Sharp County record., 1888-06-14

buried all my children. The Lord CAV
them, and the Lord has a right to TAX
them away. Blessed be His name. wa
very sick, and l had no money, and M!
neighbors came in and took care of ME
and l wanted nothing. suffer a grea
deal with pain, but then have so man,
Idefcies left. The Lord has been gooC
Lord to me-"
And before we had got far / was il
doubt whether was giving him ride OF
he was giving me a ride! He said:
'Now, if you please, I'll get out here
Just help me down on my crutches, if yot
please. God bless you. Thank you, sir
Good morning. Good morning You
have been feet to the lame, sir, you have.
Good morning"
Swarthy men had gone the road that
day. do not know where they came out,
but every hobble Of that old man was to-
ward the shining gate. With his old
crutch he had struck down many Sem
nacherib of temptation which had master
ed you and me. Lame, so fearfully lame,
so awfully lame; but he took the prey.
A step further: There are in all COM
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war, and in the years Immediately follow
ing, how many children we heard say:
sob! my father was killed in the war"
Have you ever noticed-I fear you have
not-how we'll those children have turned
out? Starting under the greatest disad-
vantage, no orphan asylum could do for
them what their father would have done
had he lived. The skirmisher sat one
night, by the light of fagots, in the swamp,
writing a letter home, when a sharp
shooters bullet ended the letter which
was never folded, never posted and never
read.
Those children came up under great dis
advantage. No father to fight their
way for them. Perhaps there was
in the old family Bible an old yellow let
ter pasted fast, which told the story of
that fathers long march, and how he suf-
fered 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 way for
their mother 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 moth
ing during those times have had sons go
out into lives of Incidence and vaga-
bondage, these who started under so
many disadvantages because they were
so early bereft, these are the lame who
took the prey.
Oh my friends! why do you not go to
work and preach this Gospel! You say:
81 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 shoe
makers apron. But woe unto you if you
preach not this Gospel somewhere some-
where. If this world is ever brought to
Christ it will be through the unanimous
and long continued efforts of men who,
waiting for no special endowment, con-
secrate to God what they have. Among
the most useless people in the world are
men with ten talents, while many one
with only two talents, or no talent at all,
is doing great work, 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 are warning against the
legions of darkness, successfully war;
ring. Tract distributors, month by month |
the citadels of sin. You do |
not know their going or their coming, but |
the footballs of their ministry are heard |
in y,e palaces of Heaven. Who are the |
workers in our Sabbath schools through |
out this land to-day? Men celebrated,
men brilliant, men of vast estate? For
the most part, not that at all. have no.
ticed 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
of the young, and Sabbath by
Sabbath are willing to sit down unob-
served and tell of Christ and His resur-
'ection. These are the humble workers
who are recruiting the great army of
Christian yOuth-nOt by might, not by
power, not by profound argument, not by
brilliant antithesis, but by the blessings
If God on plain talk, and humble story,
md silent tear, and anxious look. 'The
oWe take the prey"
our cori1iS work of saving the youth of
isl This genenw few appreciate what it
will sooh"amping on to the
next? zone. What
The engineer on a locomotive
across the Western prairies day after day |
saw a little child come out in front OF a
cabin and wave to him; so he got III 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 sto ID at his post he saw by
the headlight that little girl on the track,
wondering why the train did not come,
looking for the train, knowing nothing OF
its neril. A great horror seized upon the
engineer. He reversed the engine he
gaye it in charge of the other man on
hoard. and then he climbed over the en-
cine and he came down on the cow catch
or He said though he had reversed the
engine, it seemed as though 1t were gong
at lightning speed, faster and faster,
though it was really slowing up, and with
almost supernatural strength he caught
the child by the hair sud lifted it up, and
when the train stopped and the passen-
gers gathered around to see what was the
matter, there the old engineer lay, TAINTED
dead away, the little child alive IN MS