The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-06-14

20 me- have buried all my children. The
Lord gave them and the Lord had right to
take them away. Blessed he his name. l
was very sick and had no money, and my
aeighbors came in and took care Of me and
iesl with ISsh,a psn, but SdnsF thsn frsSs ns1s
many mercies left. The Lord
las been a good Lord to me.n And be-
Tore we had got far was in doubt whether
was giving him ride or he was giving me
Aridel He saidi "Now, II you please, I'll get
put The, here just help me down on my cratches'
nr. Good morning. Good morning. You
have been feet to the lame sir, you have.
| 6ood morning." Swarthy men had gone the
| road that day. l do not know where they
came out, but every hobble of that. old man
was toward the, shining gate With his old
| Tutch he had struck down many a Sem
nacherib of temptation which has mastered
gouIand me. Lame, so fearfully lame, so aw-
FULLY lame; but he took the prey
! A step further: There are in all COM
nunities many orphans. During our last
war and in the years Immediately following,
iather was killed in the war;" Have you ever
loticed-I fear you have not-how well those
children have turned outl Starting under the
greatest disadvantage, no orphan asylum
could do for them what their father would
have done had he lived. The skirmisher sat
| Jho hSuU, ny tno liSub VI ldSouo. III biio
swamp, writing letter home, when sharp
shooters bullet ended the letter which was
never folded, never posted an 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
| sold 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, and
they soon took their fathers place in that
household. They battled the wav for their r
notner. 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 go out into lives of in
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 step further: There are those who
would like to be good. They say: ooh!
It l only had wealth, or, if l had elo.
1uence or if | had high social position,
how much l would accomplish for God
and the church," l stand here to-day to
tell You that you have great opportunities
| Tor usefulness
Who built the Pyramds9 The King who
ordered them built? No; the plain workmen
who added stone after stone and stone after
stone. Who built the dikes of Holland? The
government that ordered the enterprse3 No;
the plain workmen who carried the earth
md rung their trowel on the wall. Who are
those who have built these vast cities,
The capitalists No; the carpenters, the
masops, the plumbers the plasterers the
timers, the roofers, dependent on a days
wages for livelihood. And so in the great
work of assuaging human suffering and en-
tightening human ignorance and halting hu
man niquty. In that great work, the chief
part is to be done by ordinary men, with
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 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 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 al
excavation, and four or five men are work
ing, and perhaps twenty or thirty leaning or
the rail and looking over at them. That i.
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 te
work and preach this Gospell You say: 81
| u6V6 DO puipU. 1Ou nave. IL uldJ De Utlt
carpenters bench, it may be the mason:
wall. The robe in which you are tt
proclaim this Gospel may be a shoemaker
apron. But woe unto you if yor
preach not this Gospel somewhere, some
how! If this world is ever brough
to Christ, it will be through the unanimous
and long continued efforts of men who
crate to God what they have. Among th'
most useless people in the world are men witt
ten talents, while many one with only TIVE
talents, or no talent at all, is doing a grea
work, and so ''the lame take the prey"
There are thousands of minister's of whom
you have never heard-in log cabins at thu
West, in mission chapes at the East-wht
are warning against the legions Of darkness
successfully warning. Tract distributors
month by month undermining the citadel
of sin. You do not know their going or the
coming; but the footballs of their ministry
are heard in the palaces Of heaven Wht
are the workers in our Sabbath school
.. throughout this land to-daya Men cele
brated, men brilliant, men of vast es
! tate. For the most part, not that at all
I have noticed that the chief characters
! tics Of the most of those who are success
, full in the work is that they know thei
l Bibles, are earnest in prayer, are anxiou
by Sabbath are wiling to sit down un
observed and tell of Christ and the resurrec
D tion. These are the humble workers wh'
4 are recruiting the great army of Caristal
youth-not by might, not by power, no
by profound argument, not by brillian
( antithesis, bu. by the blessing of God o
8 plain talk, and humble story, and silen
, tear, and anxious look. ''The lame take tn
prey"
, OH this work of saving the youth of ou
country-how few appreciate what it is
This generation tramping on to the grave :
we will soon all be gone. What nexts
q An engineer on locomotive going acroS
{ the western prairies day after day saw
: little child come out in front of cabin an
wave to him: so he got in the habit of way
, ing back to the little child, and it was tn
!, days joy to him to see the little one come on
in front of the cabin door and wave to hin
!. While he answered back.
a One day the train was belated it came o
a to the dusk of the evening. As the enginee
a stood at his post he saw by the headlight tha
= little girl on the track, wondering VIII
a the train did not come, lookin
r for the train, knowing nothing {
+ its peril. A great horror seized upo
4 the engineer. He reversed the engine. II
! | gave it in charge Of the other man on boarC
i and then he climbed over the engine an
= |, he came down on the COW catcher. He sale
? though he had reversed the engine, it SCENE
' as though it were gong at lightning spee'
A faster and faster, though it was really SLOW
= ing up, and with almost supernatural clutc
: he caught that child by the hair and lifted
/. up, and when the train stopped and the pa
r sengars gathered around to see what was IL
n matter, there the old engineer lay, fainte
/ dead away, the little child alive and in b
= swarthy arms.
a "Ohm you say, that was well done
But want you to exercise some kindne
!. and appreciation toward those in ii
i community who are snatching the Ii
"a tie ones from under the wheels of tempt
" tioa and sin-snatching them fro
q under laundering rail trains and etern
"a disaster, bringing them up into respectable
n i'll this world and into glory for the world
~ come. You appreciate what the ngineer di
q why cen you not appreciate the grand,
in work done by every Sabbath school teach
- | this afternoon!
~ ~ OH my friends / want to impress upc
NJ NJ myself and upon yourselves that it is not th
n number of talents we possess, but the use W
Of make of them.
ne God has royal family in the worl,
d. Now, if ] should ask: "Who are Il
re royal families of history" you wou
n, say: "House of Hapsburg, house
an Stuarts, house of Bourbons" They lived
rn palaces and had great equipage. But WI
ID are the Lords royal familyi Some of the
DR. may serve you in the household. some
NJ | them are in uuliphted garretS sor