The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-05-31

hood. And so in the great work O
assuaging human suffering and enlight.
ening human ignorance and haltino
human iniquity. In that great work,
the chief part is to be done by ordinary
men, with ordinary speech, in an ordi.
nary manner and by ordinary means.
The trouble is that in the army of Christ
we all want to be captains and colonels
and brigadier generals. 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 camp fires, or on fur
Tough at home, our feet upon an otto.
man, We sagging back into an arm chair.
/ AS you go down the street, you see an
excavation, 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 church OF
God to-day: where you find one Christian
hard at work, there are fifty men watch
ing the job
Oh my friends, why do you not 90 to
work and preach this gospel? You say
81 have no pulpit" You have. It NAV
mason's wall. The robe in which Won
| HAC W PlOblollll llloE SOSDGl may D6 a
shoemaker's apron. But woe unto YOU
if you preach not this gospel some where,
somewhere, somehow ii this world il
ever brought to Christ it will be through
the unanimous and ng-continued
efforts OF men who, waiting for no spe-
cial endowment, consecrate to Go / what
they have. Among the most useless
people in the world are men with ten
talents, while many a one with only
| two talents, or no talents at all, is doing
a great work, and so "the lame take the
prey"
There are thousands OF ministers OF
whom You have never heard-in log
cabins in the West, in mission chapels at
the East-who are warning against the
legions OF darkness, successfully warning.
ct-distributors, month by month un-
d7rmining 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 workers in our Sabbath schools
throughout this land to-day? Men cele-
brated, men brilliant, men of vast estate
For the most part, not that at all. I
have noticed that the chief characteristic
of the most OF those who are successful
in the work is that they know their
Bibles, are earnest in prayer are anxious
for the salvation OF the young, and Sab
bath by Sabbath are willing to sit down
unobserved and tell OF Christ and the
resurrection. These are the humble
workers who are recruiting the great
army of Christian youth-not by might,
not by power, not by profound argu.
ment, not by brilliant anti hgsis, but by
the blassi g OF God on plain talk, and
humble story, and silent tear, and anxious
look. "The lame take the prey"
On this work of saving the youth of
our country-how few appreciate what
it is This generation tramping on to
the grave-we will soon ali be gone.
What ext?
An engineer on locomotive going
across the Western prairies day after
day, saw little child come out in front
of a cabin and wave to him; so he got in
the habit OF waving back to the little
child, and it 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 was belated and 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 for the trair, knowing
nothing of its peril. A gr,at 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 cowcatcher He said, though he
had reversed the engine, it seemed as
though it were going at lightning speed,
faster and faster, though it was really
slowing up, and with almost supernatura
clutch h 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 matter,
there the old engineer lay, tainted dea
away, the little child alive and in his
swarthy arms.
ooh" you say chat was we'll done"
But | want you to exercise some kind
ness and some appreciation toward those
In the 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
respectability in this world and into |
glory for the world to come. You ap-
preclate what the engineer did; why |
can you not appreciate the grander work |
done by every Sabbath school teacher
this afternoon
Oh my friends, I 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 a royal family in the world.
Now, if l should ask; "Who are the
royal families of history?" you would
say; House of Hapsburg, House of
Stuarts, House of Bourbons." They lived
in palaces, and had great equipage. But
who are the Lords royal family? 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 basket
oi broken food some OF them are in the
almhouse, despised and rejected of men,
yet IN the last great day, while it will be
found that some of us who Jared SUNNI
,uously ev ry day are hurled back into
discontinue, there are the lame that will
lake the prey
One step further: There are a great
many people discouraged about getting
% heaven. You are brought up in GOOD
families, you had Christian parentage
put you frankly tell me that you are a
thousand miles away from the right
rack.
My. brother, you are the one want to
preach to this morning. | have been
ooking for you. will tell you how you
,ot astray. 1t was not maliciousness ON
1our part 1t was perhaps through the
;enlality and sociality OF your nature
hat you fell into sin. You wandered
way from your duty, you unconsciously
cit the house OF God; you admit the
gospel to be true, and yet you have so
and so prolongedly wandered,
Tou say rescue is impossible