Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1888-06-02
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timers, the soofers, dependent on days
wages for q livelihood. And 40 in the
great work Of assuaging human suffer.
ing and cnlightening human ignorance
and halting human iniquity. In that
great work. the chief part Is to he done
by ordinary men, with ordinary speech,
In an ordinary manner, and by ordinary
means. The trouble is that in the army
Of Christ we all want to be captains and
colonies and brigadier generals. Wcare
not willing to march with the rank and
file and to do duty with the private sol.
dier. We want TO belong to the reserve
corps, and read about the battle while
warming ourselves at the campiircs, or
on furlough ut home. our feet upon an
ottoman. we sagging back into an arm
chair.
As you go down the street you sec an
working, and perhaps twenty or thirty
leaning on the rail and looking over Mt
them. That is the way il is in the
church Of God today: where you find
ono Christian hard at work. there arc
fifty men watching the job.
Oh! my friends. why do you not 70 to
work and preach this Gospcll You say:
II have no pulpit" You have. II may
be the carpenters bench, it may be the
mason's wall. The robe In which you
are to proclaim this Gospel may be a
shocmakcr's apron. But woe unto you
u you preach not this Gospel somewhere,
somehow II this world il ever brought
TO Christ. It will be through the unanim-
Gus and long continued efforts Of men
who, waiting for no special endowment.
consccratc 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 hcard-in log
cabins ut the west, In mission chapcls at
the east-who are warning against tho
legions Of darkness, successfully warning.
Tract distributors, month by month I'M
dermining 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 today? Men cclc.
brased, men brilliant, men Of vast Is.
tate! For the most part. not that Mt all.
have noticed that the chief charactcris.
tics Of the most Of those who are Success
ful in the work is that they know their
Bibles, are earnest In prayer, are anxious
for the salvation of the young. and Sab
lath by Sabbath are willing to sit down
unobscrvcd and tell of Christ and the
resurrection. These are the humble
workers who arc recruiting the great
army Of Christian yotth-not by might
not by power, not by profound argument
not by brilliant antithcsis. but by the
blessing Of God OH plain talk, and humble
story, and silent tear. and anxious look
The lame take the prey"
Oh! this work of saving the youth of
our country-how few appreciate what
il is! This generation tramping on To the
gravc--we will soon all bc gone. What
next!
An engineer on n locomotive going
across the western prairies day after day.
saw n little child come out in front of !,
cabin and wave to him; so he rot in the
habit of waving back to the little child.
and il was the days joy to hin to see
this little one come out in from. Of the
cabin door and wave 10 him. while he
answered back.
One day the train was bclatcd and il
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 ,lii not come.
looking for the train, moving nothing
Of its peril. a great horror seized upon
the engineer. lie reversed the engine.
lie gave it in charge Of the other man on
board, and then he climbed over the en-.
gine. and he came down on the cow
catcher. lie said, though he had ra-
versed the engine. it seemed as though
il were going at lightning speed, faster
and faster, though il was really slowing
up, and with almost supernatural clutch
he caught that child by tho hair an,l
lifted il up. and when the train stopped
and the passengers gathered around 10
see what was the matter. there the oil
engineer lay, tainted dead away. the
little child alive and in his swar'hy
arms.
But want you to exercise some kind
ness and some appreciation toward those
in the community who are snatching the
little ones from under tho wheels IL
temptation and sin snatching them from
under laundering rail trains Of eternal
disaster, bringing them up into rcsrccla.
blity In this world and into glory for the
world To come. You appreciate what
the engineer did: why can you no, an.
preciatc the grandcr work done 10y every
Sabbath school teacher this afternoon:
Oh! my friends. want to impress
upon myself and upon yourselves that ii
is not the number Of talents we posscss.
but the use we max" Of them.
God has royal family in the world.
Now. IL | should ASA "Who are thr
royal families Of historyf" yon would
say: blouse Of llalSburg. house oi
Stuarts. house Of Bourlons. They lived
in palaces and had great cquipagc. lm,
who arr the Lords royal family: Som"
of them may serve you in the houscholl.
some of them are in unliSht,d garrcls.
some of them will walk this afternoon
down the street. on their arm II basket OF
broken food; some Of them are in the
almshousc. dcspised and rejected of men.
yet In the last great day, while il will I've
found that some Of us who farcd sumpt.
uously every day are hurled hack into
discomiiturc. there are the lame that will
take the prey.
One step further: There are great
mnny people discouraged about getting
To- heaven. You arc brought up in goosl
families. you had Christian rarcntage;
hut they frankly tell mo that you are u
thousand miles away from the right
track.
My brother, you are the ono want Ia
preach To this morning. have been
looking for you. will tell You how you
got astray II was not maliciousness ON
your part. II was perhaps through. the
grnialiiy aud socialiiy Of your nature
HAT YOU fell into sin. Nou wandered
away fron, your duty. you unconsciously
hft the house Of God: yuu admit the
t;,Slci to bc true, and yet you have "a
gricvously and so prolong,slly wandered,
YOU say rescue is impossible.
II would take week to count up the
unnn.s "a thoSr in heaven who were on