National Republican., 1888-05-28

came to the story Of how God Is the Father Of |
the fatherless and the widow. portion, and |
they soon took their fathers place In that |
household. They battled the way for their |
mother. They came on up, and many Of them |
have IN the years since the war taken posi-. |
tiuns In church and state. While many of those |
who suffered nothing during those times have |
had sons go out into lives of Incidence and |
vaCahondagc, these who started under 81 |
many disadvantages because they were 80 |
carly borcIt, these are the lame who took the |
prey.
like to do good. They say: "Oh, VI ! only had |
wealth, or II had elUQucnco, or u Ind 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 usefulness.
Who puilt the pyramids, The king who or
dcred them built No: the plain wOrkmcn
who added stone after stone and stone after
stone Who built the dlkes of lIollandy The
government that ordered the enterprise No;
the plain workmgn who carried the earth and
rung their trowel on the wall. Who are those
who have built these vast citicsc The capital.
istsf No; the carpenters, the masOns, the
plumbers, the pastCrers, the timers the roof
rrs, dependent on n days wages for liveli.
hood, And 50 IN the great work of assuaging
norance and halting human iniquity In that
great work the chief part Is to he done by
ordinary men. with ordinary speech, in an
The tronblo IS that IN the army of Christ we
adler generals. Ne are not willing to march
with the rank and file and TO dodnty with the
private soldier. We want to belong to the
reserve corps, and read about the battle
while warming. ourselves at the camp.tires or
on furlOugh at hemc. our feet upon an otto.
man, we sagging back into an armchair
AS you go down the street you see an cX.
cayation and four or FIVE men are working,
and perhaps twenty or thirty leaning on the
rail looking over at them That Is the way IL
Is In the church of God to-day; where you find
one Christian hard at work there are ilftymen
watching the Job
oh! my friends, why do you not 90 to work
and preach this Gospel: SOn say: II have no
pulpit" You have II may he the carpen
ters bench, u may be the maSons wall. The
may be Il shoemakers apron. But woe unto
yo,i If you preach not tht Gospel somewhere,
somehow! II this world is ever brought 10
Christ, II win he through the unanimous and
long.CUntinued efforts of men who, waiting
forno special endowment, Consecrate to God
what they, have, Among the most useless
| while many a one with only two talents, or no
| talent ut all, Is doing a great work, and so
tho lame take the prey
There are thousands of ministers OF whom
| You have never heard-in log cabins at the
| west, in mission chapels at the cast-who are
warning against the legions of darkness, sue.
| cessfuly warning. Tract distributors, month
| by month undermining the cltadcls of sin,
| You do not know their going or their coming;
but the footballs of their minis, mare Heard
| ers in our sabbath schools throughout this
| land to-day! Men celebrated men brilliant,
| men ofvast estate; For the most part, THAT
| at all. | have noticed that the chief charaC.
telistic of the most of those who are success
| ful in the work Is that they know their Bibles,
are earnest in prayer, are anxious Tor the sal.
N%W W II ie yGnag T nd sp6SI e
| Christ and the resurrection. These are the
humble workers who are recruiting the great
army of Christian YOUTH by might, not
| by, power, not, by, profound argument, not 10y
| brilliant antithesis, but by the blessing of
God ON plain talk, and humble story, and
| silent tear, and anxious look. "The lame take
| OH! this work of saving the youth of our
| Country-how few appreciate what 1t Is!
This generation trampmg on to the erave-we
An engineer on locomotive going across
the, western prailies day after day sawa little
child come out in front of u cabin and wave
| TO the little child, and IL 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 an
| swered back.
one day the train was belated and it came
on to the dusk of the evening As the ,engi.
neer stood a. his post hs Say by the hGadlghht h
the train did not come, looking for the train,
knowing nothing Of It's peril, great horror
seized upon the engineer. ne reversed the
| on board, and then lie climbed over the en-
gine, and lie came, down on the cowcatcher.
He said, though he had reversed the engine, IL
l
| speed, faster and faster, though II was r,7TTTy
slowing up, and with almost supernatural
clutch he caught that child by the hair and
lifted it up, and when the train stopped, and
the passengers gathered around to see what
was the NATTER there the old engineer lay,
tainted dead away, the little child alive and
| IN bis swarthy arms.
"Oh," You say that was well done" But
] want You to exercise some kindness and
some appreciation toward those In community
| who are snatching the little ones from under
| tlp wheels pf termination and Sin--snatpninE
them from under laundering rail trains of
eternal disaster, bringing them up into re-
spectability In this world and into glory for
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 afternoon:
Oh! my friends j want to impress uuon
myself and upon yourselves that II Is not the
number of talents we possess, but the use we
God has royal family in the world. Now
| II ] should ask "Who are the royal families
of history I" YOU would say House of lIaps
burg, house Of Stuarts, house Of BOurbons.'
Bnt who are the Lords royal familys Som,
! cf them may serve you IN the household sOmt
of them are in unliGhted Garrets, some. of then
| Will walk this afternoon down the street, oi
their arm basket of broken food, some oi
: them are in the almshouse, despised and re
jected of men, yet in the last great day, while
it will be found that some of us who Jared
sumptuousy every day are hurled back into
discontinue, there are the lame that will take
the prey.
people discouraged about getting TO heaven
You are brought up in good families you had
Christian paientage, but you frankly tell me
that You are thousand miles away from the
right track.
My brother, you are the one want To preacl
TO this morning. have been looking for You
l will tell you how you got astray. II was moi
maliciousness on your part. II was perhaps
through the geniality and socialty of youl
nature that you fell into sin. You wandered
away from your, duty you unconsciouSly lef
the house Of God; You admit the Gospel 10 b,
true, and yet you have so grleyously and Sc
prol9ngedly wandered, you say rescue Is i'm
| possible.
il would take a week to count up the name,
of those In Heaven who We're on earth worS,
than you tell me you are, They went tn,
whole round of iniquity; they disgraced them
selves, they disgaced their households; they
derpeired Of return because their reputation
ws MAS GONE come St HIT InnSEy IN sSy WAS gone eySsryh
heard the voice of God, and they threw thew
| selves on the divine compassion and they ros
up more than conquerors. And ! tell yo,
there Is the same chance for you; That Is on'
reason why like to preach this Gospel, :,
free Gospel, so tremendous a Gospel !
takes man all wrong and makes him III
In a former settlement where ] preached
a member of my congregation quit the hOusI
of God, quit respectable circles, went into al
styles of sin, and was slain of his niquity. Tn
day for his burial came, and his body wa
brought to the honse of God, some of hi
comrades who had destroyed him We're over
heard along the street, ON the way 10 tn
burial, saying, Come, let us go and hear Tai
mage damn this old sinner" Oh had moth
ing but tears for the dead, and had nothin
could not do any otherwise. "Christ Jesu
came TO seek and save that which was lost
Christ in His dying prayer said: Father fol-
give them, and that was prayer for You am
for me. Oh start on the road to heaven u
day, You are not happy, The thirst of You
soul will never be slaked by tho fountains o
sin. You turn everywhere but TO God TO
help, Right where you are, call on Him, II
knows You, He knows all about You, II
knows all the odds against which You hav
been ContendinG in life. Do not 90 TO Hin
with long rigmar9le, of q prayer but jus