The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-06-07

AND my ne1ghDors came In anQ LOOK care OF
me and ! wanted nothing. Isufer a great
deal with pain, but then I lave SO many
mercies left. The Lord has been . good
I Lord to me-" And before we rot far l was
in doubt whether I was giving him 9 tide
or he was giving me . ride III said: 'Now.
II you o please, e, I'll Ill get s,!n out herr; Won Just s,a nsip
God bless you. Thank you, sill Good morr-
ing. Good morning. You hase been feet to
the lame, sir, you have. Good morning.,
Swarthy men had gone the road that Gay. I
do not know where they came out, but every
ing gate. With, his old crutch he had struck
down many a Sennacheribf of temptation
which has mastered you and me. Lame, so
t~earfully lame, so awfnlly lame; but he took
the prey.
and in the years Imme diately following how
father faahs was killed in the war.3 Have YOU o1
ever noticed-I fear you have not how we'll
these child en- have turned out? Starting
under the greatest disadvantages, no orphan
asylum could do for them what their father
would have done had he lived. The skir-
misher sat one night, by the light of fagots,
in the swamp writing a letter home, when q
sharpshooter's bullet ended the lie tter 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 tho old family
Bible an old yellow letter pasted fast, which
told the story of that fathers long march,
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 the household. They battled the
way for their mother. They came on up,
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tho war taken positions in church and state.
While many who suffered nothing during
those times have had sons 60 out into lives Of
Incidence and vagabondage, these who start
ed under so many disadvantages because
they were so early bereft, these are the lame
A step further: There are those who would
like to do good. They say: "Oh, it 1 only
had wealth, or, if / had eloquence, or, ii +
had high social position, how much I would
accomplish for God and the church" I stand
here to-day to tell you that you have great
opportunities for usefulness.
Who built the pyramids? The king who Or
dered them built? No; the plain worklmen who
added stone after stone and stoLe after stone.
Who built the dikes of Holland? the govern
ment that ordered the enterprise? No; the
plain workmen who carried the earth and
ruug their trowel on the wall. Who are
those who have built these vast cities? The
capitalists? No; the carpenters, the masons,
the plumber, the plasterers, the timers, the
~roofers, dependent on q days wages for a
livelihood. And SO in the great work Of as
suaging human suffering and e%nllghtening
ty. In THAT great work the chief part is to be
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 colo.
nels: and brigadier generals, We are not
willing to march with the rank and file and
do duty with the private soldier. We want
to belong to the reserve corps, and read
about the battle while warming ourselves at
the camp fires or on furlough at home, our
feet upon an ottoman, we sagging back into
an armchair.
As you 60 down the street you see an eX-
c~avation and four or five men arc working,
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; where you
find one Christian hard az work there are
fifty men watching the job.
Oh! my friends, why do you not 60 to
work and preach this gospel? You say: Il
/ have nc pulpit" You have. It may be
the carpenters bench, it may be the mason's
wall. The robe in which you are to proclaim
But woe unto you if you do not preach this
gospel somewhere, somehow! If this world
Is ever brought to Christ it will De through
the unanimous and long continued efforts of
anen whos waiting for no special endowment,
coalss.sats to God what they have. Among
men with ten taisn.a. while many q one with
prey" - -
There are thousands Of ministers or whom
you have never helrd-in log cabins in the
west, in mission chapels at the east-who are
warning against the legions of darkness, sue
cessfully warning. Observation-Disclosures, month
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You do not know their going Or their conf
ing; but the footballs OF their ministry are
heard in the 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 noticed that tie
chief characteristic of the most of those who
are successful in the work is that they know
their bibles, are earnest in prayer, are anXi-
Gus for the salvation of the young, and Sab.
bath after Sabbath are willing to sit down
unobserved and tell Of Christ and the resur-
rectlon. These are the humble workers who
are recruiting the great army of Chrlstian
youth-not by might, not by power, not by
profound argument, not by brilliant antith-
esis, but by the blessing Of God on plain talk,
and humble story, and silent tear, and anXi-
Gus look. 'The lame take the prey"
oh, tits work Of saving the youth of our
G0untrv-hoW few appreciate what it is!
This generation tramplng on TO the grave
we will soon all be gone. What next?
An engineer on a locomotive going across
little child come out in front Of a cabin and
wave to him, SO he got fin the habit. of wav-
ing 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 belaJed, and it came
on to the dusk of the evening. As tn. EN-
gineer stood at his post he saw by the head.
light that little girl OH the track, wondering
why the train did not come, looking for the
train, knowing nothing Of its peril. A great
horror seized upon the engineer. He re.
the other man on board, and then be climbed
cow-catcher. He said, though he had re-
versed the engine 1t seemed as though it
were going at lightning speed, faster and
faster i though 1t was really slowing up; and
that child by the hair and lifted it up, and
when the train stopped and the passengers
gathered around to see what was the matter.
There the old engineer lay, tainted dead
away, the little child alive and in his swar.
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"Ohw you say, "that was we'll DONE"
But I want you to exercise some kindness
and some appreciation toward those in
community who are snatching the little ones
from under the wheels of Temptation and sin
rail-trains Of eternal disaster, bringing them
up into responsibility in this world and into
glory for the world to come. You appre.
ciate what the engineer did; WHY can YOU
not appreciate the grander work done by
every sabbath-school teacher this afternoonf
Oh,1ny friepds,I want to impress upon myself
and upon yourselves that tits not the num-
Der OF talents we possess, but the use we
make OF them. ~
God has a royal family in the world. Now,
II I should ask, Who are the royal families
of history?" you would say, hHouse Of Haps-
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