, knowing nothing of its peril. A great horror seized upon the engir- eer. He reversed the engin. He gave 1t in charge of the other man on board, and then he climbed over the engine, and he came down on the eowcatcher. He said, though he had reversed the engine, it seemed ss though | it were going at Tightening speed faster and faster, though 1t was really slowing up, and | with almost supernatural clutch he caught that child by the hair and lifted 1t up, and
 when the train stopped and the passengers | fxa hat thA
 there the old engineer lay, fainted dead away, the little child alive in his swartby arms
 70, i" you say, that was well done" But | Iiwant you to exercise some kindness and some appreciation toward those in community who are snatching the little ones from under | the wheels of temptation and sin-snatching them from under laundering rail trains of | eternal disaster, bringing them up into re- | the world to come. You appreciate what the | engineer did, why can you not appreciate the | grander work done by every Sabbath school | teacher this afternooni
 | MAKING USE OF TALENTS.
 O, my friends, l want to impress upon my l self and upon yourselves that 1t is not the | number of talents we possess, but the use we make of them. God has a royal family in the world Now, fl l should ask: "Who are the | royal families of historyF" you would say:
 ''House of Hapsburg house of stusrts, house | of Bourbons." They lived in palaces and had great equipage. But who are the Lords royal l familyf Some of them may serve you In the
 household. some of them are in unlighted garrets, some of them will walk this afternoon down the street on their arm a basket of | broken food; some of them arc in the aims
 house, despised and rejected Of men, yet in the last great day, while 1t will be found that | some of us who fared sumptuously every day,
 and hurled back into discontinue, there are the lame that will take the prey.
 l One step further. There are great many people discouraged about getting to heaven,
 You are brought up in good families. you had Christian parentage, but you frankly tell me | that you are thousand miles away from the | right track. e
 My brother you are the one want to preach | to .his morning. have been looking for you. | will tell you how you got astray. It was not
 malciousness on your part It was perhaps
 through the genialitv and sociality of your
 nature that you fell into sin. You wandered
 away from your duty, you unconsciously left l the house of God; you admit the gospel to be true and yet you have so grievously and so
 prolongedly wandered you say rescue is im- | possible.
 | If womb take week to count up the