West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-06-07

out here. Just help me down on my crutches
sir you G please 1901 SoI bless you. Thank you.
have been feet to the lame. sir, you have.
Good morning. Swarthy men had gone tho
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 Sen
nacberib OF temptation which has mastered
youland me- Lame, 80 fearfully lame, so aw-
fully lame; but he took the prey.
A step further: There are In all com
munlties many orphans. During our last
war, and in the years Immediately folowi ng
now many children We heard say: "Ohl my
father was killed in the war" Have you ever
notced-I fear you have nOt--how welt those
children have turned outi Starting under the
greatest disadvantage, no orphan asylum
could do for them what their father would
have done had he lived. The skirmsher sat
one night, by the light OF fagots in the
swamp, writing letter home. when n sharp
shooters bullet ended the letter which was
never folded, never posted AMI never read
Those children came up under great disad.
vantage. 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 fathers long march,
and how he suffered in the hospital; but they
looked still further on in the Bible, and they
| came to the story of how God is the father OF
the fatherleSs. and the widows portion aud
they soon took their fathers place ina that
household. They battled tho way for their
mother. They camo 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 go out into lives OF i'm
dolence and vagabondage, those who started
under so many disadvantages because they
were so early bereft, these are the lame who
took the prey
A stop further: There are those who
would like TO be good. They say: "Ohl
IL 1 only had wealth, or. il / had clio.
quence. or IL L had high social position.
how much 1 would accomplish for God
and the churchlp / stand here to-day to
tell you that you have great opportunities
Who built the Pyramidsi The King who
ordered them builtl No. the plain workmen
who added stone after stone and stone after
stone. Who built the bikes Of Holland! The
government that ordered tho enterprisel No;
the plain workmen who carried the earth
and rung their trowel on the wall. Who are
those who have built these vast citiesi
Tho capitalistsi No; the carpenters, the
masoDs, the plumbers, the plasterers the
timers, the roofers, dependent on days
wages for a livelihood. And so i'm the grent
work OF assuaging human suffering and en-
tightening human ignorance aud halting hu.
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
tronble, is that. in the army of Christ
we all wanted to be captains and
colonies and brighter generals. We are not
willing 70 march with the rank and file and
to do duty with the private soldier We
want to belong to tho reserve corps, and read
about the battle while warming ourselves at
the campfires, 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
wall; The robe in which you are to
proclaim this Gospel may be a shoemaker's
apron. But WOO unto you il you
preach not this Gospel somewhere, some
howl IL this world is ever brought
70 Christ, it will be- through the unanimous
and 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
ten sa'ents, while many one with only two
talents, or no talent at all, is doing a great
work, and so ''the lame take the prey"
There are thousands OF ministers of whom
you have never Eeard-in log cabins at the
West, in mission chapels at the East-who
are warning against the legions OF darkness
successfully warning. Tract distributors,
month by month undermining the citadels
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-dayi Men cele
brated, men brilliant, men OF vast es-
tate' For the most part, not that at all.
| have noticed that the chief characteris-
tics OF the most of those who are success
full In the work is that they know their
Bibles, are earnest in prayer, are anxious
/ for the salvation OF the young, and Sabbath
| by Sabbath are will ing TO sit down I'M
| observed and tell of Christ and the resurrec-
| ton. These are the humble workers who
are recruiting the great army OF Christian
| youth-not by might not by power, not
I by profound argument, not by brilliant
autthesls, but by the blessing of God or
/ plain talk, and humble story and silent
| tear. and anxious look. THE lame take the
/ prev
OH this work Of saving thu youth of our
| cOuntry-how few appreciate what it isl
| This generation tramping on TO the grave -
| we viii soon all be gone What neXtf
An engineer on a locomotive going across
/ the western prairies day after day saw
| little child come out in front OF a cabin and
wave 20 him; so ho got in the habit Of WaV-
ing back 70 the little child, and it was the
/ days Joy 70 him tosae the little one come out
\ IN front OF the cabin door and wave 10 him.
| while he answered back
/ One day the train was belated IL came on
\ % 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
/ Tor the train, knowing nothing OF
/ its peril A great horror seized upon
\ the engineer. He reversed the engine He
/ gave II 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, 10 seemed
as though IL were going at lightning speed,
/ raster and faster, though il was really slow
I ing up, and with almost supernatural clutch
he caught that child by the hair and lifted it
Z up and when the train stopped and the pas
/ sengers gathered around 70 see what was the
/ matter there the old engineer Law tainted
dead away, the little child alive and I'm his
swarthy arms
"Ohw you say, that was we'll done -
But want you TO exercise some kindness
! and appreciation toward those i'm the
/ community who are snatching the lit
/ TIE ones from under tho wheels Of tempta-
ton and sin-snatching them from
under laundering rail trains and eternal
| disaster bringing them up into respectfully
iu TINS world and into glory for the world TO
come Y on appreciate what the engineer did.
\ why can you not appreciate the grandcr
| work done by every Sabbath school teacher
I this afternOonf
Oh my friends ! want 20 impress uuou
myself and upon yourselves that IL is not the
number Of talents we possess, but the use vo
/ make 81 them.
/ God has a royal family In tho world
I Vow II ! should ask. "Who are the
[ royal families Of historyw you would
say: House Of Hapsburg. house OF
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