Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-06-08


ut here Just help me down on my crutches.
you please God bless you. Thank you.
ir. Good morning Good morning. You
lave been feet to the lame sir, you have.
food morning. Swarthy men had gone the
Dad that day. | do not know whore they
anne out, but every hObble of that old man
vas toward the shining gate With his old
Tutch he had struck down many SEN
lacherib Of temptation which has mastered
rouIa and me Lame, so fearfully lame, so aw-
ully lame; but he took the prey.
A step further: There are in all COM
nunities many orphans. During our last
var, and in the years Immediately follow ng,
low many children we heard saw: "Ohl nv
ather was killed in the war" Have you ever
lOticed-I fear you have not-how we'll those
children have turned outl Starting under the
Treatest disadvantage, no orphan asylum
.ould do for them what their father would
lave done had he lived The skirmisher sat
me night, by the light of fagots. in the
lwamp, writing letter home when a sharp
hooters bullet ended the letter which was
lever folded, never posted an never read.
Those children came up under great disad-
Jantage. No father to fight their way for
hem. Perhaps there was in the old family
Bible an old yellow letter pasted fast, which
old the story of that fathers long march,
md how he suffered in the hospital; but they
ooked still further on in the Bible, and they
anne to the story of how God is the father of
he fatherleSs and the widows portion, and
hey soon took their fathers place in that
household. They batted the way for their
noUner. 1hey came on up, and many OF
hem have in the years since the war taken
positions In church and state. While many
If those who suffered nothing during those
lines have had sons 90 out into lives of in
ioence and vagabondage, those who started
lnder so many disadvantages because they
we're so early bereft, these are the lame who
look the prey.
A step further: There are those who
would like to be good. They say: "Ohl
Iuence. or il | had high social position,
low much | would accomplish for God
md the church," | stand here to-day to
ell you that you have great opportunities
Tor usefulness.
Who built the Pyramids, The King who
ordered them buit' No; the plain workmen
who added stone after stone and stone after
Itone Who built the bikes of Holland' The
government that ordered the enterprise7 No;
The plain workmen who carried the earth
md rung their trowel on the wall Who are
nose who have built these vast citiesl
The capitalists No; the carpenters, the
nasons, the plumbers the pasterers, the
timers, the roofers, dependent on a days
wages for a livelihood. And so in the great
tightening human ignorance and hating hui
man iniquity. In that great work, the chief
part is to be done by ordinary men, with
ordinary speech, in an ordinary man.
ner and by ordinary means The
ronble is that in the army Of Christ
we all wanted to be captains and
solonels and brig lier general. We are not
willing to 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 battle while warming ourselves at
the campfres, or on furlough at home, our
feet upon an ottoman, we sagging back into
an arm chair.
As you go down the street you see an
excavation, and four or five men are work
Ing, and perhaps twenty or thirty leaning on
the rail and looking over at 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 job.
Oh! my friends, why do you not go to
work and preach this Gospel You say: II
have no pulpit" You have. 1t may be the
carpenters bench, it may be the mason's
wall; The robe in which you are to
proclaim this Gospel may be shoemaker's
preach not this Gospel somewhere, some.
howl If this world is ever brought
TO Christ, 1t will be through the unanimous
ind long continued efforts of men who,
waiting for no special endowment, conse-
crate to God what they have. Among the
most useless people in the world are men with
zen talents, while many one with only two
talents, or no talent at all, is doing great
york, and so "the 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 East-who
ire warning against the legions of darkness,
successfully warning. Tract distributors,
month by month undermining the citadels
If sin. You do not know their going or their
coming; but the footballs of their ministry
ire heard in the palaces of heaven. Who
ire the workers in our Sabbath schools
throughout this land to-day? Men cele
,rated, men brilliant, men Of vast es,
;atel For the most part, not that at all.
[ have noticed that the chief characteris-
tics of the most of thoss who are success
lul in the work is that they know their
Bibles, are earnest in prayer, are anxious
Tor the salvation OF the young, and Sabbath
by Sabbath are wiling to sit down I'M
observed and tell of Christ and the resurrec-
lion. These are the humble workers who
ire recruiting the great army of Christian
! youth-not by might, not by power, not
by profound argument, not by brilliant
intthesls, but by the blessing Of God on
plain talk, and humble story, and silent
ear and anxious look. 1.-THE lame take the
ORGY"
OH this work of saving thu youth of our
,ountry-how few appreciate what it is!
This generation tramping on to the grave -
| we will soon all be gone. What next.
An engineer on locomotive going across
| The western prairies day after day saw a
| title child come out in front of a cabin and
wavs to him; so he got in the habit of wav-
ing pacK TO bne little child, and it was the
days JOY to him to see the little one come out
| in front of the cabin door and wave to him,
while he answered back.
One day the train was belated it came on
to the dusk Of the evening. AS the engineer
stood at his post he saw by the headlight that
little girl. on the track, wondering why
the train did not come, looking
its peril. A great horror seized upon
the engineer He reversed the engine He
gave it in charge of the other man on board,
and then he climbed over the engine, and
he came down on the cow catcher. He said,
| though he had reversed the engine, it seemed
as though it were gong at lightning speed
faster and faster, though it was really slow.
| ing up, and with almost supernatural clutch
he caught that child by the hair and lifted il
up, and when the train stopped and the pas
| sengers gathered around to see what was the
matter, there the old engineer lay, tainted
dead away, the little child alive and in his
| swarthy arms.
| I'm! you say, 'that was well done
But want you TO exercise some kindnes;
and appreciation toward those in the
community who are snatching the lit
tie ones from under the wheels of tempua
tion and sin-snatchng them from
under laundering rail trains and eterna
disaster, bringing them up into responsibility
in this world and into glory for the world tc
come. You appreciate what the engineer did
why can you not appreciate the grander
work done by every Sabbath school teacher
this afternoonl
Oh my friends, | want to impress upon
myself and upon yourselves that it is not the
number of talents we possess, but the use we
make of them.
God has royal family in the world.
| Now, IL / should ask: "Who are the
| rnual families Of histnruZ % ron ,rn,,lc