Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-06-08

they are diseased, or have physical infirm-
ties, SO they are hindered from doing
continuous days work. A city missionary
finds them up the dark alley, with no fire,
with thin clothing, with very coarse bread.
They never ride in the street car; they cam
not afford the cents. They never see any
pictures save those in the show window on
the street, from which they are often
jostled aud looked at by some one who
seemed to say in the look: "Move on!
What are you doing there looking ut pict-
ures?"
Yet many of them i've on mountains of
TRANSPORTATION. At their rough table He
who fed the five thousand breaks the
bread. They talk often of the good times
that are coming. The world has no charm
for them, but Heaven entrances their
spirit. They often divide their scant crust
with some forlorn wretch who knocks ut
their door at night, and on the blast of the
night wind, as the door opens to let them
in, is heard the voice of Him who said: II
was hungry and ye fed me-" No cohort Of
Heaven will be too bright to transport
them. BY Gods help they have van-
pushed the Assyrian host They have
divided among them the spoils. Lame,
lame, yet they took the prey.
was riding along the country road one
day, and saw man on crutches. over
took him. He was very old. He was 60
ing very slowly. At that rate it would
]; have taken him two hours to 60 mile. I
said: Wouldn't you like to ride?" He
said: THANK you, would. God bless
you" When he sat beside me he said:
"You see, am very lame and very old,
but the Lord has been good Lord to me.
I have buried all my children. The Lord
! take them away. Blessed be His name.
was very sick and had no money, and
my neighbors came in and took care of
me, and l wanted nothing. suffer
great deal with pain. but then have SO
many mercies left. The Lord has been a
good Lord to me-" And before we had
| got far l was in doubt whether was giving
him a ride or he was giving me ride! He
said: Now, if you please, I'll get out
here. just help me down on my crutches.
if you please. God bless you! Thank
you, sir. Good morning. Good morning.
Good morning. You have been feet to the
lame, sir, you have. Good morning"
Swarthy men had gone the road that day.
do not know where they came out, but
every hobble of that old man was toward
the shining gate. With his old crutch he
had struck down many Sennacherib of
temptation which has mastered you and
me. Lame, SO fearfully lame, SO awfully
lame; but he took the prey.
mites many orphans. During our last
war and in the years Immediately follow
ing, how many children we heard say: "Oh!
my father was killed in the war" Have
you ever noticed--l fear you have not
how we'll those children have turned out7
Starting under the greatest disadvantage,
no orphan asylum could do for them what
their father would have done had he lived.
The skirmisher sat one night by the light
, of in bo LOFT
. home, when sharpshooter's bullet ended
thu letter, which was never folded, never
posted, and never read.
Those children came up under great dis
advantages. No father to fight their way
for them. Perhaps there was in the old
family Bible an old yellow letter, pasted
fast, which told the story of that father
long march and how he suffered in the hos
pital; but they looked still further on in
how God is the Father of the fatherless
and the widows portion, and they soon
took their fathers place i'll the household.
They battled the way for their mother.
They came on up, and many of them have
in the years since the war taken positions
in church and state. While many of those
who suffered nothing during those times
have had sons 60 out into Lives of in
dolence and vagabondage, those who
started under SO many disadvantages be-
cause they were SO early bereft, these are
the lame who took the prey.
step further. There nre those who
, would like to do good. They say: ooh!
if only had wealth, or if had eloquence,
or if had high social position, how much
|, would accomplish for God and the
church," stand here to-day to tell you
that you have great opportunities for USE
fulness.
Who built the Pyramids? The king
who ordered them built? No; the plain
workmen who added stone after stone, and
stone after stone. Who built the bikes of
Holland? The Government that ordered
the enterprise? No; the plain workmen
who carried the earth and rung their
trowel on the wall. Who are those who
have built these vast cities? The capital
lists? No; the carpenters, the masons, the
; plumbers, the plasterers. the timers, the
, roofers, dependent on days wages for q
livelihood. And SO in the great work of
assuaging human suffering and enlight-
ening human ignorance and hating
human iniQuity. In that greut work the
chief part is to be done by ordinary men,
, with ordinary speech, in an ordinary man
Nor and by ordinary means. The trouble
is that in the army of Christ we all want
. generals. We are not willing 10 march
with the rank and file, and to do duty with
the private soldier. We want to belong TO
the reserve corps, and read about the bat
tie while warming ourselves at the camp
fires or on furloush ut home, our feet upon
{ an ottoman, we sageing back into m arm
chair.
AS you so down the street, you see m
excavation and four or five men are work.
, ing, and perhaps twenty or thirty leaning
, on the rail looking over Mt them. That is
, the way it is IN the church OF God to- day;
where you find one Christian hard at
work, there are fifty men watching the lob.
, Oh! my friends, why do you not 20 to
! work and preach this Gospel? You say:
| II have no pulpit" You have. 1t may lie
, the carpenters bench, it may be the ma
, sons wall. The robe in which you are to
! proclaim this Gospel may be shoe
, makers apron. But woe unto you if you
preach not this Gospel somewhere, some
how! If this world is ever brought to
| Christ, it will be through the unanimous
! and long continued efforts of men who,
: waiting for no srecial endowment, conse :
crate TO God what they have. Among the
, most useless people in the world are men
, with ten talents, while many u one with only
, two talents, or no talent at all, is doing u