Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-07

night, and on the bias: Of the night wind
as the door opens to let them in. is heard
the voice OF Him who sail: Il was hungry
and We fed me-" No cohort Of Heaven viii
be too bright to transport them. BY God.
help they have vanquished the Assyriar
| host. They have divided among them the
spols. Lame, lame, yet they took The
prey.
was riding along the country read one
day and saw man on clutches. over
took him. He was very old. He was go
ing very slowly. At that rate ii would
have taken him two hours to go mile.
sa d: "Wouldn't you like to ride" He
said: THANK you, l would. God bless
you" When he sat beside me, he said
"YOu see, l am very lame and very old,
but the Lord has been good Lord to me.
l have buried all nv children. Tho Lord
gave them and the Lord had right to take
them away. Blessed be His name. was
very sick and l had no money, and my
neighbors came in and took care OF me,
and I wanted nothing. l suffer a
great deal of pain, but then l have
so many merces left The Lord has
been q good Lord to me-" And
before we had got far I was In doubt
whether was giving him ride or he was
giving me ride! He said: snow, il you
please, I'll get out here. just help me
down on my clutches, if you please. God
bless you. Thank you, Sir. Good morning.
Good morning. You have been feet to the
lame, sir, 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 towards the shining
gate. With his old crutch he mad struck
down many a Sennacherib of mptation
which has mastered you and me. Lame,
so fearfully lame, SO awfully lame; but he
took the prey.
A step further: There are in all com
munities many orphans. During our last
war and in the years Immediately follow
ing how many children we heard say: 80,
my father was killed IN the war;" Have
you ever notIced-I fear you have not-how
well those children have turned out! Start
ing out under the greatest dis advantages,
no orphan asylum could do for them what
their father would have done had be lived.
The skirmsher sat one night by the light
Of fagots in the swamp writing letter
home when a sharpshOoter's bullet ended
posted and never read.
advantage. No father to fight their way
for them. Perhaps there was In the old
family Bible an old yellow letter pasted
fast which tod the story OF that fathers
long march and how he suffered IN the
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
fhaiv f,fh ~ IN thnf hold
They battcd 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 nothing during those times
have had sons go out into lives Of indo.
lence and vagabondage, these 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 ike to do good. They say: "Ol if
only had wealth, riff had eloquence, or if
/ had high social position how much would
accomplish for God and the Churchw /
stand here 10 day to tell you that you have
great opportunities for usefulness. Who
built the pyramidss The King who Or
dered them built! No; the plain work
men who added stone after stone and stone
after stone. Who built the dikes Of Hol-
land! The government that ordered the
No; the plain workmen who
carried the earth and rung their trowel on
the wall. Who are those who have built
these vast cities! The capital SITS! No; the
the masOns, the plumbers, the
plasterers, the timers, the roofers, depend
eut on days wages for alivelihood. And so
in the great work Of assuaging human suf-
tering and enlightening human ignorance
and hating human iniquity. In that great
work, the chief part is to be done by Or
dinary men, with ordinary speech, in an
ordinary manner and by ordinary means.
The troubl, is that in the army Of Christ
we all want TO be Captains and Colonies 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 lhs camp fires, or on furlough at home,
our feet upon an ottoman, we sagging back
into an arm chiir.
As you go down the street, you sec an
excavation and four or FIVE men are work.
lag, 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;
whe. you find one Christian hard at
work, there are fifty men watching the
job.
o, my friends, why do You not go to W york
and preach this gospel. You say: Il have
no pulpit" You have. 1t may be the car
penter's bench, it may be tho mason's wall
The robe in which you are to proc ann this
gospel may be q shoemaker's apron. But
woe unto you il you preach not III 5 gospel
somehow! If this world is
ever brought to Christ it will be through
the unanimous an long continued efforts
Of men who. waiting for no special enJow-
nent, consecrate to God what they have
Among The most useless PEG; lie in the
world are men with ten talents, while
many q one with only two talents, or no
talent at all, is doing great work, ami so
1.-THE lame take the prey"
There are thousands of ministers of
when you have never heard-in log cabins !
1t the West, in mission chapels at the |
East-who are warning against the eyons
If darkness, successfully warning. Tract |
distributors, month by month uudermi,i ,g
he ciia 1els OF sin. You do not know their |
going or their coming; but the footballs of |
heir ministry are heard in the palaces of |
Heaven. Who are the workers in our |
SABBATH schools throughout this land TO- |
lay? Men celebrated, men brilliant, men |
,fvast e'tates For the most part not that |
It all. l have noticed that the chief char. |
.cteristlc of the most Of those who are sue |
,essful in the work is that they know |
heir Bibles. are earnest in prayer, are |
anxious for tho salvation Of the young.
md Sabbath by Sabbath are willing
o st down unobserved and tell of Christ |
md the resurrection. These are the hum
Die workers who are recruiting the great
lrmv Of Christian youth-not by might,
lot by power. not by profound argument,
lot by brilliant antithesis, but by the bless